COURSE SYLLABUS for Ms. Daher S 2012-2013

COURSE SYLLABUS for Ms. Daher’s 2012-2013 Second Semester ADVANCED PLACEMENT UNITED STATES HISTORY [email protected] Exam Week-January 22 Cumulative Semester Exam

Part Four: A Maturing Industrial Society January 30 – February 15 Read Henretta Ch. 18- 19 take notes and create vocabulary list for each chapter. Edocuments (online) 18-4, 18-5, 18-6 Read Zinn, “Empire and the People” Edocuments: 19-11, 19-13

The Progressive Era & An Emerging World Power February 18 – March 1 Read Henretta Ch 20 - 21; take notes and do vocabulary Reading Response*: (Handout) “African-Americans and the Quest for Civil Rights” Edocuments: Questions for Further Thought Class Articles** Zinn, “The Socialist Challenge” In class (timed essay) Explain how two of the following individuals responded to the economic and social problems created by industrialization during the last nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: Jane Addams, Andrew Carnegie, Samuel Gompers, Upton Sinclair (Ch. 20) Ch. 21 Group Assignment: “A Splendid Little War”

Part Five: The Modern State and Society War and the American State March 4 – March 8 Read Henretta Ch 22; take notes and do vocabulary Reading Response*- POA, “Woodrow Wilson Wouldn’t Yield” Edocuments: 22-16, 22-9 Class Articles** Zinn, “War is the Health of the State” Class Articles** Zinn, “Self Help in Hard Times TEST Multiple Choice on Chapters 18 - 22; in class essay

Modern Times March 11 –March 22 Read Henretta Ch. 23. 24 Reading Response*- Handout “The Myth of the New Deal” Edocuments: Redefining National Identity (all documents under this heading) Class Articles** Takaki, “To the Promised Land In Urban North” TEST Multiple Choice

Spring Break: World War II: The World At War

April 1 – April 5

Read Henretta Ch. 25; take notes and do vocabulary Reading Response*, POA, “The Biggest Decision…” & “Hiroshima: The Victims” Class Articles** Takaki, “ The Ashes at Dachau” Class Articles** Takaki, “Through a Glass Darkly” Class Articles** Zinn, “A Peoples War” TEST Multiple Choice

Part Six: The Age of Cold War Liberalism April 6 - 12 Read Henretta Ch. 26 - 27; take notes and do vocabulary Reading Response*, Handout, “Origins of the Cold War” Reading Response*, POA, “Betty Friedan Destroys the Myth of the Happy Housewife” Class Articles** POA, “Harry Truman- “One Tough Son of a Bitch of a Man” Class Articles** POA, “ The Age of IKE” TEST: Multiple Choice & Essay

The Liberal Consensus April 15-April 19 Read Henretta Ch. 28; take notes and do vocabulary Reading Response*, POA, “LBJ and the Nightmare of Vietnam” Reading Response*, POA, “How the 1970s Changed America” Class Articles** Zinn, “Or Does it Explode?” Class Articles** Zinn, “Impossible Victory: Vietnam” Class Articles** Zinn, “Surprise” Class Articles** Zinn, “The 70’s Under Control” Class Articles** POA, “I Have Never Been a Quitter” Test Multiple Choice

The 1970s: Toward a Conservative America April 22- April 26 Read Henretta, Ch. 29 30 Class Articles** Zinn, “Carter-Reagan-Bush” Class Articles** POA, “The Man Who Broke the Evil Empire”

AP Review Crunch April 29-May 14 Review sessions In-class essays, DBQs, and multiple-choice tests (fun!) essays, skills, drills, & such Test Day - May 15th

Unit 0: R & R

DBQ Project: To Be Announced