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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am trying SOOOO hard to convince my rising 9th grader at the Blair SMCS to [i]not [/i]take APUSH (which is being offered for the first time next year). She really wants to make sure she is a good writer and is worried are that the SMCS classes will be great but humanities won't be, so she will graduate without well-developed writing skills. Ninth grade in the magnet seems so intense - I don't like the idea of making it even harder.  Anybody willing to give me more ammunition for her to [i]not [/i]do this, please reply away:)  [/quote]

Is there an option to do AP Gov freshman year and APUSH sophomore? My former Eastern magnet kid did it in that order, and says it’s definitely the way to go. AP Gov is a good on-ramp to the AP framework without requiring an insane amount of specific content, and the readings are slightly less dense.

But most SMCS kids are generally smart enough to manage the APUSH workload, I’d think. Mine found the readings were easier to get through quickly if they first listened to the textbook chapter while on the bus, doing chores, etc. It was much easier to pull out important details while taking notes if they’d had an overview of the whole chapter first. (Class had a print textbook, plus an online version available so they didn’t have to hail the giant print book around. Kid used a screen reader to get the audio.)[/quote]

Blair seems to want kids to take USH in 9th and NSL in 10th. I'm guessing this has to do with studying USH in 8th, but you got me.[/quote]

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