Two-Week Review

The AP exam in European History will take place on May 6th, at 12:15 pm in the basement of the Pebble Hill Church. Until test day, our efforts in class will focus on preparing for the exam through practice tests, broad thematic review and test-taking strategies. The following is an outline of the coming two weeks:

Tuesday, April 26

• in class - practice Multiple Choice

Thursday, April 28

• in class - practice DBQ
• due -  corrections of MC section
• for each of the questions you got wrong, please write one sentence describing why the "correct" answer is the "best" answer

Monday, May 2

• in class - practice FRQs
• due - scored practice DBQ (including written explanation of score)
• Please type up a lengthy paragraph that explains the score you gave on each of the criteria. Please be fairly hard on yourself. You won't benefit by convincing yourself the work is better than it is.
• due - Key Terms flashcards (distributed April 26)
• OK - so I hit you with a lot of terms to review. I wanted to give you as much material as I could. Why don't you select 30-40 of the terms, events, people that you think will be the most useful for you to review before the test (ie. the ones you don't know already). Do the best you can...

Wednesday, May 4

• in class - final review discussion (and pep talk)
• due scored practice FRQs (including written explanation of score)

Week of April 10th

Plan for the week:

Tuesday

• Read Merriman 1160-1175 (and be sure to complete Friday's reading if you have not already done so)
• Lecture on end of WWII and its legacy

Thursday

• Last regular exam of the year, covering Russian Revolution, Inter-war years, WWII

** That concludes the new material for the course. After Spring Break we will conduct 2 weeks of review prior to the AP exam. Enjoy your break!!

Week of April 3rd

Plan for the week:

Monday

• Lecture - Interwar Period (Depression & Fascism)
• Reading - Merriman 993-1014
• Assign - Alsace-Lorraine DBQ

Wednesday

• Lecture - Nazi Germany
• Reading - Merriman 1020-1035

Friday

• Lecture - WWII
• Reading - Merriman 1049-1065
• Due - Alsace-Lorraine DBQ

Notes

• We will be moving quickly through material in class this week and next so that we can reserve the two weeks after Spring Break for AP exam review. It will be very important to stay on top of things.
• I have assigned only the most essential pages from these chapters. I will fill in the lectures with material from other parts of the chapters. It might be a good idea to review those supplementary pages after class, to help enhance your mastery of the subjects. 
• Our next exam will be held on Thursday April 14th and it will cover the Russian Revolution, Interwar Period and WWII.