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AP US HISTORY Summer Assignment (Busbin, 2018) AP US HISTORY Summer Assignment (Busbin, 2018) Reminder: Schedule change requests for the 2018-2019 school year will end June 16* Therefore, any student registered for AP US History 11 after June 16th is responsible for completing the summer reading assignment. Purpose of Summer Reading: • Challenge students to consider a key figue within American history and grapple with his or her place in historical memory • Encourage students to practice and apply college-level reading and analysis of texts • Prepare students for close reading/analysis as well as historical thinking as required by AP College Board The Assignment: 1. Select a biography of an American historical figure: A list of recommended books can be found on the back. Some of these can be borrowed from Dr. Busbin and others can be found at the Auburn Public Library. One can purchase a copy of their chosen book as well. Before you commence with reading a book not on the list, please have this approved by Dr. Busbin ([email protected]). Any book chosen must be longer than 250 pages (not including index, appendix, etc.) and should NOT be a memoir (first-hand account) or written in historical fiction style. 2. Complete the Major Works Data Sheet (80-point homework grade): • The Major Works Data Sheet, which is an 80-POINT homework grade, is DUE the first day of class. Late assignments will be penalized 8 points PER DAY for each day it is late. [must contact in advance if there is a problem with this deadline] • Please correctly complete all of the boxes on the Major Works Data Sheet regarding your reading of your selected biography. Note: You may type the responses if your handwriting is either too large or ilegible and submit responses on a separate sheet(s) of paper. • Before you begin reading, preview the Major Works Data Sheet to see what type of information you need to note as you read. • As you are reading, identify and record the information required. • After you have finished reading, be sure that you have completed each part of the assignment. • Make certain that wherever you are asked to include text quotations and page numbers, you do so. No half-efforts or excuses. Don’t throw this together at the last minute. Don’t copy information from others—from either online (That’s plagiarism and will result in a zero on the assignment) or from other students in the class (That’s cheating and will also result in a zero). Remember: This is my first impression of you. Make it a good one! 3. Compose a précis analysis paragraph based on your reading of your selected biography (25-point test grade): Prior to the first day of class, you will use your completed Major Works Data Sheet and your knowledge of the book to complete a précis (See following pages for prompt, précis template, and example). Bring the précis and Major Works Data Sheet with you on the first day of school, regardless of if you have your AP US History class on your schedule for that day or not. Sometimes students’ schedules change over the summer. Please be prepared. A word of caution: American history is not always clean, pretty, or happy. Many of its figures, when moving beyond the Magic Treehouse series, often lived complex lives with elements that might distort how we see them as well as ourselves. Some of the texts we read in class explore adult themes and issues while, in some cases, utilizing adult language and scenarios. Reading works that investigate difficult aspects of American history does not ever mean that we condone or celebrate the material covered. Instead, AP classes are designed to allow students to understand American history and the related human experiences in both their celebratory and disheartening moments. I expect my students to be mature readers (or at least on their way to being so). Keep this in mind as you read and write this summer. ---Please feel free to contact Dr. Busbin with any questions at [email protected] *Students requesting a schedule change after the first day of school and only during the first ten days of each semester must receive approval from the principal or designated administrator and will pay a schedule change fee per course they request to be changed. Be aware that we may not be able to honor the requests due to classes that are at capacity or if a conflict exists between current and required courses and desired courses. SOME BIOGRAPHY RECOMMENDATIONS [Note that this is not comprehensive, but just some ones I like] PRESIDENTS: Washington: A Life (Ron Chernow)*; The Ascent of George Washington (John Ferling); John Adams: A Life (David McCullough)*; Adams v. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 (John Ferling)*; Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (Gordon Wood); Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (John Meacham)*; American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (Joseph Ellis); James Madison (Richard Brookhiser)*; The Last Founding Father: James Monroe (Harlow Unger)*; Mr. Adams’ Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams’ Extraordinary Post- Presidential Life in Congress (Joseph Wheelan); American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (Jon Meacham)*; Mr. Jefferson’s Hammer: William Henry Harrison (Robert Owens); A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk (Robert Merry)*; Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Doris Kearns Goodwin)*; A. Lincoln: A Biography (Ronald C. White); Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief (James McPherson)*; The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery (Eric Foner)*; Impeached: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln’s Legacy (David Stewart); Grant (Jean Edward Smith)*; The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses S. Grant in War and Peace (H.W. Brands); Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President (Candice Millard)*; Grover Cleveland: A Study in Character (Alyn Brodsky); President McKinley: Architect of the American Century (Robert Merry); The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism (Doris Kearns Goodwin)*#; Theodore Rex (Edmund Morris); Colonel Roosevelt (Edmund Morris); Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America (Douglas Brinkley)*; Wilson (A. Scott Berg)*; The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made (Patricia O’Toole); Coolidge (Amity Shales); Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times (Kenneth Whyte); FDR (Jean Edward Smith)*; Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of FDR (H.W. Brands); No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt (Doris Kearns Goodwin)*#; Truman (David McCullough)*; Eisenhower in War and Peace (Jean Edward Smith)*; An Unfinished Life: JFK 1917-1963 (Robert Dallek)*; Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times (Robert Dallek); Richard Nixon: The Life (John Farrell); The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter’s Journey Beyond the White House (Douglas Brinkley); Reagan: The Life (H.W. Brands); Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush (Jon Meacham); The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House (John Harris)*; Bush (Jean Edward Smith) OTHER POLITICAL FIGURES: A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan (Michael Kazin)*; George Kennan: An American Life (John Lewis Gaddis); Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made (Jim Newton); Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon (Larry Tye); Alexander Hamilton (Ron Chernow); Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times (Joel Richard Paul); Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (Rick Perlstein); Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations (Craig Nelson); The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk (Randy Shilts) TRAITORS, REBELS, AND CRIMINALS: Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr (Nancy Isenberg); The Tragedy of Benedict Arnold: An American Life (Joyce Lee Malcolm); Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson (S.C. Gwynne); Robert E. Lee: A Biography (Emory Thomas); Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend (Deirdre Bair); Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War (T.J. Stiles)* AWESOME WOMEN: Eleanor Roosvelt (Blanche Wiesen Cook)*; The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins (Kristin Downey)*; Abigail Adams: A Life (Woody Holton)*; America’s Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (Sarah Bradford)*; American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson (Eve LaPlante)*; Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America (Elliott Gorn)*; Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol (Nell Irvin Painter)* CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS: Ella Baker & the Black Freedom Movement (Barbara Ransby)*; Up From History: The Life of Booker T. Washington (Robert Norrell); This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer (Kay Mills)*; The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (Jeanne Theoharis); Stokely: A Life (Peniel Joseph); Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary (Juan Williams); Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (David Garrow)*; Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (Manning Marble)* MILITARY: The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government (David Talbot)*; Westmoreland: The General Who Lost Vietnam (Lewis Sorley)*; The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam (Max Boot)*; A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (Neil Sheehan)*; Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior (Arthur Herman); Stanton: Lincoln’s War Secretary (Walter Stahr); Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman (Robert O’Connell); The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution (John Oller); The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend (Bob Drury)*; The Liberator: One World War II Soldier’s 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau (Alex Kershaw)* AMERICAN REFORMERS: The Other Half: The Life of Jaboc Riis and the World of Immigrant America (Tom Buk-Swienty); Jonathan Edwards: A Life (George Marsden); On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, the Author of Silent Spring (William Souder)*; To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B.
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