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AP United States History (APUSH) Summer Assignments 2020Mr. White Email: [email protected] Summer Google Classroom Code: oryc4tp Phone: (see Phone Contacts)

Welcome APUSH students! Congratulations! You made the right decision to enroll in Advanced Placement United States History (aka APUSH). Now, as far as summer work, there are six summer assignments you must complete. The purpose of this is to ensure that we get as much time to review for the AP exam as possible. I would like 2 straight weeks of review in class to ensure the highest level of success on the exam. These assignments will allow us to do that. All assignments are due on the first day of school.

Assignments (Page 3):1. Native American Cultures

a. Lecture Notesb. Map Activity

2. Columbian Exchange Researcha. Graphic Organizer entries

3. Colonial Encounters and Differencesa. Comparison Chart

4. Documentsa. Spanish Colonies + Questionsb. French Colonies + Questions

5. 13 Colonies Comparisonsa. Graphic Organizer and Notes

6. Text Reading/Notes

Recommended BooksDocumenting United States History: Themes, Concepts, and Skills for the AP Course by Jason Stacy and Stephen Heller (Available on Amazon in hardcover and Kindle format, great resource for primary sources and strategies for the AP exam)

American Yawp (see Assignment #6 for the link and directions): This is a online textbook that provides a good array of information and primary sources. It is not officially College Board certified, but those that have worked on College Board tests as both question creators and evaluators have recommended this website. You will be using this throughout the course of the year, including for Assignment #6. So, I would go ahead and save it on a browser/cell phone.

APUSH Expectations and MaterialsIn AP U.S. History (sometimes abbreviated as APUSH), we will be reviewing a lot of material from the colonization of America to the modern era. This course will require a lot of note-taking, textbook reading, analysis and review, and examinations. This is taught like a college course deliberately. You should expect to be taking hand-written notes consistently with note checks happening on a regular, if not weekly, basis. In addition, you will have multiple quizzes and tests throughout the course to assess content knowledge. You will also have weekly reading assignments to complete outside of class which will also be used in assessments and note-checked as well. This will include the assigned textbook and primary sources assigned by the teacher. We are working on a limited schedule with many conflicts that come up during the course of the year (assemblies, extracurricular activities, snow days, closures, etc.) I will send you work from time to time on Google Classroom. So it is imperative that you use and check Google Classroom and LIveGrades on a regular basis as well as keep up on assigned readings.

I recommend you have notebooks, paper, highlighters, and other materials ready to take notes at the beginning of the school year. Also, check the College Board website for updated information and practice tests throughout the summer. We will be doing a Practice Test on the first week of the school year to set up a base of data to work from throughout the course of the year. We will also be getting set up on AP Classroom which will be required for all students in order to do review checks.

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Google Classroom: CODE- oryc4tpDuring the summer, we will begin instruction on some of the earliest time periods in American history. The reason for that is that according to the Course Layout along with the College Board generation for the test material, Periods 1 and 2 represent the least amount of information that will be assessed on their test. Therefore, the summer assignment and the AP US HISTORY Summer Google Classroom will be used as a way to begin the process of learning material for these two periods of information. This will allow us to start working and practicing towards AP levels of writing and address the Early American Colonial History content early enough that we can efficiently transition from there to content that will have a greater impact on the College Board test.

Once the school year begins and class rosters have been finalized, we will begin the process of transitioning everyone to their class-specific Google Classroom.

Phone Contacts

I will provide a phone number on Google Classroom to anyone who needs to get in contact with me during the summer for an emergency question relating to the Summer Assignment. If it can be handed in a message on Google Classroom, I ask that you please use that first. I am leaving a space below for you to write down the number and message attached to it on Google Classroom.

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APUSH Course LayoutThe course is set in 9 Periods by the College Board in order to facilitate an easier filing and classification of content placement. So be sure to know and memorize what each period number stands for.

Period Dates Topics1

1491-1607 Pre-Columbian Societies, Contact/Columbia Exchange, Spanish Conquest 2

1607-1754Colonial Beginnings, French, Dutch, and English settlement, Colonial North America: social, economic, political, Resistance, Enlightenment & Great Awakening

31754-1800 Revolution, Critical Period, Early Republic

41800-1848

Jeffersonian Democracy, War of 1812, Transformations: Market Revolution, 2nd Great Awakening

51844-1877 Manifest Destiny, Civil War, Reconstruction

61865-1898

Gilded Age

71890-1945

Imperialism; Progressivism; World War I; 1920s; Great Depression and New DealWorld War II

81945-1980 Cold War; 1950s; 1960s: Vietnam, Civil Rights; 1970s; 1980s

9 1980-present

Return to Conservatism; Gulf War; Clinton; Immigration; 9/11; Bush PresidencyObama Presidency

Assignment #1: Native American CulturePeriod 1 of the APUSH course outline focuses on the period from 1491 (a generic, symbolic year for life in America pre-European contact) to 1607 (the establishment of the Jamestown Colony), so the first thing we need to do is focus on life before Columbus “found” America. The video below will cover this concept quite well. I have attached a graphic organizer for you to follow along and take notes. After the video, you’ll get to do a little coloring! =) Follow the directions on the map activity to help aid your understanding of pre-Columbian America.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG_Q50JDeLo

Assignment #2: Columbian Exchange ResearchFor this assignment, you will be left to do some very general look into the permanent system of contact and trade between the Old and New Worlds that was established by Columbus’ voyages known as the Columbian Exchange. One of the easiest and most general places to gather information on the Columbian Exchange is the Columbian Exchange Wikipedia page. (Yes, a teacher is telling you to use Wikipedia. Not a good source to quote, but it is good for general information).

Fill out the chart I have provided for you to identify the effects of the Columbian Exchange on North America & Europe.

Optional, Supplemental Videos:-Atlantic Slave Trade Effects on Africa (Ted Talks) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NXC4Q_4JVg

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Assignment #3: Colonial Encounters and DifferencesA common writing question on the APUSH exam’s writing section involves comparing the colonies of different countries, so it is good to be familiar with this concept of comparison and contrast early on in our journey. You will need to watch videos on the 4 major colonizing countries (Spain, France, the Netherlands, and England) and fill out the corresponding Graphic organizer that nicely displays them all side-by-side.

Spanish Colonization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhWMMEKNxdQ

French Colonization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqUSY59Kilk

Dutch Colonization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH1uGY16WJM

English Colonization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecFVogu0H2w

Optional, Supplemental Video: Countries’ differences in relationships between Natives - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdV98rKV5gM

Assignment #4: Readings and QuestionsI have selected 2 readings for your leisure. One is primary, and the other is secondary. You will be exposed to a large amount of documents throughout the next academic year in class and during the exam. You will need to get used to analyzing sources, so I have you taking a look at a view on the Spanish Colonies through a primary source and a view on the Dutch Colonies through a secondary source.

Read each source and answer the corresponding questions that follow.

Assignment #5: 13 Colonies ComparisonsAnother frequent writing question deals with the unique social, economic, and geographical identities of the 13 colonies by splitting them into 3 distinct regions – North, Middle, and South. This lecture and graphic organizer will help identify many of these differences to help you start to identify these differences which will play a huge role in the nation’s history through the Civil War.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_THLW5hh8Y

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Assignment #6: Assigned Reading, Writing, and Notes We will be doing a lot of note taking and text analysis during the course of the year as well. The expectation is that you will read the assigned texts outside of class and be prepared to take notes during class for the periods that we cover.

While you will not have your physical textbooks until the Fall Semester, you will be able to access your online textbooks for the summer. (Note: You will get a new code for your online textbooks for your individual classes this fall.)

APUSH Online Textbook - my.mheducation.com- Create Student Account (Unless you already have one from a previous class)- Code: O9PQ92FB- Click on eBook.

Chapters to ReadChapter 1 (The Collision of Cultures) Chapter 2 (Transplantations and Borderlands) Chapter 3 (Society and Culture in Provincial America)

For Primary Sources, you need to go to (and bookmark/save) this following website as we will be returning to it often throughout the course of the year. You will look at Primary Sources aligned with your summer readings.

American Yawp: http://www.americanyawp.com/reader.html

Click on and read primary sources from the following American Yawp chapters: The New WorldColliding CulturesBritish North America

**NOTE: If you have trouble accessing the Online Textbook, you may use www.americanyawp.com and read the chapters from their online textbook. It is generated by AP teachers and professionals. Thus it is a highly acceptable 2nd

Option for Summer Reading. **

You will need to have 12 pages of hand-written notes ready to show in class to complete the assignment.

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Assignment #1: Native American Cultures Name:_______________________

Fill out the following graphic organizer while consuming the following lecture on Native American Cultures on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG_Q50JDeLo

ArcticTribal Groups:

Plain IndiansTribal Groups

Northeast / Great LakesTribal Groups:

SouthwestTribal Groups:

SoutheastTribal Groups:

Now, complete the map on the next page!

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Assignment #2 – Columbian Exchange Worksheet Name:____________________

In the years following Columbus’ voyages to the Americas, the world witnessed an unprecedented permanent exchange of people, products, and ideas known as the Columbian Exchange. You are to use the Wikipedia article on the Columbian Exchange and any other online resources you find helpful in order to note significant exchanges of animals, plants, populations, technology, culture, and ideas that took place during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Your general goal should be to come up with at least three (3) entries for each box, but you will realize when this will not be possible. It is best to leave this to your judgment in order to encourage thorough research on your part.

New World to Old Old World to NewAnimals

Plants

Populations/People

Technology

Culture & Ideas

Diseases

Other sources Consulted (No set citation format is needed – just be descriptive enough that I can find these sources):

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Assignment #3 - Colonial Encounters and DifferencesSpanish French Dutch England

Region(s) Colonized

Religion

Interested Parties

1.

2.

1.

2.

1.

2.

1.

2.Economic Pursuit(s)

Settlements

Number of Colonists

Evangelism?

Relationship with Native Americans

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Assignment # 4 – Document Analysis

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Use the Space below to Answer Questions 1-3 from the previous document.

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Assignment # 5 – 13 Colonies ComparisonNew England

ColoniesMiddle

ColoniesSouthernColonies

Key Colonies

Key Figures

Why settle?

Economic Activity

Predominant Religion(s)

Religious Outlook

Other Notes

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