ADVANCED PLACEMENT UNITED STATES HISTORY 2017-18

Instructor: Christy WillisTutoring: Mon/Tues by appointment

Contact/email: Room: B126

Text:

Tindall, George Brown & David Emory Shi. America: A Narrative History. W.W. Norton & Company, 2013.

Articles:

1st Semester:“The World of Native Americans” by James S. Olson and Raymond Wilson

“Englishmen and Africans” by Winthrop Jordan, “Johnny Reb and Billy Yank” by Bell I. Wiley, “Matthew Lyon’s Trial for Sedition” by Aleine Austin, “Rip Van Winkle” by Washington Irving, “Tecumseh, the Shawnee Prophet, and American History” by R. David Edmunds, “The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820-1860” by Barbara Welter, ‘Introduction’ chapter to “The Great Awakening,” “The Knights of the Rising Sun” by Allen W. Trelease, “The Slave Warehouse from Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Harriet Beecher Stowe, “The Witches of Salem Village” by Kai T. Erikson, “Two Visions of the Constitution” by Drew McCoy, “Watermelon Armies and Whiskey Boys” by Gerald Carson, “What really Happened in the Boston Massacre? The Trial of Captain Thomas Preston”

2nd Semester:“Was it Necessary to Drop the Atomic Bomb to End World War II” article, “Will History Forgive Richard Nixon?” article, “The Clash of Civilizations?” by Samuel P. Huntington, “From Exclusion to Segregation: Southern race Relations, 1865-1890” by Howard N. Rabinowitz, “Living and Dying in Packingtown, Chicago” from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, “Party Games: The Art of Stealing Elections in the Late-Ninetheenth-Century United States” by Mark Wahlgren Summers, “Public Opinion and Civil Liberties in Wartime, 1917-1919” by O. A. Hilton, “Rose SchneiderMan and the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire” by Bonnie Mitelmen, “Samuel Gompers and the Rise of American Business Unionism” by John H. M. Laslett, “The Age of Conspiracy and Conformity: Invasion of the body Snatchers” by Stuart Samuels, “The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War” by Martin J. Sherwin, “The Chinese Link a Continent and a Nation” by Jack Chen, “The Decision for Mass Evacuation of the Japanese-Americans” by Roger Daniels, “The Elvis Presley Phenomenon” by Greil Marcus, “The Paul Robeson-Jackie Robinson Saga: A Political Collision” by Ronald A. Smith, “The Revolution in Manners and Morals” by Frederick Lewis Allen, “The Trench Scene” by Paul Fussell, “The Vietnam War, the Liberals, and the Overthrow of LBJ” by Allen J. Matusow, “The Wizard of OZ: Parable on Populism” by Henry M. Littlefield, “The Wounded Generation: The Twenty-Seven Million Men of Vietnam” by Lawrence M. Baskir and William a. Strauss, “What the Depression Did to People” by Edward R. Ellis

Advanced Placement U.S. History: Advanced Placement U.S. History is a college-level introductory course which examines the nations’ political, diplomatic, intellectual, cultural, social, and economic history from 1491 to the present. A variety of instructional approaches are employed and a college level textbook is supplemented by primary and secondary sources.

Themes: While the course follows a narrative structure supported by the textbook and audiovisual materials, the following seven themes described in the AP U.S. History Course and Exam Description are woven throughout each unit of study:

Identity / How has the American national identity changed over time?
Work, Exchange, & Technology / How have changes in markets, transportation, and technology affected American society?
Peopling / How have changes in migration and population patterns affected American life?
Politics & Power / How have various groups sought to change the federal government’s role in American political, social, and economic life?
America in the World / How has U.S. involvement in global conflicts set the stage for domestic social changes?
Environment & Geography / How did the institutions and values between the environment and Americans shape various groups in North America?
Ideas, Beliefs, & Cultures / How have changes in moral, philosophical, and cultural values affected U.S. history?

Grading Procedures:

Exams/projects: 60% of your final grade will be computed from exams and projects. Exams may include an essay (worth 40 points), and matching, short answer, and multiple choice. Tests come from the daily lecture, discussion, and the textbooks.

Assignments/Quizzes: 40% of your final grade will come from assignments and quizzes.

Makeup Policy: All makeup work is due the class period when the student returns to class. All tests must be made up within two days of returning.

The AP U.S. History Exam AP U.S. History Exam is 3 hours and 5minutes long and includes multiple-choice, short-answer,free-response section (DBQ and LEQ). Student performance on these four parts will be compiled and weighted to determine an AP Exam score. AP Scores are 5-1,

Section / Question Type / Questions / Timing / % of Total Score
I / Part A: Multiple-choice questions / 55 / 55 / 40%
Part B: Short-answer questions / 3 / 40 / 20%
II / Part A: Document-based question / 1 / 60 / 25%
Part B: Long essay question / 1 (choice) / 40 / 15%
Period 3 1754-1800: Early Nationhood (2nd half) / 12 % / 3.5 / Ch 5-7?
Period 6 1865-1898: Gilded Age / 13% / 8 days / Ch 18-22
Period 7 1890-1945 / 17% / 10 days / Ch 23-28
Period 8 1945-1980: Atomic age and Cold War / 15% / 9 days / Ch 29-33
Period 9 1980- Present: Reagan, Bush Sr. Clinton, Bush, and Obama / 5% / 3 days / Ch 33 (section 2+) – 34 / 33.5 days
Period 1 1491-1607: North America and discovery / 5% / 3 days / Ch 1-2
Period 2 1607-1754: Colonization / 10% / 6 days / Ch 3-4
Period 3 1754-1800: American Revolution (1st half) / 12% / 3.5? / Ch 5-7?
Period 4 1800-1848: 19th C Reform / 10% / 6 days / Ch 8-13
Period 5: 1844-1877: Slavery, Mex War, Civil War and Reconstruction / 13% / 8 days / Ch 14-17 / 26.5 days

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