Brad Zenoni

There are a few key tips to success in Zenoni's class for AP World. First of all, he is a very nice teacher and I feel like the best teacher at this school I've met so far. Super friendly and casual and SUPER FUNNYY in class as well! He mainly uses a mix of slideshows, in-class notes (packet), kahoots, and historical videos to help students learn. This works very well and as long as you stay engaged you will definitely absorb information very quickly. Outside of class, he gives notes that you must take from the textbook (he has a certain format he likes students to use and 1-2 sentences per paragraph in the textbook) and sometimes some packets or papers that help you sharpen your reading and analysis skills. He mainly uses multiple choice questions in the first semester, and second semester there are much more free response questions. He focuses on the DBQ > SAQ > LEQ, which is fair given their respective weightage on the AP exam. First of all, the summer test that AP World has when you come back covers a lot of random information out of the summer homework, but it is curved. Still be prepared for that. He usually does chapter tests with ~30 MCQs and sometimes the test will be in the form of FRQs (mainly second semester). Finals are 55-60 MCQs. The multiple choice questions on chapter tests are mainly stimulus based (makes you think and you have to rely on background context/info- combination of reading passages and pictures such as propaganda posters or artwork), with some non stimulus (memorization and facts). If you are not confident in reading/analyzing many long, historical passages with high complexity in a short time and answering questions based off of them, practice with anything you can. Albert.io and Collegeboard AP classroom practice questions were incredibly useful for the exam and Zenoni helps you prepare A LOT when finals and AP Exam season starts. My advice is do the notes well- don't use ChatGPT on them. That will not help you at all when the exam comes and taking detailed notes will help on free response questions and understanding the historical context. Also make sure to prepare for the free response questions by yourself. He helps prepare a lot but it doesn't hurt to practice more outside of the class. I recommend using Knowt to practice free response. Overall, Mr. Zenoni is a very good teacher and an easy grader, so the class is very educational and easy to succeed in if you put in earnest work! Go Mr. Zenoni!!!

important to read each chapter to do good on especially MCQs and quizzes. Important to have read the book for LEQs and SAQs since those require you to have background info on the prompts that are given. Zenoni is a very easy grader and teaches very well. Class rarely gets boring as he always shows either videos or talks about historical events with humor or analogies. very good teacher and mostly mcqs first semester for this teacher

AP World History: The class functions exactly like the AP Exam. Mr. Z makes sure that you will get a 4 or 5 on the AP Exam, as long as you do the work he suggests. Not too much homework, and literally the NICEST teacher in school. Very laid back and chill, and gives almost everyone a LOR as long as you were putting in effort. As far as AP World goes, make sure you read the textbook. You might think that you are cutting down time by reading the textbook chapter outlines, but don't. The max you can get reading these are around a 75%, and not as well as if you were to have read the actual chapter. MCQ's were brutal since they were a lot of reading. You just have to "get good" with these and practice them a lot. They are graded on a curve, so its not too bad. FRQ's are not curved, but they are graded more leniently than MCQ's.