#world history ap

[citrusbunnies]

IM DONE

ITS OVER

I SURVIVED

IM NEVER TAKING AN AP CLASS AGAIN

[amnhnyc]

It’s World Orangutan Day! Weighing up to 200 lbs (90.1 kg), the orangutan (genus Pongo) is the largest arboreal animal on the planet! This tree-dweller is also Asia’s only great ape. The critically endangered primate is mostly herbivorous, with a diet that consists of flowers, nuts, and fruit. This species’ historic range in Southeast Asia has shrunk down to just two islands—Borneo and Sumatra—and their population has dipped sharply in the last century. Because they live in lush tropical forests, orangutans are especially vulnerable to deforestation, an ongoing threat as agriculture encroaches on their habitat. 

Photo: Eric Kilby, CC BY-SA 2.0, flickr 

[citrusbunnies]

ive got my world history ap exam tmrw pray for me ayll

[bee-paints-n-dances]

i’m absolutely terrified to tell my ap world history teacher that the only reason i know so much is because of hetalia and autism

[foralltheshaniacs]

i love puppet history because it’s everything i hate about school-taught history. it’s entertaining it’s not really about wars specifically (unless they’re funny) it focuses on people’s specific lives it focuses on important and cool women it’s about people more than it is events and numbers and dates it’s got songs it’s about actually interesting topics it’s literally just such a good time. and it’s even got a little guy teaching it :)

[incorrect-turn]

Turn characters as no-context quotes from my high school history teacher

Simcoe: “I enjoy yelling at kids”

Richard Woodhull: “You’re all life-ruiners”

Akinbode: “What are you, weak? You peasant!”

Robert Rogers: *playing Oregon Trail and hunting for food* “Come on out, scumbags”

The British army: “I need to…conquer someone”

Anna: “Women! Want! Working! Rights!”

Robert Townsend: “You sent me an email? Oh, I didn’t open it. I ignored it”

Hewlett: “It’s not that bad!” *whispers* “It’s that bad”

Abe: “Daddy, do you have pastoralism?”

Caleb: “One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. To you, I am both”

Washington: “Do you think I KNOW what Tower Defense is?”

Ben: “What’s a fancy word for everyone is equal -NO, not communism”

[shalom-iamcominghome]

Slowly realizing that I was taught twice as much about the bubonic plague than I was about the shoah. I feel like that's telling. We never learned anything about the shoah specifically, just that the axis and allied powers existed, that Pearl Harbor happened, and we won. Because those are, apparently, the only important parts of WWII

[historicalfictionenthusiast]

Saw someone say people who love history are really just people who love gossip and I can’t stop thinking about it so now you have to as well.

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 44: Medievalish History 8 and Earlier

These Questions are the result of suggestions from the previous iteration.

This category may include suggestions made too late to fall into the correct earlier time grouping. Basically, I'd already moved on to human history, but I'd periodically get a pre-homin suggestion, hence the occasional random item waaay out of it's time period, rather than reopen the category.

In some cases a culture lasted a really long time and I grouped them by whether it was likely the later or earlier grouping made the most sense with the information I had. (Invention ofs tend to fall in an earlier grouping if it's still open. Ones that imply height of or just before something tend to get grouped later, but not always. Sometimes I'll split two different things from the same culture into different polls because they involve separate research goals or the like).

Please add new suggestions below if you have them for future consideration. All cultures and time periods welcome.

[sageisntamathperson]

UPDATE

So.

Hi.

As all three people who follow me know (hi guys), I have begun a quest to start actually liking math. You guys came up with some awesome recommendations, some of which I have already checked out (A Mathematician's Lament review coming soon!), and I've decided that I will also use this blog to monologue about all of the crazy things Mathblr is helping me learn.

What will a complete novice such as I think of the tantalizing and mysterious science (?) of (gasp!) topology? Only time will tell!

(It's math about holes. I think? I don't know, folks. This is why I started to learn more about math in the first place.)

However, I'm afraid my original goal of getting into Calc 3 senior year is a no-go. Apparently, you have to take a whole year of Precalc as a prerequisite, which will fill up my junior year -- and I don't think they'll let me jump from Precalc to Calc 3. Not to mention that I discovered that Calc 3 is not, in fact, an AP class; so, as someone who's trying to get as many AP courses as I can and doesn't want to be an engineer, it's basically useless for me to take.

But! This does not mean I'm giving up on math. What I've learned so far is very interesting -- and math is still my only bad grade, so I definitely still need to improve. And not only am I keeping this blog going, I'm expanding it.

I'm the type of person who learns subjects by writing weird, opinionated stories about personifications of them. (Yes... I know.) So I've decided to use this blog to make myself write bizarre, wild things to study for Honors Chemistry and AP World History. You'll know I have a big test when you're slammed with a sarcastic-remark-filled yet educational sketch or short essay about one of the subjects. Sometimes it's the "Meet the Plastics" monologue, but with the Gunpowder Empires instead of Karen, Gretchen, and Regina. Sometimes it's a rant about how hydrogen is such a manic-pixie-dream-girl wannabe. (We get it, you're content with only two valence electrons! Why do you wanna be different so bad?)

I hope this helps not only me, but you guys too :) But you know what is NOT helpful? The fact that I'm doing this instead of math homework. I should probably close this tab now.

[drsonnet]

Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, [Mosque, Cairo, Egypt], 1843, Daguerreotype, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Estampes et de la Photographie, Réserve EG2- 701., LL/62078

[bonesinthesky]

I fucking hate school I literally have no time for anything anymore and I feel so fucking stupid because ent grades are the lowest they have ever been and they are even bad grades they are As and Bs but I am just so stressed out because I know I can do better I am just lazy

[lunebits]

ap class tips

for those in ap classes who are struggling. also for those who aren't really. whatever.

just as an intro to my qualifications:

i go to a stem high school (will be graduating next sem!) where all the classes are already advanced as is (our ap classes are also taught differently!) i've taken a total of 10 ap classes during my time, and while that isn't as much as others, i'd say i have a pretty good spread of ap classes i took!

general ap class tips

remember that the ultimate goal for you taking this course is to take the exam and get a 4/5 (reach for that 5!). yes, the grade is important, but that score at the end after that exam might save anywhere from $600-$1200+ in college. so focus your energy on that exam once the exams are encroaching!

make friends in your ap classes. trauma bonding is real (/j) so making friends that will help you study or might save you when you accidentally forgot is key.

and while they all say "study a bit every night!" that's hard to do. the rule of thumb here for every class will be in the categorized sections, so don't worry (i gotchu!!)

ap math (calc ab/bc, stat, physics, chem, etc.)

i personally didn't take physics or chem bc i didn't want to, but i did take bc and got a 5 (yes, i'm so proud)!

rule of thumb for studying at home: do your homework everyday and actually take the time to understand what the hell you're doing. understand what the process is behind solving the problem. be able to pull out the variables. practice, practice, practice. also, this is one of those subjects where it's actually worth it to study it at home everyday.

ANOTHER RULE: practice tests. these math exams are about stamina and speed. if you can solve a problem, great! but now here comes 20 more screaming your name. but, if you can get the timing down before your exam, that's even better. so go waste your saturday afternoon at that mock exam if you need to. another saturday will come in time anyway. ask your teacher for mock exams. get that practice workbook. whatever it takes. get the timing in your hand.

just as a quote from my teacher, "life is about choices, and we are all busy people." don't waste your time doing something that'll waste your time. even if you can't remember it, that's okay. just keep moving and score more points somewhere else. and also, do the easy route. only memorize the easy route.

math is about patterns. patterns rule math. extract that pattern out of that problem, memorize it, and you'll be just fine.

FRQS WILL HURT YOUR BRAIN AND THAT'S OKAY! collegeboard has a very specific way it wants you to answer these questions. the best way to learn the format is to do so many frqs your hands hurt. because in any exam that involves math, you genuinely need to do better on the frqs. they'll land you more points. yes, the mcq might get you that 5, but the frqs become the basic 3 or 4 that you need. your teacher will hopefully teach you the format, but if they don't, the collegeboard ap website has all the past frqs they've ever made.

YOU WILL BE OKAY. I PROMISE. make sure that if you cry, you understand your disappointment then move on to a larger action plan.

ap histories/humanities (art history, u.s history, euro, world, etc.)

i've taken all the histories that my school offers (apush, euro, apwh, apah, etc.)

rule of thumb: don't study at home unless there's a test coming up or you're bad at putting stuff in order.

GET YOUR WRITING SKILLS DOWN PAT. this is the thing that'll get you the most points. that mcq section is a killer, but doing 3-6 (looking at you apah exam) right after might just kill you. so please, get your stamina up. just write. just keep writing.

timeline shit for history. because when it comes down to it, knowing the sequence of events and knowing the events themselves are more important than dates or whatever.

if you're worried about coherency in your writing, jot down a small pre-writing list.

memorize every single rubric. luckily, the dbq/leq rubric is the same across apush, apwh, and euro. you'll get away with just memorizing the two. the apah rubric is a little different, and the ap lit rubric is a little different. just memorize them as best you can.

when writing, cater to your reader. make things easy to spot and easy to grade. they'll give you a higher score if they can clearly see where things are.

just practice mcqs. all the stimulus will have something you can pull out of it (unless it's like apah where you're meant to memorize the works). but every question will have an answer that's in the passage. practice finding that answer. (this one is still really hard)

all these tests are tests of stamina. and sometimes, they're on the same goddamn day because collegeboard hates love us. just keep going. grab a snack. rest your eyes, go.

essays are the bane of everyone’s existence in ap courses because you’re on this strict rubric and have this mythical complexity/sophistication point that you need to give your hopes and dreams of achieving. BUT. but. you’ll be okay. especially for exams like the ap lit/apah exam, you get to come in knowing at least a bit of the exam (for ap lit, a good part of the frq weight. for apah, 90% of the test). TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT!! know a novel inside and out. know the works inside and out. you’ll be okay. stretch your hands, breathe, write.

ap sciences (bio, physics, chem, psych, econ)

i've personally taken bio and both econs, but these are all concept based, so the same general tips apply.

rule of thumb: if you don't understand it in class, you need to study it at home asap. seriously. because you sure as hell won’t be able to put it together during class the next day. whats good though is that there’s so many resources online (esp videos!!) for all the ap sciences that it’s actually crazy.

read your textbook. science is great with a textbook in your hand. you don't even need to read the whole thing. just skim through it to add information to your class notes. most times that works.

because the questions are concept based, the mcq/frqs are a little hard to get used to. SO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS: don’t ignore your responsibilities and learn what these questions look like.

flashcards. USE FLASHCARDS. so much of science is not only understanding concepts but applying them. to apply them, you need to know them by heart. and to know them by heart means flashcards to drill yourself.

and speaking of applying your knowledge, you need to take things slowly. approach questions with this framework: 1) read the problem + understand what concept it’s asking about. 2) pull out that information from your sexy brain. 3) solve the problem based on what you can remember. to truly understand, include a lot of examples in your notes. AND MAKE SURE YOU UNDERSTAND WHY AND HOW THEY WORK. the why and the how are more important than the what.

misc tips 🌷

burnout is inevitable if you don’t manage your time correctly. there’s people online that can explain how to manage your energy more than me so please go watch them instead lmfao

try your best to stay on your schedule. the more you push your tasks to this arbitrary tomorrow, the more you absolutely won’t do them.

honey, you need to bring a snack and a water bottle to those exams, you get like a 10 minute break that isn’t enough for the mental taxation (without representation) that happens on those exams. they’re brutal.

the classes themselves are not as bad you think. i promise. most of the time, you’ll actually have fun. and it’s really cool to be learning at a college level. so keep at it! the moment you hate something, the moment you begin to stop trying as hard and your grades start slipping. keep finding the next thing to delude yourself into enjoying (/hj).

[wring-wraith]

I don’t think y’all understand that you can just make stuff up on any AP history exam

[cin3maa]

hiya cinna how’s it going? :)

RAAAHH HAI im tired....working on an assignment...

[melitheduck]

AP World Exam tomorrow!! I think I'm pretty cooked!♡