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Foner, Give Me Liberty: An American History

Dear Mr. Foner,

I am currently a junior at Marian Catholic High School taking U.S. History AP, and we are using the book that you wrote. Last year, I took World History AP, and we used a book that a committee composed. It was a very difficult book to read and comprehend. Your version, however, is extremely helpful, and I thank you for that. My teacher also really enjoys the book you wrote, and praises you constantly. Another reason that I am emailing you is to ask your advice on ways to study for the AP Exam...If you have any helpful hints, they would be much appreciated.

Kelly O'Shea (student)
Marian Catholic High School

Henry, U. S. History Skillbook with Writing Instruction and Practice

...so I could respond toward the end of the first semester of using the US HISTORY SKILLBOOK when I would know if I saw an improvement in my students' writing.I believe the workbook was an answer to my prayers. It helped me to put the process of teaching the DBQ into short lessons with easy increments. I really felt for the first time in years that I did a decent job of teaching the DBQ. My students' writing on the DBQ was much better than in the past, because they had a much better understanding of the writing process. I thank you so much for sending it to me...

Jill Mueller
Daviess County High School

An excellent publication from Peoples Education is Michael Henry's US History Skillbook. You can contact them at www.peoplespublishing.com or call 1-800-822-1080.

Gean Gilbert
Grenada High School

A couple of months ago, someone recommended Michael Henry's "U.S. History Skillbook" and "Threads of History." I just received sample copies from Peoples Education Company. I'm very impressed with both books and wanted to thank the person who recommended them.

Jean Garvey
Junction City High School

Henry, Threads of History

THREAD OF HISTORY, I am trying to incorporate it in my teaching this semester. Since we are on a 4x4 block schedule, I teach AP US History to a different class of students each semester. I attended a day long AP conference about a week ago where the themes for US were mentioned and some suggestions made. I have used the first lesson, and am preparing to use the second one.If I didn't mention it previously, I discovered them through the AP US List Serve on AP Central. They were highly recommended by several teachers responding to questions regarding preparation for the test.

Jill Mueller
Daviess County High School

Jean Garvey
Junction City High School

Molnar, Laboratory Investigations for AP Environmental Science

My students had no difficulty with Molnar Lab 16. The information needed to compute the answers was all there on the page in the assumptions or calculated in earlier answers. The solutions did require multiple steps AND careful attention paid to conversion factors.

For example, a student's solution to Question 5 600 grasshoppers/day*365.25 days/year = 219,150 grasshoppers/year. 3.34E6 (grasshoppers per farmer per year from question 2) /219,150= 15.2 people could be fed The information about the Native American harvest was a distractor - not needed to solve the problem. Question 6 is also solvable given the information in the assumptions or calculated in previous answers. Even if the information had been missing parts, one could treat these calculations as a "Fermi" problem. Our students are used to Fermi problems which are bizarre estimation problems. The key is to make sure the students use reasonable assumptions and state them clearly.

For example, in an unrelated field, a Fermi problem could ask students to calculate the number of soccer balls that would fit in their classroom. No measuring instruments are available nor are measurements given. But students can come up with a very reasonable estimate by making assumptions about the size of the blocks which compose the wall, or the size of the floor tiles, or using their own heights to estimate the ceiling. Similarly, students could have been encouraged to solve the problem of the grasshoppers by getting them to reason through some estimates.

Linda Cauley

Mooney, Physics C

The very, very best AP C prep book is available through People's Publishing, written by Jim Mooney of the Taft School, a long time table leader for AP grading, and also a long time presenter of an AP Prep course for teachers each summer at the Taft Institute. Includes explained MC questions and free response question by topic, and a couple of practice tests. There are a couple of proofing errors in the first edition (published this year, I think) which I'm sure will be corrected soon. This book is far, far better than the Barons, Princeton Review, etc. which are generally written by people only passingly familiar with the curriculum and the AP tests.

Charles W. Coe

In addition to teaching the AP Physics course, I am a consultant for the Southern Region of the College Board and present summer institutes for AP physics teachers for five universities each summer (Oglethorpe University, The University of Georgia, Nova South Eastern University, the College of William and Mary and an online course for AP teachers for UCLA). I have only had a chance to spend a little time going through the student version of this book <Mooney, Physics C> and it looks very good. I have always refrained from recommending a particular book to my teachers but this might be an exception.

Joe Stieve
South Aiken H.S.
Aiken, SC

As mentioned above by me and others, Mooney's C-prep book is excellent. If there exists a better one, it is his equally well-written B-prep book. Available through People's Publishing, as above. Jim really has the knack for expalining things clearly.

Charles W. Coe

I would recommend Jim Mooney's AP Advantage Physics C prep book (ISBN: 1-4138-0492-6). It has very good explanations and lots of great problems.

Dolores Gende
Parish Episcopal School

Mooney, Physics B

Someone on this list recommended the Peoples Education book by Mooney. I requested a sample copy. It is pretty good. This is only my second year teaching ap phys b, but the peoples pub book seems to more closely match the questions I've seen on AP tests. I like the Princeton book, but in my opinion, it has a few too many, "solve in terms of m,M,x,X" probs. My students have also picked up the Kaplan book. This one seems pretty good as well. The downfall (again, in my little bit of experience) is that it puts 1-D, 2D kinematics, F, etc all in one chapter. It would be nice if it was spread out to allow for more review.

Paul Lulai
St Anthony Village High School

Charles W. Coe

Hughes-Hallet et al, Calculus

I would be most pleased to speak with anyone about the Hughes-Hallett calculus text. The book is amazing and was an impetus for me to radically change and improve my curriculum and teaching methods in calculus. My students were the beneficiaries, for sure!

Lois Cohen
Winston Churchill High School

Hein and Arena, Foundations of College Chemistry 11e

Overall I love the book! As a matter-of-fact, I used my former text an extra year and waited for the 2004 copyright edition of Foundations of College Chemistry. I previewed many texts but this text was the best that I found for my (high school) sophomore accelerated chemistry students. I especially like the more challenging *'d problems at the end of each chapter. Even though my students are all accelerated in math and science some of them are more "accelerated" than others. The *'d problems help to keep them challenged too. Most of the students that I have as sophomores go on to take Advanced Placement Chemistry. The AP Chem instructor and I keep in close contact on what my students need to learn in grade 10 in order to be prepared for AP chem. I would absolutely purchase the text again. However, I didn't find the accompanying website very helpful. I really didn't think that I found anything there that was of any great help to me (I've been teaching for 33 years so maybe I'm just set in my ways). Also, if I had authored the text, I would have changed the order of the chapters somewhat but that is minor. I also would have like to see a bit more on the periodic table - maybe a chapter on it alone instead of including it in chapter 10 with atomic theory.The previous text that I used was Basic Chemistry by Seese and Daub. I liked that text and used it for years but because there was not a new edition out when I was looking for a text I really did some searching to find a replacement. I am extremely pleased with the choice I made in purchasing Foundations of College Chemistry. We also have a General Chemistry course at our school. Those students use the Modern Chemistry text. I think Foundations of College Chemistry would be a bit too advanced for the general chem student. If I can be of further help please feel free to contact me. You may release my school email address also. Hope this is of help to you.

Chris Bender
Plum SHS
Pittsburgh, PA

Text is condensed and to the point. The text allows for flexibility in arranging lessons that addresses curriculum. Illustrations (color and graphics) are excellent. Readability is age appropriate. Ancillary resources are plentiful for both teacher and students. Testing resources are excellent to access on various levels (entire chapter, individual concepts etc.). Program is student friendly in that not only do students use the text, but also have access to online resources to reinforce the program.

William Vrettos
Queen Of Peace High School

Just a few comments about text. It delves deeper than many High School Texts. It also glides over topics such as heat. It allows me greater in put for ancillary tasks. The text also cuts down on the verbiage of most chemistry texts. I use Hein and Arena with my Honors students.

Bob Thanski
Lake Highland Preparatory School