<p>Can anyone recommend any good textbooks for any of the AP'S? I'm mainly looking at Art History/Psychology/History. Also what self study guides were used in conjunction with textbooks?</p>
<p>I can tell you what my dd is using for history.</p>
<p>She's using Barron's AP World History Study Guide this year, along with the Flashcards set. Her text is Spielvogel's Western Civilization.</p>
<p>Next year, she's planning on using Barron's AP U.S. History Study Guide, along with the Flashcards set. Her text will be Bailey's The American Pageant.</p>
<p>You can find all of this on Amazon.com -- along with study guides, although both publishers have nice materials on their webites (just do a google search). They even have online exams for free.</p>
<p>I can't help with the Art History or Psychology though! You could do another google search and type in "AP Psychology texts"...you should be able to come up with what books are being used for those AP classes by instructors.</p>
<p>Hope this helps!</p>
<p>Kelly</p>
<p>I self studied two of the ones you noted - Psycholoogy and US history (you did mean US history right?). I got a five on both.</p>
<p>For Psychology, I used Meyer's "Psychology" and for US History I used the American Pageant (a few versions old, but worked well nonetheless). I didn't use any test prep book. </p>
<p>Psychology was very easy. All I had to do was read through the textbook, do the problems in the back, and then spend time every once in a while relating real events with what I learned in the book, and also trying to explain why my family members behaved/thought the way they did. It was fun. And they soon got annoyed. :)</p>
<p>US History was harder. To be truthful, I had no idea what to expect on the exam, as I had only took one practice test on collegeboard.com. I read each chapter, then outlined them. I also made a timeline, a list of significant people, different treaties, wars, changing economies/tariffs, international relations, ELECTIONS and what the main issues were, things like that, and made sure I understood everything. I think what made me nervous though, was the fact that I had moved overseas and took a two month break of studying, and then once I started up again, I had lost my motivation to stay with such a strict curriculum I had put my self on - which led to some cramming before the tests. </p>
<p>Er... If you meant World History instead of US History, I used Spodek's "World Hisotry" volumes one and two, but I didn't take the test because it was cancelled. :(</p>
<p>my son self-studied for a boat-load of APs, although not any of the ones you are interested in. We got our textbook ideas by googling "AP whatever" and looking at course websites for various AP courses across the country and seeing if there was a particular textbook that seemed to be the most common. </p>
<p>You should also post AP questions on the general forums. Although a greater portion of homeschoolers than of schooled kids self study for AP exams, the number of schooled kids is so much larger than the number of homeschoolers that the majority of self-studiers are going to be in school. For review books, I got a good sense of which ones were favored for particular courses by reading the general College Confidential boards where AP exams are discussed. You can get textbook ideas there too by asking people what textbook they used for AP courses in particular subjects.</p>
<p>You can always register at the AP Central portion of the College Board web site. Once you do so, you can read reviews of different possible texts. Also check out what support materials you can buy from CB: past tests, teaching guides, test prep materials, and the like.</p>
<p>For art history, I've seen "The Annotated Mona Lisa: a crash course in art history" mentioned almost everywhere I saw people ask about the class. =)
Good luck with the APs! Wish I could be bothered to self-study more than just ap phys c</p>
<p>I'm using Stearns World Civilizations and Bulliet's The Earth and its Peoples as my main texts for World History. I'm also using Barron's review books, and a couple of historical atlases, plus three books on historiography/writing related things, but I can't remember the names off the top of my head.</p>