U. S. History exam. We are here with jason stacy and Matthew Ellington, who are going to help our students prep for the test. Good morning, gentlemen. Guest good morning. Guest good morning. Host this is the first year we have done the u. S. History cram for the exam for the advanced placement test on cspan. The first question everybody wants to know, what is changing this year for this test because of the coronavirus pandemic . Guest well, there is quite a lot. Is aiggest change is this shorter test, only 45 minutes long. It is going to be an online test for students. Just oneon, it is documentbased essay question with five documents. Examly, it is an students can to get home from their computers. In this era of distance learning, the College Board has modified the test while still keeping the same skills that students need to be successful. Finally, this test is an open note test. The College Board will not try to prohibit students from using their notes, so students may refer to not
Will help Public Health officials and emergency authorities make decisions, but they should shut down events, weather reactions to the pandemic are working. That is the power of gis. We are going to transition from medical geography to how gis can help you moving forward because you are going to leave here in a few moments from this online conference and you are back to the reality we live in. Think of, in your work, when does location matter . About distance . Direction . Territory,d, region, or, with my kids, i say turf. Working from the regional, national, global scale. If you teach and you have any of these themes, you need to consider getting gis a try, particularly as many of us will be teaching online, i will share resources that are ready to go in which you can have your students doing gis at home and it might not be as powerful as you in front of the class, but it will be pretty powerful given that you are far away. To show you one option, we will be eating every day. I have a
Forward or even in the middle of the essay. The way i distinguish contextualization from making connections is contextualization means it is either within or next to the time period. Making connections, you are making a jump, maybe 20, 50, 1 00 years. I wouldnt go much farther. So it is not directed connected directly connected to the time period. Guest so a good example of that, with what we have been talking about with reconstruction is that, contextualization might take into account the situation for africanamericans in the United States immediately prior to the civil war, maybe in the 1850s or the 1840s. And a complexity point might be at the end of the essay, to look forward to well after reconstruction, the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s, as an attempt to redress many of the problems that came out of reconstruction in that failed revolution. Host lets go to will, who is calling from buffalo, new york. Will, do you have a question for our distinguished teachers here
Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us for this briefing. Mothers day is coming up. Keep those limited celebrations to 10 people or less. When youle, make sure are working, you are working in a socially distanced way. Work from home, if you can. We would ask employers, please continue to have people work at home if it is possible. That is still a good idea, to have people work from home. Please have people do that. Number three, want you to shop once a week. Dont take the family with you when you go shopping. Be efficient, go to the store, get back. Four, help kids socially distanced by keeping them at home to play, avoid group sports, and to make sure that you are avoiding the playground. There has also been some questions about Team Sport Activities. There are no organized Team Sport Activities allowed in nebraska. There has been some confusion about that. Businesses sell memberships and they bring somebody in to do coaching, thats different, but no organized team sports