Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
REVIEW FOR AP TEST
AP Test Review & Preparation: Unit 5 & 6 Focus
WEEK AT A GLANCE:REVIEW FOR AP TEST
AP Test Review & Preparation: Unit 5 & 6 Focus
Bring the essays you did in class last Wed/Thu each day this week. We will be working on them and refining your answers. They will be due by the end of this week.
MON: FRQ Planning Quiz: 2012, 2013, 2014... Mr. Duez will choose one for you to write your plans for each essay prompt from one year. DBQ, CCOT, & Comp Essays. MAP out and plan your essays. You will have 20 min.; Then we'll pass out the Freemanpedia.com Key Concepts & shade/color/highlight important areas on each page. Use this to prepare for the MOCK Exam on Tuesday.
TUE: MOCK Exam: We will be in the Small Gym. All WHAP students who are taking the exam on the 14th will be in the gym all morning.
WED/THU: FRQ Prep ~ We will break down the DBQs from 2012 & 2013; Documentary/Discussion/Review of China: Ferguson's China: Triumph & Turmoil.
FRI: We will do an item analysis on the Mock Test #2 from Tuesday; DBQ Poster Activity; 1st Mock Corrections are due.
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK:
Want to GET A FIVE?: Write better essays.
Earning just 1 extra point on each of the 3 essays is the equivalent of almost 8 m/c questions!
(Each essay point is worth 2.59 m/c questions, so 3 x 2.59 = 7.77)
Congrats to our AHS Top 10 this year!
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| James, Britton, Renee, Zachary, Brooke, and Ryan have all been in one of Mr. Duez's classes. Congrats to all of them! |
Study & Prepare for the FRQs - The AP Test is coming!
Each is worth 17% of the exam score. You must get some points on each. Too many are just EASY. Don't leave them on the table: Additional Doc, Point of View, Global Context to show continuities and changes over time, Makes direct & relevant comparisons.
USE THE AP-TEST-REVIEW TAB AT THE TOP OF THIS PAGE:
Study & Prepare --- The AP Test is coming!
We have a different testing bell schedule this week:
Bell Schedule Times for the week total:
(approximately, I did these pretty quickly)
1st Period: M: 46 min; T: -; W: 52 min; Th: -; Fr: 51... Total: 149 min
2nd Period: M: 42 min; T: -; W: -; Th: 96 min; Fr: 50... Total: 148 min
3rd Period: M: 49 min; T: -; W: 116 min; Th: -; Fr: 55... Total: 220 min
4th Period: M: 42 min; T: 57 min; W: -; Th: 82 min; Fr: 50 ... Total: 149 min
5th Period: M: 59 min; T: -; W: 75 min; Th -; Fr: 62... Total: 259 min
6th Period: M: 45 min; T: -: W: -; Th: 90 min; Fr: 49... Total: 184 min
7th Period: M: 47 min; T: 57 min; W: 57 min; Th: -; Fri: 46 min... Total: 207 min
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| Modified schedule for testing this week. |
Monday May 4, 2015
Quote: "The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." – Amelia Earhart
Bring the essays you did in class last Wed/Thu each day this week. We will be working on them and refining your answers. They will be due by the end of this week.
Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Prep for FRQ Planning Quiz: 2012, 2013, 2014
2. FRQ Planning Quiz: 2012, 2013, 2014: Mr. Duez will choose one for you to write your plans for each essay prompt from one year. DBQ, CCOT, & Comp Essays. MAP out and plan your essays. You will have 20 min.
3. Key Concepts Review: Using the Freemanpedia.com Key Concepts & shade/color/highlight important areas on each page. Use this to prepare for the MOCK Exam on Tuesday
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| Ferguson takes his bravado to the Middle Kingdom. |
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Quote: "Learn from the mistakes of others, you can never life long enough to make them all yourself." - Groucho MarxBring the essays you did in class last Wed/Thu each day this week. We will be working on them and refining your answers. They will be due by the end of this week.
Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Pick up questions to answer for the documentary
Ferguson's China: Triumph & Turmoil, Part I: Emperors Questions
2. Documentary Video: Niall Ferguson's China: Triumph & Turmoil, Part I Playlist
Episode 1
Niall Ferguson shows how the vast apparatus of the Chinese state has always been called on to subjugate individual freedom to the higher goal of unity.
Niall Ferguson travels through this vast country to ask how a fifth of humanity can live under a Communist system of government with what looks like a capitalist economy. He tracks down the people who can really explain the new China, from newly minted billionaires in China's megacities to survivors of the madness of Chairman Mao.
Travelling the length and breadth of the Middle Kingdom, he reveals the enduring importance of Confucian philosophy and imperial bureaucracy in the way that China works. But he is startled by the persistence of the Mao cult, despite all the millions of lives lost in the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.
Finally, after a visit to China's African empire, he answers the questions that should concern all of us: Will this turn out to be the Chinese century? Should we be scared? Or will the Red Dragon crash and burn?
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| Ferguson & his 'friend' ~ "The way the Chinese think is as different as the way they write." |
Wednesday, May 6, 2015 & Thursday, May 7, 2015
Quote: "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." –Anne Frank
Bring the essays you did in class last Wed/Thu each day this week. We will be working on them and refining your answers. They will be due by the end of this week.
Agenda:
1. DO NOW: We are one week away, what can you do to prepare?
2. FRQ Analysis: Focus on DBQ: 2012, '13, & '14 DBQs will be discussed. 30 min.
3. Documentary: Ferguson in China
Ferguson's China: Triumph & Turmoil, Part I: Emperors Questions
Documentary Video: Niall Ferguson's China: Triumph & Turmoil, Part I Playlist
Episode 1.
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| Great tips from the "Master" - Bill Strickland. |
Friday, May 8, 2015
Quote: "Do what you can, where you are, with what you have." –Teddy Roosevelt
Bring the essays you did in class last Wed/Thu each day this week. We will be working on them and refining your answers. They will be due by the end of this week.
Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Have questions from Ferguson documentary ready. We'll finish it this period. And spend the remainder of the period working on corrections from the 2013 Mock AP Test.
2. Documentary: Ferguson in China
Questions: Ferguson's China: Triumph & Turmoil, Part I: Emperors Questions
Documentary Video: Niall Ferguson's China: Triumph & Turmoil, Part I Playlist
Episode 1.
At end of the period we will hand in corrections for the 2013 MOCK AP Multiple Choice, if you have not already done so.