2Nd Marking Period Outside Reading

US HISTORY AP

2nd Marking Period Outside Reading

Assignment Sheet

Students are expected to read and complete the assigned task for each of the following articles by the start of class on the assigned due dates. Students will be informed not less than a week in advance of the specific expectations for each assignment. Assignments may include but are not limited to writing a two (2) page, double-spaced summary at home, a class debate, a quiz, or an in class writing assignment. For any writing assignment, you should include a “thesis statement” that guides your summary. If you want to earn extra credit, you may read and summarize up to 5 of the additional articles. Please make sure that your summaries are properly identified with OSR # and title of the article. Each of the summaries written at home must be turned in both by hard copy and on turnitin.com.

Assigned Articles

Article One – Due Monday November 11 – Thomas Dublin’s “Women, Work, and Protest in the Early Lowell Mills” found in FAC pp 147 – 159.

Article Two – Due Monday December 2 – Ira Berlin’s “ ‘I will be Heard!’: William Lloyd Garrison and the Struggle Against Slavery” found in POA, Vol. I pp. 205 – 213.

Article Three - Due Monday December 9– Stephen B. Oates’ “Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation” found in POA, Vol. I pp. 322 - 342.

Article Four – Due Friday January 10 – James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton’s “ ‘Call Me Mister’: The Black Experience During Reconstruction” found in POA, Vol. I pp. 361 – 375.

Extra Credit Articles: All extra credit for 2nd marking period will be due on or before January 21, 2014!!!!!

Jack Larkin’s “ The Secret Life of a Developing Country (Ours)” found in FAC pp. 124- 146.

John F. Marszalek’s “Andrew Jackson: Flamboyant Hero of the Common Man,” Portrait of America,Vol. I, pages 215 – 228.

Johnny Faragher and Christine Stansell’s “Women and their Families on the Overland Trail” found in POA, Vol. I pp. 277 – 289.

Benjamin Quarles’ “Let My People Go: Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad” found in POA, Vol. I pp. 302- 311.

Stephen B. Oates’ “The Ravages of War” found in POA, Vol. I pp. 342 – 350.

Bruce Catton’s “Hayfoot, Strawfoot!” found in POA, Vol. I pp. 350 – 361

Eric Foner’s “The Checkered History of the Great Fourteenth Amendment” found in POA,

Vol. I pp. 375 – 383.

Stephen B. Oates’ “The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner’s Fierce Rebellion.” Found in Portrait of America, Vol. I pp. 191 – 205.