AP European History Semester Review Session
Posted on January 17, 2010
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4pm Tuesday at the Red Atlas
Sorry for the mess…
Posted on December 7, 2009
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I am playing around with different themes for GeekTeach… please excuse the mess! jn
Essays graded…
Posted on November 29, 2009
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All essays (Absolutism and Scientific Revolution DBQ) are graded. You can see scores either at EuropeanEssayNation (along with comments) OR if your parents have access to the Parent Portal for PowerSchool. See you on Monday! 
A note about the DBQs…
Posted on November 28, 2009
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Attention AP European History folks…
If you turned in your DBQ, yay!
If you didn’t turn in your DBQ, and there are a handful of you that did NOT, booo! Don’t ruin my holiday spirit, yo!
Model UN Videos
Posted on November 15, 2009
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The audio isn’t very good but the MMUN people have put together some videos concerning parliamentary procedure and such. They are here…
Chapter 14 posted; test schedule announced!
Posted on November 8, 2009
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I have planned out how we will assess the absolutism unit. We will not test until next week! See the classroom calendar for details (click on “AP European History” at the top of this page).
Also, we will have two essays the next two weeks: one free response essay and our first Document Based Question! Ole!
Nice job, World Cultures!
Posted on September 4, 2009
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Excellent job this week, 2nd and 3rd period World Cultures! You were flexible, mindful to our tasks, and a great model of how we might use computers in our classroom this year! Have a GREAT long weekend! Ole!
Neiffer’s class on Twitter this year….
Posted on August 23, 2009
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I will be tweeting class information at:
AP European History
http://www.twitter.com/apeuropean
World Cultures
http://www.twitter.com/CHWorldCultures
School starts this week!
Posted on August 23, 2009
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Yay! School start this week! I’ll see frosh on Wednesday and everyone else on Thursday! Woo hoo for school!
Grading Criteria for European Project
Posted on June 2, 2009
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Our research project will be grading based on the following questions:
- Depth: Does your project demonstrate the depth required from the amount of time dedicated to the task?
- Knowledge: Does your project demonstrate an understanding of the topic at hand?
- Research: Does your project demonstrate that you researched from a variety of sources that are good, respected sources of information?
- Source citation: Have you appropriated cited sources via Delicious.com?
AGAIN… If you choose PowerPoint as a presentation tool, BE PREPARED TO RECORD AN AUDIO TRACK FOR SHARING ON SLIDESHARE. You should see Neiffer before Thursday on how to do this!
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