<p>“World Civilizations” by Peter Stearns (6th edition) is also pretty good</p>
<p>But I just bought “A Global History”, any comments on it?</p>
<p>Got Tradition&Encounter instead cause its seems like a good one</p>
<p>So what are you guys going over in AP World? We’re discussing the Scientific Revolution and the CCOT essay.</p>
<p>So I am using traditions and encounters and also barrons to study, but the table of contents doesn’t correspond exactly. Which part of Barron’s would I go to for each part of traditions and encounters?</p>
<p>I’m using traditions and encounters+princeton. traditions and encounters seems pretty good.</p>
<p>using stearns world civilizations plus princeton review; my textbooks alright but some passages were probably written when the author was high, it has all the information though…i didnt buy the barrons prep book mainly because it was heavier than the pr one and im a lazy butt</p>
<p>@mangoking
“some passages were probably written when the author was high” lol</p>
<p>My class has only done one actual DBQ only. We’ve done other “essays” but there’re more like write a a paragraph on a select few Questions in like 20 minutes, but no CCOTs or anything. </p>
<p>I’m worried my teacher (first time teacher for WHAP) isn’t giving us enough practice for the essays. How many CB essays have you guys done in class? </p>
<p>we’ve done a few take home ones(yes it sounds wimpy but they were very stressful actually) both ccot and dbq…and we’ve done a bunch of ccots in class(which i thoroughly dreaded), most of them weren’t directly from cb though. im lucky to say that my teachers pretty rad and i really love the class. kudos to people who have bad teachers but still manage to study well on their own. oh and is everyone a junior or sophomore(or, god forbid, some poor freshman) i believe most schools offer whap in junior year, ours happen to be sophomore </p>
<p>Well I wouldn’t say my teacher’s bad, he’s actually one of my favorite teachers I’ve had and can teach well. But since this is his first year, I guess we’re his experimental class. Yeah my class is mostly sophomore; most did honors “world” (european) history freshman year. We have some Juniors and Seniors (maybe 5/30 people) are taking it as an elective because this the first year World History is being offered.</p>
<p>That one dbq we took was pretty hard (prob b/c it was my first.) When did you guys start the essays?</p>
<p>Man, I got to self-study everything</p>
<p>I’ve pretty much given up on this course… I’ll study a chapter thoroughly, move onto the next, and then forget everything I just learned from the previous chapter. Everything from 600 BCE-like 1450 CE is a blur. If anyone has any study tips, they’d be much appreciated. </p>
<p>@picuberoot Well I found out pretty clearly that I shouldn’t worry about the MCs, just a few days of cramming important info would help with that. But for the essays, Im going to wreck them all, I can’t remember which dynasties, empires, kingdoms were in each era and (for example) find all the dynasties in chinese history to be very confusing. So what I’m doing is studying one region at a time, and look at the continuity and change over time aspect. Also, I’m writing small side notes for each dynasty (govt struccture, major events, the era it was in). I think it’ll help me, but ive only done china so far (been super lazy till now) so looks like I have my work cut out for me. Hope that helps</p>
<p>im mostly worried about essays…my dbqs have ranged from awful to amazing and my essay grades have over all fluctuated…sigh i just cant seem to do point of view or additional doc correctly </p>
<p>also i have gained such a pessimistic outlook about europeans and the world and life in general from history class this year(reading about colonization gets my blood boiling its ridiculous)</p>
<p>Eugh I have a first year teacher this year so it’s hard to evaluate just how prepared we are. Discouragingly, under the old AP teacher (who was purportedly /much/ harder than my current teacher), no one has ever gotten a 5. We’ve done two DBQs so far and they’ve been alright?? I’ve gotten 6s on both, although I’m such a windbag I’ve hardly had enough time. However, that’s all the essay prep we’ve had aside from some very easy take home CCOT/comparative essays. I’ve kind of given up on my textbook because it’s clear I’m not absorbing anything important.</p>
<p>I’ve been using World Civilizations: The Global Experience, but for class I’ve just been reading its online outlines + doing the quizzes (<a href=“Site Retired”>Site Retired) Does anyone know if they’re decent enough study tools? I’ve read all the chapters, I just want a better alternative to rereading them.</p>
<p>Also, I’ve used the REA flashcards and Crash Course, and have recently been getting into other websites/the exciting world of youtube videos.</p>
<p>I HIGHLY recommend GetAFive.com. Their videos are incredibly helpful in seeing trends/connections and they make it easier to memorize dates and such. I’ve been using GetAFive + taking notes on the Barron’s book and I’ve internalized a lot more info. </p>
<p>A few useful resources: </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.learnerator.com/ap-world-history”>http://www.learnerator.com/ap-world-history</a>
Over 1,000 AP World History practice questions, organized by topic and difficulty level. Most of the content is free, but you can subscribe for full access.</p>
<p><a href=“Global Studies Review Quizzes”>http://www.historyteacher.net/GlobalStudies/Global9ReviewPage.htm</a>
Huge collection of multiple choice quizzes categorized by region and topic–almost 500 questions</p>
<p>This website has just about everything you would need</p>
<p><a href=“AP World History Review | AP Practice Exams”>http://www.appracticeexams.com/ap-world-history</a>
It has links for just about any kind of practice you want.</p>
<p>I need to start studying for this</p>