Advanced Placement U.S History Course Syllabus Purpose: Advanced Placement United States History is a college survey course that focuses on the development of the United States from the Early Colonial America to Contemporary America. While students have the opportunity to earn college credit, the purpose of this course provides the students with the opportunity to develop analytical skills and knowledge that will be useful in their future college career. Overview: Students will learn and understand the principle themes that will be focused on throughout the year. Students will develop the ability to analyze historical evidence and express their understanding and analysis in the following forms including discussions, essays, assignments and exams. Their understanding and analysis will be emphasized on the student’s academic skills including effective analysis of Primary sources such as documents, maps, and statistics, pictorial and graphic evidence. Student will actively develop effective note taking skills, effectively analyze major events and their impacts, the ability to participate in Socratic discussions and formulate and support a position. Course Text: Supplemental reading: • Kellog, O. William. Barron’s AP United States History: Exam prep guide. • Out of many Course and Prep guide • Cracking the AP United States History Exam, Princeton Review. • Becker and Wheeler. Discovering the American Past: A Look at the Evidence Vol 1 and 2. • Loewen.W. James. Lies my teacher told me: Everything your American History textbook got wrong. • Zinn. Howard. A Peoples History of the United States: 1492-Present. • Roberts. Cokie. Founding Mothers: The Women Who raised our Nation. • “What would the Fathers say?”: A Patriots answeres to Americas most pressing problems. By Larry Schweikart. Course objectives and themes:
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Advanced Placement U.S HistoryCourse Syllabus
Purpose:
Advanced Placement United States History is a college survey course that focuses on the
development of the United States from the Early Colonial America to Contemporary
America. While students have the opportunity to earn college credit, the purpose of this
course provides the students with the opportunity to develop analytical skills and knowledge
that will be useful in their future college career.
Overview:
Students will learn and understand the principle themes that will be focused on throughout
the year. Students will develop the ability to analyze historical evidence and express their
understanding and analysis in the following forms including discussions, essays, assignments
and exams. Their understanding and analysis will be emphasized on the student’s academic
skills including effective analysis of Primary sources such as documents, maps, and statistics,
pictorial and graphic evidence. Student will actively develop effective note taking skills,
effectively analyze major events and their impacts, the ability to participate in Socratic
discussions and formulate and support a position.
Course Text:
Supplemental reading:
• Kellog, O. William. Barron’s AP United States History: Exam prep guide.
• Out of many Course and Prep guide
• Cracking the AP United States History Exam, Princeton Review.
• Becker and Wheeler. Discovering the American Past: A Look at the Evidence Vol 1
and 2.
• Loewen.W. James. Lies my teacher told me: Everything your American History
textbook got wrong.
• Zinn. Howard. A Peoples History of the United States: 1492-Present.
• Roberts. Cokie. Founding Mothers: The Women Who raised our Nation.
• “What would the Fathers say?”: A Patriots answeres to Americas most pressing
problems. By Larry Schweikart.
Course objectives and themes:
The Following items below are themes and objectives that will be focused on
in our study of United States History
American Diversity:
Understand the diversity of the American people and the relationships among different
groups. Analyze the role of race, class, ethnicity, and gender in the history of the Unites
States.
American Identity:
Understand the views of the American national character and ideas about American
exceptionalism. Recognize regional differences within the context of what it truly means to
be an American.
Culture:
Analyze the diversity in American culture through the expressions in literature, art,
philosophy, music, theater, and film throughout U.S history. Examine popular culture
and the dimensions of cultural conflict within American society.
Demographic changes:
Analyze the changes in birth, marriage, death rates, and life expectancy, family patterns,
population size and density. Examine the economic, social, and political effects of immigration,
internal migration, and migration networks.
Economic Transformation:
Analyze the changes in trade, commerce, and technology across time. Students will understand
the effect of capitalism, labor, unions, and consumerism.
Environment :
Analyze the impact of consumption, conservation of natural resources. Examine the impact
of population growth due to industrialization, pollution, and urban and suburban expansion.
Globalization:
Understand the role of the Unites states with the rest of the world from the 15th century to
present. Students will understand the concepts that had a huge impact such as colonialism,
mercantilism, and global hegemony, development of markets, imperialism, and cultural
exchange.
Politics and Citizenship:
Students will understand the colonial and revolutionary legacies, American political
traditions, growth of democracy, and the development of the modern state. Students
will define the struggles for citizen ship and civil rights.
Reform:
Analyze the reform movements from early colonial to 21st century. Understand the
diverse movements that focused on issues such as anti-slavery, education, labor,
temperance, women’s rights, civil rights, gay rights, war, public health, and
government.
Religion:
Evaluate and analyze the role of religion and the variety of religious beliefs and
practices in America. Students will analyze the influence of religion from pre-history
to the 21st century on politics, economics, and society.
Slavery and Its Legacies-
Analyze the systems of slave labor and other forms of unfree labor including
indentured servitude, contract labor in Native American societies, the Atlantic World,
and the American South and West. Analyze the economics of slavery and its impact
on society. Examine its patterns of resistance and the long-term economic, political,
and social effects of slavery.
War and Diplomacy:
Armed conflicts from the pre-colonial period to the 21st century. How war has
impacted American foreign policy, politics, economy and society.
Units of Study:
The course will be taught over six six-week grading periods on a 90 min block schedule. The
units of study for AP United States course are as follows:
• Unit 1: Pre Columbian Era to Colonial North America ( 1492-1754)
• Unit 2: The American Revolutionary Era ( 1754-1789)
• Unit 3: The Early Republic ( 1789- 1815)
• Unit 4: The Age of Jackson and Antebellum America, 1824–1860
• Unit 5.Territorial Expansion and manifest Destiny and Sectionalism, 1800–1861
• Unit 6: Civil War and Reconstruction ( 1861-1877)
• Unit 7: The Gilded Age and the west, 1865–1900
• Unit 8: The Populist, Progressive era and World War 1
• Unit 9: Roaring 20’s, Great depression and the New Deal
• Unit 10: Second World War and the Home front
• Unit 11: Aftermath of WWII and the Cold War years, the age of the 50’s
• Unit 12:The Turbulent 60s’s
• Unit 13 : 20th Century America: Politics, Economics and culture
• Unit 14: America today post cold war
Curriculum objectives:
The learner will demonstrate a mastery of Historical Knowledge by:
• Use historical evidence to support or defend positions or arguments
• Interpret historical data such as documents, political cartoons, graphic charts, statistic
charts etc.
• Demonstrate analytical skills to evaluate, interpret, characterize, understand cause and
effect relationships, compare and contrast, and change over time.
• Work in groups to produce class assignments, create presentations and solve
problems.
• Prepare for the AP Exam in May.
General organization and structure:
The course is designed to help students master the themes and events in U.S. History,
while learning and improving skills that allow students to achieve an understanding of
U.S. History. Throughout the course students will be exposed to a variety of
instructional tools including teacher directed lectures, Socratic seminars, class
discussions, readings ( primary and secondary), formal assessments, essays,