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ADVANCED PLACEMENT UNITED STATES HISTORY COURSE REQUIREMENTS 2013-2014

Teachers: Stuart Dodge Texts: The American Pageant, 14th edition, by Thomas Bailey, et. al. A People’s History of the United States, by Howard Zinn Fast Track To A 5: Preparing for the AP United States History Exam, by Mark Epstein

Due to the special nature of Advanced Placement classes, students must make specific commitments. After reading the following expectations and responsibilities your signature indicates agreement to these commitments. Your parent(s) or guardian must sign also, indicating his/her understanding and support of the requirements of APUSH. Advanced Placement United States may be the most demanding, challenging and time-consuming classes you will ever have. The work load and time commitments are similar to a college level class. However, it will also be one of the most rewarding and fun classes you have had…just ask a former APUSH student!

Course Content: Advanced Placement United States History surveys the history of the United States beginning with the native inhabitants and ending with international affairs and domestic changes in the post World War Two era. At the core of the text is a vision of democratic history, one not confined to the deeds of the great and powerful but also with the experience of the ordinary and not so great peoples who formed the United States. This Course is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of U.S. History and to provide students with the analytical skills and factual knowledge necessary to deal critically with the problems and materials in United States History. This program prepares you for intermediate and advanced college courses by making demands upon you equivalent to those made by a full-year introductory college course. Students should learn to assess historical materials; develop relevance to a given interpretive problem, determine reliability, and importance, and to weigh the evidence presented in historical scholarship. The APUSH course develops the skills necessary to arrive at conclusions on the basis of an informed judgement and to present reasons and evidence clearly and persuasively in essay format. In addition, it is the expectation of CHS that each and every student takes the nation AP US History Examination on May 14th 2014. The College Board exam can earn you a full year of college credit in U.S. History depending upon which college / university you chose to attend. If you are thinking of not taking the exam, please talk to me first; I can be very persuasive.

Course Expectations: My expectations for this class and my APUSH students are very simple; I expect only the best. This class has three primary goals. One is to prepare you for the Advanced Placement History exam that takes place in May. The second is to make you a better informed, more perceptive student who will be able to: analyze materials; understand why things happen and what their consequences might be; and understand positions that differ from your own (and in some cases support them). Finally, this class will act as a stepping stone to your senior year - a year in which you will be expected to embody good citizenship - and this material should give you a running start in that area. Please remember that this class mirrors a first year college United States History survey course. Preparation for the national AP exam, as well as course requirements, will necessitate striking a balance between learning factual knowledge and increasing critical thinking skills of analysis, interpretation, synthesis and evaluation. You will have to make sacrifices. It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. -Winston Churchill as of:4/29/18 Homework: APUSH is a demanding course requiring homework almost every weeknight, and often on the weekends and vacations as well. Each and every chapter must be read, a chapter summary assignment written and a quiz taken after each chapter. We will cover approximately 42 chapters by the end of April.. Students desiring a grade of “A” or “B” will need to spend a minimum of 5 - 10 hours a week on assignments, readings and review. Assignments turned in late will receive a 50% deduction, but are still expected to be turned in. Assignments turned in incomplete, in any manor, will receive a 50% deduction. Assignments not turned in will receive ZERO points. Extra preparation and study is necessary to prepare for the national AP exam. Begin planning and preparing now to take the exam in May. I strongly recommend purchasing a course review guide from a local book store.

Grading: All APUSH assignments, quizzes and exams are graded on a point system. Students may check their grades on-line at any time. Because of the strenuous amount of work and difficult nature of the Advanced Placement class, final grades and exam grades will be earned as follows:

A = 100 – 90% A- = 89 – 85% B+ = 84 – 80 % B = 79 – 75% B - = 74 – 70 % C = 69- 60%

Students who receive a “3” on the national exam will receive a 10% grade increase for a single semester of their choice. Students who receive a “4” will receive an “A” for a single semester of their choice and students who receive a “5” on the national exam will receive an “A” for both semesters. It is the student’s responcibility to inform the teacher the following semester if they have earned this grade change. All grade changes must take place by October 1st. However, PLEASE do not simply plan to “slide” through the class and then pass the exam. I can tell you from 22 years of experience, you must work very hard to pass the national excam. You will get out what you put in.

A.P. History Notebook: All written work, graded assignments, notes and handouts must be kept in an AP History notebook. This notebook will be collected and graded at the end of each semester. It will be graded on completeness, organization, and the content. Do not throw anything away! This notebook will become your study guide for the AP exam and is worth 100 points each semester. I may also call for surprise notebook checks and award extra credit. Please refer to the notebook assignment page.

Materials: The main text for the course is The American Pageant by Kennedy et al. Pageant is a well respected, highly used, traditional text. You will also be assigned readings from Howard Zinn’s, A People’s History of the United States. Zinn’s history is an alternative viewpoint of American history, written from the common person’s standpoint. You will also be given your own copy of an AP study guide. As if this weren’t enough, I hope you do some outside reading, watch the local and world news and last but not least, form a study group to help decipher the loads of information we will be covering.

Lecture Notes: Studies show students that write down what they are learning/reading are more successful in the classroom. Therefore, lecture notes ARE REQUIRED and will be collected and graded (on a completion basis) on the day of the unit exam. If a student is absent, they may copy notes from another student. ALL LECTURE NOTES MUST BE DONE IN A STUDENT’S OWN HANDWRIING.

as of:4/29/18 Teacher Contact: If the student or the parent would like to contact me I can be reached at school at 566-2458. I would be more than happy to answer any questions or schedule a meeting to address any concerns. I can also be reached by e-mail: [email protected]

Attendance: Attendance is more than very important. Although you may be able to make up notes, assignments and quizzes, there is no way you can make up the discussion, questions and amazing stories I tell in class. I guarantee that there is a direct correlation between your grade and your attendance. Just be here!

Units: What follows is a breakdown of the year into 9 units and their corresponding required readings from your textbooks. We will cover at least one chapter a week. Each unit concludes with a unit exam and in-class or take-home essay.

Unit Dates Theme Bailey Zinn Epstein (pp)

Unit 1: 1492-1692 From Discovery to Colonization 1-4 1, 2 63-73

Unit 2: 1607-1783 The Revolutionary Era 5-8 4, 6 75-106

Unit 3: 1783-1824 Confederation, Constitution, and the New Republic 9-12 5 107-145

Unit 4: 1824-1860 The Rise of Jacksonian Democracy 13-17 7 155-171

Unit 5: 1793-1854 Disunion and Civil War 18-22 9,10 171-209

END OF FIRST SEMESTER

Unit 6: 1869-1899 The Rise of the World Power 23-27 11, 12 209-225

Unit 7: 1899-1918 The Progressives and The Great War 28-30 13 227-295

Unit 8: 1919-1938 The Roaring 20’s, Depression,New Deal and War 31 - 35 15,16 297-345

Unit 9: 1960-1996 The Cold War & Modern America 36-40 17, 18 345-411

A final thought… Please don’t let the tone of this syllabus scare you off. Yes, this is a hard class. However, I know that when it is all said and done, you will have enjoyed your time in my class and feel as if you have learned a little about American History. The bottom line is that, even if you don’t like history, I guarantee that you are going to have some fun.

A final, final thought… You will get out of this class what you put into this class. Being a successful AP student is all about time management. There WILL come a point where you simply can’t do everything that is asked of you. However, if you are constantly cutting corners and missing readings, it will become a problem. You may be able to fool yourself, your parents and your teachers, but you can’t fool the AP exam.

as of:4/29/18 Tenitative Course Schedule

A majority of your assigned work will be comprised of four types of assesment. This class will also have other types of in-class assignments and discussions. Some assignments will be used as informal teacher assesment and will not be included in the gradebook but should stay in your notebook.

Each chapter will be assigned a TWO Each unit is composed of 3-5 PAGE summary followed by a chapter chapters. Unit exam will be composed quiz. Summaries are due on the below of upto 100 multiple choice questions listed quiz dates. Summaries will be and a Vocabulary Exam On each MC date stamped on quiz days. Stamped exam date, the assigned stamped summaries will be turned in on unit chapter summaries will be collected. exam days. Chapter Quiz Chapter Quiz Unit Exams Exam summar Date summary Date (chapters) Date y 1 9/9 22 TBA Unit #1 (ch.1-4) 9/24 2 9/13 23 1/31 Unit #2 (5-8) 10/18 3 9/18 24 2/5 Unit #3 (9-12) 11/8 4 9/23 25 2/10 Unit #4 (13-15) 12/8 5 10/4 26 2/14 Unit #5 (16-19) 1/25 6 10/9 27 3/3 Unit #6 (23-26) 2/18 7 10/14 28 3/6 Unit #7 (27-30) 3/11 8 10/18 29 3/11 Unit #8 (31-35) 3/31 9 10/30 30 3/14 Unit #9 (36-42) TBA 10 11/4 31 3/26 11 11/8 32 3/31 Each unit will have an assigned essay. 12 11/14 33 4/3 13 11/27 34 4/8 FR/DBQ. Date 14 12/4 35 4/11 FR #1 9/27 15 12/9 36 TBA DBQ #1 10/24 16 12/18 37 TBA FR #2 11/20 17 1/10 38 TBA DBQ #2 12/13 18 1/14 39 TBA FR #3 1/27 19 1/17 40 TBA DBQ #3 2/27 20 TBA 41 TBA FR #4 3/20 21 TBA 42 TBA DBQ #4 TBA

as of:4/29/18 APUSH 2013-2014 Course Requirements

Student/Parent Signatures My signature below indicates that I have read and understand all course requirements. I also understand that this is an Advanced Placement course and it may require a greater time commitment and work load than a more traditional United States History class.

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