# A Regents study shelf — US History and Government, topic by topic, to June Recipe No. 16, Study and exams. From The know.sh Cookbook: https://know.sh/cookbook/regents-prep Turn a year of US History into a shelf you can revise from: a document for each topic with its timeline, the Supreme Court cases as flashcards, a quiz on every topic that comes back when it is due, and a study plan drawn as a Gantt chart that ends in June. - For: a high-school junior sitting the US History Regents - You get: a study guide per topic, flashcards, quizzes and a plan to June - Time: an evening to set up, then weekly - Made with: Shelf, Document, Elements, Quiz, Your AI assistant ## How it works 1. **A document per topic.** Give your assistant your class notes and the course outline. Ask for a shelf with a document per topic, each with sections for people, events, court cases and turning points. 2. **A timeline and flashcards in each.** Ask for a timeline element of each topic’s events in its overview, and flashcards for its cases and amendments. Check every date against your textbook. 3. **Plan the weeks to June.** Ask for a Gantt chart element: a bar per topic alongside class, then mixed review and timed past exams. Take the exam date from your school, not from your assistant. 4. **Quiz yourself, then sit real papers.** Ask for a quiz on each topic; it comes back under Revisit when it is due. For timed practice, use the past exams New York State has released. ## Try this prompt Your assistant, connected to know.sh (Claude, ChatGPT or a local model): > Using know.sh, make a shelf called US History Regents with a document per topic, from the founding to today. In each overview put a timeline element of eight to ten events with exact dates and a line on why each matters, and flashcards on that period’s Supreme Court cases and amendments. File anything you are unsure of as a Question section. Your assistant, connected to know.sh (Claude, ChatGPT or a local model): > Using know.sh, add a Gantt chart element to The plan to June: a bar per topic in class order from 5 October, mixed review through May, two timed past exams on 22 May and 5 June, and a milestone on 11 June. Hide the today line. ## Elements in the specimens Written as your assistant writes them through the know.sh MCP server. Each reads as plain words until you turn elements on (Account → Elements). Timeline, specimen 1: ```element timeline { "caption": "Civil rights, from *Brown* to the Voting Rights Act", "events": [ { "date": "1954-05-17", "title": "*Brown v. Board of Education*", "body": "A unanimous Supreme Court rules segregated public schools unconstitutional, overturning *Plessy*’s “separate but equal” in education." }, { "date": "1955-12-05", "end": "1956-12-20", "title": "Montgomery bus boycott", "body": "Begun after Rosa Parks’s arrest; it ends once the Supreme Court upholds a ruling against segregated buses." }, { "date": "1957-09-25", "title": "The Little Rock Nine", "body": "Nine Black students enter Central High School under the protection of federal troops sent by Eisenhower." }, { "date": "1960-02-01", "title": "Greensboro sit-in", "body": "Four students sit at a whites-only lunch counter; sit-ins spread across the South." }, { "date": "1963-08-28", "title": "March on Washington", "body": "About 250,000 people; Martin Luther King Jr. gives the “I Have a Dream” speech." }, { "date": "1964-01-23", "title": "Twenty-fourth Amendment ratified", "body": "Poll taxes are banned in federal elections." }, { "date": "1964-07-02", "title": "Civil Rights Act", "body": "Signed by Lyndon Johnson: bans discrimination in public accommodations and employment." }, { "date": "1965-03-07", "title": "“Bloody Sunday” at Selma", "body": "State troopers attack marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge." }, { "date": "1965-08-06", "title": "Voting Rights Act", "body": "Suspends literacy tests and brings federal oversight of registration where discrimination had kept Black voters off the rolls." } ] } ``` Flashcards, specimen 1: ```element flashcards { "title": "Four Warren Court cases", "cards": [ { "question": "What did **Gideon v. Wainwright** (1963) decide?", "answer": "A state must provide a lawyer to anyone charged with a felony who cannot afford one: the Sixth Amendment right to counsel, applied to the states through the Fourteenth." }, { "question": "What did **Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States** (1964) uphold?", "hint": "Which power of Congress?", "answer": "The Civil Rights Act’s ban on discrimination in public accommodations, as a use of Congress’s power to regulate interstate commerce." }, { "question": "What did **Miranda v. Arizona** (1966) require?", "answer": "Before questioning a suspect in custody, police must warn of the right to remain silent and the right to a lawyer; statements taken without the warnings cannot be used in the prosecution’s case." }, { "question": "What did **Tinker v. Des Moines** (1969) protect?", "hint": "Black armbands.", "answer": "Students’ right to wear black armbands against the Vietnam War: under the First Amendment a school may not ban expression unless it would substantially disrupt the school." } ] } ``` Gantt chart, specimen 2: ```element gantt { "caption": "The study plan, October to June", "description": "Six topics in class order, each studied alongside class for five or six weeks from October to the end of May. Mixed review runs through May and early June, two timed past exams fall on 22 May and 5 June, and the plan ends on 11 June, ready for the June Regents.", "dateFormat": "YYYY-MM-DD", "sections": [ { "id": "topics", "label": "Topics, with class" }, { "id": "review", "label": "Review" }, { "id": "practice", "label": "Practice" } ], "tasks": [ { "id": "t1", "label": "Founding, Constitution", "section": "topics", "shape": "bar", "start": "2026-10-05", "end": "2026-11-06" }, { "id": "t2", "label": "Expansion, Civil War", "section": "topics", "shape": "bar", "start": "2026-11-09", "end": "2026-12-18" }, { "id": "t3", "label": "Reconstruction, Gilded Age", "section": "topics", "shape": "bar", "start": "2027-01-04", "end": "2027-02-12" }, { "id": "t4", "label": "Progressives, New Deal", "section": "topics", "shape": "bar", "start": "2027-02-15", "end": "2027-03-19" }, { "id": "t5", "label": "World wars, Cold War", "section": "topics", "shape": "bar", "start": "2027-03-22", "end": "2027-04-23" }, { "id": "t6", "label": "Civil rights to today", "section": "topics", "shape": "bar", "start": "2027-04-26", "end": "2027-05-28" }, { "id": "mix", "label": "Mixed review", "section": "review", "shape": "bar", "start": "2027-05-03", "end": "2027-06-10" }, { "id": "p1", "label": "Past exam, timed", "section": "practice", "shape": "milestone", "start": "2027-05-22", "duration": "0d" }, { "id": "p2", "label": "Past exam, timed", "section": "practice", "shape": "milestone", "start": "2027-06-05", "duration": "0d" }, { "id": "ready", "label": "Ready for June", "section": "practice", "shape": "milestone", "start": "2027-06-11", "duration": "0d" } ], "axisFormat": "%b", "tickInterval": "1month", "weekStart": "monday", "weekend": "saturday", "inclusiveEndDates": true, "today": "hidden" } ```