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Ap Exam Framework

An Intro (Mr. Bishop)

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Intro

  • 3 hours and 15 minutes
    • 105 min Multiple Choice
    • 90 Minute Free Response
    • Each section is divided into two parts
      • Part 1
        • A. Multiple Choice 55 questions 55 minutes 40%
        • B. Short Answer 4 questions 50 minutes 20%
      • Part 2
        • A. Document-based question 1 question 55 minutes 25%
        • B Long Essay Question 1 question (chosen from a pair) 35 Min 15%
    • Time Management is Key in Part 2

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Multiple-Choice Questions (MCQs)

  • Will contain multiple sets of questions
    • 2 and 5 questions per set
  • Will contain different stimulus
    • Image, excerpt, chart, etc
  • May ask you to link your answers to other periods in history (finding common historical themes)
    • Historical thinking skills will be used here
  • Multiple choice questions will not just call for recall answers but also answers with reasoning

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Short Answer (SAQs)

  • Answer the question and stop
  • Will require you to use historical thinking skills
  • Each question will ask you to analyze using historical evidence
  • Answers can be given in a few paragraphs or a few sentences. As long as you answer the question completely using reasoning and evidence you are good!

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Document-Based Questions (DBQs)

  • The document-based question measures students’ ability to analyze and synthesize historical data and to assess verbal, quantitative, or visual materials as historical evidence.
  • Format varies on the different documents
  • Focus is to get you (the student) to value, and pull from, different documents to make an argument
  • You are to relate the documents to different themes (Bucketing)
  • Create short outline

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Long Essay Question (LEQ)

  • To test what you know, you will be given two questions to choose from
  • This is what we will be working with this semester (DBQ and SAQ comes second semester).
  • Use historical thinking skills
  • Reasoning and evidence
  • Thesis alignment
  • Analysis
  • Synthesis
  • Relevant evidence

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Historical Thinking Skills (Pg 198)

Chronology Reasoning

  • Historical Causation, Patterns of Continuity and Change Over Time, Periodization

Comparison and Contextualization

Crafting Historical Arguments from Historical Evidence

  • Historical Argumentation, Appropriate use of relevant historical evidence

Historical Interpretation and Synthesis

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Thematic Learning Objectives (Pg. 206) (Shower Curtain Liner)

  • Identity
  • Work, Exchange, and Technology
  • Peopling
  • Politics and Power
  • America and the World
  • Environment and Geography - Physical and Human
  • Ideas Beliefs and Culture