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BALLSTON SPA HIGH SCHOOL - ADVACNED PLACEMENT U.S. HISTORY 2014-2015

PLEASE NOTE: The following tentative schedule is designed to help you prepare for class and manage the course work associated with college level content. From November 25th to January 22nd we will be cover NINE chapters (#13-#22) in the American Pageant. Be prepared for regular skill based quizzes (7-10 minutes) based on readings and class discussions. Your Mid Term exam (3 hours 25 minutes) with be administered during the week of January 26th.
Class # / Week of 11/24/2014 - Chapter #13
#41
Tuesday
11/25 / In class DBQ – The Era of Good Feelings
HW: Chapter #13 Guided Reading Notes
Class # / Week of 12/1/2014 - Chapters #14 and #15
#42
Monday
12/1 / Chapter #13; John Quincy Adams to Andrew JacksonFOCUS: Elections of 1824 and 1828; Introduction to Jacksonian Democracy (CUSP)
HW: Chapter #14 pages 287 to 296 Guided Reading Notes
#43
Tuesday
12/2 / The Battles of Andrew Jackson (Tariffs, Native Americans and Bank)
FOCUS: Jackson as a Democratic Autocrat
HW: Chapter #14 pages 297 to 319 Guided Reading Notes; THT 1800 to 1836
#44
Thursday
12/4 / Sectionalism – Northern World View (iTRIP)
FOCUS: Immigration (Reasons and Reaction)
HW: Chapter #15 pages 320-324 Guided Reading Notes
#45
Friday
12/5 / Antebellum Culture and Reform
FOCUS: Second Great Awakening; CASE STUDY - The Mormons
HW: Chapter #15 pages 324 to 347 Guided Reading Notes
Class # / Week of 12/8/2014 - Chapters #16 and #17
#46
Monday
12/8 / Antebellum Culture and Reform
FOCUS: Ferment of Reform; CASE STUDY - The Oneida Community
HW: Chapter #16 pages 350 to 362 Guided Reading Notes
#47
Wednesday
12/10 / Sectionalism: The Southern World View FOCUS: Slavery and the Southern People
HW: Chapter #16 pages 362 to 369 Guided Reading Notes
#48
Thursday
12/10 / Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy FOCUS: Presidents Tyler and Polk the Purposeful
HW: Chapter #17 pages 371 to 383 Guided Reading Notes
#49
Friday
12/11 / Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy FOCUS: The Mexican War
HW: Chapter #17 pages 384 to 389 Guided Reading Notes; THT 1836 to 1848
Class # / Week of 12/15/2014 - Chapter #18
#50
Tuesday
12/16 / Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy FOCUS: The Legacy of 1848HW: Prepare for TEST #3 1800 to 1848; ; THT 1836 to 1848
#51
Wednesday
12/17 / TEST #3 1800 -1848 (55 Multiple Choice) HW: Chapter #18 pages 390 to 402 Guided Reading Notes
#52
Thursday
12/18 / TIME PERIOD #5 1844 to 1877 - The Gathering Storm FOCUS: American politics from 1848 to 1850.
HW: Chapter #18 pages 402 to 408 Guided Reading Notes
Class # / Week of 12/22/2014 - Chapter #19
#53
Tuesday
12/16 / REVIEW TIME PERIODS #1 through #4 [1491 to 1850]FOCUS: Image analysis and discussion
HW: Winter Break assignment - Chapter #19 pages 409 to 433 (all)
Class # / Week of 1/5/2015 - Chapters #20 and #21
#54
Monday
1/5 / The Impending Crisis 1850 to 1860
FOCUS: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Preston Brooks, Dred Scott
HW: Chapter #19 pages 409 to 433 (all)
#55
Tuesday
1/6 / The Impending Crisis 1850 to 1860
FOCUS: John Brown, Election of 1860
HW: Chapter #20 pages 434 to 444;
#56
Thursday
1/8 / Girding for War 1861 to 1865
FOCUS: And War Came, 1861; Ballston Spa 1861
HW: Chapter #20 pages 444 to 452
#57
Friday
1/9 / The Furnace of Civil War 1861-1865
FOCUS: The Dead at Antietam, the problem with numbers
HW: Chapter #21 pages 453 to 477 (all); THT 1848 to 1861
Class # / Week of 1/12/2015 - Chapters #21 and #22
#58
Monday
1/12 / The Furnace of Civil War 1861-1865
FOCUS: A New Birth of Freedom - 1863 TIMELINE: Civil War Battles
HW: Chapter #21 pages 453 to 477 (all)
#59
Wednesday
1/14 / The Furnace of Civil War 1861-1865
FOCUS: The Election of 1864
HW: TBA
#60
Thursday
1/15 / The Civil War an Assessment
FOCUS: The Election of 1864
HW: Chapter #22 pages 479 to 501 (all)
#61
Friday
1/16 /
HW: TBA
Class # / Week of 1/19/2015 - Chapter #22
#62
Wednesday
1/21 / The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865 to 1877
FOCUS: Andrew Johnson, Radical Republicans and Constitutional Crisis
HW: Chapter #22 pages 479 to 501 (all)
#63
Thursday
1/22 / The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865 to 1877
FOCUS: The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson;
HW: TBA
#64
Friday
1/23 / HW: Prepare for MID TERM EXAM; THT 1491 to 1865 (Mid Term Review)

ADVANCED PLACEMENT U.S. HISTORY MID TERM EXAMINATION

You will be taking a FULL AP exam during the week of January 26th

Administered the Week of January 26th to 30th 2015
The mid-term exam will cover all of Time Periods #1-4 (1491 to 1848)
and part of Time Period #5 (1844 to 1868)
55 multiple-choice questions: 55 minutes, (40% of the exam)
Four short answer questions 50 minutes (20% of the exam)
One document-based question: 55 minutes (25% of the exam)
One long essay question: 35 minutes (15% of the exam)
Advanced Placement U.S History - Fall Semester

Columbus, 1492 / Time Period #1 1491 -1607 /
Jamestown, 1607
On a North American continent controlled by American Indians, contact among the peoples of Europe, the Americas, and West Africa created a new world.

King Philip’s War, 1675-78 / Time Period #2 1607 to 1754 /

First Great Awakening
Europeans and American Indians maneuvered and fought for dominance, control, and security in North America, and distinctive colonial and native societies emerged.

Albany Plan Union, 1754 / Time Period #3 1754 to 1800 /
Farewell Address, 1796
British imperial attempts to reassert control over its colonies and the colonial reaction
to these attempts produced a new American republic, along with struggles over the new nation’s social, political, and economic identity.

The Election of 1800 / Time Period #4 1800 to 1848 /
Legacy of 1848
The new republic struggled to define and extend democratic ideals in the face of rapid economic, territorial, and demographic changes.

The Civil War / Time Period #5 1844 to 1877 /
Legacy of Reconstruction
As the nation expanded and its population grew, regional tensions, especially over slavery, led to a civil war — the course and aftermath of which transformed American society.
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