U.S. HISTORY

Currently at Moses Lake High School, this is Brooke’s 26th year teaching APUSH to juniors. As History Department Chair he has been instrumental in the addition of four new AP History courses to the curriculum at MLHS (Government, European, Macro Economics, and Human Geography). Brooke also taught APHUG to freshmen for eight years, in addition to APUSH. Brooke enjoys coaching the Varsity Knowledge Bowl team and serving as Key Club Advisor at MLHS. His 2016 and 2017 Knowledge Bowl teams were state champions.
• To provide students with the analytical skills and factual knowledge necessary to deal critically with the problems and materials in United State History.
• To familiarize participants with the continuum and flow of the US history curriculum from early settlement to present
• To familiarize participants with hands-on instructional methods and time management strategies necessary to successfully prepare students to pass the AP* Exam.
• To familiarize participants with interesting and meaningful individual and group assignments for students to complete throughout the year.
• To familiarize participants with the entire U.S. History Exam, how the essay parts are graded, and successful review techniques
All participants will need:
• an activity or teaching strategy to share with the other participants.
• All instruction will be done online from 8am to 4pm. On Friday we will have class from 8 to 12. We will be using Zoom for our synchronous time. As much as possible, we will do group work, using breakout sessions on different formats. Make sure that your computer is able to use Zoom. More information on the class will become available as we get nearer to the workshop date.
• Discussion on the nuts and bolts of an AP class.
• First look at the curriculum
Day 2
• Begin looking at activities for the classroom
Day 3
• Work with grading of the Long Essay and DBQ
• Continue activities
• Look at review for test
• Look at multiple choice questions and short answer questions
Day 5 (half day)
• Tie everything together