taking apush for the first time
teachers gave me a summer assignment to do over the course of june/july and are going to be doing a period one little assessment right when school starts. i've done nothing whatsoever except fill out a graphic organizer for period one. my second task is to fill out a big ass mrs. pate graphic organizer for period 9, which will be covered second semester.
i've been reading horror stories abt apush, and honestly taking in 10th grade only makes it worse. i don't even know how to take notes, considering each chapter of the textbook is ~30 pages. i can't afford to get anything but a 4 or a 5, considering how strict my parents are.
how do i take notesss like i can't even begin to understand...my brain doesn't understand what to process as important at all. and its worse that 90% of my notes are scribbled nonsense. ofc, i haven't even started it, but every advice video i watch for apush is like read the textbook, take cornell notes, then read ur notes and ask questions. like hello? what makes you think that i know what the hell to write in those little rectangles? they also tell me to watch heimler, and i can't even process HIM well enough. i don't know where to start and it's stressing me out.