US HISTORY AP
1st Marking Period Outside Reading
Assignment Sheet
Students are expected to read and complete the assigned task for each of the following articles by
the start of class on the assigned due dates. Students will be informed not less than a week in
advance of the specific expectations for each assignment. Assignments may include but are not
limited to writing a two (2) page, double-spaced summary at home, a class debate, a quiz, or an in
class writing assignment. For any writing assignment, you should include a “thesis statement”
that guides your summary. If you want to earn extra credit, you may read and summarize up to 5
of the additional articles. Please make sure that your summaries are properly identified with
OSR # and title of the article. Each of the summaries written at home must be turned in both
by hard copy and on turnitin.com.
Assigned Articles
Article One – Due Wednesday September 10 - Mary Beth Norton’s New England and the Chesapeake
Compared concerning women in the colonies (copied)
Article Two – Due Friday October 10 – David McCullough’s John Adams and the Coming of the Revolution
from Portrait of America, Volume 1, Chapter 7, pages 76-88.
Article Three – Due Friday October 24 – Richard Hofstadter’s The Founding Fathers: An Age of Realism
excerpted from The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It, 1967.
Article Four – Due Thursday October 30 – Edmund S. Morgan’s Slavery and Freedom: The American
Paradox from Forging the American Character, Volume I, Chapter 4
Article Five – Thursday November 6 – Peter L. Bernstein’s “The Erie Canal: The Waterway that
Shaped a Great Nation” found in POA, Vol. I pp. 242 – 254.
Extra Credit Articles – ALL EXTRA CREDIT SUMMARIES ARE DUE NOV. 6
Carl Degler’s Were the Puritans Puritanical? From Forging The American Character, Volume I, Chapter
3, pages 27-37.
John Murrin’s Religion and Politics in Early America from Forging The American Character, Volume I,
Chapter 6, pages 71-87.
James Kirby Martin’s The Myth of Popular Participation in the Revolutionary War from Forging The
American Character, Volume I, Chapter 7, pages 88-96.
John B. Boles’ Slaves in Biracial Protestant Churches from Forging The American Character, Volume
I, Chapter 12, pages 162-177.
Gary B. Nash’s Black People in a White People’s Country from Portrait of America, Volume 1, Chapter 3,
pages 28-40.
Jon Butler’s The Evolution of Slavery in Colonial America excepted from Becoming America: The
Revolution Before 1776, 2000.