How to Manage AP Euro- Shreya Kotwal

Likes: 

1. Assignments

I liked how the assignments weren't just looking through the book and finding out information that goes on chart. We would do things that were like the 30 Years War food assignment, New Monarchies job application, Industrial shark tank and etc

2. Style of Teaching

One think that way different from the other APs I took this year, was Mrs. Salisbury style of teaching. She wouldn't just go through slideshows and make us take notes, there would be activities that we would have to do on our own to learn.

Dislikes:

1. I Really disliked how much was presented towards the end of the year was using skills based, but I understand that issue was more of being taught to the test 

2.Bad Reputation

I feel like AP Euro gets a bad name for a class, I heard from so many people to not take as it hadst class in the school. 

Suggestions 

I wished that we would review writing DBQs and LEQs doing them periodically through the year.I felt liked towards the coming of exams,we would practice how to write them without using an rubric. Especially writing them by ourselves, as I felt like we did a lot in partners and we never saw in practice our true, raw score. 

I wished that the multiple choice, we should of combined more chapters together so we replicate how the actual exam was taken. Since the actual exam is based on analyzing questions as a continuity and change, using the overall concepts of history.i

 Survival Tips

1. Reading the Chapter/Taking Notes

This helps with understanding the information in class, especially since a lot of the material is new and in depth. Don't go crazy with the notes, take the information that you think will help you understand the main concept of the section. Really pay attention with you reading, as many of the reading check's aren't just straight facts you have to be analyze why information is a continuity or a change, cause and effect,compare and comparison and etc.

2. DON'T PROCRASTINATE 

AP Euro teaches you have to time management, there will be a lot reading checks, webquests that will be covered in a month. Mrs.Salz will give you a calendar for a every month, plan when you will do things otherwise you be stuck with so much homework on one night. Especially if you taking at least 2 or more APs, you will crash if you don't break up the readings and assignment into chucks. 

3. DO THE CLASSWORK/HOMEWORK 

Doing the classwork/homework help saves your grade a ton, it helps saves those reading check grades as you will failed most of your quizzes. BUT DON"T BE SCARED, Mrs. Salz say that scoresbetween those ranges will reflect a 2,3,4 on the actual AP Exam

4. Get a Review Book 

Getting a Review will be so helpful when your taking notes in class, or if you don't understand a topic enough that it taught. It also really helpful in reviewing for the AP Exam, and I definitely recommend during the last month or two review old information of Period 1 and 2