APUSH Hyperpoints 4th Quarter
Students are required to fulfill 100 “outside service” points that are in some way related to American History. These points, known as “hyperpoints”, can be acquired in a variety of ways. The total point value represents roughly 1/10th of the 9-week grade. You may achieve up to 125 points, with 25 points going towards extra credit. All activities that are worth more than 1 point must be accompanied by a typed, 12 font double spaced 1 page report, on how it impacted you as well as its relevance in American history.
Options: ***1st 2 options between April 28th and May 5th ONLY
***Host an A.P. 2 hour study dinner for fellow A.P. students -30 pts.- (max 1)(min 5 guests)
***Attend an A.P. 2 hour study dinner -10pts.- (max 5)
*Attend a local school board meeting -5pts.- (max 1)
*Research a historical website -3pts.- (max 5) (include printout)
*Attend an A.P.U.S.History workshop -10 pts.- (max 2)
**Read a historical nonfiction book(must be approved) -25 pts.- (max 2)
*Visit a historical museum -15 pts.- (max 2)
*Service the less fortunate -5 pts.- (max 2)
*Create a 10 – 15 minute decade video from the 1950’s through the 80’s-25 pts.- (max 1)
*Create a 2-3 minute movie trailer on a civil rights or Vietnam fictitious movie-10 pts.-(m1)
*Daily hyperpoints. -30 pts.-
*Read and review an article from a historical journal (1875-1940). –10 pts.-(max 2)
*Perform a musical tribute to a significant American musician from the 1920’s through the 1970’s -20 pts- (max 1)
* Paint or draw a 60’s era mural poster/painting -15 pts.-(max 1)
* Create a powerpoint history of a specific topic of interest to you at least 40 slides with background facts, illustrations, music & sounds and a thesis. -10 pts.- (max 1) Examples: Baseball, Country music, candy, comedy, Barbie dolls, American theatre, leisure activities
* Watch and review one of the movies from list -10 pts.- (max 2)
Museums:
Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center
9603 Woods Drive Skokie, IL 60077 847.967.4800
Cantigny 1st Division War Museum: From the Southern Suburbs, take the Tri-State Tollway (I-294) North to the East-West Tollway (I-88). Go West on I-88. Exit I-88 at Winfield Road and travel North approximately 3 miles. The park entrance is on the right side of the road before Roosevelt Road (Route 38).:
Last Hyperpoints! Ever!!!
APUSH Hyperpoint 4th Quarter Movie List:
Movie Title Topic
Letters from Iwo Jima (WWII)
Under the Same Moon (Illegal Immigration)
Charlie Wilson’s War (U.S. aid Afghan/Soviet war)
Thirteen Days (Cuban Missile Crisis)
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers'
Which Way Home (immigration)
Hurt Locker (Iraq war)
Malcolm X (Civil Rights)
JFK (Assassination Conspiracy)
Mona Lisa Smile (Women’s Rights)
Breach (Cold War Spying)
The Conscience of Nhem En (Vietnam)
The Pianist (Holocaust)
Defiance (Jewish resistance WWII)
Mississippi Burning (Civil Rights)
Valkyrie (WWII)
The Good Shepherd (CIA)
Red Tails (Tuskeegee Airmen WWII)
Good Night and Good Luck (Red Scare)
Empire of the Sun (Japanese prisoner WWII)
The Tunnel (Berlin Wall)
The City of Life and Death (Rape of Nanking)
Argo (CIA)
Reading List Books:
· On the Road by Jack Kerouac
· Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
· Relativity by Albert Einstein
· The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
· The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
· The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, by George Packer
· Thank You For Your Service, by David Finkel
· Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War, by Paul Kennedy
· The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond
· Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base by Annie Jacobsen
· Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell
· Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen by Liliuokalani
· Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power by Rachel Maddow
· The Passage of Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson #4) by Robert A. Caro
· Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom by Conrad Black
· Enemies: A History of the FBI by Tim Weiner
· The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II by Denise Kiernan
· One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson
· Here is Where: Discovering America's Great Forgotten History by Andrew Carroll
· Hiroshima by John Hersey
· Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Robert Kennedy
· Rape of Nanking: by Iris Chang
· The Untold History of the United States: by Peter Kuznick
· The Other Wes Moore: By Wes Moore
· Ghettoside: by Jill Leovy
Study form:
APUSH Study Dinner
Expectations: Group of students are to meet at house of hosting student for a small dinner and corresponding study session for upcoming A.P. U.S. History exam on Friday, May 7th. Total time spent at host home should be approximately 2 hours. This sheet must be turned in with names and a signature from host parent. Thank you for assisting our students in this endeavor.
Host student: Date:
Attending Students:
Parent signature:
Thank you, Mr. B. Johnson