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Student Summer Reading Assignment 2021-2022 Mrs. Rotenberg AP U.S. History (APUSH) Summer Assignment 2021-2022 APUSH Summer Work Packets3r ASSIGNMENTS: Due 9AM, Wednesday September 1 ○ You will have an EXAM on PERIOD ONE on Friday, September 3 ○ The content from the readings and reading-based assignments will be on this exam. ● TEXTBOOK READING (You MUST get a textbook before you leave for vacation.) ○ Read Chapter 1 American Pageant. ■ There are guiding questions for American Pageant on the next page of this packet. You do not have to answer these questions, but they will help focus your reading. Make sure you understand the main idea of each section and subsection. ■ There is also a period 1 study packet that can also be helpful (again, it is not required). ■ Past APUSH students strongly recommend taking notes on the readings as they help on tests and when reviewing for the final exam. ● ARTICLES: Submit annotations on google classrooms in the Summer Assignment folder. ■ “Imperial Rivals” by Peter C. Mancall ■ “The Columbian Exchange” by Alfred W. Crosby ● Read and annotate each of the attached essays. ● Summarize the main idea of each paragraph in the margin. This should not be more than one sentence. ● Highlight the line/phrase in that section that supports your notation. ○ Post these annotations on google classrooms. ○ ● SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS (SAQ): Submit annotations on google classrooms in the Summer Assignment folder. ○ Use information from the textbook readings AND the essays to answer the short answer questions (SAQs). The questions are in this document, and on google classrooms. ○ In your answer for each item, make sure to use and describe a SPECIFIC piece of evidence and explain how the evidence supports the answer. Each question should be about nine sentences (three sentences for A, three for B, and three for C). American Pageant: CHAPTER ONE GUIDING QUESTIONS 1. What was Native American society like before European contact? What similarities and differences existed? 2. What factors led to Europe’s increased exploration and to the discovery of the New World? 3. What is the Columbian Exchange? What are some of the results of the Columbian Exchange? 4. What was the role of conquistadors and encomienda in establishing a Spanish Empire in the New World? 5. What was the geographic extent of the Spanish Empire in the New World? What nations were challenging Spain’s dominance in the New World and where? SAQs 1 Mrs. Rotenberg AP U.S. History (APUSH) Summer Assignment Cause and Effect: European Colonization A. Briefly explain how ONE of the following developments best represents the cause of European exploration: Gold, God, or Glory. B. Provide AT LEAST ONE example of a SPECIFIC historical development or event to support your explanation in (A). C. Briefly explain why one of the other options is NOT as persuasive as the one you chose in part (A). Compare and Contrast: European and American Indian Cultures A. Briefly describe ONE key similarity between European and American-Indian cultures. B. Briefly describe ONE key difference between European and American-Indian cultures. C. Briefly explain the reason behind the similarity OR briefly explain a reason behind the difference that you discussed above. Historical Interpretation: Assessment of Columbus A. Explain the main difference between Taviani’s and Zinn’s interpretations. B. Provide a specific piece of historical evidence NOT MENTIONED in the text that supports Taviani’s argument. C. Provide a specific piece of historical evidence NOT MENTIONED in the test that supports Zinn’s argument. 2 Mrs. Rotenberg AP U.S. History (APUSH) Summer Assignment Themes THEME 1: AMERICAN AND NATIONAL IDENTITY (NAT) ● How and why definitions of American and national identity and values have developed among the diverse and changing population of North America as well as on related topics, such as citizenship, constitutionalism, foreign policy, assimilation, and American exceptionalism. THEME 2: WORK, EXCHANGE, AND TECHNOLOGY (WXT) ● Factors behind the development of systems of economic exchange, particularly the role of technology, economic markets, and government. THEME 3: GEOGRAPHY AND THE ENVIRONMENT (GEO) ● The role of geography and both the natural and human-made environments in the social and political developments in what would become the United States. THEME 4: MIGRATION AND SETTLEMENT (MIG) ● Why and how the various people who moved to and within the United States both adapted to and transformed their new social and physical environments. THEME 5: POLITICS AND POWER (PCE) ● How different social and political groups have influenced society and government in the United States as well as how political beliefs and institutions have changed over time. THEME 6: AMERICA IN THE WORLD (WOR) ● Interactions between nations that affected North American history in the colonial period and on the influence of the United States on world affairs. THEME 7: AMERICAN AND REGIONAL CULTURE (ARC) ● How and why national, regional, and group cultures developed and changed as well as how culture has shaped government policy and the economy. THEME 8: SOCIAL STRUCTURES (SOC) ● How and why systems of social organization develop and change as well as the impact that these systems have on the broader society 3 Mrs. Rotenberg AP U.S. History (APUSH) Summer Assignment Exam Format Section I: Part Multiple Choice — 55 Questions | 55 Minutes | 40% of Exam Score A ● Questions appear in sets of 2 to 5. ● Students analyze historical texts, interpretations, and evidence. ● Primary and secondary sources, images, graphs, and maps are included. Section I: Part Short Answer — 3 Questions | 40 Minutes | 20% of Exam Score B ● Analyze historians' interpretations, historical sources, and propositions about history. ● Questions provide opportunities for students to demonstrate what they know best. ● Some questions include texts, images, graphs, or maps. o Question 1 (required): periods 3-8 o Question 2 (required): periods 3-8 - Comparison or causation o Students choose between Question 3, periods 1-5, and Question 4, periods 6-9 -- Comparison or causation (different skill than in question 2) Section II: Part Document Based — 1 Question | 60 Minutes (includes 15-minute A reading period) | 25% of Exam Score ● Assess written, quantitative, or visual materials as historical evidence. ● Develop an argument supported by an analysis of historical evidence. ● Periods 3 to 8. Section II: Part Long Essay — 1 Question | 40 Minutes | 15% of Exam Score B ● Explain and analyze significant issues in U.S. history. ● Develop an argument supported by an analysis of historical evidence. ● The question choices will focus on the same theme and skill, but with choice among a different range of time periods: o Option 1: periods 1-3 o Option 2: periods 4-6 o Option 3: periods 7-9 4 Mrs. Rotenberg AP U.S. History (APUSH) Summer Assignment Historical Thinking Skills Developments and Sourcing and Claims and Contextualization Making Argumentation Processes Situation Evidence in Analyze the context of Connections Develop an argument Identify and explain Analyze sourcing Sources historical events, Using historical historical developments and situation of Analyze arguments developments, or reasoning processes and processes primary and in primary and processes. (comparison, secondary sources. secondary sources causation, continuity and change), analyze patterns and connections between and among historical developments and processes. Identify a historical Identify a source’s Identify and Identify and describe a Identify patterns Make a historically concept, development, or point of view, describe a claim historical context for a among or defensible claim. process. purpose, historical and/or argument specific historical connections between Support an argument situation, and/or in a text-based or development or process. historical using specific and Explain a historical audience. non-text-based Explain how a specific developments and relevant evidence. concept, development, or Explain the point of source. historical development processes. Explain § Describe specific process. view, purpose, Identify the or process is situated how a historical examples of historical situation, evidence used in a within a broader development or historically relevant and/ or audience of a source to support historical context. process relates to evidence. source. Explain the an argument. another historical § Explain how specific significance of a Compare the development or examples of source’s point of arguments or main process historically relevant view, purpose, ideas of two evidence support an historical situation, sources. Explain argument. and/ or audience, how claims or Use historical including how these evidence support, reasoning to explain might limit the modify, or refute a relationships among use(s) of a source. source’s argument. pieces of historical evidence. Corroborate, qualify, or modify an argument using diverse and alternative evidence in order to develop a complex argument. This argument might: § Explain nuance of an issue by analyzing multiple variables. § Explain relevant and insightful connections within and across periods. § Explain the relative historical significance of a source’s credibility and limitations. § Explain how or why a historical claim or argument is or is not effective 5 Mrs. Rotenberg AP U.S. History (APUSH) Summer Assignment Historical Reasoning Skills Comparison Causation Continuity and Change over Time ● Describe similarities ● Describe causes and/or ● Describe patterns of and/or
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