For those of you interested, here's the link to the AP Resources from College Board:

https://www.youtube.com/user/advancedplacement 

​APUSH is going live at 10 for our 4th Optional session to talk about populism and the nadir of race relations.

VIDEO LINK HERE

Below is a link to an important survey!  We need your input on our plan for next week.  WCPSS is allowing us to begin introducing new content next week, but actual graded instruction will not begin until AFTER Spring Break, on April 13.  We won't know the dates of the AP Exam from College Board until April 3 (next Friday), though they are likely to make late May sometime one of the options.  With all of that in mind, please respond ASAP to the survey.  Mr. Richardson and I will offer another reminder during the 10am session tomorrow then let you know the plan for next week based on these results on the Blog and at the 1:00 pm Q&A session tomorrow.

Thanks!

P.S. Be looking for an IMPORTANT email from your 2nd period teachers to you or your parents' email today or tomorrow and reply ASAP!  Thanks again!

-H

SURVEY LINK HERE

For tomorrow's session we will be building on the historical context we covered at the end of today's session:  Farmer's were experiencing exceptional difficulties and they transformed organizations like Farmer's Cooperatives into a powerful political party, the People's Party, still today the most successful third party in American history.  We will also be discussing how that party's efforts played out in North Carolina and focusing on a specific event that occurred in Wilmington in 1898.  You can final all the optional prep materials in the slideshow below:

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Tomorrow's optional video review will begin with a discussion over the His Death Avenged Activity you will find in the slideshow linked below.  We will then be discussing Farmer's problems and the rise of Populism.  We'll provide some documents on the screen as we discuss tomorrow.

APUSH Optional Review Day 3
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​VIDEO LINK HERE

-H

We will be back at it again offering optional extension opportunities tomorrow at 10am!  We will be walking through the other document sets we didn't get to today (Cowboys, Homesteaders, Mexican-Americans, and Women).  Tomorrow's session will end 10:50am at the latest so that Mr. Richardson and I can attend our virtual faculty meeting.  We will be back in individual sessions at 1:00pm tomorrow for Q&A.  If you have any questions you want addressed, pop in on those sessions.  We will post all of the links you need to get to tomorrow's sessions in updates to this blog post tomorrow, so check back for those!

-H

HERE IS THE VIDEO - The first document set didn't record, so I'll post details of the discussion highlights below later tonight.

In tomorrow morning's video session, we will be discussing Westward Expansion during and after the Civil War.  The historical context for this discussion is drawn from Chapter 17, so if you wish, you may read and take notes over that chapter.  Below you will find the document sets we will be discussing during our session.  Feel free to scan these, looking at one or two documents of your choice from each document set.  Be prepared to share your thoughts on the documents you examined in the video discussion tomorrow. :)


​VIEW VIDEO HERE

A couple of notes from today's video chats:

• The Governor has announced no in-person school until at least May 15
• This week we will be offering optional video sessions at 10am every day where we will discuss some of the content and go over some documents.
• I will post the documents for Tuesday's session within the hour here on the Blog
• We will begin "remote learning" next week, until then, there are no required or assessed activities.
• We are working on making our online learning experience for this class this week and your feedback on our 10am sessions will help us with that!
• We don't know if the district will provide a specific online platform for our assessments or not, if they do not, we have a coupe of options we are already exploring.  Your assessments will measure the same skills that the in-class ones were designed to measure, but the format may be different.  We will explain as clearly and completely as possible what our assessments will look like as soon as we know.
• This is true for makeup work as well
• Please make sure you have posted your online portions of the LAST scored discussion (Mexican War) by NEXT Wednesday.
• There is a faculty meeting this Wednesday so we will hopefully have more details to answer questions at the Wednesday 1:00 Q&A session.

Below, as soon as it is ready, you will find the recording of today's 10am video meeting in case you weren't able to join in or wanted to refresh your memory on what we discussed:

VIEW VIDEO HERE

It's the end of our first week out of school, so we need to give you some updates information:

AP Exams:

• College board has decided that they will be opening up TWO exam dates and that you will be taking exams ONLINE, AT HOME.  The format of the exam will be radically altered as well.  It looks like they are developing a 45 minute, open response only, exam which will be accessible on phones as well as by computer.  As we get more details from College Board, we will pass them along to you.
• We do not know what the open response will look like yet, so our plan next week is to begin preparing you for what it is MOST LIKELY to include in terms of skills and content.  

AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW:

• We have opened up all of the AP Classroom practice materials for all time periods for all classes.  You can access these resources through your APClassroom account for this class.  Additionally, check out the review resources we have on the APUSH EXAM REVIEW page of this site.  There are lots of great, free review resources.  Lastly, be keeping up with textbook reading and notes.  This is a great way to keep up with basic content.

NEXT WEEK:

• Mr Richardson and I will post a Google Meets link code here on this blog each day for a session we will run at 10:00am each day examining one or more documents.  If you want to join the meets, click the link code at or right before 10:00am.  When you join, you DO NOT have to have your camera on and, also, please mute your microphone.  If you need or want to ask a question as we go, you can unmute for that.
• Additionally, we will each run an "Office Hours" session at 3:00-4:00 on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday next week where you can drop in to ask questions.  The same format will apply there:  no camera necessary, on mute unless asking a question.
• Finally,  We will be posting some screencasts to discuss writing DBQ essays as well as covering some content you wouldn't otherwise get from the textbook next week.  EVERYTHING will be posted here on the Blog so that you won't have to go looking in multiple locations on the site for information.  Be sure that you are checking back here on a regular basis as things will likely look MUCH different if we are out longer than next week.

Hang in there!  Make healthy choices!  

​-H