1. How To Answer AP Questions Target Skill: Context and Periodization

2. Why are these questions so hard? The answer is not in the stimuli The answer is not in the stimuli It is asking you to think at the highest level It is asking you to think at the highest level Analytical Analytical Synthesis Synthesis *These are the highest forms of thinking the brain can do

3. Let’s talk about CONTEXT What is it? What is it? Historical thinking involves the ability to connect historical developments to specific circumstances in time and place, and to broader regional, national or global processes. (CB, 2016) How is it used? How is it used? CB uses it to evaluate or explain patterns, cause and effect, phenomena, process of how events connect to each other CB uses it to evaluate or explain patterns, cause and effect, phenomena, process of how events connect to each other Why does CB like it so much? Why does CB like it so much? Well it separates a 5 from a 3…. Well it separates a 5 from a 3…. Again it makes the brain tackle the most difficult thinking skills it can hold Again it makes the brain tackle the most difficult thinking skills it can hold

4. Let’s practice 1. The first man landed on the moon was Neil Armstrong in the summer on 1969. -Pressure of Cold; Space Race -Sputnik -Wright Brothers -JFK; New Frontier -Unfunded, NASA R/D--- astronaut program -Russia-Woodstock -CRM Protest 2. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin. -Horrors of Slavery -Reform movements -Reformers; -Fugitive Slave Act; UR -Women in literature -White guilt -Compromise; temporary band- aids -Dred Scott v. Sanford -Jim Crows

5. Practice Part Deux 3. FDR used federal programs to fix the nations failing economy. -New Deal; WPA (Golden gate bridge), SS, CCC, -Great Depression; Buying on credit, bank run, dust bowl, over consumption, stock market crash -Roaring 20’s-illusion, mask problems -2008 Housing recession -Over consumption tech. products -Welfare; a hand out or hand up -Billions of $$$ of taxes -Power of the federal 4. New weapons introduced in the CW made it more deadly than previous American wars. -Interchangeable parts; EW -Minnie Ball -Still volley and fire -Outdated medical practices -Red Cross, nurses -TOTAL WAR -Nuclear War -New tech for each American war; napalm and agent orange -IEDs DRONEs, GPS guided missiles

6. And now for some Periodization What is it? What is it? Explain ways that historical events and processes can be organized within blocks of time. Analyze and evaluate competing and contrasting models of US history. How is it used? How is it used? It is obvious that the new curriculum targets this thinking skill due to our 9 set historical periods. Knowing when and why a period ended or began is essential. Knowing how other periods connect to each other is also imperative It is obvious that the new curriculum targets this thinking skill due to our 9 set historical periods. Knowing when and why a period ended or began is essential. Knowing how other periods connect to each other is also imperative Why does CB like it so much? Why does CB like it so much? Again it reaches into your most sophisticated layers of those amazing brains of yours. Again it reaches into your most sophisticated layers of those amazing brains of yours.

7. Periodization Practice 1. Women have definitively over time fought or championed for societal issues. -Voting Rights -Temperance -Abolition; ECS, ST, HT, LM, GS, HBS, -Wage Gap; Equal rights amendment (failed in 70’s) -free the nipple; breast feed -Women in the work place; WW I, WWII, -Hilary Clinton -Beyonce, Oprah, Ellen - 2. U.S foreign policy kept the country out of global war from the 1810’s to the 1890’s. Neutrality Acts (WW1) Isolation-GD, after the AR, -Good Neighbor -Open Door -Containment;domino theory -War on Terror; spreading democracy, WMD’s, American exceptionalism

8. Periodization oh my! 3. The policies pushed by FDR have a legacy in U.S society today. 4. The U.S. has determined to shield democracy from other world powers.

9. Last words How your learning will be assessed on the AP Exam: Achievement of the thematic learning objectives will be assessed throughout the exam Use of the historical thinking skills will be assessed through the exam (comparison, context, periodization, synthesis, etc..) Understanding of all 9 periods No DBQ will exclusively focus on Period 1 or Period 9…but you can bring it in!!!! You will always write at least one essay that examines long-term developments that span historical time periods...last year is was the DBQ The coverage of the periods in the exam as a whole will reflect the approximate period weightings

10. Ok now really my Final Last Words… YOU CAN DO IT, I am so proud of the growth we have made this year… YOU CAN DO IT, I am so proud of the growth we have made this year… Section I: Part A: Multiple Choice (55 questions; 55 Minutes; 40% of total exam score) Part B: Short-answer questions (4 questions; 50 minutes; 20% of total exam score) Section II: Part A: Document-based question (1 question; 55 minutes (includes 15 minute reading period); 25% of total exam score)---YOU HAVE TO MOVE YOURSELF FROM READING TO WRITING!!!!!!! Part B: Long essay question (1 question (chosen from a pair); 35 minutes; 15% of total exam score)