Third Nine Weeks Course Overview
United States History
Advanced Placement
Mr. Greene
Grading:
Your third marking period grade will be calculated in the following manner:
10% Free Response Examination (Gilded Age)
10% Free Response Examination (Progressivism and World War I)
10% DBQ (1920s and Great Depression)
10% DBQ (World War II and Truman Years)
25% Practice AP Exam
25% Quizzes
10 % Participation
Supplemental Reading Assignment:
Dumenil, Lynn. The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s
(New York: Hill and Wang, 1995).
Hofstadter, Richard. American Political Tradition (New York: Vintage, 1948).
Kennedy, David. Freedom From Fear (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).
Painter, Nell Irvin. Standing At Armageddon (New York: W.W. Norton, 1987).
Patterson, James. Grand Expectations (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).
Third Marking Period Schedule:
Week 1 (February 2-6, 2015)
Monday:
Knights of Labor, American Federation of Labor, and the Socialist Party
Reading Assignment: Standing At Armageddon (Chapter 4)
Tuesday:
The Populist Revolt and the Election of 1896
Reading Assignment: Standing At Armageddon (Chapter 5)
Wednesday:
Imperialism American Style
Reading Assignment: Standing At Armageddon (Chapter 6 p. 190-215 and Chapter 7)
Thursday:
The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt
Reading Assignment: Study for Gilded Age FRQ
Friday:
Free Response Examination (Gilded Age)
Reading Assignment: Standing At Armageddon (Chapter 6 p. 170-190)
Week 2 (February 9-13, 2015)
Monday:
The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt
Reading Assignment: Blessings of Liberty (Chapter 12)
Tuesday:
W.E.B and Booker T.: Race Relations in the Nadir
Reading Assignment: Standing At Armageddon (Chapter 8)
Wednesday:
Constitutional and Gender Issues in the Progressive Era
Reading Assignment: Standing At Armageddon (Chapter 9)
Thursday:
The Presidency of William Howard Taft and the Election of 1912
Reading Assignment: American Political Tradition (Chapter 10)
Friday:
The Presidency of Woodrow Wilson
Reading Assignment: Standing At Armageddon (Chapter 10)
Week 3 (February 16-20, 2015)
Monday:
No School
Tuesday:
Wilsonian Diplomacy
Assignment: Study for Practice AP Exam
Wednesday:
Practice AP Exam (Room B-126 3:15pm)
Reading Assignment: Standing At Armageddon (Chapter 11 p. 306-323)
Thursday:
America’s Entry into World War I
Assignment: Standing At Armageddon (Chapter 11 p. 323-343)
Friday:
Over Here: American Society in World War I
Reading Assignment: Standing At Armageddon (Chapter 12 p. 344-365)
Week 5 (February 23-27, 2015)
Monday:
Breaking the Heart of the World: The Treaty of Versailles
Reading Assignment: Study for Free Response Examination
Tuesday:
Free Response Examination (Progressive Era and World War I)
Reading Assignment: Armageddon (Chapter 12 p. 365-381; Epilogue); Modern Temper
(Introduction)
Wednesday:
The Ratification Debate and Aftermath of World War I
Reading Assignment: Blessings of Liberty (Chapter 13)
Thursday:
The New Era: Constitutional Issues in the 1920s
Reading Assignment: Modern Temper (Chapter 1 and Ch. 3 p. 98-111)
Friday:
Public Power in the 1920s and the New Woman
Reading Assignment: Modern Temper (p. 145-169, and 288-302)
Week 5 (March 2-6, 2015)
Monday:
The New Woman and 1920s Intellectuals: The Lost Generation, Harlem Renaissance and
the New Negro
Reading Assignment: Modern Temper (Chapter 4 p. 169-200)
Tuesday:
Fundamentalism and American Culture in 1920s
Reading Assignment:
Modern Temper (Chapter 5 p. 201-226; 235-249)
Wednesday:
Red Scare, Immigration Restriction, and the “New” KKK
Reading Assignment: Freedom from Fear (Chapter 2)
Thursday:
The Origins of the Great Depression
Reading Assignment: Blessings of Liberty (Chapter 14)
Friday:
The Great Depression
Reading Assignment: Freedom from Fear (Chapter 3)
End of Reform (Introduction)
Week 6 (March 9-13, 2015)
Monday:
Herbert Hoover: The Forgotten Progressive
Reading Assignment:
Freedom from Fear (Chapter 5)
Tuesday:
FDR and the New Deal
Reading Assignment:
Freedom from Fear (Chapter 6)
Wednesday:
The First New Deal
Reading Assignment: Freedom from Fear (Chapter 7)
Thursday:
The First New Deal cont.
Reading Assignment: Freedom from Fear (Chapter 8)
Friday:
New Deal Critics
Reading Assignment: Freedom from Fear (Chapter 9)
Week 9 (March 16-20, 2015)
Monday:
The Second New Deal
Reading Assignment: Freedom from Fear (Chapter 10)
Tuesday:
The New Labor Movement: The CIO and the Sit-Down Strikes
Reading Assignment: Freedom from Fear (Chapter 11)
Wednesday:
New Deal Liberalism Attacked and Evaluated
Assignment: Study for DBQ (1920s and Great Depression
Thursday:
In-Class DBQ (1920s and Great Depression)
Assignment: Freedom from Fear (Chapter 13)
Friday:
The Gathering Storm
Reading Assignment: Freedom from Fear (Chapter 14)
Week 10 (March 23-27, 2015)
Monday:
Mobilizing for War
Reading Assignment: Freedom from Fear (Chapter 15)
Tuesday:
The Road to World War II.
Reading Assignment: Freedom from Fear (Chapter 21)
Wednesday:
The Home Front
Reading Assignment: Grand Expectations (Chapter 4)
Thursday:
Origins of the Cold War
Assignment: Study for In-Class DBQ (WWII and Truman Years)
Friday:
In-Class DBQ (World War II and the Truman Years)
Reading Assignment: Grand Expectations (Chapter 5)
Week 11 (March 31-April 3, 2015)
Monday:
Truman’s Foreign Policy
Reading Assignment: Grand Expectations (Chapter 6)
Tuesday:
Beyond the New Deal: The Truman Years at Home and McCarthyism
Reading Assignment: Grand Expectations (Chapter 7)
Wednesday:
The Second American Red Scare and the Korean War
Reading Assignment: Grand Expectations (Chapters 8 and 9)
Thursday:
No School
Friday:
No School