About this Website
We all know that Mr. Johnston's AP US class is hard. This page was created to help you pass his class! On this site, you will find links to helpful websites, student submissions, tips and advice and more. As the year progresses, new ways of presenting the material may occur to help you further understand what is going on. Good luck to all of you and I hope you find this website useful! Also, don't forget to check out Amanda's Forum at http://apus.createaforum.com/ for more great links and documents! For some great review, check out a Keith Hughes' Youtube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/hughesDV) and for the Online Practice Tests that Mr. Johnston uses on his tests, type in Enduring Vision Practice Tests into Google and it will be the college.cengage.com link! For all AP Gyro students, Amanda has created a Weebly site for you guys! Don't forget to check it out at johnstonapeuro.weebly.com!! Also, for any student of 15-16 or beyond, this website is more specific to your new textbooks (johnstonapush.weebly.com)!!!! Good Luck!
We all know that Mr. Johnston's AP US class is hard. This page was created to help you pass his class! On this site, you will find links to helpful websites, student submissions, tips and advice and more. As the year progresses, new ways of presenting the material may occur to help you further understand what is going on. Good luck to all of you and I hope you find this website useful! Also, don't forget to check out Amanda's Forum at http://apus.createaforum.com/ for more great links and documents! For some great review, check out a Keith Hughes' Youtube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/hughesDV) and for the Online Practice Tests that Mr. Johnston uses on his tests, type in Enduring Vision Practice Tests into Google and it will be the college.cengage.com link! For all AP Gyro students, Amanda has created a Weebly site for you guys! Don't forget to check it out at johnstonapeuro.weebly.com!! Also, for any student of 15-16 or beyond, this website is more specific to your new textbooks (johnstonapush.weebly.com)!!!! Good Luck!
What to expect on the AP Exam
The exam is three hours and fifteen minutes long. There are four main sections to the test. In Section I is a total of 100 minutes consisting of multiple choice questions and a short answer portion. In the multiple choice portion you will complete 55 questions in 55 minutes. In the short answer portion you must answer four questions in 45 minutes. Section II is a total of 95 minutes where you will answer one Document Based Question (DBQ) and one Free Response Question (FRQ). It is suggested that you take 15 minutes to plan the DBQ and 45 minutes to write, then 35 minutes to write the FRQ. The multiple choice is worth 40% of the exam, short answer is worth 20%, the DBQ is worth 25%, and the FRQ is worth 15%. You will get a 10 minute break in between Section I and Section II. No cell phones or other electronic devices are allowed in the testing room and you must have a #2 pencil and a black or blue ink pen for the essay section (no mechanical pencils or highlighters). On the Multiple Choice Portion -Pre-Columbian to 1789 are 20% (10 questions) -1790 to 1914 are 45% (23 questions) -1915 to the Present are 35% (12 questions) |
Textbook Bibliography:
America’s History, Eighth edition. Henretta, Hinderaker, Edwards, and Self.
Boyer, Paul, Clifford E. Clark, Jr., Joseph F. Kent, Neal Salisbury, Harvard Sitkoff, and Nancy Woloch. The Enduring Vision, (Third Edition) D. C. Heath and Company, Lexington, 1996.
America’s History, Eighth edition. Henretta, Hinderaker, Edwards, and Self.
Boyer, Paul, Clifford E. Clark, Jr., Joseph F. Kent, Neal Salisbury, Harvard Sitkoff, and Nancy Woloch. The Enduring Vision, (Third Edition) D. C. Heath and Company, Lexington, 1996.
AMAZING LIVE REVIEW VIDEO BY KEITH HUGHES!!!!!!!
https://youtu.be/0UXi_AKqtVE ****Skip to 1 hr and 10 minutes to see a great review game to do with friends!!!
https://youtu.be/0UXi_AKqtVE ****Skip to 1 hr and 10 minutes to see a great review game to do with friends!!!
Must See Movies!***12 Years a Slave
***Matewan ***Grapes of Wrath Mr. Bees Goes to Town Mr. Smith Goes to Washington V for Vendetta Casablanca Gone With the Wind Citizen Kane ***Glory (1989) ***The Crucible ***Jeremiah Johnson ***Far and Away Flags of Our Fathers Argo Lawrence of Arabia Saving Private Ryan Ferris Bueller's Day Off Attack of the Killer Flamingos (created by Mr. J and friends) Godzilla King of the Monsters Zombieland Forest Gump Born on the 4th of July Bobby The Right Stuff The China Syndrome All the President's Men Good Night, and Good Luck. The Last Samurai Amazing Grace |
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"And this is how Match.com got started. True Story."
"My deep thoughts are pretty shallow"
"Son of a Motherless Goat!!"
"Having a bad day!! Talk-y Hard-y!!!"
"Can you tell I'm excited? That or I had a whole lot of licorice and sugar kick in..."
"Oh, I wasn't scheduled for a sex change!!"
"Apartmentses"
"Petroleum-based product is the REAL product of our life"
"Make sure you have poopy spray!"
"Running with purpose"
"Reasoning with him is like reasoning with a monkey"
"Probably would because I was so stupid!!"
"Nuts to Butts"
(packed transportation system on the Euro Trip)
"You know what I like to do to Fascists? *presses gun shot button on imaginary remote*"
"Fight the Power!"
"You don't have a Henry to kick around"
(White Flight)
"(talking about fancy bathrooms) And they give you a real towel! Henry, try that some time...wash your hands."
"That's one loud shirt!"
"Now I have this awkward silence...kinda like Henry on a date."
(Henry: "Jokes on you, I can't get a date!")
" 'You're getting dumb and dumber,' even though dumb and dumber wasn't invented yet"
“No matter where you go, that’s where you are”
“My level of respect went from zero to negative zero!!”
“You guys do realize…”
“Remember who butters your bread”
“*trying to tell student what his handwriting says* It CLEARLY says WHO! W-H-O! *throws test to the other side of the room* Fetch!...Sit!...Good Boy!”
“I Snapchat all the time!”
“Snapchat Story”
“Told you it was a pimple!! (pft…doctor said I might have skin cancer…now my head’s bleeding)”
"Some people call Lincoln a war criminal, but i disagree. He's 'in-a-cent' "
(courtesy of Liz L)
"George 'Heh heh' Bush"
"Make it rain!"
"Toaster Ovens"
"You don't pee in my pool, I don't pee in yours"
"If I had a quarter for every time I used the word "pee" in an educational way...I could buy a soda"
"I think he's eatin' Putin for Cocopuffs"
"They brought in a specialist, someone who knows about the world. We call them...normal people."
"American Chocolate Way! (Or maybe I should have said Milky Way)"
"Enigma wrapped in a taco"
"Two 2-liters of Pepsi"
"Don't go, ‘peeing in other people's pool.’ That's my job! I'm good at it. I drink a lot of water."
"*mocking tone* Oh, it was like this when we got here"
" 'Babe'raham Lincoln"
"Petroleum Jelly Time!!"
"DON'T SAY 'A LOT', for god sakes I'm gonna throw a dead fish at your head!!"
"You gotta be tough just to know Peahead!"
"Shutty!!"
"Freebird!"
"You lose your train of thought, you lose your pencil!"
"Fell on a Door knob, that was my excuse"
"Atomic Man!"
(mistaken for Anaconda Plan)
"un'president'ed"
"What happens in Chiletown stays in Chiletown"
"Entertainment Camps *closes his eyes and thinks, "why the heck did I just say that?!"*"
" 'Oh we didn't see it..." Oh, those guys are called the BIG LIARS!"
"Oh my God! Henry made a connection!"
"Everybody loves nuked burritos!"
"Guys did shady crap like that. They're called dirt bags!"
(Black Market)
"Max is chasing his shadow"
(squirt him with a SuperSoaker)
"The Dust Bowl turned the Grapes of Wrath into A Raisin in the Sun"
(courtesy of Sabrina)
"Yeah, you look at that guy and you say, 'You totally have a spleen!' "
"Katana Sword *whips meter stick around*"
(You've just gotta hear this cool sound!)
"Hit those lights, Bubba!"
"Unemployment will be high, but they've got bigger fish to fry"
"Al ' Landon' on his back"
(Election of 1936 against FDR)
"I'm a gun guy. How many guns do I have? A lot!"
"Most of us get money and we SPEND IT!!!"
"French Car"
"I just love it when people point and laugh at my picture..."
"Y, M, C, Illuminati"
"You don't throw a dead cat, you kick it because you don't want to touch it"
"It's like someone threw a dead cat at you!"
"You kick a cat like you kick a dog"
"You little whippersnapper"
(FYI: Definition of whippersnapper - a young and inexperienced person considered to be presumptuous or overconfident)
"#Cat (Mass Culture)"
"Heh! I'm glad there's Listerine for times like that"
" *mouthing towards car dealer* Don't look at me *takes a step back* I have no money. Her... *glares/signals towards wife*"
"Jazz Hands!!"
"Too much?"
"9 millimeter"
"Rutherford B. "Heys" "
"They have libraries?"
"Oh, a blouse"
"Watermelon Page!!" (pg. 676)
#Brewista #Wiener
"I didn't become a teacher because of the money *snickers* I did it because I wanted to help kids not make the same mistakes I DID!! (like punching a tree)"
"Don't punch trees! (It wasn't a tree, it was a roof!!)"
"BOLSHEVIK!!"
"I dumped HER!"
"The poop (almost) hit the fan"
"If you're not mad at the government you're what? Clueless!"
"The economy was taking one in the groin!"
"My deep thoughts are pretty shallow"
"Son of a Motherless Goat!!"
"Having a bad day!! Talk-y Hard-y!!!"
"Can you tell I'm excited? That or I had a whole lot of licorice and sugar kick in..."
"Oh, I wasn't scheduled for a sex change!!"
"Apartmentses"
"Petroleum-based product is the REAL product of our life"
"Make sure you have poopy spray!"
"Running with purpose"
"Reasoning with him is like reasoning with a monkey"
"Probably would because I was so stupid!!"
"Nuts to Butts"
(packed transportation system on the Euro Trip)
"You know what I like to do to Fascists? *presses gun shot button on imaginary remote*"
"Fight the Power!"
"You don't have a Henry to kick around"
(White Flight)
"(talking about fancy bathrooms) And they give you a real towel! Henry, try that some time...wash your hands."
"That's one loud shirt!"
"Now I have this awkward silence...kinda like Henry on a date."
(Henry: "Jokes on you, I can't get a date!")
" 'You're getting dumb and dumber,' even though dumb and dumber wasn't invented yet"
“No matter where you go, that’s where you are”
“My level of respect went from zero to negative zero!!”
“You guys do realize…”
“Remember who butters your bread”
“*trying to tell student what his handwriting says* It CLEARLY says WHO! W-H-O! *throws test to the other side of the room* Fetch!...Sit!...Good Boy!”
“I Snapchat all the time!”
“Snapchat Story”
“Told you it was a pimple!! (pft…doctor said I might have skin cancer…now my head’s bleeding)”
"Some people call Lincoln a war criminal, but i disagree. He's 'in-a-cent' "
(courtesy of Liz L)
"George 'Heh heh' Bush"
"Make it rain!"
"Toaster Ovens"
"You don't pee in my pool, I don't pee in yours"
"If I had a quarter for every time I used the word "pee" in an educational way...I could buy a soda"
"I think he's eatin' Putin for Cocopuffs"
"They brought in a specialist, someone who knows about the world. We call them...normal people."
"American Chocolate Way! (Or maybe I should have said Milky Way)"
"Enigma wrapped in a taco"
"Two 2-liters of Pepsi"
"Don't go, ‘peeing in other people's pool.’ That's my job! I'm good at it. I drink a lot of water."
"*mocking tone* Oh, it was like this when we got here"
" 'Babe'raham Lincoln"
"Petroleum Jelly Time!!"
"DON'T SAY 'A LOT', for god sakes I'm gonna throw a dead fish at your head!!"
"You gotta be tough just to know Peahead!"
"Shutty!!"
"Freebird!"
"You lose your train of thought, you lose your pencil!"
"Fell on a Door knob, that was my excuse"
"Atomic Man!"
(mistaken for Anaconda Plan)
"un'president'ed"
"What happens in Chiletown stays in Chiletown"
"Entertainment Camps *closes his eyes and thinks, "why the heck did I just say that?!"*"
" 'Oh we didn't see it..." Oh, those guys are called the BIG LIARS!"
"Oh my God! Henry made a connection!"
"Everybody loves nuked burritos!"
"Guys did shady crap like that. They're called dirt bags!"
(Black Market)
"Max is chasing his shadow"
(squirt him with a SuperSoaker)
"The Dust Bowl turned the Grapes of Wrath into A Raisin in the Sun"
(courtesy of Sabrina)
"Yeah, you look at that guy and you say, 'You totally have a spleen!' "
"Katana Sword *whips meter stick around*"
(You've just gotta hear this cool sound!)
"Hit those lights, Bubba!"
"Unemployment will be high, but they've got bigger fish to fry"
"Al ' Landon' on his back"
(Election of 1936 against FDR)
"I'm a gun guy. How many guns do I have? A lot!"
"Most of us get money and we SPEND IT!!!"
"French Car"
"I just love it when people point and laugh at my picture..."
"Y, M, C, Illuminati"
"You don't throw a dead cat, you kick it because you don't want to touch it"
"It's like someone threw a dead cat at you!"
"You kick a cat like you kick a dog"
"You little whippersnapper"
(FYI: Definition of whippersnapper - a young and inexperienced person considered to be presumptuous or overconfident)
"#Cat (Mass Culture)"
"Heh! I'm glad there's Listerine for times like that"
" *mouthing towards car dealer* Don't look at me *takes a step back* I have no money. Her... *glares/signals towards wife*"
"Jazz Hands!!"
"Too much?"
"9 millimeter"
"Rutherford B. "Heys" "
"They have libraries?"
"Oh, a blouse"
"Watermelon Page!!" (pg. 676)
#Brewista #Wiener
"I didn't become a teacher because of the money *snickers* I did it because I wanted to help kids not make the same mistakes I DID!! (like punching a tree)"
"Don't punch trees! (It wasn't a tree, it was a roof!!)"
"BOLSHEVIK!!"
"I dumped HER!"
"The poop (almost) hit the fan"
"If you're not mad at the government you're what? Clueless!"
"The economy was taking one in the groin!"
Mr. Johnston's Rules of Thumb
1. American System: national bank, protective tariffs, internal improvements (now if only we could do that for mercantilism)
3. It's the south side of Sheboygan! (Might date a girl from the North but not from the north) 5. Code Red...pfft no worries as long as you have a golf club, a bat, a terms rock, and a plastic hammer (and don't forget the helmet!). 7. Monroe Doctrine: you don't pee in my pool I don't pee in yours Roosevelt Corollary: speak quietly but carry a big stick ALSO we're Americans and we will pee where ever we choose in our own hemisphere 8. Speaking figuratively works in order to capture attention (unless you have no clue what you are saying yourself ^.^) 9. You can always connect a story about Peahead to class. Always. 10. You know it is Mr. Johnston not by the hair or the face, but by his smirk =] (and sometimes his wide eyes) *According to Naomi, it's his forehead, which I guess you can see 12. Second New Deal:
1.) Relief for jobless 2.) Assistance to rural poor 3.) Support organized labor 4.) Socialized benefits for older Americans and disadvantaged groups 5.) Stricter Business Regulations 6.) Heavier taxes on the well-to-do 15. The Big Three: Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin (or GM, Ford, and Chrysler when talking about cars) 17.Mr. Johnston's pranks in college = legendary 19. Americanization:(starts after the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (Johnson)) American troops fight against Viet Cong Vietnamization: (when Nixon comes in) turn it over to Arvin (good guys fighting North Vietnamese) to fight against V.C. 21. Always go back to the Founding Fathers (Jefferson vs. Hamilton) 23. Remember: Only Nixon could go into China! Why??? HUAC!!!! 25. If you are going to say the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, you've got to say it right! |
2. Don't punch trees! (or roofs for that matter)
4. You can't go through your day without morning and afternoon coffee (as long as its not from Starbucks =P) and if the coffee is out, steal some from Señor Braun 6. Even without your afternoon coffee you can still be crazily awesome! (because having the students teach about the past semester for midterms just makes you all giddy) 11. First New Deal: 1.) Industrial Recovery 2.) Agriculture 3.) Short-term job relief 13. You lose your train of thought, you lose your pencil! 14. You cannot listen to "The Eye of the Tiger" without thinking of Mr. Johnston (or thinking about how close the AP Exam is!!) 16. de jure: in law (what the law says) de facto: in practice (what actually happens) 18. NATO without the United States = the League of Nations 20. pg 1042: All you need to know about Reagan 22. 1984: First concert --- metal band from Sweden 24. Slush Fund = GOLFING! |