APUSH 7-24 and 25 2014

Navigating for success (cont.)

Alligator River and Historiography

Definition of history?

Study Groups

Are you sitting with your new study group?

Let’s listen to a song, and then we will listen again and sing along.

Study Group Contracts

What are willing to do to help each member of your group do to be successful this year?

Write it into the contract, shake hands on it, and then each member of the group should sign the contract.

Summer Work

Don’t forget to upload it, and if you need to adjust to be sure that it is your “own voice” make the adjustment before the due date.

Be sure you developed the significance of the event as the primary part of your written work rather than the summary of the event – yes the facts of what happened are important, but their short-term or long-term SIGNIFICANCE?IMPACT are the key to understanding the historical process.

Guiding Questions and Active Reading

Let’s talk some more on these.What is history???Why questions?Why is it important to form your own questions and dialog with history as you read?What do you need to do to answer the GQs successfully? What is excellence, above average, average, and (below average - please don’t go there).How do these help you be successful in the course and on the APUSH exam next May

SKILLS/THEMESLEARNING GOALS

Skills and Themes Handout Overview –KEEP THIS AND ALL HANDOUTS IN AN ORGANIZED MANNER

What are these?

More importantly WHY?

Ultimate purpose and goals for understanding history from an academic and personal standpoint.

The COURAGE to TEACH AND LEARN visual concept of the course. What will it take from each of us to have a “Courageous class”?