<p>I'm studying US History (or I should be...) and I'm sort of bored. I've never been this bored with a subject before. I loved World History, but I think that US History is just not as releveant/important as World and European history. I sort of think that it's just a requriement for graduation because we should.. take pride in our country and be loyal forever and I don't know.. I just would much rather learn about the glamorous monarchies and triumphant class wars of France or the Geneva Convention, etc.. My book talks mostly about what has happened in the past century..which I happen to be well acquainted with, no matter how young I am (16). I know who Rosa Parks is and I know about the Conservative Tide (yes, a whole unit.. I'm pretty sure we're still experiencing it.. out of 25 chapters.. the founding fathers shared chapter 1!). Only the first 5 chapters cover American history up to the 1870.. Now, that's what I thought American history was.. the Revolutionary war and the Civil War and abolitionism and the founding fathers and the Enlightenment's influence on our initial documents...chapters 9-25 cover the last 80 years and and 11-20 are ALL on world war I & II (which I covered in World History..) 20-25 are about the new millenium...including Steve Jobs (I still don't understand why he's more crucial to our history than Jefferson?????)</p>
<p>egh the perils of public education.. i feel so uneducated, yet i'm a sophomore studying the most advanced stuff available to me (jr and sr level work).. and self-studying on the side, which is where most of my knowledge comes from. I couldn't even pass a middle school quiz on the revolutionary war.</p>
<p>Anyway, the US History tests my teacher uses are so easy that I get an A no matter how hard I study (including not doing it at all and going in cold turkey), and homework doesn't count towards our grade, but I still have to do it (and he checks) and it takes a long time (very laborious). Anyway, what should I do? I feel like self-studying the real topics in US History w/ a college-level textbook and then what do I do about the homework required? It takes like 1 hour per section (completely mindless stuff, but still a lot of time I could be spending educating myself) and I have 15 left to complete the course.. due on Monday. What can I do to fake the homework (since I already know everything and will be doing the real stuff on my own?)</p>
<p>I felt like that in alg.2/pre-calc many times.</p>
<p>The question of life became not "why" but "why are we learning this?"
But then, even this year, I'm happy I went through learning that (even though I would never take those classes again); it just builds foundation.</p>
<p>And what's wrong with an easy A?
Homework: do it well because that's why the A is easy..</p>
<p>no, it's not why. i didn't do the homework before and got a's without opening the book and that's why my teacher is looking at my homework now. he thinks i have the test or something. so he reviews it to make sure it's not just chicken scratch and i made it up to not do any work.</p>
<p>I know how you feel. I felt a real connection to World History. The events fascinated me. Oh, to go back to Otto von Bismarck, the Congress of Vienna, and imperialism (I heart being unnecessarily dramatic =D)!!! But no- now I'm stuck in boring APUSH. Even though I should feel more passion towards these events because... well, I'm American. Yet, I feel nothing.</p>
<p>The way that your book is laid out is stupid, too. My sympathies. But, you just have to suck it up, be bored, and get that easy A. The way that I dealt with busy work was through writing little witty comments to myself. It amused me =) Or, you could listen to music while you do it... sorry, that's all I've got.</p>
<p>As to homework. . .are they outlines? We do a mix of terms some nights, one page papers, worksheets, and a outline every once in awhile (usually like 20-30 mins, sometimes more).</p>
<p>I love history. It's fun to learn about the past, and the social & political aspects of it. For chemistry however, I often ask "Why do I have to learn this?"</p>
<p>Oh and our school uses the same book for regular/honors US history classes. I take AP, so I don't have to deal with ****ty high school text.</p>
<p>the homework we do is the section assesment w/ the terms and #2 mini-project (how lameeeeee) w/ the #3 & 4 questions and then the chapter review... but the thing is.. i can test out of this class if i do ALL OF THIS.. all 8-26 inclusive (=19) chapters by monday but it really want to complete 8-15 (=8) by tomarrow morning because then i can have semester 1 on my transcript before i send it off to this place tomarrow..</p>
<p>hmm.. i just had an idea. what if i listen to my language audio lesson so that while i'm subconsciously doing this mindless work, Spanish words are infiltrating my subconscious.. (..) and.. making me remember/think in spanish.</p>
<p>^^ Nice multitasking. Just don't start writing/typing in spanish</p>
<p>that's harsh. We have never done a chapter review. My teacher makes us do the terms (2 sentences) to learn the main stuff, but she never has us answer those lame questions. Which is good since I was sick of those questions after 8th grade. It seems as if your teacher isn't really teaching but just assigning a lot of stuff. idk. . . It's weird- we don't get TOO much homework in that class but we end up learning a TON.</p>
<p>Test out? I'm confused. I thought homework didn't count and he was just checking it. . . </p>
<p>If it makes a difference, I'm in NY so we take the Regents. . .</p>
<p>So you are done with the whole textbook? Er. . . isn't it a year long course?
I'm getting curious. </p>
<p>Mine is one year, and we are on the Great Depression. Which is pretty good since we have until June to finish the material.</p>
<p>I love APUSH, I have to admit I haven't taken AP world or Europe(they're not offered), but to me seeing how America has gotten this far and how it was shaped it awesome. Plus my teacher is pretty kick ass.</p>
<p>I'm biased because I love history, but as an American, you should enjoy US History (I learned so much about this country, that's why I'm taking Political Science now)</p>
<p>I love history. Although, I do agree, American History seems to be much more dry than Euro or World. I'll leave you with a few cliches: (1) if we don't study history, it's bound to repeat itseld; (2) we have to know where we come from; (3) if we don't know what happened for our rights, we'll never appreciate them.</p>
<p>I know what you mean. I find history useless. It's not on the SAT's HSPA or any other test that matters. It's only there to beef up my GPA. I got into an argument with my history teacher about this and she even admitted that it's not as important as science and math. :D</p>
<p>I love love love American History! My teachers for global have basically stunk (we just skipped slave trade, world war one etc to focus on like mayan peoples) while my american history teachers really had a passion.</p>