AP United States History



Advanced Placement U.S. History2012-2013Rm. B203Ms. GurrCourse Description AP U.S. History is an intensive study of the political, social, cultural and economic history of the United States from Pre- Columbian societies through the early 21st Century. The course is designed to go beyond the parameters of a standard United States history course. It combines the development and strengthening of specific AP/honors skills – taking multiple-choice tests, writing critically and analytically, analyzing primary sources and literature, and conducting historical research – with a three-tiered study of history that covers chronological, cause-and-effect, and thematic content. The core assessments consist of the following: (1) multiple choice/objectives tests that reinforce the learning of factual/chronological history and prepare the student for the first section of the national AP exam; (2) charts, a running timeline that help students synthesize historical information (3) analytical essays that reflect the cultural climate of historical periods (4) Document-Based and Free-Response Questions that strengthen critical analysis skills and prepare students for the essays portion of the AP exam; and (5) a chapter by chapter outline that increases historical knowledge and independent study skills. In addition to these core assessments, students are expected to advance their note-taking and class-discussion skills.Course ObjectivesStudents willDemonstrate a mastery of a broad body of historical knowledgeUtilize historical evidence to support and defend positions and argumentsDifferentiate and identify various perspectives, interpretations and schools of historical thoughtDemonstrate an effective use of analytical critical thinking skills of evaluation cause and effect relationships and compare and contrastInterpret and deduce conclusions from various types of historical sources including original documents, cartoons and scholarly writing. Collaborate effectively in groups to produce products, evaluate problems, debate various topics and create presentations and critical essays.Prepare to receive a three or higher on the AP U.S. History Exam Text and Reading Requirements Faragher, John M. Out of Many. Fifth Edition. (New Jersey: Pearson Education Inc.,2007)Foner E. Voices of Freedom: A Documentary History, Volume 1 and 2. (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2005). Loewen, James W. Lies My Teacher told Me. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995). Madras, Larry and James M. SoRelle. Taking sides, Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in American history. Volume 1 and 2. (Connecticut: Dushkin Publishing, 1993).Additional Readings There will also be various articles and handouts from time to time provided by the teacher.Evaluation and GradingThis course requires students to complete a number of assignments including a research paper and or multimedia project and music video. In addition students are expected to participate in class discussions and prepare for quizzes, tests and major exams/essays. All assignments and assessments will be provided ample time for completion and will be assigned well in advance of their due dates. All DBQ and FRQs will be completed outside of class time unless otherwise done in class. They should be written with ink or typed double spaced and can be turned in or emailed on the date they are due and will be graded based upon content, use of documentary and outside supporting evidence and use of critical thinking.GradingParticipation in Activities (discussions, group activities): 10%Midterm and Final Exam: 20% (10% percent each)FRQs and DBQs: 25%Tests and Quizzes: 30%Homework (Timelines, Chapter Vocabulary lists, Written responses to Taking Sides): 15%*Note: Should class be canceled, you are still expected to have work (including reading assignments) completed by the next class anization:Assignment sheets will be provided for every unit covered (one to three weeks). Daily reading assignments will be specified along with dates for quizzes and tests. Written assignments along with due dates for timelines and vocabulary lists are also specified on these sheets. Students are responsible for completing readings, FRQs, DBQs, and being prepared for quizzes and tests.Test: The format for each test will be composed of multiple choice and essay questions to be completed in class.ExamsAll students will take a midyear examination covering the material of the first two marking periods. During the final exam week, students will engage in a performance assessment (historical skit).FRQs (Essays) and DBQS FRQs and DBQs must be either written in ink or typed (doubled spaced). They must be turned in on the date noted in class or a letter grade will be deducted for each consecutive day late. They can vary in length and the emphasis should be on quality not quantity. However a well organized paper should be a least four to five paragraphs in length. They will be graded on content knowledge (specifics and significances), proper understanding and use of documents (DBQs) and outside knowledge. Quizzes and DBQSAll quizzes are composed of multiple choice questions or essay type question modeled after the FRQ or primary source analysis. HomeworkAll students will be responsible for chapter(s) vocabulary list each week along with completing any necessary readings. There will be written homework every two weeks and can range from a comprehensive chart, response to a primary source, online blog, or an essay based question/FRQ or DBQ on a content related question. All written assignments must be turned the date they are due or a penalty of a letter grade deduction for every day late will be incurred. Video TopicsAfter the completion of the AP Examination, students will be responsible for completing a comprehensively researched music video. The process of choosing a topic, creating an outline and an annotated bibliography will be required. Suggested topics/ideas:ProhibitionVietnamTitle IX Internment of JapaneseWorld War IGreat Depression Marshall Plan SlaveryCold War PoliticsSecessionAbortion ImmigrationCivil WarAndrew JacksonAbraham Lincoln WatergateThomas JeffersonRed ScareReconstruction Feminist MovementPossible Summer Reading List Below is a list of books on various topics throughout American History. At least one book should be read to prepare you for the content of the AP US History course. THE SCARLET LETTER, Nathaniel HawthorneAUTOBIOGRAPHY OF FREDRICK DOUGLAS, Fredrick DouglasTHE JUNGLE, Upton SinclairHOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES, Jacob RiisUP FROM SLAVERY, Booker T. WashingtonSOULS OF BLACK FOLK, W.E.B. DuboisALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT, Erich Remarque DIARY OF ANNE FRANK, Anne FrankGRAPES OF WRATH, John SteinbeckHIROSHIMA, John HersheyTHE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X, Malcolm XTHE SORROW OF WAR, Bao NinhTHE FEMININE MYSTIQUE, Betty FriedmanTHE QUIET AMERICAN, Graham GreeneExtra Credit OpportunityEach marking period students will be provided an opportunity to redeem points toward their average by completing a critical movie review. If a student meets or exceeds expectations on a movie review the lowest test or FRQ grade will be eliminated and replaced with the movie review grade. All reviews will be graded according to the rubric provided. They will be due a week before the close of the marking period. Movie ListPatriotThe MissionThirteen Days GettysburgGloryGone with the WindSaving Private RyanThe CrucibleLast of the MohicansMalcolm XAmistadGangs of New YorkRosewoodHigh NoonGrapes of WrathBobbyIron Jawed Angels Invasion of the Body SnatchersOctober SkyAll the President’s MenAlamoApocalypse Now*SEE me for approval for movies outside this list. Some movies have an R rating and should only be viewed with parental discretion. Units Outline1st Marking Period1. Conquest and Colonization (1600-1763)Reading Assignments: Chapters 1-5, Mayflower Compact, Excerpts: “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” Charter of the Colony of Connecticut and Readings from John Smith and Roger WilliamsThemes Early Inhabitants of the AmericasEuropean Colonization of the New World and Mercantilism, Diversification of American ColoniesGrowth of American government and society into “American Democracy”The economic and social growth of the New England Colonies, the Middle Colonies and the Southern/Chesapeake Colonies.Major Assignments:1. Students start their running timelines to track the changes/trends in economy, government, religion and culture throughout the year.2. Develop a Chart comparing the New England, Middle and Southern Colonies motivations for foundation, and the societies developed, including education, governments, economy, and population.3. Free-Response Question Essay (FRQ) “Throughout the Colonial period, economic concerns had more to do with the settling of British north America than did religious concerns.” Assess the validity of this statement with specific reference to economic and religious concerns. (AP 1990)4. Practice a Document Based Question Essay (DBQ) comparing the societies of the New England vs. the Southern colonies. Analysis of the documents begins in class as students learn to analyze historical documents. 2 . Revolution and Independence (1763-1783)Reading Assignments: Chapters 6-7, “Common Sense” ThemesFrench and Indian WarRise of the colonial independence movement, and the major conflicts leading to war.The War for IndependenceMajor Assignments1.Multiple Choice/Objectives Quiz on Chapters 6-7 2. Debate: Loyalists vs. Patriots – Class will be split into two groups and debate the Loyalist and Patriot arguments of the Revolutionary Era. Students will consider history, politics, the economy, and especially regional differences between New England and the Southern Colonies. 3. Free-Response Question Essay (FRQ)4. Practice a Document Based Question Essay (DBQ) 5. Continue running timeline 3. Crisis and Constitution (1781-1800)Reading Assignments: Chapter 8, Federalist Papers 1, 10, 51, Alien and Sedition Acts, Virginia and Kentucky ResolvesThemes the Articles of Confederation vs. ConstitutionShay’s Rebellion vs. Whiskey Rebellion “Civic virtue” and Republican Motherhoodthe ideological conflict between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson, and their impact on “American Democracy”Major Assignments 1. Multiple Choice/Objectives Quiz on Chapter 8Chart on Alexander Hamilton vs. Thomas Jefferson DBQ Practice or Project on Alien and Sedition Acts *Analyzing American Constitutional Values ProjectContinue running timeline* Students will compare, with visual and textual material, the Alien and Sedition Acts to other similar acts in history, including but not limited to Abraham Lincoln’s suspension of constitutional rights during the Civil War, the Espionage and Sedition Acts of World War I, or the post-9/11 USA PATRIOT Act. 4. Era of Jefferson, War of 1812 and Nationalism (1790-1824)Reading Assignments: Chapter 9 Themes Louisiana Purchase John Marshall Supreme Court War of 1812 Jeffersonian DemocracyMonroe Doctrine and the American SystemMajor Assignments Multiple Choice/Objectives Quiz on Chapters 9FRQ on Jefferson’s Presidency; Does Jefferson remain “Jeffersonian” as a President?Continue running timeline5. Slavery and The South (1790-1850)Reading Assignments: Chapter 10, Fredrick Douglas, Benjamin Banneker, Excerpts from To be a Slave and Incidents in the Life of a SlavegirlThemes History of slavery from the Colonial Era to the Civil War.Slave culture and daily lifeSouthern culture and slave dependencyKing CottonMajor Assignments 1. Illustrated “History of American Slavery” Timeline – Students will track the slavery issue from the Colonial Era through the Civil War, focusing on economic, social and political issues and using photos, drawings and other visuals as stimulating decorations.2. Outside Reading Project on Slavery –this project involves students reading from a list of approved novels or primary accounts of slavery and the creation of an information pamphlet/brochure that covers the major topics of the book and relates them to U.S. history.3.Continue running timeline6. Jacksonian Era (1824-1840)Reading Assignments: Chapter 11Themes Jacksonian Democracy and the “Common Man”Emerging American economy as reflected by the crises create by the Tariff of 1828 and Jackson’s veto of the Bank of the United StatesSectionalism as reflected by the Nullification Crisis and the Republic of TexasMajor Assignments 1. DBQ outline on Andrew Jackson and Mass Democracy Create a chart showing the ideological growth The Growth of “American Democracy”Continue running timeline7. Industrial and Antebellum America (1790-1850)Reading Assignments: Chapter 12-13,Themes The Industrial Revolution, of the early 1800s. Social Reform Movements of the early 1800s, The changing roles of women. ImmigrantsMajor Assignments Multiple Choice Test on Chapters 12-13 FRQ or DBQ on the Lowell Mill Girls/Changing Roles of WomenContinue Timeline 8. Sectionalism, Slavery and Westward Expansion (1820-1861)Reading Assignments: Chapter 14-15 House Divided Speech, Lincoln’s Inaugural AddressThemes History of slavery from the Colonial Era to the Civil War.The anti-slavery and abolition movementsThe Mexican War and Manifest Destiny Fredrick Jackson Turner and his Frontier Thesis.Sectionalism: Compromise of 1850, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott Case. Major Assignments FRQ on Abolitionism or Manifest Destiny Historical Interpretation Debate: Assessing the Turner Thesis DBQ outline on Compromise of 18509. Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877)Reading Assignments: Chapter 16-17Themes Abraham Lincoln, the Election of 1860, and SecessionMilitary and Civilian life during the Civil War Reconstruction: Abraham Lincoln vs. Radical Republicans’ The End of ReconstructionThe African American Experience after SlaveryMajor Assignments FRQ Compromise of 1877 or Abraham Lincoln (suspension of civil rights)A Multiple Choice/Objectives Test covering Chapters 16-17Reconstruction Forum – Students will be broken into five groups and take on the roles of the Old South, the Radical Republicans, the Moderates, the Black Freedmen and the New South in an open forum taking place during the presidential campaign of 1876. Students will debate the political, economic, constitutional and moral issues of the period.2nd Marking Period Begins:10. Gilded Age: Industrialization, Immigration and Urbanization (1865-1900) Reading Assignments: Chapter 18-20 Poem: “Chicago”Themes The birth of Modern America through railroads, inventions, immigration, the rise of cities and significant industrialization.Titans of Industry, Federal Government: Forgotten Presidents, Power of Congress and Corruption Students will study the rise in government corruption and the response against it. Populism movement of the late 1800s “New Immigrant” and the “New Woman”.Major Assignments Multiple Choice/Objectives Test on Chapters 18-20DBQ on Titans of Industry, New Woman, Immigration, Booker T. Washington Debate on Titans of Industry: Heroes or Robber Barons – Four to six students will be split into two teams to debate the topic.Continue running timeline11. Progressive Era and Urban America (1880-1921)Reading Assignments: Chapter 21, Excerpts from Upton Sinclair The JungleThemes Development of the United States as a world power, Expansionists vs. Anti-Imperialists, and the legacy of Manifest Destiny.Cities in the Progressive EraProgressive Era policies of Presidents Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson.Expanding role of women: the temperance, prohibition and suffrage movements.African Americans: Gradual versus Immediate ProgressMajor Assignments Debate: Expansionists vs. Anti-ImperialistsFRQ or DBQ on Progressive Era; Assess the Progressive Administrations of Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson.Multiple Choice/Objectives Quiz on Chapters 21 Debate: W.E.B Dubois v. Booker T. WashingtonPoster Project on Temperance and Women’s Suffrage; campaign poster for one of the reform movementsContinue running timeline12. World War I and Post War America (1914-1929)Reading Assignments: Chapters 22-23Themes WWI; battlefield, home front, propagandaEra of Isolationism.Prohibition, Harlem Renaissance, FlappersBull Economy of the 1920sMajor Assignments Multiple Choice/Objectives Test on Chapters 22 & 2313. The Great Depression and New Deal (1929-1941)Reading Assignments: Chapter 24Themes Stock Market Crash of 1929 and HooverFranklin D. Roosevelt and the three “R”s of Relief, Recovery and Reform.Successes and failures of the New Deal programs,FDR’s evolving foreign policyLife in the Great DepressionMajor Assignments Great Depression Project: “Year in Review” News Broadcasts—Groups create radio broadcasts highlighting the news and ads from one year of the depression.Debate on whether FDR deserves a third term in 1940 14. World War II (1941-1952)Reading Assignments: Chapter 25-26Themes The Pacific Theater: Pearl Harbor, Japanese militarism, and the BombThe European Theater: Fascism, D-Day and the HolocaustThe Homefront: Women, African Americans, Japanese Americans and Mexican AmericansDiplomacy, military strategies and peaceMajor Assignments World War II Homefront Charts – Students will documents the changing roles of women, African-Americans, Japanese-Americans and Mexicans during WWII.Debate on Japanese Internment FRQ about whether to drop the bombMultiple Choice Test Chapter 25-26Continue running timeline15. Cold War Berlin Blockade to Berlin Wall (1946-1974)Reading Assignments: Chapter 29Themes Origins of the Cold WarThe Foreign Policies of Truman and EisenhowerThe Red Scare and McCarthyismConflicts: Korea, Cuba, Vietnam Major Assignments Multiple Choice /Objective Quiz on Chapters 29DBQ Cold War fears and Eisenhower’s ability to address themContinue running timeline16. Changes and Activism in America (1950-1970)Reading Assignments: Chapter 27-28Themes Civil rights Movement: African Americans, Women and Native AmericansThe Great Society: JFK and JohnsonNixon: China, Vietnam, and WatergateChanges in Demographics: Suburbanization and Immigration Jimmy Carter and the Middle EastMajor Assignments DBQ Compare the Conformity of the fifties to the social upheaval of the 1960sGroup presentations covering the evolution of Civil Rights for African Americans, Women or Native AmericansContinue running timeline17. Conservatism and America in Post Cold War Era (1980-Present)Reading Assignments: Chapters 30-31Themes Cold War: Renewal and ThawThe New Right: Reaganomics, Moral Majority and Iran-ContraGeorge Bush and the Gulf WarAIDSGlobalization 9/11 and Modern Terrorism Major Assignments Multiple Choice/Objective Quiz on Chapter 40Continue running timeline18. Review ................
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