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AP UNITED STATES HISTORY
INTRODUCTION:The AP program in United States History is designed to provide students with the analytical skills and factual knowledge necessary to deal critically with the problems and materials in United States history. The program prepares students for intermediate and advanced college courses by making demands upon them equivalent to those made by fullyear introductory college courses. Students should learn to assess historical materials their relevance to a given interpretive problem, their reliability, and their importance and to weigh the evidence and interpretations presented in historical scholarship. In addition, students will use a primary source reader and other scholarly reference materials throughout the year. An AP United States History course should thus develop the skills necessary to arrive at conclusions on the basis of an informed judgment and to present reasons and evidence clearly and persuasively in an essay format. Students are responsible for their own learning. They will write many 46page word processed papers, take weekly quizzes on textbook chapter notetaking assignments, and take about one essay test a week.
According to the College Board the course will include:• “study of political institutions, social and cultural developments, diplomacy [and]
economic trends.”• [the teaching of students] “to analyze evidence and interpretations presented in
historical scholarship.”• “extensive instruction in analysis and interpretation of a wide variety of primary
sources, such as documentary material, maps, statistical tables, works of art and pictorial and graphic materials.”
• “frequent practice in writing analytical and interpretive essays such as documentbased questions (DBQ) and thematic essays.”
COURSE OBJECTIVES:This course examines the evolution of the American republic from the initial European incursions into North America to the present. The course is divided into periods of time and focuses on the themes in the AP Course Description, including national identity, economic transformation, and U.S. actions on the world stage. Moreover, the AP curriculum demands higherorder thinking skills within a rigorous academic context. Thus, students are frequently required to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate primary and secondary historical sources, in addition to comprehending, memorizing, and applying facts. Our investigation of the nature of American democracy includes methods, evidence, and scholarship from the areas of social, political, economic, cultural, and diplomatic history.
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TEXTBOOK AND SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS:
Kennedy, D.M., Cohen, L. and Bailey, T.A., The American Pageant, 13th edition, (2006). Houghton Mifflin Company
Primary Source Documents as selected by the instructor from the 100 Milestone Documents
Collegeboard.com/ap website
Atlas of American History. Skokie, IL: Rand McNally Education, 2005.
A Student’s Guide to United States History by Robert Sanderson
Barron’s How to Prepare for the Advanced Placement ExaminationAP American History
UNIT I: DISCOVERY, AMERICAN & THE BRITISH EMPIREWeek 1Review of Summer HomeworkAmerican Pageant, Chapter 1, New World Beginnings, 33,000 B.C. – A.D. 1769Complete notes and take quiz.Political and topography map study of the United States.
All chapter quizzes are modeled upon released AP multiple choice exam questions.DBQ: document based essaysFRE: free response essays
Key Topics: PreColumbian Societies Early inhabitants of the Americas; American Indian empires in Mesoamerica, the Southwest, and the Mississippi Valley; American Indian cultures of North America at the time of European contact; First European contacts with Native Americans;
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Transatlantic Encounters and Colonial Beginnings, 14921690 – First European contacts with Native Americans; Resistance to colonial authority: the Pueblo Revolt
Week 2American Pageant, Chapter 2, The Planting of English America, 15001733Complete notes and take quizCh 1 / 2 Essay Exercise (How to write an introductory paragraph and the thesis.)
Key Topics: Transatlantic Encounters and Colonial Beginnings, 14921690; First European contacts with Native Americans; Spain’s empire in North America; French colonization of Canada; English settlement of New England, the MidAtlantic region, and the South; From servitude to slavery in the Chesapeake region; Religious diversity in the American colonies; Resistance to colonial authority: Bacon’s Rebellion, the Glorious RevolutionCase Study Theme(s): Economic Transformation; American Identity
Review AP level multiple choice questions and how to study for them.
Week 3 American Pageant, Chapter 3, Settling the Northern Colonies, 16191700 Chapter 4, American Life in the Seventeenth Century 16071692Complete notes and take quiz
Key Topics: Colonial North America, 16901754; Population growth and immigration; Transatlantic trade and the growth of seaports; The eighteenthcentury back country; Growth of plantation economies and slave societies; The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening; Colonial governments and imperial policy in British North America
Case Study Theme(s): Slavery
ACTIVITIES & ASSESSMENTRegional maps of the 13 ColoniesMultiple choice and essay: Compare and contrast the North, Middle and Southern coloniessocial, politically and economically.(Emphasis on introductory paragraph in a compare and contrast essay)Use of graphic organizers on a compare and contrast essay.
UNIT II: COLONIAL SOCIETY
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Week 4 American Pageant, Chapter 5, Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution, 17001775Complete notes and take quiz
Key Topics: Colonial North America, 16901754; Population growth and immigration; Transatlantic trade and the growth of seaports; The eighteenthcentury back country; Growth of plantation economies and slave societies; The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening; Colonial governments and imperial policy in British North America
Case Study Theme(s): American Identity; Culture; Demographics
ACTIVITIES & ASSESSMENTColonial Essay Exercise (Practice writing thesis)Work on understanding essay rubrics.
UNIT III: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: CAUSES & CONSEQUENCESWeek 5 American Pageant, Chapter 6, The Duel for North America, 16081763 Chapter 7, The Road to Revolution 17631775
Key Topics: French colonization of Canada; The American Revolutionary Era, 17541789; The French and Indian War; The Imperial Crisis
Case Study Theme(s): War and Diplomacy; Politics
Week 6 American Pageant, Chapter 8, America Secedes from the Empire 17751783Complete notes and take quiz
Key Topics: The American Revolutionary Era, 17541789; (aftermath of) The French and Indian War; The Imperial Crisis and resistance to Britain; The War for Independence; State constitutions and the Articles of Confederation; The federal Constitution
Case Study Theme(s): War and Diplomacy; American Identity
ACTIVITIES & ASSESSMENTDBQ introduction: How to Write A DBQA Sequential StyleEssay: Describe the causes and the results of the French and Indian War. Analyze
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how it effected the relationship between England and its American colonies.DBQ: 2004In what ways did the French and Indian War (175463) alter thepolitical, economic, and ideological relations between Britain and its American colonies?Create a rubric for the DBQ in class.Peer read and scoring based on the class created rubric.
UNIT IV: THE CONSTITUTIONWeek 7American Pageant, Chapter 9, The Confederation and the Constitution 17761790Complete notes and take quiz
Key Topics: (Start) The Early Republic, 17891815; Washington, Hamilton, and shaping of the national government; Emergence of political parties: Federalists and Republicans; Republican Motherhood and education for women;
Case Study Theme(s): Politics and Citizenship; American Identity
ACTIVITIES & ASSESSMENTEssay :Articles of Confederation .Analytical essay: Analyze the successes and failures of the Articles of Confederation from 17811789. Class projectwrite the rubric for the DBQ.1985 DBQ; “From 1781 to 1789 the Articles of Confederation provided the United States with an effective government”. Review of rubric and peer reading/
>SECTION 1 Final : Exploration to 1788
UNIT V: THE NEW REPUBLICWeek 8 American Pageant, Chapter 10, Launching the New Ship of State 17891800Complete notes and take quiz Reader quiz: Enduring Voices (selections / quiz to be determined)
Key Topics: The Early Republic, 17891815; Washington, Hamilton, and shaping of the national government; Emergence of political parties: Federalists and Republicans
Case Study Theme(s): Politics and Citizenship
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Week 9American Pageant, Chapter 11, Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic 18001812 Chapter 12, The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism 18121824Complete notes and take quizzes
Key Topics: The Early Republic, 17891815; Emergence of political parties: Federalists and Republicans; Significance of Jefferson’s presidency; Expansion into the transAppalachian West; American Indian Resistance; Growth of slavery and free Black communities; The War of 1812 and its consequences
Case Study Theme(s): American Identity; Diplomacy; American Identity; Slavery; Economics
ACTIVITIES & ASSESSMENTGroup activity: compare and contrast Jefferson and Hamiltonsocial, political and economic beliefs.
UNIT VI: THE AGE OF JACKSONWeek 10 American Pageant, Chapter 13, The Rise of a Mass Democracy 18241840Complete notes and take quiz
Key Topics: The Transformation of Politics in Antebellum America; Emergence of the second party system; Federal authority and its opponents: judicial federalism, the Bank War, tariff controversy, and states’ rights debates; Jacksonian democracy and its successes and limitations; Forced removal of American Indians to the transMississippi West
Case Study Theme(s): Rise of Mass Democracy; Politics and Citizenship; Economic Transformation; American Diversity
Week 11 American Pageant, Chapter 14, Forging the National Economy 17901860Complete notes and take quiz
Key Topics: Transformation of the Economy and Society in Antebellum America; The transportation revolution and creation of a national market economy; Beginnings of industrialization and changes in social and class structures
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Case Study Theme(s): Economic Transformations; Demographic Changes; American Diversity
ACTIVITIES & ASSESSMENTESSAY: Andrew Jackson is referred to as the president of the “common man”. Assess this statement using examples to support your thesis.
UNIT VII: SECTIONALISMWeek 12American Pageant, Chapter 15, The Ferment of Reform and Culture 17901860Complete notes and take quiz
Key Topics: Beginnings of the Second Great Awakening; Religion, Reform, and Renaissance in Antebellum America; Evangelical Protestant revivalism; Social reforms; ideals of domesticity; Transcendentalism and utopian communities; American Renaissance: literary and artistic expressions
Case Study Theme(s): Reform; Politics and Citizenship; Religion; Culture
ACTIVITIES & ASSESSMENT
Essay: Analyze “Cultural nationalism” using artworks, literary excerpts and music of the period; model use of varied primary sourcesDBQ: (2002) Reform movements in the United States sought to expand democratic Ideals.” Assess this validity of this statement with specific references to Years 18251850.
>SECTION 2 Final: 17891849
UNIT VIII: CREATING AN AMERICAN CULTUREWeek 13 American Pageant, Chapter 16, The South and the Slavery Controversy 17931860Complete notes and take quiz
Key Topics: Growth of slavery; Planters, yeoman farmers, and slaves in the cotton South; Social reforms (abolitionis)
ASSESSMENT AND ACTIVITIES
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Map: Colonial period to the Civil Warexpansions and its ramifications m); (introduce) Pro and antislavery arguments and conflicts
Case Study Theme(s): Slavery and its Legacies;
Week 14American Pageant, Chapter 17, Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy 18411848 & Chapter 18, Renewing the Sectional Struggle 18481854 Complete notes and take quizzes
Key Topics: Territorial Expansions and Manifest Destiny; Western migration and cultural interactions; Territorial acquisitions; Early U.S. imperialism: the Mexican War; The Crisis of the Union; Proand antislavery arguments and conflicts; Compromise of 1850 and popular sovereignty; The KansasNebraska Act and the emergence of the Republican Party.
Case Study Theme(s): War and Diplomacy; Globalization; American Identity; Politics and Citizenship; Slavery and its Legacies
ACTIVITIES & ASSESSMENTMake a Tchart with arguments for and against slavery.Make a time line from the early 17th century to 1864 of slavery in the United States.Debate: Abolitionists, Northern moderates, and Southern planters.
UNIT IX: THE NATION BREAKS APARTWeek 15American Pageant, Chapter 19, Drifting Toward Disunion 18541861Complete notes and take quiz
Key Topics: The Crisis of the Union; Proand antislavery arguments and conflicts; The KansasNebraska Act and the emergence of the Republican Party; Abraham Lincoln, the election of 1860, and secession
Case Study Theme(s): Politics and Citizenship; American Identity; Slavery and its Legacies1987 DBQ; “By the 1850’s the Constitution. Origainally framed as an instrument of national unity had become a source of sectional discord and tension and ultimately contributed to the failure of the union it had created.”
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Week 16American Pageant, Chapter 20, Girding for War: The North and the South 18611865 & Chapter 21, The Furnace of Civil War 18611865Complete notes and take quiz
Key Topics: Civil War; Two societies at war: mobilization, resources, and internal dissent; Military strategies and foreign diplomacy; Emancipation and the role of African Americans in the war; Social, political and economic effects of war in the North, South, and West
Case Study Theme(s): War and Diplomacy, Politics, Slavery and its Legacies
ACTIVITIES & ASSESSMENTDBQ skillbuilder practical exerciseTake home multiple choice quiz 18401864
UNIT X: RECONSTRUCTIONWeek 17American Pageant, Chapter 22, The Ordeal of Reconstruction 18651877Complete notes and take quiz
Key Topics: Social, political and economic effects of war in the North, South, and West; Reconstruction; Presidential and Radical Reconstruction; Southern state governments: aspirations, achievements, failures; Role of African Americans in politics, education and the economy; Compromise of 1877; Impact of Reconstruction;
Case Study Theme(s): American Diversity; Politics; Reform
ACTIVITIES & ASSESSMENT>SECTION 3 Final: 18401877
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UNIT XI: RECOVERY & GROWTH IN AMERICA: 18651900Week 18American Pageant, Chapter 23, Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age 18691896 & Chapter 24, Industry Comes of Age 18651900Complete notes and take quizzes
Key Topics: National politics and influence of corporate power; The Origins of the New South; (establish postbellum / Gilded Age context for related topics)
Case Study Theme(s): Politics; Economic Transformations; American Diversity
*SEMESTER FINAL: released multiple choice questionsDiscovery to 1877,DBQ and FRE.
Week 19American Pageant, Chapter 25, America Moves to the City 18651900Complete notes and take quiz
Key Topics: National politics; Urban society in the Late Nineteenth Century; Urbanization and the lure of the city; City problems and machine politics; Intellectual and cultural movements and popular entertainment; Origins of Progressive reform: municipal, state, and national
Case Study Theme(s): Culture; Environment; American DiversityACTIVITIES & ASSESSMENTGroup Activities: Analysis of editorial cartoons and graphic illustrations from this period.Map: From Sea to Shining Seathe completion of the continent.
UNIT XII: THE AMERICAN WEST & THE WORLDWeek 20American Pageant, Chapter 26 The Great west and the Agricultural Revolution 18651896Complete notes and take quiz
Key Topics: Development of the West in the Late Nineteenth Century; Expansion and development of western railroads; Competitors for the West: miners, ranchers, homesteaders, and American Indians; Government policy toward American Indians; Gender, race, and ethnicity
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in the far West; Environment impacts of western settlement; Populism; Agrarian discontent and political issues of the late nineteenth century
Case Study Theme(s): Environment; Demographic Changes; Reform
Week 21American Pageant, Chapter 27 Empire and Expansion 18991909 Complete notes and take quizzes
Key Topics: National politics; The Emergence of America as a World Power; American imperialism: political and economic expansion;
Case Study Theme(s): Globalization; Diplomacy
ACTIVITIES & ASSESSMENTESSAY: Write an essay which contains the following topics: Railroads, laissez faire, “Guilded Age”, Social Darwinism, and populism.
>SECTION 4 Final: 18701900
UNIT XIII: PROGRESSIVEISM & WORLD WAR IWeek 22American Pageant, Chapter 28 Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt 19011912 Complete notes and take quiz
Key Topics: Progressivism; Origins of Progressive reform: municipal, state, and national; Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson as Progressive presidents; Women’s roles: family, workplace, education, politics and reform; Black America: urban migration and civil rights initiativesCase Study Theme(s): Reform; Politics and Citizenship; Environment
Week 23American Pageant, Chapter 29 Wilsonian progressivism at Home and Abroad 19121916 & Chapter 30 the War to End War 19171918 Complete notes and take quizzes
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Key Topics: Progressivism; Wilson as Progressive president; Women’s roles: family, workplace, education, politics and reform; Black America: urban migration and civil rights initiatives; War in Europe and American neutrality; The First World War at home and abroad; Treaty of Versailles
Case Study Theme(s): Reform; Globalization; War and Diplomacy
ACTIVITIES & ASSESSMENTDebate between the ideas Booker T. Washington vs. W.E.B. DuBois .1991 DBQ: It was the strength of the opposition forces, both liberal and conservative, rather than the ineptitude and stubbornness of President Wilson that led to the Senate defeat of the Treaty of Versailles.OrFRE
UNIT XIV: THE JAZZ AGEWeek 24American Pageant, Chapter 31 American Life in the roaring twenties 19191929 & Chapter 32 The Politics of Boom and Bust 19201932 Complete notes and take quizzes
Key Topics: The New Era: 1920’s; The business of America and the consumer economy; Republican politics: Harding, Coolidge, Hoover; The culture of Modernism: science, the arts and entertainment; Responses to Modernism: religious fundamentalism, nativism, and Prohibition; The ongoing struggle for equality: African Americans and women
Case Study Theme(s): American Diversity; Culture; Economic Transformations
ACTIVITIES & ASSESSMENTGroup activity: make a chart showing why the 1920’s were called the “Roaring Twenties.”
UNIT XV: DEPRESSION AND THE NEW DEALWeek 25American Pageant, Chapter 33 The Great Depression and the New Deal 19331939Complete notes and take quiz
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Key Topics: The Great Depression and the New Deal; Causes of the Great Depression; The Hoover administration’s response; Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal; Labor and union recognition; The New Deal coalition and its critics from the Right and the Left; Surviving hard times: American society during the Great Depression
Case Study Theme(s): Economic Transformations; Politics and Citizenship; Demographic Changes
ACTIVITIES & ASSESSMENTT chart: compare and contrast the economic policies of Hoover and FDR.Student generated DBQ project: student research and collect documents to pattern after the 1984 DBQ and create our own DBQ with rubric.Write “home made” DBQ.
>SECTION 5 Final: 18991933
UNIT XVI: THE SECOND WORLD WARWeek 26American Pageant, Chapter 34 Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War 19331941 &Chapter 35 America in World War II 19411945 Complete notes and take quizzes
Key Topics: The Second World War; the rise and fascism and militarism in Japan, Italy, and Germany; Prelude to war: policy of neutrality; The attack on Pearl Harbor and the United States declaration of war; Fighting a multifront war; Diplomacy, war aims, and wartime conferences; The United States as a global power in the Atomic Age; The Home Front During the War; Wartime mobilization of the economy; Urban migration and demographic changes; Women, work, and family during the war; Civil liberties and civil rights during wartime; War and regional development; Expansion of government power
Case Study Theme(s): War and Diplomacy; Globalization; Economic Transformations
ACTIVITIES & ASSESSMENTEssay: analyze the history and the reasons for the relocation and imprisonment of 110,000 Japanese Americans during WW2. Using your knowledge of US and Japanese relation from
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1900 to 1941 and the American sentiment towards Japanese Americans write an essay analyzing this chapter in American History.
UNIT XVII: THE COLD WARWeek 27American Pageant, Chapter 36 The Cold War Begins 19451952Complete notes and take quiz
Key Topics: The United States and the Early Cold War; Origins of the Cold War; Truman and containment; The Cold War in Asia: China, Korea, Japan; Diplomatic strategies; (Origins of) The Red Scare and McCarthyism; Impact of the Cold War on American Society
Case Study Theme(s): War and DiplomacyACTIVITIES & ASSESSMENTGroup project: trace the development of the Cold War from 1945 to 1985.
Make a time line noting specific events and leaders.From Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan
UNIT XVIII: EISENHOWER & THE 1950’SWeek 28American Pageant, Chapter 37 The Eisenhower Era 19521960Complete notes and take quiz
Key Topics: Eisenhower administration; The Red Scare and McCarthyism; The 1950s; Emergence of the modern civil rights movement; The affluent society and “the other America”; Consensus and conformity: suburbia and middle class America; Social critics, nonconformists, and cultural rebels, Impact of changes in science, technology, and medicine
ACTIVITIES & ASSESSMENT2001 DBQ: What were the Cold War fears of the American people in the aftermath of the Second World War? How successfully did the administration of President Eisenhower address these fears? 19481961.Or FRE
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>SECTION 6 Final: 19321951
UNIT XIX: KENNEDY AND THE NEW FRONTIERWeek 29American Pageant, Chapter 38 The Stormy Sixties 19601968Complete notes and take quiz
Key Topics: Kennedy administration; Vietnam; The Turbulent 1960s; From the New Frontiers to the Great Society; Expanding movements for civil rights; Cold War confrontations: Asia, Latin America, and Europe; Beginning of Détente; The antiwar movement and the counterculture
Case Study Theme(s): American Diversity; Culture
ACTIVITIES & ASSESSMENTGroup Activity: Trace the development of the Civil Rights movement from Brown v. Topeka to the election of Richard Nixon.Keep you personal notes for Civil Rights DBQ or FRQ.
UNIT XX: THE 1970’SWeek 30American Pageant, Chapter 39 The Stalemated Seventies 19681980Complete notes and take quiz
Key Topics: Politics and Economics at the End of the Twentieth Century; The election of 1968 and the “Silent Majority”; Nixon’s challenges: Vietnam, China, Watergate; Changes in the American economy: energy crisis, deindustrialization, the service economy
Case Study Theme(s): Politics ,War and Diplomacy
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ACTIVITIES & ASSESSMENTVietnam War Timeline1995 DBQ: Analyze the changes that occurred during the 1960’s in the goals. Strategies and support of the movement for African American rights.OrFRE
UNIT XXI: THE REAGAN REVOLUTION
Week 31American Pageant, Chapter 40 The Resurgence of Conservatism 19802000 & Chapter 41 America Confronts the PostCold War Era, Chapter 42 The American People Face a New Century Complete notes and take quizzes
Key Topics: The New Right and the Reagan revolution; End of the Cold War; Society and Culture at the End of the Twentieth Century; Demographic changes: immigration surge after 1965, sunbelt migration, “graying” of America, Revolutions in biotechnology, mass communication, and computers, Politics in a multicultural society; The United States in the Post Cold War World; Globalization and the American economy; Unilateralism vs. multilateralism in foreign policy; Domestic and foreign terrorism, Environmental issues in a global context
Case Study Theme(s): Globalization; American Identity ACTIVITIES & ASSESSMENTGroup activity: Trace the development of the Woman’s movement from the 1870’s to the 1980’s. List important events and persons on your timeline.
Class generated DBQ: President Johnson is commonly thought of as a liberal and President Reagan is thought of as a conservative. Focusing on their terms in office to what extent are these characteristics valid?Write “home made” DBQ and peer read.
>SECTION 7 Final: 19522004
*SECOND SEMESTER COMPREHESIVE FINAL
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UNIT XXII: AP REVIEW AND SELECTED TOPICS
Inclass exercise: AP released exam multiple choice with immediate discussion and feedback regarding “why this is the correct answer?” This will establish a diagnostic baseline for ongoing AP exam review.DBQ80 and 100 Question released multiple choice tests. Free Response Essay (FRE)Selected Topics: 1492 – Present
MOCK AP TEST: 3 hour mock test is given from 8:0011:30. Makeup’s will be on the following Saturday.
TEACHING STRATEGIES
Direct instruction and discussion are strategies used focus on giving students opportunities to analyze and respond in class, write essays, and to act in short roleplay simulations.
Students must complete a summer assignment on before the course begins. They also receive maps to familiarize themselves with United States geography, history and expansion. Instructions are given throughout the course on the following:
• Essay organization for freeresponse questions • List of directive terms used in freeresponse questions • Rationale for multiple choice answers and how to study for that part of the exam• Using time wisely • Freeresponse scoring rubrics • Guidelines and methods for responding to a DBQ • Review of AP released DBQ ( from an AP Released Exam) • DBQ corescoring rubrics
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STUDENT EVALUATION
Quizzes are given on the reading assignments. Test formats are objective (multiple choice), freeresponse questions (FRE),document based essays(DBQ)s . Most Finals consist of 80 to 100 multiplechoice questions and a 35minute essay question.
During the first semester I will debrief the DBQ with the students before they attempt to write it. In the second semester the students are more independent and they must (1) respond to all of the tasks specified by the essay prompt, (2) include at least three to four groupings of documents, and (3) identify the point of view for most of the documents. This process helps students focus on “answering the question rather than writing what they know.
Homework is daily because of our modified block scheduling in which I see the students four out of five days. The homework consists of unit terms and/or outlines; questions about readings, notations, and/or assigned primary and secondary sources; charts that pertain to the unit (e.g., characteristics, similarities, and differences between presidential administrations, foreign and domestic policies, etc.) and applicable historical maps. Wellcompleted terms and course themes demonstrate a student’s effort and most students find this to be indispensable in maintaining a high grade point average
Section Finals are released multiple choice that cover a specific period of time. The comprehensive semester exam is a requirement of the AP United States History course. It is comprehensive for all material covered during the first semester. The final exam is a performancebased evaluation that helps students synthesize their learning It consists of a variety of written exercises and cooperative group activities that also help students prepare for the AP United States History Exam.
Review sessions for the Exam are during class, after school and in the evenings. Out of class reviews are scheduled when there can be the most participation. Students who are enrolled in the AP United States History course are expected to take the AP United States History Exam.
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