<p>I feel like my class is behind. We just started the Gilded Age (1877) and my teacher says she'll take 3 weeks to teach it. Where are you? Should I start self-studying?</p>
<p>Don’t feel bad, we’re doing the gilded age next week and then after that, on to the 20th century! Although the other class at my school finished all that ages ago… :/</p>
<p>1990s now. Reason: block schedule, so my class have to finish before the term is over.</p>
<p>^ Holy crap. That’s crazy. </p>
<p>We just finished Spanish American War, on to the 20th century now.</p>
<p>Here’s the inside scoop. I took APUSH last year (got a 5)…but I ended up preparing the last bit on my own. It is hard to fit all of U.S. history (however abridged it may be) into one year. Last year, when I studied, my teacher said that a lot of people did poorly because one of the essays/series of passages was on the Vietnam War, a topic which half of America hadn’t gotten to yet." </p>
<p>Assuming you aren’t on some block schedule, there is no reason you shouldn’t start around 1960’s and work your way through it on your own. There are no essay questions about topics after 1980 (I think), so it’s more just superficial knowledge of dates and events. Reading on my own, I started with Kennedy’s New Frontier and moved into the Civil Rights Movement and Johnson’s Great Society, and read until the election of 2000.</p>
<p>Assuming you want to do well and be prepared for the exam itself, you should simply ask your teacher where he/she ended up last year before the exam and start reading a bit before that to the end.</p>
<p>Just my two cents.</p>
<p>haha… When I took APUSH last year, my teacher was exactly in the same section as you are now. From personal experience, I would say that it’d be best to start self-studying for the AP exam. Buy one of those prep books and start self-studying. There is a high probability that your teacher won’t be able to cover all the topics in-depth on the AP exam. </p>
<p>My teacher was only able to finish all topics up to the end of World War II/beginning of Cold War and had to rush to get to that point. As a result, most of the students in class got 2’s on the AP exam.</p>
<p>World War I… but we’re on trimesters, so we’re going a little faster.</p>
<p>we did the guilded age the first two weeks of the semester. we just finished progressivism/WWI, and now onto the roaring twenties. Yeah, we go super fast. I think your class needs to pick up the pace in order to assure a good amount of review time.</p>
<p>It’s only our third week, but we’ve just finished up the Andrew Jackson Era. </p>
<p>We are on block scheduling, which means we only have from late January to late April to cover the material, but we have a really good teacher so most of us end up doing well anyway.</p>
<p>… We’re on the 1970s. >______>
Not going to lie, it’s because my school separates USH into Antebellum and Civil War in USH 1 and everything after into US2. AP USH2 being the actual AP class. After we get to the present, (which in my book includes Obama! ;D) we go back and review US1.</p>
<p>Dang three weeks?? Actually that’s about right since Gilded Age was split throughout 3 chapters for us, so if you cover a chapter a week that’s three weeks. However, we cover 1-2 chapters a week.</p>
<p>Just finished WWI (Wilson), ended chapter with Harding becoming prez. Next chapter is also Roaring Twenties.</p>
<p>Too bad we don’t have a solid foundation in everything up until Reconstruction. 
Switched from a bad teacher but APUSH essay reader to a great teacher mid-year.</p>
<p>My school is absolutely ridculous. My teacher moves us at 2-3 chapters per week. We started at Columbus and are already on the 1920s. We only have about 7 chapters to go. No wonder I do so terribly in AP US, everyone else’s school moves at a reasonable pace.</p>
<p>it doesn’t matter where you are at as long as you finish by april 7th. That will give you a month to review what you need to know, learn to write a good frq/dbq and do practice exams.</p>
<p>We’re on World War I in my class. However, we’ve been doing essays throughout the year, so we won’t need a month of review time.</p>
<p>my teacher moves ridiculously fast too and i hate it. i think we will have extra time to review. We literally only spend a day covering each chapter.</p>
<p>War of 1812…
lol jkjk we are finishing WWI</p>
<p>We just finished the Spanish-American War, however my teacher has already outright told us that we are going to have to self-study the last 4 or so chapters in the book if we want to be ready…I don’t know how much review time, if any, we’re going to get either. This is my teacher’s first year teaching APUSH…</p>
<p>We just started WWI and Progressivism. APUSH is year long, though.</p>
<p>We’ve just finished urban america at the turn of the century and are about to move on to agriculture in the west. The class is only 27 weeks long though, so I’ve read ahead already and I’m on progressivism and Roosevelt.
Anyone else using The American Pageant?</p>
<p>We’re currently covering the Progressive Era and Roosevelt (Ch. 28 of Pageant).</p>