AP US History - Reading & Class Schedule- Term 2, 2011-2012
(All Wednesdays are Late Start unless noted.)
DATE
TOPIC(S) / ACTIVITIES
Old South Distinctiveness
Mon, 11/14
(Reading Due: 564-576)
Review Final exam/”Selling Poor Steven” Reading & Discussion
White and Black Society in the South
Tue, 11/15
Vocab Quiz Chapters 15-16
Slavery DBQ Practice/Workshop (varied activities)
Wed, 11/16
Anti-Slavery Movements
Adv. Day
McIntyre Lecture: Abolitionism
Slavery in the Territories
Thur, 11/17
“Gold Rush” Reading & Discussion
Sectional Crisis
Fri, 11/18
Video- Ken Burns Civil War Series v. 1 – The Cause
Center Comes Apart
Mon, 11/21
“Madness of John Brown” Reading & Discussion
Unit 7 Test: Antebellum America in South & West (Ch. 15-16)
Tue, 11/22
+ FRQ Essay
----------------------------------------------------11/23 through 11/25 Thanksgiving Break
----------------------------------------------------Coming of the War
Mon, 11/28
Student Presentation #1 – Was the Civil War Inevitable?
War at Home
Tue, 11/29
Vocab Quiz Chapters 17-19
Lincoln in his Words: Comparing speeches
Wed, 11/30
Faltering Confederacy
No Late Start McIntyre Lecture: Antebellum Women’s History
Confederacy’s Defeat and The War’s Aftermath
Thur, 12/1
Student Pres. #2 – Freedmen: View from the Bottom Rail
Battle Over Reconstruction
Fri, 12/2
Video: Ethnic Notions
Grant Years
Mon, 12/5
Student Presentation #3 – Was Reconstruction a Success?
The New South
Tue, 12/6
Primary Source Activity: New South
Wed, 12/7
The New West
Adv. Day
Booker T Washington / WEB DuBois
Cattle & Farms
Thur, 12/8
Women in the West - Diaries
Unit 8 Test: Civil War and Reconstruction (Ch 17 - 19)
Friday, 12/9
Gilded Age Admissions intro
Rise of Big Business / Entrepreneurs
Mon, 12/12
Review Unit 8 Test
Gilded Age research time
Organized Labor
Vocab Quiz Chapters 20-21
Tues, 12/13
Student Presentation #4 – American Businessmen: Robber
Barons or Captains of Industry?
Urbanization / Immigration
Wed, 12/14
Presidents Test
Labor Unions
Popular Culture / Professionalism
Thur, 12/15
Gilded Age Admission Interviews (1/2 of class)
Social Theories / Reform
Fri, 12/16
Gilded Age Admission Interviews (1/2 of class)
HOMEWORK
576-592
592-605
605-618
618-632
632-647
Study for Test
648-665
665-678
678-691
691-708
708-721
722-741
742-756
756-770
770-785
Study for Test
786-799
799-813
813-823
824-838
838-850
850-863
DATE
TOPIC(S) / ACTIVITIES
The Social Gospel and Urban Reform
Mon, 12/19
Student Presentation #5 – Jacob Riis & “Truth” in
Photography
Unit 9 Test: Second Industrial Rev. (Ch 20-21)
Tues, 12/20
Gilded Age Test
Wed, 12/21
DBQ Essay for Unit 9
No Late Start Review Unit 9 Test
-----------------------------------------------------Thurs 12/22 through 1/2 Winter Break
-----------------------------------------------------Agrarian Protest
Tues, 1/3
Nebraska Farming Simulation
Economy & the Silver Solution
Wed, 1/4
Vocab Quiz Chapters 22-24
Adv. Day
Goodrich Lecture: Populism & Free Silver
New Imperialism
Thurs, 1/5
Student Presentation #6 – US Imperialism: Economic
Expansion or Ideological Crusade?
Spanish-American War
Fri, 1/6
Class Discussion: Should the US have annexed the Philippines?
Big Stick Diplomacy
Mon, 1/9
Analyzing Political Cartoons on T.R.
Roots of Progressivism / Roosevelt
Tues, 1/10
Video “TR and His Times”
Taft’s Progressivism
Wed, 1/11
Student Presentation #7 – Was the Progressive Movement
Conservative?
Thurs, 1/12
Wilson’s Progressivism
Jr. GG!
DBQ Practice
Unit 10 Test: Gilded Age, Empire and Progressivism (Ch22-24)
Fri, 1/13
+ FRQ Essay
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Mon, 1/16
Dr. M.L. King, Jr. Day
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Wilson & Neutrality
Tues, 1/17
Review Unit 10 Test
Goodrich Lecture: American Foreign Policy
America & World War I
Wed, 1/18
Vocab Quiz Chapters 25-26
Student Presentation #8 – Were the 1920s Conservative?
Reaction in the Twenties
Thurs, 1/19
Map & Date Test/ Review activities
Roaring Twenties
Fri, 1/20
Class Discussion: Were Sacco and Vanzetti guilty?
Modernism
Mon, 1/23
Video: The Twenties with Bill Moyers
Unit 11 Test: The Great War & Modern Times (Ch 25-26)
Tues, 1/24
Wed, 1/25
Review Unit 11 Test
Study for Final
Thurs 1/26
FINAL EXAM – Cumulative Ch 1-26, 80 Qs, 15% of term grade
HOMEWORK
Study for Test
864-877
877-892
892-904
905-919
919-931
931-943
944-956
956-969
969-981
Study for Test
982-995
995-1008
1008-1021
1022-1036
1036-1047
Study for Test
Study for Final
Study for Final
1048-1064