APUSH Writing Assignments

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<p>My daughter is taking APUSH from a first year AP teacher. To date, she has been required to write a grand total of zero (aka 0) DBQs or FRQs. For that matter, she hasonly had one writing assignment of any kind – that a summer project that involved writing either a journal or “screenplay.” I am not particularly concerned for my daughter, as my wife teaches APUSH at another school and has had her do some of the same writing assignments that she has required of her own students. I do have some concerns for my daughter’s classmates, however. It doesn’t seem that notetaking, lectures and middle-school-typel “projects” are adequate preparation for the AP exam.</p>

<p>My question to students on this forum is “how many writing assignments has your APUSH teacher given you so far in order to begin preparing you for the exam in May?”</p>

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<p>Hi, I took APUSH last year. I believe we had somewhere around 10 FRQ practices throughout the year. I think we started around October. If your daughter’s class hasn’t done any FRQs by the end of November then that might be a problem. Around March and April we started DBQs. We didn’t do that many DBQ practice. I think we only did about 3 or 4 in total. </p>

<p>Don’t worry about the notetaking, lectures, and projects. :slight_smile: Trust me, they help. For this class is really just a lot of reading and memorizing. The projects are just side work that make the course less boring. But they still help one learn.
My school uses this same method that your daughter’s teacher uses. Looking at past and present records, we have always had more people who received 5s than 4s and 3s. Very rarely do we see 2s. So I think the system works. :)</p>

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<p>Last year my teacher had us do zero! and never even went over them but I still got a 4 on the exam. Maybe I could have received a 5 if we had done some practice.</p>

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<p>i was taking a honor history class and we had more then 6 essays or writing assignments</p>