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April 2013

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Seminar ForAdvanced Placement

Academic ServicesApril 2013

Community Builder:Just like me…..

1. One person begins introducing themselves to the group– School– Favorite

geography topic– Least favorite

geography topic

Students will share with the class one strategy or tip they will use on

exam day

AP SeminarCBC

I DO

•Instructor will review the 21st Centry skills and AP success stats with students and make a conncetion to the AP Seminar•Instructor will review specific content for AP course of study

WE DO

• Instructor and students will utilize test taking strategies to answer multiple choice and free response answers

YOU DO

• Students will utilize materials from the AP Seminar to study for AP exam

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3 Learning Goal: Learners will understand and implement effective test taking strategies for passing AP exams.

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• Learners will: utilize content knowledge learned in AP courses coupled with effective test taking strategies to increase pass rate by completing practice AP test questions

Bellwork: Community Builder

Strategic Plan Goal # 1Increased Student Achievement

NEXT STEPS:1. Utilize new learning and implement on AP exam2. Continue to study for AP exam

Benchmarks:

Exit ActivityEssential Question:How do we revolutionize the way we teach, lead, and learn for 21st century success?Common Language:

• Advanced Placement• Effective Strategies

21st Century Skills Tony Wagner, The Global Achievement Gap

1. Critical Thinking and Problem Solving2. Collaboration and Leadership3. Agility and Adaptability4. Initiative and Entrepreneurialism5. Effective Oral and Written

Communication6. Accessing and Analyzing Information7. Curiosity and Imagination

Academic Services

Positive StatisticsHurray Lake County

SchoolsLake County Schools….

– Named to the College Board District Honor Roll

Content Overview

• APHG Strategies and Examples, 2013

• APHG Content, 2013– Graphic organizers– PeopleTheoriesModels– Online Resources

• Multiple Choice Sample Questions

• FRQ Sample

Strategies and Practice Multiple Choice

• Mark your answers clearly and neatly

• Be aware of time, you have 60 minutes to answer 75 questions on the AP Exam; do not linger over a question too long. – There 18 sample questions in your

packet• Mark questions to return to later.

Once you return, if you still don't know the answer, make an educated guess.

• Every so often, check to make sure you're bubbling on the correct number  

Strategies and Practice Multiple Choice

• Remember that you're looking for the best answer - there will be distractors.• Read all answer choices carefully. • Ignore test-takers that finish before you; use

the entire allotted time to go back over answers.• There is no guessing penalty. If you run out

of time, pick one letter for the remaining answers and go for it.

Strategies and Practice Free Response

• Understanding what the question is asking- Know the FRQ vocabulary

• PREWRITING• The Deadlies• Editing

– Keep the margins open

Exit Activity• With a shoulder partner, turn

and talk about one strategy you will utilize on your AP exam and why.

• If it is good share it with the group

• Please answer the interest inventory as accurately and honestly as possible.

AP Content 2013Which areas would you like to

review?

• Geography Overview– Themes– Diffusion– Regions

• Population– Concepts– Demographic Transition Model– Population Pyramids

AP Content 2013Which areas would you like to

review?• Culture

– Popular v. Local– Patterns and Process– Appropriation v. Assimilation– Customs

• Language– Major Families– Lingua Franca– Pidgin and Creole

– Religions– Cultural Landscapes

• Toponyms

AP Content 2013Which areas would you like to

review?• Political Geography• Agriculture, Rural and the Environmental

Geography• Urban Geography, Industrialization and

Globalization

Multiple Choice Practice

In your student packet, find the 18 sample multiple choice

questions and complete them

Discuss answers

Free Response Question

Industrial location models are used to explain geographic patterns of economic activity. The maps above show automobile factories built before and after 1986 in the United States.

A. Identify TWO changes in the geography of automobile factory construction shown by the maps.B. Identify and explain TWO factors related to industrial location that may have contributed to the changes.

SurveyIn your student packet, please locate the APHG

Seminar Interest Inventory survey and complete it. Hand

it to the instructor before you leave.

…and Good Luck in the AP Human Geography Exam

on Friday, May 17th