AP U.S. History Summer Assignment 2013 Mr. Heffernan Northern Highlands Regional High School Welcome to AP US History! The course is a college-level course that will require extensive knowledge and understanding of US History. It is imperative to have a strong foundation as a class for our return in September. As such, every student is expected to complete the following summer reading assignment. SUMMER READING 1. Read and take notes on pages 59 – 125 in the textbook, A People and a Nation. (You do not have to take notes in any particular format, but I’ve included the Cornell University Note Taking System for your reference.) 2. Read A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz 3. SUGGESTED: This document contains a list of terms that will become your study guide for the AP Exam. I recommend that you begin to fill-in and review these terms. In September... 1. On the first full day of class there will be a multiple-choice test on the text material. For this test you may use your notes. 2. On the next class meeting the class will have an essay & short-answer test on A Voyage Long and Strange. APUSH Reading List Reading list: Below is a list of books covering different topics in American History. These books may be useful in expanding your knowledge and understanding of US history. Reading all of these books in one summer would be an impossible task, and is in no way encouraged. But reading or familiarizing yourself with some of these books can assist in your understanding of US History. Discovery & Colonial Era New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America – Colin Calloway The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop – Edmund Morgan Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War – Nathaniel Philbrick Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty – John M. Barry The Wordy Shipmates – Sarah Vowell The Emergence & Rise of the American Republic
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AP U.S. History Summer Assignment 2013
Mr. Heffernan Northern Highlands Regional High School
Welcome to AP US History! The course is a college-level course that will require extensive knowledge and understanding of US History. It is imperative to have a strong foundation as a class for our return in September. As such, every student is expected to complete the following summer reading assignment.
SUMMER READING
1. Read and take notes on pages 59 – 125 in the textbook, A People and a Nation.
(You do not have to take notes in any particular format, but I’ve included the
Cornell University Note Taking System for your reference.)
2. Read A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz 3. SUGGESTED: This document contains a list of terms that will become your study guide for the AP Exam. I recommend that you begin to fill-in and review these terms.
In September...
1. On the first full day of class there will be a multiple-choice test on the text material. For this test
you may use your notes.
2. On the next class meeting the class will have an essay & short-answer test on A Voyage Long and
Strange.
APUSH Reading List
Reading list: Below is a list of books covering different topics in American History. These books may be useful in expanding your knowledge and understanding of US history. Reading all of these books in one
summer would be an impossible task, and is in no way encouraged. But reading or familiarizing yourself with some of these books can assist in your understanding of US History.
Discovery & Colonial Era
New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America – Colin Calloway
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop – Edmund Morgan
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War – Nathaniel Philbrick
Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty – John M. Barry
The Wordy Shipmates – Sarah Vowell
The Emergence & Rise of the American Republic
The Federalist Papers
The Autobiography of Ben Franklin – Ben Franklin
The Birth of the Republic, 1763-1789 – Edmund Morgan
The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr- H.W. Brands
Antebellum Period
Manifest Destiny: American Expansion and the Empire of Right – Stephan Anderson
The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th Century America – Paul
Johnson Walden – Henry David Thoreau
Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times – H.W. Brands
The Civil War
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War – Tony Horwitz
Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War – Tony Horwitz
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era – James McPherson
Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln – Doris Kearns Goodwin