OK, time to begin to review for the mid-term. We'll talk about the mid-term in more depth in class, but off the top, you should expect a mini-AP exam. That means a multiple choice section of around 30-35 questions, followed by two essays, one Change Over Time and one Compare and Contrast. Topics for the essays will be ones you have not seen before.
The content of the exam will be from Guns Germs and Steel through to the completion of Chapter 20. For the former, you just need to know about his argument, you don't need to go through all 14 chapters! What does he claim and how does he support it? If you can answer that question, you are all set with Mr. Diamond's book.
For tomorrow's class, you need to go to www.dipity.com and register as a user. This site makes collaborative timelines, which we will make use of to establish a chronicle of events in the three different areas. Don't start a timeline, just register for the site.
Your other task is to go through your old tests (there are three) to determine what you did well and poorly with. Do the same with your essays (especially the C/C and COT's). Get a sense of your relative strengths and weaknesses going into the study process.
If you've been taking notes via evernote, sundry note, noterize, etc. I highly recommend going through and establishing tags if you have not been doing that already. That will enable your notes to be searchable and compilable for faster reference.
Don't forget about your projects, due Friday at the start of the class with attendant blog posts...
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