World History Syllabus



Instructor: Kate Smith

Room: 130

Contact: katesmith@ or katesmith@.

Instructor’s Overview:

Welcome to AP United States History! This year we will dive into the History of our nation and the events and people that contributed to making it what it is today. We will discuss what it means to be an "American" and how that term has evolved since the birth of our nation. You will practice writing various types of essays, analyzing primary and secondary sources, answering multiple choice questions, and thinking critically.

AP United States History Themes:

There are seven themes that we will explore in the class throughout the year. These themes include the following:

❑ US.01 Identity

❑ US.02 Work, Exchange, and Technology

❑ US.03 Ideas, Beliefs and Culture

❑ US.04 Peopling

❑ US.05 Politics and Power

❑ US.06 America in the World

❑ US.07 Environment and Geography

Required Texts:

▪ American Pageant: A History of the Republic, The. 13th Ed. AP Ed. Kennedy, D.,

Cohen, L., and Bailey, T. Houghton Mifflin Company: New York. 2006.

Required Supplemental Readings: excerpts taken from the following:

Primary Readers:

▪ American Spirit, The. Vol. I & II. 9th Ed. Bailey, T. and Kennedy, D.

Houghton Mifflin: New York. 1998.

▪ Enduring Voices: Volume I: To 1877. 4th ed. Lorence, James J. Houghton Mifflin Company: New York: 2000.

▪ Enduring Voices: Volume II: From 1865. 4th ed. Lorence, James J. Houghton Mifflin Company: New York: 2000.

Secondary Sources:

▪ Don’t Know Much About History. Davis, Kenneth C. HarperCollins Publishers: New York. 2003.

▪ Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932 - 1972, The. Vol. I & II. Manchester, William. Little Brown and Company: Boston. 1974.

▪ Major Problems in the Era of the American Revolution, 1760-1791. 2nd ed. Brown, Richard D. Houghton Mifflin Company: New York. 2000.

▪ Money Men, The. Brands, H. W. W.W. Norton & Company: New York. 2006.

▪ Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History, A. Bender, Thomas. Hill and Wang: New York. 2006.

▪ People’s History of the United States, A. Zinn, Howard. Harper & Row, Publishers: New York. 1980.

▪ Short History of the United States, A. Remini, Robert V. Harper: New York. 2008.

▪ What Hath God Wrought? Howe, Daniel Walker. Oxford University Press: New York. 2007

▪ Words We Live By: Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution, The. Monk, Linda R. Hyperion: New York. 2003.

▪ Selected articles from the American Heritage historical magazine edited by Edwin S. Grosvenor.

Course Outline:

The following outline roughly sketches what we will be studying over the course of the year leading up to the AP test in May. This is an enormous amount of information and will require an extremely fast pace. Please note that some time periods overlap, which will be both a blessing and a curse for you will be required to keep the information straight while you integrate it into the larger synthesis we will be constantly building up in your head.

Each unit will involve not only reading and weekly student workbook exercises on key vocabulary and terminology, but also PowerPoint slide notes, class discussions on significant themes (see 7 AP themes), and historiography (how historical interpretations have and do change over time, how past issues inform or affect current issues, and how historical revision shapes current historical views. Students will also present research findings via PowerPoint presentations to the class to supplement class notes.

Course Objectives:

• Students will be prepared for the Advanced Placement United States History Exam.

• Students will study select historical themes as well as the context, and discuss the significance of select questions.

• Students will be trained to analyze and interpret both primary and secondary sources including maps, pictures, graphs and statistical charts, and documentary material.

• Students will learn how to think critically and analyze competing sources of historical information.

• Students will be able to express themselves with precision and clarity and know how to properly cite and credit sources and the ideas of others.

• Students will practice test-taking skills, including how to take timed exams.

• Students will be able to take notes effectively from both printed sources and lectures.

Classroom Expectations:

• Come to class prepared and ready to learn.

• Respect others and yourself.

• Take responsibility for your actions.

All behavior issues fall under these categories and will be dealt with on an individual basis as they arise. Students will not be allowed to behave in a manner that disrupts the learning of their peers, is disrespectful, or demeaning to others.

Procedures

Students are considered tardy if they are not in their seats with their materials ready when the bell rings. Dropping off your backpack and leaving the room is not being present. Students may only leave the classroom with teacher permission and must sign out on the clipboard when they leave. Unless it is an emergency, bathroom breaks will not be granted within the first 15 minutes of class. Please use the restroom before class. Students who are absent from class for extended periods of time will lose the privilege of leaving.

Cell Phones

If a cell phone is determined to be a distraction during class the student will be asked to put it away. Texting or playing games on cell phones or iPads during class is not allowed. Students who need to be reminded more than once to use these devices appropriately will be referred to the office for discipline.

Homework Policies

AP US History requires a lot of reading, writing and studying outside of class. Students will be expected to come to class having read the assigned reading, taken notes, and studied the topic of the chapter. Assignments are expected on time.

Formative Assessments

Formative assessments can take on a variety of forms such as reading quizzes, short answer questions, classwork, exit slips, etc. Formatives will account for no more than ten percent of the overall grade. Students can generally expect a reading quiz after very chapter (1-2 per week depending on how quickly we get through material).

Absences

If you know you are going to be absent ahead of time, please arrange to get independent study work prior to the absence. At least one week notice is necessary to plan independent study work. All homework and handouts will be posted on the class website by 5:00 each day.

Tests and Quizzes

Students will have many opportunities to demonstrate mastery of essential skills. These assessments may take the form of essays, reading quizzes, projects, multiple choice, short answer tests and final exams. Students who are present the day of a test or quiz are expected to take it, even if they were absent the day before the test period. A student may not “choose” to not take an assessment because they feel they are not ready. A major function of any assessment is to determine where the gaps in learning are, and therefore assessments are valuable and required for all students, regardless of their self-determined readiness level. Since our mastery based system gives a student opportunity to be reassessed on a topic, all tests should be viewed as intermediate steps on the path to full mastery.

Academic Integrity

Students are expected to abide by the WSCA Academic Integrity policy. Cheating, plagiarism, or other violations will not be tolerated and will result in academic and administrative consequences. Parents and school administration will be notified of any suspected instances of academic dishonesty.

Incompletes

Students who do not demonstrate mastery of a required concept on an assessment will receive a score of Incomplete on that assessment. All students are required to show mastery on ALL standards in AP US History; therefore, a student must have no incomplete test scores in order to receive a passing grade in APUSH. Students are required to show evidence of correction and study before they will be allowed to retake a test, and must attend at least one reteaching session prior to retaking a test. Retakes are not available on a “drop in” basis and must be scheduled ahead of time.

Students will be allowed to retake tests that they have passed in order to show increased mastery and improve their grade on that test. All improvement retakes must be completed within three weeks of the return of the original test. A student with ANY incomplete assessments must work towards completing those assessments before they will be allowed to attempt to improve their score on a passed assessment.

Retake tests may be in a different format from original tests, and should not be expected to be duplicates. Some students may be required to retake an entire assessment, while others may only be required to complete selected portions, depending on previous results, and at teacher discretion.

**This class utilizes the Western Sierra Collegiate Academy grading policy which can viewed in the Parent and Student Handbook available on the school’s website. There have been some changes to the policy concerning retakes and the completion of formative work.

Food and Drink

Drinks and snacks are allowed in class, unless students do not clean up after themselves.

APUSH SCHEDULE

❑ WEEKS 1 – 5 UNIT 1 - Pre-Columbian America and Founding the New Nation

Pre-Columbian cultures and the populating of the Americas; European Exploration and early mercantile global trade; East African v. West African Slave trading; Spanish Conquest and French claims; English colonial settlement in America; the West Indies and Trade; British Mercantilism; Southern “cash crops” and Slavery; New England life and the Salem Witchcraft Trials; The Duel for North America; European Wars and the American Colonies; George Washington and the Ohio River Valley; Mercantilism stirs the Revolution.

Themes explored: Peopling, Work, Exchange, Technology, Identity, Environment and Geography, Politics and Power

❑ UNIT 1 - Chapters 1-5

• New World Beginnings

• The Planting of English America

• Settling the Northern Colonies

• American Life in the Seventeenth Century

• Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution

❑ Outside Information Documents:

The First Americans, The Mayflower Compact, The Colonial Backdrop –

Excerpts from Bradford and Smith’s diaries, excerpt from Equiano’s autobiography, ships logs

❑ Activities: document analysis of the ships lists and other documents from the 1993 DBQ. Thesis statement development and essay writing practice. Document analysis using a teacher created DBQ on the slave trade. Zinn reading. National Geographical article on Jamestown.

❑ UNIT EXAM – 50 Question Multiple Choice Exam and FRQ

❑ WEEKS 6 – 10 UNIT 2 - Revolution and Building the New Nation

Constitutional Amendments; benign neglect and virtual representation v. taxation; The Boston Massacre: Sam Adams v. John Adams; The Enlightenment; Slavery and Religion in Politics; American Diplomacy; The Articles of Confederation and The Constitution; benign neglect and virtual representation v. taxation; The Boston Massacre: Sam Adams v. John Adams; The Enlightenment; Slavery and Religion in Politics; American Diplomacy; The Articles of Confederation and The Constitution; Shay’s Rebellion; Hamiltonian Economics; Adams, Jefferson, and Madison in the Presidency; The Impact of the French Revolution; the War of 1812; The American System; Manifest Destiny.

Themes: Identity, Politics and Power, Ideas, Beliefs, and Culture, America in the World

❑ American Pageant – Chapters 6-10

• The Duel for North America

• The Road to Revolution

• America Secedes from the Empire

• The Confederation and the Constitution

• Launching the New Ship of State

❑ Outside Information Documents: 1776, Common Sense, Paul Revere’s engraving, Declaration of Independence, The US Constitution, The Albany Plan (Enduring Voices), Words We Live By, Major Problems in the Era of American Revolution.

❑ Activities: Document analysis, reading accounts of Boston Massacre and Boston tea party, Declaration of Independence and Common Sense Revolutionary War Tweets activity, comparing and contrasting Articles of Confederation and the Constitution, article from American Heritage on Loyalists in the Revolution. Comparing Jefferson and Hamilton’s views. Thesis practice and outline drafting.

❑ UNIT EXAM – 50 Question Multiple Choice Exam and FRQ

❑ WEEKS 11 – 15 UNIT 3 - Jefferson, Jackson, and Testing the New Nation

Jefferson in the Presidency; the impact of Napoleon; War of 1812, nationalism, sectionalism; Jacksonian Democracy and the New Men of the West; Cotton Kingdom; Poor Whites and Black Slaves; Abolitionism; The Marshall Court; the Missouri Compromise, Industrial Revolution, Transportation Revolution, Cotton gin, reform movements

Themes: Identity, Power and Politics, Peopling, Environment and Geography, America in the World, Work, Exchange, and Technology.

❑ American Pageant – - Chapters 11-15

❑ The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic

❑ The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism

❑ The Rise of a Mass Democracy

❑ Forging the National Economy

❑ The Ferment of Reform and Culture

❑ Outside Information Documents: Excerpts from Lewis and Clark diaries, “Battle of New Orleans” “The War of 1812,” Poetry by Walt Whitman, excerpts from Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Dickinson, and Hawthorne, images by American painters.

❑ Jefferson/Adams campaign posters, Into the Unknown simulation, War of 1812 song analysis, Jackson wanted/hero posters, American Literature and Art as examples of Nationalism (excerpts from authors of the time). Chapters 5, 11, and 14 (Howe). Thesis practice, outline drafting and evidence incorporation activity.

❑ UNIT EXAM – FRQ and multiple choice

❑ WEEKS 16 – 20 UNIT 4 - Testing the New Nation

Cotton Kingdom; Poor Whites and Black Slaves; Abolitionism; Annexation of Texas; Mexican-American War; California Statehood; Fugitive Slave Law, Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Dred Scott; The Lincoln Douglas Debates; John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and Secession; Fort Sumter and the Border States; Economics of War; Bull Run v. First Manassas; Antietam and Emancipation Proclamation; Grant, Sherman, and Total War; Lincoln’s Assassination and Johnson’s Reconstruction Effort; Military Reconstruction.

❑ American Pageant - Chapters 16-22

• The South and the Slavery Controversy

• Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy

• Renewing the Sectional Struggle

• Drifting Toward Disunion

• Girding for War: The North and the South

• The Furnace of Civil War

• The Ordeal of Reconstruction

❑ Outside Information Documents:

Economic Causes of the Civil War

Battle Hymn of the Republic, Dixie, America the Beautiful, Gettysburg Address and Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address. Civil War Chronicles (American Heritage), People’s History of United States (Zinn). Chapter 4 (Howe).

❑ Activities: Abolition document analysis packet, practice DBQ, discussion on slavery and abolition. Thesis writing and evidence incorporation practice with DBQ. Class discussion on a selection of Lincoln’s writings. Debate: Should the South secede?

❑ Assessment: DBQ

❑ WEEKS 20 – 23 UNIT 5 - The Gilded Age and Forging an Industrial Society

Grant as President; Corruption and the Call to Reform; the End of Reconstruction; Jim Crow and ethnic clashes; Cleveland – Harrison – Cleveland; the Railroads and the Lords of Industry; New Immigrants and the Rise of Cities; Evolution and Education; the New Woman; Booker T Washington and W.E.B. Dubois; Conquest of the Indians; Cattle v. Crops; The People’s Party and William Jennings Bryan; American Imperialism and the Spanish-American War; Assassination of McKinley.

Themes: Identity, Work, Exchange, and Technology, Ideas, Beliefs, and Culture.

❑ American Pageant – Chapters 23-27

❑ Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age

❑ Industry Comes of Age

❑ America Moves to the City

❑ The Great West and Agricultural Revolution

❑ Empire and Expansion

❑ Outside Information Documents:

Women and Economics, Advice to a Black Schoolgirl, Take Me Out to the Ball Game, Evolution, Over There & The Marine’s Hymn, Political cartoons (Nast), “Teddy Roosevelt in the Wild” by Douglass Brinkley (American Heritage), The Money Men (Brands).

❑ Activities: Document analysis, practice FRQ, political cartoon practice using Thomas Nast cartoons, and map analysis. Debate: US Foreign Policy: Should we pursue empire?

❑ UNIT EXAM – DBQ and Multiple Choice (80 questions)

❑ WEEKS 24 – 29 UNIT 6 – Progressivism, Imperialism, Depression and Two World Wars

The Rise of Teddy Roosevelt; Trust-Busting, Labor Unions, and Muckrakers; Women’s Suffrage; Roosevelt v. Taft; New Freedom v. New Nationalism; Wilson’s Agenda: Tariff, Trusts, and Banks; American Neutrality and Latin America; Wilson and War; Wilson and Peace; the Power of the United States Senate; The Red Scare and the Roaring Twenties; Prohibition, Gangsterism, and Hooverism; The Monkey Trial and the Fall of Bryan; Radio, Consumerism, and Jazz; Reparations and Germany and the Crash of 1929; Hoover and the Great Depression; FDR and the Great Depression; Alphabet Bureaucracy; The “New Deal”; The Court Packing Deal; the Open Door in China Shut by Japan?; Isolationism and Appeasement leads to the Atlantic Charter and Pearl Harbor; The End of the Great Depression; American Concentration Camps; Rosie the Riveter; African-Americans, Native-Americans, and Mexican-Americans in the War; America as the Arsenal, Grocery, and Military Power of the World; D-Day in France and the D-Days of the Pacific; Death of Roosevelt and the Rise of Truman; The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War; Tehran – Yalta – Potsdam; American Triumphant.

Themes: Identity, America in the World, Politics and Power, Ideas, Beliefs, and Culture, Work, Exchange, and Technology, Peopling.

❑ American Pageant – Chapters 28-35

❑ Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt

❑ Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad

❑ The War to End War

❑ American Life in the "Roaring Twenties"

❑ The Politics of Boom and Bust

❑ The Great Depression and the New Deal

❑ Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow War

❑ America in World War II

❑ Outside Information Documents:

Happy Days Are Here Again, Brother Can You Spare A Dime?, God Bless America, This Land Is Your Land, Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition, The Home Front – The Glory and the Dream, “Hell’s Scribe” by James McGregor Burns and “Girl Computers” by Mark Wolverton (American Heritage).

❑ Activities: Document analysis on Progressive reforms, Wilson’s 14 Points, WWI and WWII timelines, propaganda analysis, discussion on the homefront (then and now), literature and art from the 20s and 30s, letters to FDR, Fireside chat discussion and analysis, New Deal Posters, WWII propaganda comparison, movie clips from WWII and Hollywood’s contributions to the war effort, Rosie the Riveter and Saturday Evening Post covers, DBQ. Debate: Should America drop the atomic bomb?

❑ UNIT EXAM – FRQs and Multiple Choice (80 questions), DBQ.

❑ WEEKS 30 – 35 UNIT 7 - The Cold War and The End of History?

Harry Truman as President: Containment, NATO, and the Marshall Plan & Hershey Bars; The Sunbelt and the Suburbs; The Baby Boom and the Cold War; The Korean War; Consumer Culture; the Rise of Teenagers; Eisenhower, Nixon, and McCarthyism; Brown v Board of Education and Desegregation; Crises of Containment; Nixon and the Rise of John F. Kennedy; the Space Race; Cuba and Vietnam; Assassination of Kennedy, Johnson’s Great Society v. The Vietnam War, and the Return of Richard Nixon; American Civil Rights and the Counterculture; Détente and the Oil Embargo; The Fall of Richard Nixon and Malaise; The Failure of Keynesian Economics; Iran, Ronald Regan, and the Contras; Glasnost and Perestroika; The New Right and the Rise of the Bushes; the Fall of the Wall and the New World Order.

Themes: Identity, Ideas, Beliefs, and Culture, Politics and Power, America in the World.

❑ American Pageant – Chapters 36-42

❑ The Cold War Begins

❑ The Eisenhower Era

❑ The Stormy Sixties

❑ The Stalemated Seventies

❑ The Resurgence of Conservatism

❑ America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era

❑ The American People Face a New Century

❑ Outside Information Documents:

Eisenhower’s Farewell Address, MacArthur’s Duty-Honor-Country, Kennedy’s Inaugural Address, Kennedy’s Speech at the Berlin Wall, We Shall Overcome, Johnson’s Howard University Address, Stupid America, Reagan’s Speech at the Berlin Wall, Life with Harry – The Glory and the Dream

❑ Activities: McCarthyism, document analysis on Cold War, Cuban Missile Crisis simulation, Anti-War protest, music of the 50s, music of the 60s. Anti-War propaganda analysis, Kennedy vs. Nixon presidential debate, Bert the Turtle, commercials of the 50s and 60s (various sources), JFK’s Inaugural Address, Read and Discuss “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (Martin Luther King) and compare to Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience.” Discussion of Counterculture movement and teen’s culture today. Discuss Reagan and his “new conservatism,” discuss Clinton’s impeachment. Compare the two Bushes. Watch footage from 9/11 and discuss impact on our country and the world.

❑ UNIT EXAM – FRQs and Multiple Choice, DBQ.

❑ WEEKS 36 – 37 REVIEW - REVIEW – REVIEW - REVIEW

❑ Comprehensive APUSH Practice/Final Test – DBQ, FRQs, and Multiple Choice

❑ Review for AP Test

❑ AP Test

❑ WEEKS 38 – 40 WRAP UP AND FINISH INCOMPLETES

❑ Post-Test Project

Essays:

There will be several historical essays covering the seven general periods of the curriculum. These essays will be written in class under a time constraint in order to prepare you for the test. Average length of each essay will be about 2-3 pages and will often involve the use of primary and secondary sources. Prompts will be selected from previously released College Board APUSH FRQs and DBQ tests. They will be graded using the AP 9 point rubric.

Films:

While we do not have time to watch full-length films in class, the following is a list of films that we may view clips of over the year:

1. The American President (PBS)

2. The West Wing (Martin Sheen)

3. Amistad (Morgan Freeman)

4. Glory (Denzel Washington)

5. Lincoln (Daniel Day-Lewis)

6. Gettysburg (Martin Sheen)

7. Dances with Wolves (Kevin Costner)

8. The Wizard of Oz (Judy Garland)

9. The Great Gatsby (Robert Redford)

10. It’s a Wonderful Life (Jimmy Stewart)

11. The Grapes of Wrath (Henry Fonda)

12. Tora! Tora! Tora! (Martin Balsam)

13. Saving Private Ryan (Tom Hanks)

14. Thirteen Days (Kevin Costner)

15. JFK (Kevin Costner)

16. Platoon (Charlie Sheen)

17. The Killing Fields (Sam Waterman)

18. Apollo 13 (Ed Harris)

19. All the President’s Men (Robert Redford)

20. Wall Street (Charlie Sheen)

21. Back to the Future (Michael J. Fox)

22. The Hunt for Red October (Sean Connery)

23. Clear and Present Danger (Harrison Ford)

24. Black Hawk Down (Josh Hartnett)

***Schedule subject to change.

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AP US History Syllabus

Instructor: Kate Smith

Contact: katesmith@ or katesmith@

Room: 130

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