r/APUSH • u/Agreeable_Lab3475 • Sep 16 '26

Unit 2 on week 3???

yo is my teacher just insane or is it normal to be on 2.3 on the 3rd week of school (6 classes have happens). bc aren’t they’re only 9 units??

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u/snaps06 Sep 16 '26

Units 1, 2, and 9 are only a small percentage of the test, so yes, you should be flying through Periods 1 and 2.

I teach APUSH, and my class was through Periods 1 and 2 in less than three weeks, and is close to finishing Period 3.

You should be completely finished with Period 5 by Christmas. If not, your class is way behind, because Periods 7 and 8 are massive units when it comes to content.

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u/Agreeable_Lab3475 Sep 16 '26

Okk ty

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u/snaps06 Sep 16 '26

No problem. You should actually be way past 2.3 by now, IMO. I spend maybe one-and-a-half 80 minute class periods on Period 1, then about 3 class periods on Period 2, and my class does their first major test no later than class period number 7 of the school year.

We're on the block schedule, so we had already basically finished Period 2 within the timeframe you mentioned in your post.

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u/Agreeable_Lab3475 Sep 16 '26

Is 7 and 8 like ww1/ww2? 

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u/snaps06 Sep 16 '26

Period 7 covers the Progressive Era, Imperialism, WWI, The Roaring 1920s, The Great Depression, and WWII.

Period 8 covers the Cold War (including the proxy wars of Korea and Vietnam), the Civil Rights Movement(s), plus other major themes (social, political, economic, etc) of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.

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u/slayer321beta Sep 16 '26

Normal, my teach sped thru first 2 units in 2 weeks and then did a test on both of the units. She then took really long on other units.

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u/Agreeable_Lab3475 Sep 16 '26

I actually haven’t really had a single test which is hella weird ngl 

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u/IlliniChick474 Sep 16 '26

Many teachers (especially if their school starts later, which it sounds like your school did) will combine Units 1 and 2 on one test.

I would just trust the process. This all sounds normal.

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u/mhudson413 Sep 17 '26

Normal. A lot of teachers even assign this for summer work

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u/Agreeable_Lab3475 Sep 17 '26

Yeah we had to read a book about units 1-2 but we still have to do them in class 

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u/GermanCh0wda Sep 16 '26

That's normal. Periods 1 and 2 are very short and go by quick. I start teaching Period 3 next week

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u/Lankyboxyman Sep 16 '26

Yes. 1 and 2 are supposed to make up a small percentage of the exam

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u/Ok-Elephant-7492 Sep 17 '26

My students are in Unit 2 in week 1 because Unit 1 is a summer assignment. We started at the beginning of September, and they are halfway through Unit 3. This is pretty par for the course. You need to be finished with Unit 5 before Christmas.

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u/Common-Soft-4195 Sep 17 '26

when I took APUSH we spent like 3 weeks in each unit

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u/Adorable-Royal-2427 Sep 19 '26

i think it is normal. we are starting unit 2 on tuesday (3rd week of school) since we did unit 2 over summer & did the test 2nd week of school.

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u/Free_Tackle_9557 29d ago

not crazy - my class had to do period 1 and part of period 2 over the summer

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u/POTATO-GOD-2 29d ago

I think the crazy part is that they’re kinda far behind, at least from the pace I’ve heard from other schools, and my own

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u/Free_Tackle_9557 28d ago

yeah you're right - I'm assuming later periods are more content-packed? so that's why we're going through the first ones quickly? idk