APUSH 2015/2016 Tentative Calendar and Pacing
Students first day: August 20th
Summer work: Read Chapters 1-5 & complete Summer Work packet
Semester One:
Date:
8/20
8/24
8/31
9/7
9/14
9/21
9/28
10/5
10/12
10/19
10/26
11/2
11/9
11/16
11/23
11/30
12/7
12/14
12/21
12/28
In Class Chapter:
Students First Day!
Syllabus, Themes, While You Were Away
Review Chapters 1-5 and 41
* Assess Periods 1 & 2 on Monday, August 31
Chapter 6
Duel for North America
Chapter 7
Road to Revolution
Chapter 8
American Secedes from the Empire
*Period 3 Test 1 & DBQ
Chapter 9
Confederation and Constitution
Chapter 10
Launching the New Ship of State
* Assess Period 3 @ end of week
Chapter 11
Triumphs and Travails of Jefferson
Chapter 12
Second War for Independence (1812)
End of 1st Quarter, 10/16
Chapter 13
Rise of Mass Democracy
Chapter 14/15
Forging the National Economy/Reform and Culture
* Assess Period 4 @ end of week
Chapter 17
Manifest Destiny
Chapter 26
Great West & Agricultural Revolution
Chapter 16
The South and Slavery Controversy
*Period 5 Test 1
Chapter 18/19 (ON YOUR OWN!)
Renewing the Sectional Struggle/ Drifting Towards Disunion
(Thanksgiving Break – NO CLASS!)
Chapter 20
War: North and South
Chapter 21
The Furnace of Civil War
Chapter 21 Continued/Review
* Semester One Final Exam
includes Periods 1-5 (Ch. 1-21 and ½ of 26)
Chapter 22/ 23 (On your own)
Ordeal of Reconstruction/Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age
(Winter Break – NO CLASS)
Chapter 23/24 (Review on your own)
Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age /Industry Comes of Age
(Winter Break – NO CLASS!)
Read:
Ch. 41
Reviews:
Period:
Periods 1, 2
(1491-1754)
6
7
8
Periods 1 & 2
9
Periods 1 & 2
Period 3
(1754-1800)
10
11
12
13
Period 3
14/15
Period 3
Period 4
(1800-1848)
17
26
16
18
Period 4
Period 5
(1844-1877)
19/20
21
Period 4
22
Period 1-5
n/a
Period 1-5
23
24
Period 6
(1865-1898)
Semester Two:
Date:
1/4
1/11
1/18
1/25
2/1
In Class Chapter:
Review Chapters 22/23
Ordeal of Reconstruction /Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age
Review Chapters 23/24
Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age/
Industry Comes of Age
* Students are responsible for Ch. 25 on their own
* Assess Period 6 @ beginning of week (Ch. 22-25)
Chapter 26/27
Great West & Agricultural Revolution /Empire and Expansion
Chapter 28
Progressivism and Republican Roosevelt
Chapter 29
Wilson and WW I
Read:
25
Chapter 30
Roaring 20’s
Chapter 31
Politics of Boom and Bust
Chapter 32
Great Depression and New Deal
31
Chapter 33
FDR & Shadow of War
Chapter 34
America in WWII
34
Review Period
Period 6
(1865-1898)
27
28
Period:
Period 7
29
30
*Period 7 Test 1
2/8
2/15
2/22
Period 7
Period 7
(1890-1945)
32
33
Period 7
*Period 7 Test 2
2/29
3/7
35
End of 3rd Quarter, 3/11
* Assess Period 7 @ end of week
3/14
3/21
3/28
Chapter 35
Cold War Begins
Chapter 36
American Zenith (1950’s)
Chapter 37
Stormy 60’s
36
Chapter 38 (ON YOUR OWN!)
Challenge to Post War Order (1970’s)
(Spring Break – NO CLASS!)
Chapter 39
Resurgence of Conservativism/Reagan Revolution
Chapter 40
America Confronts Post Cold War Era
39
Period 8
37
Period 8
(1945-1980)
38
*Period 8 Test 1
4/4
4/11
4/18
*Assess Period 8 @ end of week
4/25
40
Period 8
Period 9
41
(optional)
(1980-Present)
Chapter 41 (REVIEW!)
America Faces a New Century
Review
n/a
n/a
Period 9
5/9
In-class Research Project
n/a
Periods 1-9
5/16
In-class Research Project/ Presentations
n/a
Periods 1-9
5/23
Review/ In-class Final Exam
n/a
Periods 1-9
5/2
* 2016 APUSH Exam on Friday, May 6 (8 a.m.)
Final Exams to be held on May 25-26
* Final Exam includes Periods 1-9