<p>How hard is the AP Euro in your school? Hours of homework every night, it's terrible, 50+ pages to outline over the break. Just curious, but did/does anyone else use "A History of Western Society" by John P. Mckay, Bennett D. Hill, and John Buckler as their textbook? Did you end up outlining the entire book throughout the course of the year? (If not, what kind of hw do you get in Euro?) I love the course, history is beautiful in my opinion and I'm doing fairly well, but w/ my other classes I find the work too much.</p>
<p>we use that book. </p>
<p>but the way we do it is us and euro at the same time. and i wasn't really attentive the first year so i just highlited while i was reading (used to take notes, but got lazy and slacked off). but this year now that it's officially the AP track, i take notes on all the readings. although we stop using it as much when we get into more contemp history (post WWII). it just depends on the assignments we're given.</p>
<p>we also have a lot of additional readings in primary source docs. it is a lot of work because it's a lot of reading that you have to take in and actually KNOW. it's conceptual, but it's also a bit of memorization.</p>
<p>AP hist is not an easy class. but my teacher has a saying that if you're getting 100s on everything, you're doing too much work. if you're failing everything, you're doing too much work. and ironically enough, he thinks that if we're doing it properly we shouldn't spend more than an hour on our homework (if its a standard assignment). i don't know what you're workload is like...but i think it's fairly reasonable, although i end up taking longer just cus of how i take notes.</p>
<p>Mine is the easiest of the 5 AP classes that I'm in this year. My teacher had McKay in college as his professor, and we use the book.</p>
<p>We're going to get through all of the material, but he doesn't force us to do the work on our own. Our grades would suffer if we didn't read, but he doesn't require us to do any work besides the tests and in-class essays.</p>
<p>Lots of kids in my euro class love to complain about it, and I can see why</p>
<p>The teacher hands out a reading list at the beginning of each chapter, and expects us to complete 15-20 pages of that text every night. For the first two weeks of school, I tried to stick to these assignments. I quickly tired of this.</p>
<p>Now, I read everything for the first time (taking notes, and highlighting) the night before each exam. Having to spend four hours locked in a room reading for the last 3-chapter test was pretty burdensome, but I prefer that over doing the work every night.</p>
<p>With my current study program, I have a 98 percent average on the multiple choice exams, and an A- average on the essays.</p>
<p>I used that book for AP Euro. I don't remember reading it much though, it was too boring. I got by though thanks to outlines online and reviewing with friends. Just get a good review book for the exam and listen in class and you'll be good.</p>
<p>i feel sorry for anyone in ap euro. just sympathising here...</p>
<p>i love AP euro! don't feel sorry for us.</p>
<p>I use that book. we also have a supplemental book, it's sort of like sparknotes for AP euro, but a helluva lot thicker and more indepth. because McKay is long and dry, it's easier to read the supplemental first, so you have a grasp of the big picture before you jump into the more detailed text. </p>
<p>we have to read a chapter per week plus the supplemental, so it's not that bad. procrastination bites but I'm thankful it's not a daily load because sometimes there are certain nights you just can't read. most people in my class have to do an outline, but it wasn't always like that. at the beginning of the year, we were just told to read the texts and she would take our word for it, and then she tested us to make sure and everyone failed except for me and this one other guy, so now they have to do outlines. I get exempted. (though I guess it's also because I got 5's in AP US and World and she trusts me....)</p>
<p>we're always having to do stupid projects though. everyone has to give at least one monologue per trimester, and they're usually more boring than McKay and a lot less informative.</p>
<p>at our school its the hardest next to ap calc</p>
<p>we use palmer</p>
<p>for unimportant units we would use mckay
and it was easy as fcuk.
unFAIR.
we would read 30 pages about a night and take notes cuz we had an essay every day on the previous reading.</p>
<p>An in class essay everyday on 30 pages of reading?</p>
<p>I feel for you Serin...</p>
<p>yeah that was a rough 3 terms...</p>
<p>We use Palmer.</p>
<p>But he also gave us McKay. I haven't looked at it yet and the teacher hasn't assigned anything from it. He also gave us a book full of primary sources. We've used that twice. He also likes to pass out a rediculous number of handouts which I never look at.</p>
<p>Anyway, at my school Euro is about the same as US AP (harder or easier depending on the teacher). We take it senior year.</p>
<p>My ap euro class was one of the easiest classes I've taken. Our teacher did not assign any assignments, and each class was simply a lecture. His style was great, and most of us did very well on the AP test. </p>
<p>We didn't do any assignments/papers the whole year--just reading.</p>
<p>In the McKay book, if anyone has chapter outlines saved on their computer and woudl like to send me chapter 20, the one on marriage/social changes, i'll be forever in your debt b/c I just finished doing chapter 19 and i'll go crazy If i have to outline chapter 20</p>
<p>we used mckay and palmer when i took ap euro...mackay was better for culture stuff and palmer for context</p>
<p>i am taking this class and i am a sophomore in high school, im struggling big time and social studies was never my forte. i just need help on ways to study for my tests, because when i study, it all comes down to memorization. i do fine on the chronology and i do fine on the key terms, i just can’t seem to get all the details and the difference between Charles V and Louis IX is a blur after taking my last test. can someone give me some tips? i just bought a used textbook off of amazon so i could highlite, but i need some good tips on how to study to be better prepared for these tests</p>
<p>We’ve got two textbooks: Merriman and Kishlansky, but we only have to read from Merriman. I read from both to be ready. It’s a lot of work at my school, but I really enjoy it, so it doesn’t feel so bad.</p>
<p>@melody111: Charles V was the Holy Roman Emperor, succeeded by Phillip II from Spain. Louis IX was a king of France, if I remember correctly…</p>
<p>EDIT: Wait… don’t you mean Louis XIV? The one who said “L’ etat, c’est moi” or “I am the state.”</p>
<p>Just study more, take active notes, whatever helps you remember facts.</p>
<p>I used a different book. But truuust me I you love history, Ap Euro would be heaven for you. I actually came in there HATING history, buy so far I love it? Weird huh? I love it sooo much I have an A+ in the class. It amazes me! well everynight, my teacher gives me 6-9 pages of reading, and we have to outline it and do reading questions. Some days my teacher also hands out Documents that we have to read, answer questions, essay, you know stuff like that. In AP EURO you have a looot of documents to read >.< bit theyre fun! Haha and like 30-40 vocabs that’s due in 10 days. Pretty much 2 hours of homework everyday.</p>
<p>You’re taking ap euro and your a sopho? I can’t take that till junior. I’m going to talk to the teacher now!</p>