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Advanced Placement U.S. History Syllabus

Ms. Polonio Room C306 or Faculty Room C219

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AP U.S. History is a challenging course that is meant to be the equivalent of a freshman college course and can earn students college credit. The AP U.S. History course is designed to provide you with the analytic skills and factual knowledge necessary to deal critically with problems in U.S. History from the Age of Exploration to present day. The course will also help you 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 essay format.

The class is designed around the use of various teaching methods including lecture, group discussions, debates, role-playing and political cartoons in order to help you “tackle” the content material. It is vital to keep up with all the reading and writing assignments in order participate in all class discussions and activities.

Course Text and readings

Henretta J, Brody D., and Dumenil L., America’s History 6th ed. Bedford/St. Martin’s, New York, 2008.

*Other readers will be consulted for primary sources throughout the year.

** You will also be responsible for purchasing outside reading materials that will be assigned throughout the year. (See me if you have any concerns about this.)

***You are also advised to purchase an AP U.S. History Review Book for consultation throughout the year. I will have recommendations for you.

Assignments/grading policy

Tests: (50%) You will be given at least 48 hours notice. Tests will be a combination of objective and essay questions in accordance with the AP Exam format.

Projects/papers: Due throughout the year.

Quizzes: (35%) Most quizzes will be based on reading assignments, discussions and classroom activities. Quizzes will also be a combination of objective, short answer, and essay questions.

Homework Check Quizzes: (15%) “Pop” quizzes will be given!!!

Consistent effort and improvement equals success!

Classroom behavior

1. RESPECT everyone and everything in our classroom.

2. Be on time and seated in your assigned seat by the time the bell rings. Refer to the attendance policy in the Student Handbook.

3. Be prepared to learn everyday. This means bring your book, notebook and homework assignment.

4. Do not disrupt the learning process for your classmates.

Cheating Policy

Anyone caught cheating on any sort of class work will receive a ZERO. No make-up will be allowed! Cheating is defined as: a glance on another student’s paper, cheat sheets, copying answers, giving answers, plagiarizing, or anything else that would compromise the validity of coursework.

Attendance

Much of the material is provided through lecture/discussion and group activities therefore, attendance is essential. If you are absent, it is your responsibility to contact a fellow classmate to get the reading assignments, notes or prepare for any other assessments.

Advanced Placement Exam: Friday May 6, 2010 cost is $84.00. The AP exam is not required, but is highly recommended and may earn you college credit! (

Part II. Course Outline/Syllabus (as approved by College Board May 2007)

Unit 1: Creation of an American Society

Ch. 1-4

Primary and secondary sources include:

Bartolome de las Casas, excerpt from A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

Christopher Columbus, excerpt from A Letter to Luis de Santangel, Keeper of the privy Purse

John Winthrop, “A Modell of Christian Charity”

After the Fact, “Serving Time in Virginia”

Jonathan Edwards, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

Exam on Ch. 1-4

DBQ: New England vs. Chesapeake Region

Unit 2: The American Revolution and Launching of New Gov’t.

Ch. 5-7

Primary and secondary sources may include:

The Albany Congress, excerpt from The Albany Plan of Union

Stamp Act Congress, excerpt from Declaration and Grievances of the Colonies

John Dickinson, excerpt from Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania

McCullough, David: excerpts from 1776.

Samuel Seabury, “A View of the Controversy between Great Britain and her Colonies”

Thomas Paine, excerpt from Common Sense

Declaration of Independence

Political Cartoons depicting British Perceptions of the War of Independence

United States Constitution and Bill of Rights

Leibiger, Stuart. “Founding Friendship” Washington, Madison and the Creation of the American Republic

Federalist Papers #10 and #51

Excerpts from “Alien and Sedition Acts”

Jefferson and Madison’s excerpts from “Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions”

Paintings analyzing Republican Motherhood

Exam on Ch. 5-7

Constitutional Convention Project

FRQ: American Revolution

DBQ: French and Indian War

Unit 3: Era of National Development (Republican Power and Expansion)

Ch. 8+9

Primary and secondary sources may include:

George Washington’s Farewell Address

Various primary sources on slave advertisements

Thomas Jefferson, excerpts from First Inaugural Address

Excerpts from Hartford Convention Resolution

Political cartoons depicting Thomas Jefferson and the embargo

Excerpts from Newspaper Accounts of the War of 1812

John Quincy Adams, excerpts from “ Reflections on the Missouri Question”

James Monroe, excerpts from “The Monroe Doctrine”

Exam Ch. 8+9

FRQ: Effects of American Revolution on slavery and women.

Unit 4: Jacksonian Democracy

Ch. 10+11

Primary and secondary sources may include:

Political Cartoon of “King Andrew Jackson”

Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions

Fuller, Margaret, excerpts from Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Henry David Thoreau excerpt from Resistance to Civil Government

Andrew Jackson’s Bank Veto Message,

Excerpt from Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America book 2 Ch. VII

 John C. Calhoun’s Exposition on Nullification

The Indian Removal Act of 1830 and picture of Trail of Tears

Exam Ch. 10+11

DBQ: Jackson of expansion of democracy

Unit 5: Expansion, Sectionalism and the Impending Crisis

Ch. 12-14

Primary and secondary sources may include:

John O’Sullivan excerpts from Manifest Destiny

Green, Thomas excerpt from Reflections upon the Present Political and Probable Future Relations of Texas, Mexico, and the United States

James K. Polk excerpt from The President’s War Message to Congress

A People’s History of the United States Chapter 8

Child, Lydia Maria excerpt from Prejudice Against People of Color

Frederick Douglass excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Excerpts from The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Excerpt from South Carolina’s Ordinance of Secession and Declaration of Independence

After the Fact: Ch. 6 “The Madness of John Brown”

Exam Ch. 12-14

Take home essay: Manifest Destiny

FRQ: Sectionalism

Unit 6: Reconstruction, the New South, and Expansion

Ch. 15+16

Primary and secondary sources may include:

Foner, Eric. “The New View of Reconstruction”

Black Codes of Mississippi

Organization and Principles of the Ku Klux Klan

After the Fact: “The View from the Bottom Rail”

Grady, Henry excerpt from The New South

Straker, Augustus D. excerpt from The New South Investigated

Washington, Booker T. excerpt from The Atlanta Compromise

Primary and secondary sources may include:

Frederick Jackson Turner “The Significance of the Frontier in American History.”

Chief Joseph An Indian’s Perspective

The Dawes Act

Exam Ch. 15+16

Unit 7: The Gilded Age

Ch. 17-19

Primary and secondary sources may include:

A People’s History of the United States Ch. 11 “Robber Barons and Rebels”

Andrew Carnegie excerpt from Gospel of Wealth

John D. Rockefeller Defends His Oil Trust

William Graham Sumner- An Absurd Effort to Make the World Over

Herbert Spencer

Henry Demarest Lloyd Attacks Monopolies

Jacob Riis Pictures from How The Other Half Lives

Exam Ch. 17-19

Group Project

MIDTERM EXAM

Unit 8: Introduction to the 20th Century

Ch. 20-22

Primary and secondary sources may include:

Excerpt from The Strength and Weakness of the People’s Movement

William Jennings Bryan excerpt from The “Cross of Gold” Speech

Upton Sinclair excerpts from The Jungle

Eric Schlosser excerpt from Fast Food Nation

Excerpt from “The Fight for Woman’s Suffrage: An Interview with Alice Paul”

Muller v. Oregon

Rose Scheiderman excerpt Working Women and the Vote

The Niagara Movement: Declaration of Principles

New York World “The War must Be Ended”

Albert Beveridge excerpt from The March of the Flag

Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League

The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.

Exam Ch. 20-22

Group project/take home essay

Unit 9: From Prosperity to Despair

Ch. 23+24

Primary and secondary sources may include:

A. Mitchell Palmer excerpt from The Case against the Reds

William Allen White The Red Scare is Un-American

The Need for Immigration Restriction

After the Fact: Chapter 10 Sacco and Vanzetti

Excerpt from The Scopes Trial

Herbert Hoover from The New York City Speech

Excerpt from Franklin D. Roosevelt’s First Inaugural Speech

Dorothea Lange Photographs of the Great Depression

Two views of the Great Depression- A Black Man’s Perspective and A Woman’s Account

Huey Long excerpt of Share Our Wealth

Exam Ch. 23+24

Unit 10: WWII and the Cold War

Ch. 25-27

Primary and secondary sources may include:

Henry Cabot Lodge excerpt from The Meaning of the Kellogg-Briand Treaty

Franklin Roosevelt’s The Four Freedoms

Jackdaws primary source packets

After the Fact: Chapter 12 The Decision to Drop the Bomb

Harry S. Truman: The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima-The Public Explanation

Karl T. Compton: If the Atomic Bomb Had Not Been Used

Exam Ch.24-27

DBQ & FRQ:

Unit 11: The Turbulent ‘60’s and ‘70’s

Ch. 28 and 29

Primary and secondary sources may include:

George C. Wallace The Civil Rights Movement: Fraud, Sham, and Hoax

Dr. King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”, “I Have A Dream”

Excerpts from Malcolm X’s “From the Ballot to the Bullet”

Casey Hayden and Mary King “Feminism and the Civil Rights Movement”

Richard Nixon

SALT Talks

Watergate Scandal

Unit Test

Group project/take home essay

FRQ:

Unit 12: Quick Review of 1980’s

Ronald Reagan and Reganomics

Iran/Contra Scandal

Cold War

Additional material WILL BE covered post AP Exam! (

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