As I begin my second year here at East Ridge I plan to increasing integrate technology in my communication, instruction, differentiation, and overall teaching practices. Please navigate through the following links to the left to further understand this webpage as a useful educational tool.
 
This year I will be teaching American History and AP Human Geography. I am extremely excited and passionate to teach both of these subjects. Both of these content areas play a big part of who I am as a person and as an educator. It will be my pleasure to instill the same passion within each and every learner I have the honor to teach in this upcoming 2012-2013 school year. I look forward to contributing and being a part of the "Raptor Family".
 
Office Hours: 7:15-8:15 on M,TH, and Friday or schedule by an appointment
Office Room #1017
Contact: abidwell@sowashco.k12.mn.us  
Google email:  abidwell@apps.district833.org  

American History-The first trimester of this course will review the highlights of American History, including the study of Pre-Columbian events, the Colonial Period, the American Revolution, and events leading up to it and the American Civil War, as well as its causes and reconstructions. The second trimester of this course will review Western Expansion and America's industrial foundations, America's involvement in WWII, the 1920's and the causes of the Great Depression. The third trimester will review WWII, the advent of the Nuclear Age, the Cold War and those events and forces that led our country to the world stage as a modern superpower Prerequisite: Geography-9 and World History-10

*Please see the course calendar for DUE dates, nightly reading assignments, and daily Learning Objectives asigned in this class.

AP Geography-

Beware!  This is a college level course in which you can receive college credit upon your score on the AP exam in the spring. So, the rigor will be demanding and entail extensive outside of the class work and continous studying. 

The purpose of the AP Human Geography course is to introduce students to the systematic study of the patterns and processes that have shaped human understanding, use, and alteration of Earth’s surface.  Students employ spatial concepts and landscape analysis to examine human social organization and its environmental consequences.  They also learn about the methods and tools geographers use in their science and practice.

(Source:  http://apcentral.collegeboard.com )

 

*Please see the course calendar for DUE dates, nightly reading assignments, and daily Learning Objectives asigned in this class.

East Ridge High School
Anthony Bidwell