<p>Same as title.
I'm just wondering why do I not choose APUSH instead of US history.</p>
<p>well regular us history is what we take for 2 years (well honors us history) before we take apush as a senior if we decide. the 2 years of honors us 1 and honors us 2 are in prep for students wishing to take AP</p>
<p>Well,
with us,
APUSH...is reading an entire (boring) textbook, cover to cover.</p>
<p>Reg? Doesn't really do any work...round here parts</p>
<p>AP US is harder... and you basically have to stick to the curriculum and move at an intensely fast pace because of the Test in may
on the plus side, if you do well, there's college credit, not to mention the GPA boost of an AP class, and showing colleges that you are taking the most rigorous curriculum offered</p>
<p>Did I mention the quiz every Monday, the quiz overview tuesday, the random packets on Wed-Thursday, and the quiz review on Friday?</p>
<p>Every week.</p>
<p>Annoying, to say the least.</p>
<p>At my school? No.</p>
<p>There is only one US History teacher, and his class is a rite of passage for juniors at my school Basically, he teaches everyone on an AP level, but to do so, he compromises the amount of material he can cover thoroughly, so starting in February those who want to prep for the AP exam have to come in on Sunday afternoons for 90 minutes to cover the additional material for the exam and for him to assign DBQ practice and MC sections. But rigor-wise, there's no difference.</p>
<p>Ok, whoever goes in on Sunday afternoons just for the freaking exam needs to get a life. I mean, you guys have the whole semester for this crap, why worry about it on teh weekends liek it's the end to end all ends.</p>
<p>At my school (same as takeme2cali but I had a different teacher) it was much different. I took it last year, and every single day we had a quiz on the notes we took on 10+ pages of the textbook. It was a very rigorous class with a very good teacher. Without him, I don't think I would have scored a 5 on the exam. In our school, there is a huge disparity between APUSH and Early Am H and Mod Am H because all of the kids who like history are in AP, and the resulting honors classes aren't up to the normal honors level...hence they are kind of a joke.</p>
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<p>3-4 months of Sunday afternoons =/= all of the time students have off of school</p>
<p>Well, maybe you're right about the get a life thing, but the weekend sessions were so we could cover from the colonial period to the pre-Civil War era, the chunk of history that we skipped in the normal M-F class. (He does this weird loop with history...starts at Civil War, ends at the end of Cold War, then we do colonial after the AP exam. The kids who took AP didn't have to go to class after the exam.</p>