COURSE SYLLABUS for Ms. Daher’s 2012-2013
Second Semester
ADVANCED PLACEMENT UNITED STATES HISTORY
Kdaher1@pghboe.net
Exam Week-January 22
Cumulative Semester Exam
Part Four: A Maturing Industrial Society
January 30 – February 15
Read Henretta Ch. 18- 19 take notes and create vocabulary list for each chapter.
Edocuments (online) 18-4, 18-5, 18-6
Read Zinn, “Empire and the People”
Edocuments: 19-11, 19-13
The Progressive Era & An Emerging World Power
February 18 – March 1
Read Henretta Ch 20 - 21; take notes and do vocabulary
Reading Response*: (Handout) “African-Americans and the Quest for Civil Rights”
Edocuments: Questions for Further Thought
Class Articles** Zinn, “The Socialist Challenge”
In class (timed essay)
Explain how two of the following individuals responded to the economic and social
problems created by industrialization during the last nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries: Jane Addams, Andrew Carnegie, Samuel Gompers, Upton Sinclair (Ch. 20)
Ch. 21 Group Assignment: “A Splendid Little War”
Part Five: The Modern State and Society
War and the American State
March 4 – March 8
Read Henretta Ch 22; take notes and do vocabulary
Reading Response*- POA, “Woodrow Wilson Wouldn’t Yield”
Edocuments: 22-16, 22-9
Class Articles** Zinn, “War is the Health of the State”
Class Articles** Zinn, “Self Help in Hard Times
TEST Multiple Choice on Chapters 18 - 22; in class essay
Modern Times
March 11 –March 22
Read Henretta Ch. 23. 24
Reading Response*- Handout “The Myth of the New Deal”
Edocuments: Redefining National Identity (all documents under this heading)
Class Articles** Takaki, “To the Promised Land In Urban North”
TEST Multiple Choice
Spring Break:
World War II: The World At War
April 1 – April 5
Read Henretta Ch. 25; take notes and do vocabulary
Reading Response*, POA, “The Biggest Decision…” & “Hiroshima: The Victims”
Class Articles** Takaki, “ The Ashes at Dachau”
Class Articles** Takaki, “Through a Glass Darkly”
Class Articles** Zinn, “A Peoples War”
TEST Multiple Choice
Part Six: The Age of Cold War Liberalism
April 6 - 12
Read Henretta Ch. 26 - 27; take notes and do vocabulary
Reading Response*, Handout, “Origins of the Cold War”
Reading Response*, POA, “Betty Friedan Destroys the Myth of the Happy Housewife”
Class Articles** POA, “Harry Truman- “One Tough Son of a Bitch of a Man”
Class Articles** POA, “ The Age of IKE”
TEST: Multiple Choice & Essay
The Liberal Consensus
April 15-April 19
Read Henretta Ch. 28; take notes and do vocabulary
Reading Response*, POA, “LBJ and the Nightmare of Vietnam”
Reading Response*, POA, “How the 1970s Changed America”
Class Articles** Zinn, “Or Does it Explode?”
Class Articles** Zinn, “Impossible Victory: Vietnam”
Class Articles** Zinn, “Surprise”
Class Articles** Zinn, “The 70’s Under Control”
Class Articles** POA, “I Have Never Been a Quitter”
Test Multiple Choice
The 1970s: Toward a Conservative America
April 22- April 26
Read Henretta, Ch. 29 30
Class Articles** Zinn, “Carter-Reagan-Bush”
Class Articles** POA, “The Man Who Broke the Evil Empire”
AP Review Crunch
April 29-May 14
Review sessions
In-class essays, DBQs, and multiple-choice tests (fun!) essays, skills, drills, &
such
Test Day - May 15th
Unit 0: R & R
DBQ Project: To Be Announced