AP U.S. History Summer Assignment: Brothers, Fitzgerald, Pogatchnik Welcome to AP U.S. History. By enrolling in this course you are accepting the responsibility and the workload of a college freshman. In this class you will be expected to read a college level textbook, analyze primary documents, and write cogently. The major emphasis of this class is to prepare you for the APUSH exam in May 2013, which gives you an opportunity to earn college credit as well as show universities the level of academic rigor you opted for as a tenth grader. You will learn the importance of taking notes over what you read, you will learn how to identify critical information, you will learn how to analyze events to determine their significance in U.S. history, and you will learn how to write a college essay. In essence, you will learn how to think, write, and breathe in an intellectually stimulating, challenging, and rewarding level. Bring the required responses and notecards to the first day of school. These will be your first homework assignments. Words to the wise: Developing academic discipline especially as it comes to time management will serve you well in APUSH. Last minute efforts reflect a lack of planning, discipline, and resolve. Do yourself a favor; break this assignment into chunks, schedule specific work times and completion deadlines. You will be proud of your effort and make a great first impression on your APUSH teacher. 1) Watch two movies with historical content and write a brief description of the American History that you found. Be sure to indicate what you learned about history from the video. Respond to the following questions. Your response should be typed, 1.5 spaces, font size 12, no more than one page for each movie. Write in a concise yet substantively, detailed manner. a. Describe 3 key scenes that best represent the essence of the movie. b. Do some brief research and speak to 1 event/issue from the movie that is fact and 1 event/issue that is fiction and how these issues impact someone’s understanding of U.S. History. Film Title
1. Red River (1948)
2. The Godfather (1972)
American History Topic(s)
Alternate Films The American Frontier
Dances with Wolves Integration of the West into
Fort Apache the Capitalist System
High Noon American Expansion
Shane American Exceptionalism
Stagecoach (1939) Unforgiven Undefeated The Immigrant Experience
The Rise of Organized Crime
America, America Avalon Gangs of New York Hester Street Public Enemy 3, Modern Times (1936)
The Great Depression
Dehumanization of Labor
All the King’s Men (1949) City Lights The Grapes of Wrath 4. Casablanca (1942)
5. Tora, Tora, Tora (1970)
6. Good Night and Good
Luck (2005)
7. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
8. Thirteen Days (2000)
American Neutrality
Vichy France
World War II
World War II
Battleground D­Day Fat Man & Little Boy Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes Patton Saving Private Ryan Schindler’s List To Hell and Back The McCarthy Era
Truman Blacklisting
The Front Hollywood and the Cold War Guilty by Suspicion The Nuclear Age
The Cold War
Advise and Consent Fail Safe The Manchurian Candidate Seven Days in May Cuban Missile Crisis
The Missiles of October Cold War
October Sky The Kennedy Administration 9. Apocalypse Now (1979) Vietnam War
From Here to Eternity The House of 92nd Street Passage to Marseilles Watch on the Rhine Born on the Fourth of July The Deer Hunter Fog of War Full Metal Jacket Green Berets Heart of Darkness Path to War Platoon 10. Malcolm X (1992)
Civil Rights
The Ghosts of Mississippi Historical Biography
The Help Mississippi Burning The Rosa Parks Story 11. All the President’sWatergate Scandal
Men (1976)
The Nixon Administration Investigative Journalism 12. Norma Rae (1979)
Late 20th Century Union
Movement
Nixon Erin Brockovich Silkwood _______________________________________________________________________ (If you choose to, watch one of these as a 3rd choice, not one of your required two.) 13.
Recent political issues
Present issues Flight ‘93 North Country Pat Tillman Story “W” Who Killed the Electric Car? 2) Read one of the following books. ● 1776 by David McCullough ● Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis ● April 1865 by Jay Winik ● She was one of us: Eleanor Roosevelt and the American Worker by Brigid O’Farrell ● (any 12 chapters from) Eyes on the Prize by Juan Williams ● I May Not Get There With You: the true Martin Luther King by Michael Eric Dyson ● One Summer: America 1927 by Bill Bryson ● 13 Days by Robert Kennedy ● Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser ● The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan ● Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen ● The Unwinding by George Packer ● The Heart of Everything That Is by Tom Clavin and Bob Drury ● Bury my Heart at Wounded knee by Dee Brown ● Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand ● The Fiery Trial by Eric Foner ● Civil War Wives by Carol Berkin APUSH Book Review Requirements No more than 2 pages typed. Write in a concise yet substantively detailed manner. a. Examine the author’s perspective. 1. What does the author want the readers to think, feel, or respond to? b. Share two quotes from the book and speak to how they illustrate development of U.S. History. (ie., political party development, states vs. federal government power, Constitution, presidential power, struggle of 3 branches of government, minority rights, Supreme Court decisions, individual rights, etc.) c. How did the book challenge or confirm your perspective on the historical events or themes presented in the book? 3) Complete a note card for each of the terms listed below. This must be done in your own handwriting. No cut and paste computer junk allowed. Be sure to have the term and the explanation on the same side of the card. Your definition should give the important information: Who was the person, group, or thing? What did they do? When did they do it? Why was the term significant short term and or long term? English Navigation Acts
Headright System
Mercantilism
Triangular Trade
Antifederalists
Tariffs
Maryland Corrupt Bargain
Missouri Compromise
Pet Banks
Whig Party
Kansas­Nebraska Act
“Free Soil”
Carpetbaggers
Ironclads
Dawes Act
Trusts
Muckrakers
The Big Four
Bonus Army
Lost Generation
Final Solution
Rosie the Riveter
Containment
Vietnam­ization
Great Migration
Indentured Servants
Middle Passage
Committees of Correspondence
Checks and Balances
Marbury v. Madison
Half­way Covenant Joint­stock company Puritan Loyalists Separation of Powers McCulloch v. Era of Good Feelings
Monroe Doctrine
Spoils Systems
Abolition
Popular Sovereignty
“Fifty­four forty or fight”
Compromise of 1877
Sharecropping
Gilded Age
Dollar Diplomacy
New Freedom
Yellow Journalism
Deficit Spending
Roaring Twenties
Internment
Second Front
Détente
Dixie­crats
Kitchen Cabinet Nullification War Hawks Freeport Doctrine Bleeding Kansas Border States Copperheads “Ten­Percent Plan” Jim Crow Laws Isolationism Poll Tax 100 days Hoover­villes Blitzkrieg Kamikaze Brinksmanship Truman Doctrine Fair Deal New Deal
Great Society
Warren Court Feminine Mystique
Silent Majority
Attica Presidential Impeachment
Gulf War
Manhattan Project Reading and Viewing Caution: The titles on this list include images and or content that could be considered for mature audiences only. Check with your parents if you’re concerned as to whether the movie or book fits within their mature content parameters. sbrothers@edenpr.org sfitzgerald@edenpr.org jpogatchnik@edenpr.org