APUSH+Assessment

=**Nightly Homework**= =**Research Projects**=
 * An hour of homework a night is generally recommended for AP courses. This homework will consist of reading, study, review, research, and writing.
 * Home access to the internet, word processing software, a printer, and a flashdrive is very helpful. Students who do not have access to these tools should tell the teacher so that accommodations can be made. A course text will be provided. They are available to borrow or purchase.
 * Students can find nightly reading assignments on this website (Unit Pages). Pageant Pages and Document Analysis pages are available in class or for printing at home or in the library from this website. See Rubrics and Forms.
 * Since this is a college course, students must break the habit of doing homework __for the points__ they'll get every day for doing it. College professors rarely if ever give credit for homework. So why do homework, then? Homework is assigned and done so that the student learns the content. It pays off in improved test and quiz grades. It allows for a greater breadth and depth of content to be addressed in the course, since the student is expected to master some of it independently in his nightly reading and study. The students in an AP or college course cannot rely on the teacher to review every bit of the required content. This is a new concept for most high school students and the more quickly they adjust to it the better for them.
 * ** Daily Homework (Class Preparation) Grade **
 * Students start with Class Preparation grade of 10/10
 * __ Final points possible in the first marking period will be adjusted __ to 5+ number of days homework was graded (gives students 5 tries to figure out how to get a 1 rather than a 0)
 * Second through Fourth MPs, final points possible = number of days homework was graded that MP
 * If students earn overall negative score in class prep in any MP, parent meeting will be necessary, and Sapphire adjustments will need to be made to reflect that
 * Class Prep grades
 * -10 Copied from someone else or allowing someone to copy yours
 * -5 Not done
 * -3 Inadequate or incomplete
 * 0 Complete and Adequate
 * +1 Well done, thorough, clear—but not overdone
 * Students will practice historical research, evaluation of different kinds of sources, and expression of their conclusions and historical reasoning in written, visual, and technological formats. The NHD project and research paper, as well as smaller projects, are designed for this purpose. More information can be found here.
 * Mondays will be spent in the library to give students research time. There will always be a stated expectation of what the student should be working on and very often, a checkpoint to demonstrate progress. Library time is not to be squandered, nor to be used for other purposes unless the expected work is completed.

=**Quizzes and Tests**=
 * Expect quizzes a few times a week, to check for understanding of recent topics including homework reading and clas s lecture, films, and other instruction. Quizzes will be 10 to 30 points each.
 *  **All unit exams serve as "practice" AP exams**.
 * The multiple choice section will be 80 questions, cumulative from the beginning of the course to the current unit, and timed. (The unit 1 test will be briefer because there are fewer questions available and no previous questions to draw from. 100 points, using the chart on the Rubrics and Forms page
 * APUSH students are expected to practice historical analysis and express it in writing. Free Response Questions (FRQ) are an important part of the AP exam and we will practice them often, both in and out of class. A Document-Based Question (DBQ) is the same sort of question, with the added dimension of analyzing and incorporating documentary evidence.
 * Each unit test will incorporate one FRQ or DBQ relevant to the unit at hand. This essay will be worth 50 points. The rubric is available on the Rubrics and Forms page.
 *  Midterm and Final Exams (MC) count within the marking periods 2 and 4 as unit exams, and also as 5% of the course grade.

=Weighting of Grades= Assgns & Projects Writing MC Unit exams ||= 25 25 25  25 ||= 25  25  25  25 ||= 20  20  30  30 ||= 15  15  35  35 ||
 * == Categories == ||= == 1st == ||= == 2nd == ||= == 3rd == ||= == 4th == ||
 * Class Prep & Quizzes