WHAP is the first AP class I’ve taken, and I’m wondering if this is just my school or all AP classes are like this.
Right now in my class, there’s barely any teaching, if not at all. The teacher never teaches a lesson, just hands us a worksheet, reads us the directions, and we do it within the hour. After we’re done, we never have to turn them in. Before quizzes/tests, we do Harkness Discussions (where only a few people talk, so we just changed them where he asks us questions, but I find that ineffective as well, it didn’t raise our class average at all). We also do Kahoot/Quizlet Live games my teacher finds online.
We do reading at home; usually, that takes about 4 hours a week, which I think is standard in any other WHAP class in the United States.
We rarely practice SAQ, LAQ, and DBQ questions, we’ve done an SAQ and a DBQ once- but that was on a test, we never really got actual practice in for it.
I still want to do really well in the AP exam, but I feel like I don’t have a great grasp on this subject. Any advice? Also, please share your experience with the teacher/material in this class!
To answer your question about if all schools do this, no.
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Here’s the route you take in my school (for AP social studies classes at least):
Freshman year: AP Human Geography (APHUG)
Sophomore year: AP European History (APEURO)
Junior year: AP United States History (APUSH)
Senior year: AP Government (APGOV)
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My school does not even offer WHAP as a class, but advice (after taking other APSS classes) is to understand every historical event thoroughly and know the causes of the event and the effects of the event. Try making a timeline to organize your thoughts!
Best of luck 
I took WHAP as a freshman. My teacher taught us half the time and gave us hands-on things to do the other half of the time. She assumed that we would teach ourselves certain historical events through reading the WHAP textbook at home. I did Harkness Discussions too; I thought that they were very thought provoking but were intimidating because it was awkward to find a place to jump in the discussion and it was even more awkward when I wanted to say something but the topic already changed to something unrelated. Kahoot and Quizlet are good resources, and I used the latter on my own time. Kahoot is typically used for math and literature classes at my school. Your teacher will probably begin practicing more SAQ, LEQ, and DBQ questions near the AP Exam. If not, practice them by yourself. They are a huge part of the AP Exam and not knowing how to do them will hurt you a lot. Just knowing the rubric is not enough. Practice is essential so that, if you blank out or freak out during the test, writing SAQs/LEQs/DBQs will be so ingrained into you that it will just be second nature to write one. Always review SHE (Specific Historical Evidence) and continue practicing writing. Don’t know individual places, dates, and events; know how they connect to each other. Know the causes and effects, the whys and hows, etc. If you truly understand the content and the writings, you should be fine. What helped me with retaining SHE knowledge was thinking of it as if SHE was a story, which is quite a simple thing considering how broad WHAP history is. Good luck.