APUSH (AP US History) Syllabus
Fall 2014
Mrs. Adams – Rm. 269
Texts: The American Pageant (15th AP edition) by David Kennedy and Lizabeth Cohen
Course Purpose
Clear Brook High School’s Advanced Placement U.S. History course is a college-level survey course. This course provides
an opportunity for Clear Brook students to pursue and receive for their high school U.S. History requirements a full year of college
credit. Curriculum, materials and expectations are designed to meet these objectives. The national exam will determine a
candidate’s eligibility to receive college credit.
Course Description
Advanced Placement U.S. history is designed to provide students with the analytical skills and factual knowledge
necessary to deal critically with issues and events in American History, and intermediate and advanced college courses. Students will
learn to analyze and interpret a variety of historical resources and develop the ability to use documentary materials, maps,
pictorials, and graphic evidence of historical events. Students should be able to express themselves with clarity and precision.
Advanced Placement courses are taught and graded at the college level and require a high level of student commitment.
Survey Text
You are responsible for reading and studying the survey text by Kennedy and Cohen. While some of the text will be
discussed in detail, much of it will be covered through independent learning. Chapter quizzes consisting of 10-15 questions based on
the text will be given to encourage students to stay abreast of the reading assignments.
Supplemental Readings
You will be given primary and secondary reading materials within each unit that will deal with a concept that will be
emphasized on the unit writing assignment, or short answer class assignments. These supplemental reading assignments will take
the form of individual reading and response to questions, group assignments, and group discussions.
Review Project Notebooks
During the semester you will receive certain assignments that will comprise the basis for you review project. The purpose
of this project is to create a review for the AP United States Exam. The completed Review Notebook will be due during finals week.
However, students should maintain a separate notebook containing all other materials and notes as it will aid in preparing for
quizzes, unit tests, the midterm and final.
Grading Guidelines
Major Grades
Daily Grades
Reading/Writing
50%
45%
5%
National Exam
The College Board will offer the AP examination on Friday May 08, 2015. Section 1 consists of a 55- minute multiple
choice-section and a 45 minute short-answer section. Part A of the Free-Response Section is a Document Based Question (DBQ),
which requires student to write an essay using their knowledge of American history and ability to analyze a set of 7 documents. Part
B includes 1 (chosen from a pair) essay question that taken together cover the period form European exploration of America to the
present. The written part of the exam counts 60% and the multiple-choice counts 40%.
For all state-approved courses, the State of Texas has developed the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills
(TEKS) which define the guidelines under which Clear Creek ISD must develop the objectives for the course.
These TEKS are cross referenced to the CCISD curriculum objectives. In addition, CCISD objectives are also
cross referenced to the State Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR) objectives.
The complete TEKS document may be found on the Texas Education Agency (TEA) website at
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index2.aspx?id=6148 and is accessible by teachers, parents, and students.
The CCISD curriculum for ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies may be found on the District website at
www.ccisd.net.
Unit 1
Unit 2
AP-U.S. HISTORY (APUSH) SYLLABUS
FALL 2013- Mrs. Adams
*All dates are subject to change*
1st Nine Weeks
Colonial Beginnings
Ch-1 New World Beginnings
Ch-2 The Planting of English America
Ch-3 Settling the Northern Colonies
Ch-4 American Life in the Seventeenth Century
Reading Quiz Ch 3-4 9/3
Colonial Stock Prospectus Due
9-15
Ch-5 Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution
Reading Quiz Ch 5
9/10
Test 2-5
9-16
American Independence
Ch-6 Duel for North America
Reading Quiz Ch. 6
Ch-7 The Road to Revolution
Ch- 8 America Secedes from the Empire
Reading Quiz 7 and 8 9/23
9 Weeks Exam
1770-1775
1763-1781
1608-1763
9/18
1763-1775
1775-1783
Forging a New Nation
Ch-9 The Confederation and the Constitution
Reading Quiz 9
9/29
Test 6-9
10/2
Unit 3
1588-1763
33,000-1769
1500-1733
1619-1700
1607-1692
1781-1824
1776-1790
Forging a New Nation Continued
Ch-10 Launching the New Ship of State
Reading Quiz 10
(week of 10/13-10/17)
1781-1824
1789-1800
10/8
2nd Nine Weeks
Ch-11 The Triumphs and Travails of Jeff. Dem.
Ch-12 The 2nd War for Independence
Reading Quiz Ch 11 and 12
10/20
Test 10-12
11/3
Marshall Court Projects due
10/31
Unit 4
Jacksonian Democracy
Ch-13 The Rise of Mass Democracy
Ch-17 Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy
Reading Quiz Ch. 13 and 17
1824-1848
1824-1830
1841-1848
10/30
The Rise of America
Ch-14 Forging the National Economy
Ch-15 The Ferment of Reform and Culture
Ch-16 The South and Slavery Controversy
Reading Quiz 14 and 16
11/6
Test 13-17
11/12
Unit 5
Unit 5
Emerging Disunion and Civil War
Ch-18 Renewing the Sectional Struggle
Ch-19 Drifting Toward Disunion
Reading Quiz Ch 18 and 19
1800-1812
1812-1824
1790-1860
1790-1860
1790-1860
1793-1860
1848-1865
1848-1854
1854-1861
11/18
Civil War and Reconstruction
_________________1848-1877
Ch-20 Girding for War: The North and the South
Ch-21 The Furnace of Civil War
Reading Quiz 20-21 12/1
Ch- 22 The Ordeal of Reconstruction
Reading Quiz 22
12/11
Notebook Project Due
12/14-12/19
Semester Exams
Week of
12/14-12/19
1861-1865
1861-1865