Mr. Scott

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Mr. Scotts A.P.U.S.H Class Page

• Ottumwa High School
• Ottumwa Iowa
• Home of the Bulldogs

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Student Generated DBQProject

• Students were to create a DBQ question from
  scratch.
• Students had to formulate a position question,
  from any topic we covered through text content or
  class discussion/debate.
• Next they needed to research and find 8-10
  documents, in total that presented both sides of
  the issue.
• These documents had to be of a nature, that would
  allow others to use them to formulate their own
  DBQ essay, for my class or any other that saw
  them on this site.
• Finally the students had to write an Essay that
  answered the question they posed, using only the
  documents they researched and posted.
• This is in lieu of a written content final, since
  theyve already taken the AP Exam. Which is the
  whole point isnt it?
• Each students documents and essay are attached
  as individual links.

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Student Links
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By Frances D. Subject

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By Danielle L.
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Mr. Scotts APUSHSyllabus

• AP United States History
• Course Description
• AP U.S. History is a two-semester survey of
  American History from the age of discovery to the
  present. This is a challenging course that is
  meant to be the equivalent of a freshman college
  course and can earn students college credit. The
  successful AP student must possess solid reading
  and writing skills, a willingness to devote
  considerable time to homework and studying. Due
  to the rigorous and challenging nature of the AP
  exam this class will focus on critical and
  evaluative thinking skills, essay writing,
  interpretation of original documents, and other
  fact-based data.

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• Course objectives- Students will
• Prepare for and successfully pass the Advanced
  Placement Exam
• Master a broad and vast amount of historical
  knowledge
• Demonstrate an understanding of historical
  chronology
• Learn how to support or defend an argument or
  position using historical data
• Interpret and apply data gathered from original
  documents such as graphs, cartoons, letters, and
  eyewitness reports.
• Develop skills necessary to analytically
  evaluate, determine cause and effect, as well as
  compare and contrast.
• Work effectively with others to solve problems
  and work in other cooperative settings

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• Course Texts and Readings
• Required reading of the textbook American
  Pageant13th edition, Houghton Mifflin
• Supplemental texts Lies My Teacher Told Me
  Everything Your American History Book Got Wrong,
  1st edition, Simon Schuster
• A Peoples History of the United States
  1492-Present,
• Harper Collins Publishers
• Taking sides Clashing Views on Controversial
  Issues in
• American History volumes 1 and 2 10th editions,
• McGraw-Hill / Dushkin
• There will be other excerpts from other texts,
  primary and secondary sources to read in the
  classroom as catalysts for group discussions and
  essay subjects.

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• Units of Study and Tentative Reading Schedule
• Begin First Semester
• Founding the New Nation
• Week 1. Chapter 1
• 2. Chapters 23
• 3. Chapters 45
• 4. Chapters 6,7, 8
• Unit Topics Cross cultural encounters with
  Native Americans Patterns of Colonial
  settlement Role of religion in colonial society
  Causes of the Revolution Pros and Cons of
  mercantilism Role of government in relation to
  the needs of the people
• Activity Examples
• Salem Witchcraft Trials Topics Reader-Document
  Analysis
• First DBQ writing assignment- French Indian War
  (AP test 2004)
• Work on establishing a quality Thesis statement
• Multiple choice and essay exam covering unit
  topics
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Building the New Nation Week 5. Chapters 910
6. Chapter 11 7. Chapter 12 8.
Chapter 13 9. Chapters 1415
Unit Topics Confederation vs. Constitution The
Precedence of a Constitution The Constitutional
Governments Affect on the People Foreign Policy
Beginnings 1800 Revolution Western Expansion
and Indian Removal New American Identity
Nationalism Reformation, Temperance, Utopia
Activity Examples Whole group
discussion over President Washingtons Warning
against foreign entanglements Political debate-
Federalists and republican ideas DBQ (AP Test
2002) Reform movements in the United States
sought to expand Democratic ideals. Assess the
validity of this statement with specific
references to the years 1825-1850. Multiple
choice test and essay exam covering unit topics
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Testing the New Nation Week 10.
Chapter 16 11.
Chapter 17 12.
Chapter 18 13.
Chapter 19 14.
Chapter 20 15.
Chapter 21 16.
Chapter 22 Unit Topics Evolving
Attitudes about Slavery Expansion vs.
Sectionalism Attempts at Compromise Election
of 1860 Secession Mexican war Texas
Popular Sovereignty Diplomacy of the Civil War
Key Civil War battles Impact Consequences of
the Civil War Black Codes Radical ness of
Reconstruction The Legacy of Reconstruction.
Activity Examples Who freed the
slaves? Group activity analyzing both primary
and secondary sources from different points of
view. Read and interpret whether President
Lincolns Inaugural Speech was a call for Peace
or War. Students will create their own northern
or southern newspaper that incorporates the major
topics covered in the unit, elements include but
not limited to opinion editorials, illustrations
political cartoons, Society and cultural essays,
and War/political reporting. Multiple choice
test and essay exam covering unit topics
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Week 17. Historical Novel analysis due
Varies from student to student,
depending upon their
Chosen topic and Novel read. Week
18. First Semester Final Exam Modeled after the
AP exam in timing
and format. Specific dates determined by School
Administration and to Coincide with the proposed
final schedule for the entire student body.
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Begin Second Semester Forging an Industrial
Society Week 1. Chapter 23
2. Chapter 24 25
3. Chapters 2627
Unit Topics Social, Economic, and
Political Impact of Industrialization
Unionization and the Worker Role and Effect of
Political Third Parties The Change in Americas
role in World Affairs American Expansionism
Activity Examples Students research
and analyze examples of propaganda, then make
their own propaganda cartoon,
posters, or song. Students will research and
compile documents that answer their own
student created DBQ on any of the above unit
topics Write an essay that illustrates or
justifies your opinion on which area was most
effected by industrialization (social, economic,
political)
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V. Struggling for Justice at Home and Abroad
4. Chapters 2829
5. Chapter 30
6. Chapters 3132
7. Chapter 33
8. Chapter 34
9. Chapter 35 Unit Topics
Reactions to Social Injustice, Corruption and
Muckraking Progressive Era Presidents Compare
and Contrast Americas Role and Motives in WWI
Post WWI Agreements Isolationism, Nativism and
the Fourteen Points Red Scare, Shared Culture,
Mass Consumption Governments Role in Society,
Crime Fighting, and Economics during prohibition
Crash, Depression, and the New Deal Good
Neighbors? Latin America and Asian Policies
Activity Examples Students
create a yellow journalism headline and front
page story over someone or something covered in
this unit Compare and contrast Hoover and
Roosevelts plan for economic recovery during
the great depression Examine the Treaty of
Versailles and establish what aspects of it and
subsequent events made it a cease-fire for twenty
years instead of a truce.
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Making Modern America 10.
Chapter 36 11. Chapter 37
12. Chapter 38
13. Chapter 39 14. Chapter
40 15. Chapter 4142
Unit Topics Americas Motives for
Entering WWII Alliances and Post War Planning
Home Front Issues and Conduct During WWII
Origins and Progression of the Cold War Struggle
for Civil Rights, Liberties, and Equality
Vietnam War actions and Reactions Domestic
Policies and Social Reactions Watergate and its
Legacy Crisiss of the Seventies Roots of
Conservatism End of the Cold War Americas
Position on the World Stage at the end of the
20th Century
Activity Examples Students will play axis and
allies then compare how their strategies for
winning were similar or different to those of
commanders in WWII Write an essay that traces the
development of the womens movement from the
1870s to the 1970s DBQ (2001) what were the
Cold War fears of the American people in the
aftermath of the Second World War? How
successfully did President Eisenhower address
these fears? Create a chart that places key cold
war events under the administration they occurred
within from Eisenhower to G.H.W. Bush.