A.P. Final Review:

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A.P. European Assignment Blog

Students can access their blog assignments from this posting. Simply click on the image to the left, and you will be brought to an assignment blog. These blogs are used to promote student thought. All comments to these assignments are to promote and illustrate critical thinking of the issue and the content, as well as demonstrate student awareness of their own thinking.

Cornell Note-Taking System

Students in the A. P. European History course will be asked to construct notes in a very different manner than they have had to in the past. The most comprehensive manner in which to construct these notes, utilizing their personal wikis and well as the classroom wiki, is to utilize the Cornell Note Taking System. I have included a link that will give the students some guidance in their construction of notes. In my experience as a teacher, especially with young sophomores jumping to a college level course, the greatest difficulty students have is taking the information of a lecture and marrying that information with the textbook and class discussion. The Cornell System provides the students with a simple framework to begin with. Note: There is always more than one way to skin a cat. If you develop a system that you as an individual feel more comfortable with, by all means go for it. We are always learning from our own experiences.

Click on the following website for some tips. The Cornell Note Taking System

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~acskills/docs/cornell_note_taking.doc

Good Luck and please come and see me if there are any problems.

A. P. Textbook Collaboration

Cracking the A. P. Textbook
A Collaborative Collection of Chapter Readings and Questions

There is perhaps no greater opportunity for student learning than the connectivity provided by the internet. Students have available at their finger tips, unlimited access to information. This hotline is designed to foster this connectivity with an A. P. European History hotline. Students are provided an opportunity to develop an open forum to exchange information, thoughts, and opinions concerning homework, test prep, or classroom lecture. Students will become part of an online learning community that addresses many different aspects of A.P. European History.

http://iroquoisapeuro.blogspot.com/ Click on the Renaissance art above, or the address underlined, to access to Chapter 2 Hotline blog. Utilize this blog to construct your online learning platform. Good Luck

Note-Making
A.P. European History and the Wiki

Wikis: A part of our classroom our classroom will be utilizing an online read/write platform called a wiki. These wikis will play a major role in student note-making. Students will no-longer be note-taking. You will utilize the classroom lectures, the Palmer-Colton textbook, and online resources, and primary and secondary documents, to construct a collaborative collection of knowledge about the topic of the day - week - unit - etc. Everyday, there will be a student designated as a class scribe. The role of the scribe is to organize and summarize the important information of the day. The scribe will then post all the information they feel important to our class wiki. Students are asked to look at the wiki everyday and edit the wiki appropriately. The intention of this online read/write platform is to develop an engaging, interactive, collaboration of knowledge, constructed by our students. I am always looking for insight and constructive criticism from our students. Please feel free to comment on the use, effectiveness, and possible innovations you may have for this form of learning.

A.P. European Information
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A.P. European History

Welcome to my A. P. European History blog. The function of this blog is to inform the students and parents of the course work. Much of what will be designed on this blog will attempt to engage students in a much more rigorous and relevant form of learning.

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