Course: Honors US History/ AP US History (Year-long)Teacher: Mrs. Aringe E-mail: Aringed.swett@Robeson.k12.nc.us

Text: American Pageant Standardized Notes

Study Aid: "5 Steps To A 5": AP US History (McGraw Hill)

AP US Syllabus To view the full AP Syllabus as approved by College Board, you can go to the Purnell Swett site, Teacher Websites and then click on Deborah Aringehttp://www.robeson.k12.nc.us/10532082383237670/blank/browse.asp?A=383&BMDRN=2000&BCOB=0&C=90779

AP Exam Date is May 11, 2012

Journals: Map- All maps Should be maintained in a separate map journal. The Map journal will count as a test grade. Historical- you will be required to complete quick write prompts over the course of study. To maintain journal, write prompts at the top of page. Each entry must be no less than 3/4 of the page and no more than one page. If you have unusually large writing, you will need to use the front and back of the page for your entry. For each topic, complete a web search to find historical documents or pictures that are relevant to the topic of study. You will receive one major topic each day for further research (Prompt written on board). The historical journal will count as a test grade along with an essay grade.

Book Reports 1) Read Book and identify thesis or themes and evidence that supports. 2) Write a two page typed (12 font double spaced) paper that discusses the thesis or theme of the book, supporting evidence in context of the historical developments studied in class. 3) You are Required to submit two book reports during the first semester.

Grading 45% = Tests, Quizzes, Book Reports and Document Analysis Reports 30% = Historical Journal, Map Journal and DBQ's 25% = Midterm and Final Exam

Tests All tests will be timed. They will include multiple choice along with a Free Write. In addition to this, you will be required to submit a DBQ that is related to the Unit of Study. Vocabulary tests will focus on the top 500-600 words for AP US History and will be

timed. If you do not have time to complete the written portion of the test in class, you may come to learning center for additional time.

Writing Requirement AP is a writing based course. To be successful on the AP exam, you have to develop the writing skills to pass the test. To facilitate this, you will be required to write daily and compose essays at least once a week. AP US History has two types of writing on the exam. The first is a DBQ (Document Based Question). This is a formal paper that utilizes evidence from documents and content knowledge to prove an argument that you have formulated. The second type is a Free Write. In this form of writing, you will be given a prompt and asked to write a paper based on your content knowledge. (notes will not be provided).

Plagiarism Plagiarism is defined as taking someone else's work and presenting it as your own. This can include taking someone else's work and copying it word for word. The proper way to ensure that you are not plagiarizing, is to have your partner explain what they learned and write a summary in your own words. It can also be as simple as cutting and pasting on the computer. This does not mean that you should not seek help, it means that you should write in your own words. In AP US, we have an Honor Code that addresses this issue. When you turn in a paper, you are guaranteeing that it is your own work. Breaking the Honor Code: First offense for plagiarism will be a parent conference and you will receive a zero for the assignment with the option of coming to Learning Center and completing the assignment. Second offense will be administrator conference and you will receive a zero for the assignment with NO make-up option.

Tutoring Tutoring is available on Tuesday and Thursday during Learning Center. If you are going to attend, you will need to sign-up.

Semester One

Unit 1: Exploration and Colonial America (1492-1754)

Goal 1: The learner will identify causes of European Exploration and colonial settlement and assess the structure of European Settlements.

Week 1. Contact and Exploration, Colonization, Colonial Society and Economy: New England, Middle and SouthernChapter 1: New World BeginningsChapter 2: The Planting of English AmericaChapter 3: Settling the Northern Colonies

"5 Steps to a 5": Chapter 5 "The Settling of the Western Hemisphere and Colonial America (1450-1650)

Chapter 6 "The British Empire in America: Growth and Conflict (1650-1750)

Unit 2: Revolutionary Era (1754-1783) and New Nation (1783-1816)Goal 2: The learner will examine the causes for the American Revolution, the courses of the war and evaluate the results.

Week 2. Colonial Life and Roots of the American Revolution Chapter 4: American Life in the Seventeenth CenturyChapter 5: Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution Chapter 6: The Duel for North America

Week 3. American RevolutionChapter 7: The Road to RevolutionChapter 8: America Secedes from the EmpireChapter 9: The Confederation and the Constitution

"5 Steps to a 5": Chapter 7: "Resistance, Rebellion and Revolution (1750-1775)Chapter 8: "The American Revolution and the New Nation"

Goal 3: The learner will identify, investigate and assess the formation and effectiveness of the institutions of the emerging Republic.

Week 4. New Nation - Federalist Era, Jefferson and America's Second War for IndependenceChapter 10: Launching the New Ship of StateChapter 11: The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian RepublicChapter 12: The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism

"5 Steps to a 5": Chapter 9: "The Establishment of New Political Systems (1787-1800)"Chapter 10: "The Jeffersonian Revolution(1800-1820)"

Unit 3: Antebellum America and Westward Expansion

Goal 5: The learner will analyze the cause and effect of Jacksonian Democracy and Manifest Destiny

Week 5. Jacksonian Democracy

Chapter 12: The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism

Chapter 13: The Rise of Mass Democracy 1824-1840Chapter 14: Forging the National Economy

"5 Steps to a 5": Chapter 11: "TheRise of Manufacturing and the Age of Jackson (1820-1845)"

Goal 4: The learner will analyze the co peering forces of Nationalism and Sectionalism and assess the effectiveness of the emerging reform movements.

Week 6. Reformers and Sectionalism during Antebellum AmericaChapter 15: The Ferment of Reform and CultureChapter 16: The South and the Slave ControversyChapter 17: Manifest Destiny and It's Legacy

"5 Steps to a 5": Chapter 12: "The Union Expanded and Challenged (1835-1860)"

Unit 4: Crisis, Civil War and Reconstruction 1848-1877

Goal 6: The learner will analyze the issues that led to the Civil War, the effect of the war and the impact of Reconstruction on the nation.

Week 7. Causes of the Civil WarChapter 18: Renewing the Sectional StruggleChapter 19: Drifting toward DisunionChapter 20: Girding for War: The North and the South

"5 Steps to a 5": Chapter 13: "The Union Divided: The Civil War (1861-1865)"

Week 8. Civil War and ReconstructionChapter 21: The Furnace of Civil WarChapter 22: The Ordeal of Reconstruction

"5 Steps to a 5": Chapter 14: "The Era of Reconstruction (1865-1877)"

Unit 5: Late 19th Century America, Industrialization, Immigration, The West and The Rise of the Debtor Class

Goal 8: The learner will describe and analyze how industrialization, immigration, urbanization, political machine and the new intellectual movements impacted America.

Week 9. Gilded Age - Politics and IndustrializationChapter 23: Political Paralysis in the Gilded AgeChapter 24: Industry Comes of Age

"5 Steps to a 5":

Chapter 16: "America Transformed into the Industrial Giant of the World (1870-1910)

Mid-term Exam: Timed DBQ With Multiple Choice

Second Nine Weeks

Goal 7: The learner will evaluate the great westward movement, the emergence of the New South and the impact of the agricultural revolution on the nation

Week 1. Urbanization and The Rise of the PopulistsChapter 25: America Moves to the CityChapter 26: The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution

"5 Steps to a 5": Chapter 15: "Western Expansion and Its Impact on the American Character (1860-1895)"

Unit 6 The Progressive Movement 1890-1920/Imperialism and WWI

Goal 9: The learner will analyze the economic, political and social reforms of the Progressive Movement.

Week 2. Progressive ReformersChapter 29: Progressivism and the Republican RooseveltChapter 30: Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad

"5 Steps to a 5": Chapter 18: "The Progressive Era (1895-1914)"

Goal10: The Emergence of the US in World Affairs 1865-1930: The learner will analyze causes and effects of the US emergence as an Imperial Power and World Influence.

Week 3. Imperialism and World War IChapter 27: The Path of EmpireChapter 28: America on the World Stage

"5 Steps to a 5": Chapter 17: "The Rise of American Imperialism (1890-1913)"Chapter 19: "The United States and World War I (1914-1921)"

Chapter 31: The War to End War

Unit 7 From Boom to Bust- The 1920s & 1930s - The Years Between The Wars

Goal 11: The Roaring Twenties 1919-1929: The learner will appraise the economic, social and political changes of the decade of the 1920s.

Goal 12: The Great Depression and New Deal 1929-1939: The learner will analyze the impact and influence of the Great Depression and the New Deal on the political, economic and social aspects of America.

Week 4 - 5 1920s and 1930sChapter 32: American Life in the Roaring TwentiesChapter 33: The Politics of Boom and BustChapter 34: The Great Depression and the New Deal

"5 Steps to a 5": Chapter 20: "The Beginning of Modern America: The 1920s"Chapter 21: "The Great Depression and the New Deal (1929-1939)"

Unit 8 & 9: World War II and the Cold War

Goal 13: World War II 1930-1945: The learner will trace the reemergence of the US in world affairs, including analyzing the causes of the US involvement is World War II

Goal 14: Beginning of the Cold War and 1950s 1945-1960: The learner will assess the causes and effects of the US/Soviet tensions, the Civil Rights Movement and economic prosperity.

Week 6-7 WWII and the Beginning of the Cold War

Chapter 35: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of WarChapter 36: America in World War IIChapter 37: The Cold War BeginsChapter 38: The Eisenhower Era

"5 Steps to a 5": Chapter 22: "World War II (1933-1945)"Chapter 23: "The Origins of the Cold War (1945-1960)"Chapter 24: "Prosperity and Anxiety: The 1950s"

Unit 10: Upheaval in American Society 1960s and 1970s

Goal 15: The 1960s and 70s 1960-1979: The learner will identify and analyze political, social and economic development and foreign affairs during this time period.

Week 8-9 1960s - Civil Rights Movement, Cold War, Vietnam and Freedom of SpeechChapter 39: The Stormy Sixties

"5 Steps to a 5": Chapter 25: "America in an Era of Turmoil (1960-1975)"

Semester One Final Exam: multiple choice and DBQ

SEMESTER TWO

Week 1-2 1970s - Economic Crisis, Government Corruption, Vietnam and Cold WarChapter 40: The Stalemated Seventies

"5 Steps to a 5": Chapter 26: "Decline and Rebirth (1968-1988)"

Unit 11 Modernism, Conservatism, Globalism and Terrorism

Goal 16: America Since 1980: the learner will evaluate trends in domestic and foreign affairs of the US from 2980 to present.

Week 3 1980s and a New CenturyChapter 41: The Resurgence of ConservatismChapter 42: The American People Face a New Century"5 Steps to a 5":

Chapter 27: "Prosperity and a New World Order (1988-2000)"

Week 4 Contemporary America

"5 Steps to a 5": Chapter 28: "The Threat of Terrorism, the Increase of Presidential Power and Potential Economic Disasters (2001-2010)"Chapter 29: "Contemporary America: Evaluating the 'Big Themes'"

Final Exam: DBQ, Free Write and Multiple Choice

Week 5 Review Exploration through American Revolution DBQ Vocabulary Test Multiple Choice Free write

Week 6 Review New Nation through Development of Nationalism and Sectionalism DBQ Vocabulary Test Multiple Choice Free Write

Week 7 Review Civil War through Reconstruction DBQ Vocabulary Test Multiple Choice Free Write

Week 8 Review Gilded Age through Westward Expansion and the Populists DBQ Vocabulary Test Multiple Choice Free Write

Week 9. Review Progressive Reformers through World War I DBQ Vocabulary Test Multiple Choice Free Write

Week 1 Review 1920s through 1930s DBQ Vocabulary Test

Multiple Choice Free Write

Week 2 Review World War II through Cold War DBQ Vocabulary Test Multiple Choice Free Write

Week 3 Review 1960s: Vietnam and Civil Rights Movement Cause and Effects DBQ Vocabulary Test Multiple Choice Free Write

Week 4 Review 1970s and 1980s DBQ Vocabulary Test Multiple Choice Free Write

Week 5 Review 1990s to Current DBQ Vocabulary Test Multiple Choice Free Write

Week 6 AP Exam Review Multiple Choice Writing Strategies

Week 7 Current Events in Relation to History

Week 8 Globalism Historical Journal Week 9 Modern Civil Rights Issues Historical Journal

Your Historical Journal Will be your Final Exam for the Course