<p>in my apush history class, we only have 80 minute classes from Sept to Jan....and we do the following activities: 3-4 days of playing Oregon Trail (the kids game), 3-4 days of Bowling for Columbine, 2-3 weeks of reading the world is flat, and innumerable days of just going to the library and sitting around.....we got to the civil war in december and he was like....okay, im done with the ap curriculm for you guys...lets just do some other stuff since i doubt any of you take the exam....its a great class</p>
<p>Do you guys not have to read a textbook?</p>
<p>But The World Is Flat is wonderful.</p>
<p>In AP Euro we didn't even do anything. Just, not anything. There were 12 of us in the class, and only one boy. We'd just sit around talking about Grey's Anatomy, college admissions, and gossipping about past graduates. We watched Billy Elliot (twice), Hokus Pokus, American Graffiti, the Sound of Music, Wizard of Oz...and we'd have parties every Friday. Sometimes we just listened to the teacher's stories about lawyering in Arizona, in college, his irreverent Nazi family, working in a prositute shelter in California...He never actually taught. We just had to take a test every two or three weeks.</p>
<p>um..we read 2 or 3 out of like 30 chapters in the text...the rest he just summarizes for us and gives us a quick vocab list for it....i love his class...its easier than my honors history classes. he gives a decent amount of writing sometimes, but he gives everyone 95-100 on writing no matter what and we only have 2 tests, a midterm, and a final and little multiple choice/matching quizzes from time to time....pretty nice ap class...he said he used to do notes everyday and pound through the whole textbook, but it was a waste because no one took the ap exam</p>
<p>Logisticslord, don't you have to take the AP test if you take the class? At my school every student must take the AP exam for each AP class that they are in.</p>
<p>It varies completely from school to school, teacher to teacher. At my school AP tests are optional on a school-wide basis, but some teachers (like my past US teacher) make it part or whole of the grade one or both semesters. It's a shame your teacher is such trash, U.S. History is really important.</p>