APUSH

Course Description:

The AP U.S. History course focuses on developing students’ understanding of American history from approximately 1491 to the present. The course has students investigate the content of U.S. history for significant events, individuals, developments, and processes in nine historical periods, and develop and use the same thinking skills and methods (analyzing primary and secondary sources, making historical comparisons, chronological reasoning, and argumentation) employed by historians when they study the past. The course also provides seven themes (American and national identity; migration and settlement; politics and power; work, exchange, and technology; America in the world; geography and the environment; and culture and society) that students explore throughout the course in order to make connections among historical developments in different times and places.

AP U.S. History is designed to be the equivalent of a two-semester introductory college or university U.S. History course. As a result, students should be able to read a college-level textbook and write grammatically correct, complete sentences.

Classroom Website:

We will be using Google Classroom as our classroom website; however, due to security concerns of Adams 12 ONLY students with an Adams 12-specific email will be able to access assignments and documents. Please speak with your student or email me directly if you have specific questions or concerns.

Text(s):

We will be using The American Pageant, 15th ed. and 16th ed. as our main texts with various supplementary primary and secondary source materials as needed.

Summer Work:

If you are enrolled in APUSH for the 2020-2021 school year, please join the shared Google Classroom to view and download all summer work and reading materials.