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AP US History Summer assignments 2021-2022 Westlake High SchoolThe following website summarizes everything you need to do:apushwestlake.I use this website not only for the Summer Assignment but throughout the year as well.Assignment: Complete Notetaking for the first 2 Chapter of the AP Textbook. Notetaking: (PDF files of the AP US History Online Textbook chapters are on the website above, as well as a link to the actual online textbook website)Discussion Questions: Being able to answer these questions may help you better understand the content and significance of the chapters as you read them. Summer assignment will be collected in either of two ways or both 1) Through Microsoft Teams 2) Assignments placed in a folder and handed in by early in the school year. Although these assignments are not due over the summer, you may submit your work as you complete it over the summer through Microsoft Teams. I will provide feedback and students may modify/change their work and resubmit. To be clear submitting work over the summer is purely for constructive feedback. You can also leave questions and comments on Microsoft Teams as well if you are having trouble with an assignment or understanding the content. This includes Chapter Notes and the optional discussion questionsThis will take more than a week to complete, so start early. More information on Microsoft Teams will follow during the summer. AP Textbook Note-takingUse documents located on my website to complete notes for the first two chapters of the AP Online TextbookAP Online Textbook chapters are located on my website in a two PDF files format for you to use. As well as a link to the online textbook website () Specific directions and student examples are shown in documents on my website. Follow the format exactly, as this will be how you will be doing chapter notes all year.We will begin discussing the 1st two Chapters of the textbook, as outlined in the summer assignment during the 1st two weeks of school and reviewing what content was covered in those chapters during that time. At the end of the 2nd week you will have an assessment on the 1st two chapters. Notes must be Hand written Chapter Discussion Questions Discussion Questions Expectations: Answers should be in complete sentences and should fully and thoughtfully answer the question. Your responses should draw on your reading of the AP US Online Textbook but should not copy its words directly. You may find that some of these questions will require you to draw on information from more than just one section of the chapter. Hand written or typedEach question should be answered in its own detailed and specific paragraph (4-5 sentences)Chapter 1 Discussion Questions “The New World”Describe the Aztec, Mayan and Inca Empires. Why might one make the case that they were more advanced than Spain before 1492?Discuss the motivations for European exploration as well as the political and technological changes in the fifteenth and sixteenth century Portugal and Spain that made exploration possible.What was the Columbian Exchange? Why was disease transmission as well as the discovery of new plants and animals so essential to Spanish conquest and settlement in the Americas?Which groups of people were at the top, in the middle and on the bottom of the social hierarchy in the Spanish colonies? What did this hierarchy reflect?Chapter 2 Discussion Questions “Colliding Cultures”Why and in what ways did the Spanish, Dutch, French, and English treat Native peoples differently? In what ways were the colonies they established different?How did tobacco change the economy of Virginia in the 1620s and 1630s? What sort of labor force did wealth tobacco farmers in Virginia utilize?What explains the differences between Virginia and New England Colonies?What were the religious beliefs of the Puritans? Why would some Puritans seek to leave England for the New World? What sort of utopia did they hope to create in the New World?How did the Puritan “Great Migration” of the 1630s and 1640s lead to the settling of New England? ................
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