APUSH Review - 6 Days Remaining

  • May 04, 2019 By Mr. Erfurth
6 Days Left

Time to practice your LEQ skills for the next couple of days. Do not be afraid to also review content. Both are critical for obvious reasons!

Prompt: Evaluate the extent to which the Civil War fostered change in the United States economy in the period from 1861 to 1900.

Guide

Format for LEQ: Change and Continuity Over Time Essays

  1. READ THE PROMPT CAREFULLY!

  2. Thesis. Your thesis should clearly identify changes (perhaps in a single sentence) and continuities (in another sentence). Make sure you note the time period (years) and setting somewhere in the first paragraph.

  3. Body Paragraphs. Start with your topic sentence arguing a specific continuity or change. Next, explain what LED TO OR CAUSED the change or continuity. Then present EVIDENCE (facts, vocab words) to support your topic sentence.

  4. Finally, do not forget to conclude. Restate and rephrase your thesis to ensure that you have the best possible chance of earning that point.

Suggested Overall Composition

Each Body Paragraph’s Composition

  1. Thesis

  2. Change Type 1

  3. Change Type 2

  4. Continuity

  5. Conclusion

  1. Topic sentence in which a continuity OR change is identified.

  2. Explanation of the CAUSES of the continuity or change.

  3. Evidence 1 (with explanation of how it supports topic sentence)

  4. Evidence 2 (with explanation of how it supports topic sentence)

  5. Evidence 3 (with explanation of how it supports topic sentence)

APUSH Review - 7 Days Remaining

  • May 03, 2019 By Mr. Erfurth

One week left!

7 Days Left

Time to practice your LEQ skills for the next couple of days. Do not be afraid to also review content. Both are critical for obvious reasons!

Prompt: Choose TWO of the following and analyze their impact on colonial North American development between 1620 and 1776.

  • Puritanism
  • The Enlightenment
  • The First Great Awakening

Guide

  1. READ THE PROMPT CAREFULLY!

  2. Thesis. Your thesis should clearly identify similarities versus differences, preferably in two separate sentences or two separate clauses within a sentence divided by a clear “however” or “but” etc. You should try for three similarities and three differences, preferably related. The differences ideally qualify the similarities.

  3. Body Paragraphs. Each body paragraph should start by arguing a similarity qualified by a difference. Follow with an explanation of what LED TO/CAUSED the similarity or the difference. Finish with three or more supporting details (facts, vocab words) and explain how they support the topic.

  4. Do not forget to conclude your essay. This is a good place to try to restate your thesis to ensure that you get the point in at least one of the two possible places.

Suggested Overall Composition

Each Body Paragraph’s Composition

  1. Thesis

  2. Body Paragraph 1- Similarity

  3. Body Paragraph 2- Difference

  4. Body Paragraph 3- Sim or Diff

  5. Conclusion

 

 

  1. Topic sentence arguing sims versus diffs for the aspect you are comparing in the paragraph

  2. Explanation of what LED TO/CAUSED the sims or diffs

  3. Evidence 1 (with explanation of how it supports topic sentence)

  4. Evidence 2 (with explanation of how it supports topic sentence)

  5. Evidence 3 (with explanation of how it supports topic sentence)

 

When done, check out the scoring notes and grade yourself.

APUSH Review - 8 Days Remaining

  • May 02, 2019 By Mr. Erfurth
8 Days Left

Follow the pattern as before to quiz yourself on Unit 9. Use the required knowledge from the APUSH review page, the video playlist from the unit page, and all of your notes and other review activities. Make a focus document of information that you need to re-review when you're just a few days away.

APGOV Review

  • May 01, 2019 By Mr. Erfurth

If you are using my website for some serious cramming and review for AP Gov, do keep checking back every single day. There are new articles, new tools, and new primary sources all posted to each unit page each day (tonight I've added enough to get halfway through the major CED concepts for unit 2).

SoHI AP Gov: Join Mr. E for a review session on Sunday, May 5th at 2pm in the auditorium. APUSH review will be happening concurrently but you will have your own activities as well. Then, stay after 5 to continue our work. Be prepared to practice FRQs, review troubling concepts, and to crash course some of the vocab and major ideas.

Bring some money for food and maybe we'll order a few pizzas.

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