APUSH Review - 3 Days Remaining

  • May 07, 2019 By Mr. Erfurth
3 Days Left

Look back at the focus lists that you made for each of the units throughout the last three weeks. Review each of them in detail, and create mnemonic devices for chains of events, patterns, and things of that nature that you are afraid that you won't be able to remember.

APUSH Review - 4 Days Remaining

  • May 06, 2019 By Mr. Erfurth
4 Days Left

Practice outlining a DBQ. There is an example DBQ in the back of the AMSCO book that we used for our discussion/debate on 5/3 (regarding the Progressive Era). Take a look at it, and write out a full thesis statement in response, and write down some notes of how you would use the documents. You can write out the whole essay if you would like (it should take no more than an hour), but at the very least outline all of your points.

APUSH Review - 5 Days Remaining

  • May 05, 2019 By Mr. Erfurth
5 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: Explain the reasons why a new conservatism rose to prominence in the United States between 1960 and 1989.

Guide

Format for LEQ: CAUSATION Essays

  1. READ THE PROMPT CAREFULLY!

  2. Thesis. Your thesis should clearly identify at least TWO causes for the historical phenomenon in the prompt, and identify at least TWO effects if the prompt requests effects.

  3. Body paragraphs. Each body paragraph should start with a topic sentence that is a supporting argument about a single cause or effected based on your thesis. Note which causes are short-term and which are long-term as you present them. Follow with evidence (facts, vocab terms). Make sure as you use each piece of evidence that it is clear how it supports the topic sentence. If necessary, use the words: “This evidence supports the argument that short-term cause/effect X contributed to/resulted from…”

  4. Finally, do not forget to conclude. Attempt to rewrite and rephrase your thesis so that if the first attempt at the beginning of the essay doesn't cut it, you have a decent shot at it here.

Suggested Overall Composition

Each Body Paragraph’s Composition

  1. Thesis

  2. Body Paragraph 1 – Cause 1

  3. Body Paragraph 2 – Cause 2

  4. Body Paragraph 3 – Effect 1 (if required)

  5. Body Paragraph 4 – Effect 2 (if required)

  6. Conclusion

  1. Topic sentence arguing for a cause or an effect

  2. Evidence 1 (short-term cause/effect)

  3. Evidence 2 (short or long term cause/effect)

  4. Evidence 3 (short or long term cause/effect)

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.

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