AP U.S. History Calendar & Syllabus – Term 3, 2011-2012
Dan Goodrich (e-mail: Dan.Goodrich@wayzata.k12.mn.us)
Elyssa McIntyre (e-mail: Elyssa.McIntyre@wayzata.k12.mn.us)
Erin O’Neill (e-mail: Erin.O'Neill@wayzata.k12.mn.us)
Course Goals:
 Develop a deep understanding of major events, people, trends, & eras important to U.S. history while memorizing key facts
 Demonstrate (both verbally and in writing) a mastery of source analysis, synthesis, and evaluation skills
 Pursue a mastery of research, writing, presentation, and test-taking techniques
 Develop and demonstrate highly refined time-management and interpersonal skills
Please see the Term 1 Overview and Syllabus for more information regarding expectations and responsibilities.
Assessment & Grading:
 Daily classwork/participation – 15 percent
 Quizzes – 25 percent
A = 93.0 to 100%
A- = 90.0 to 92.99%
B+ = 87.0 to 89.99%
B = 83.0 to 86.99%
B- = 80.0 to 82.99%
C+ = 77.0 to 79.99%
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Tests and Projects – 45 percent
Term Final Exam – 15 percent
C = 73.0 to 76.99%
C- = 70.0 to 72.99%
D+ = 67.0 to 69.99%
D = 63.0 to 66.99%
D- = 60.0 to 62.99%
F = 0 to 59.99%
Textbook Reminder:
Your book is America: A Narrative History, 8th Edition by George Brown Tindall and David Shi. These books are currently in
excellent condition and should be returned as such. Mild damage will cost $15-25; severe damage or a lost book will cost $95.
* = Element of the DBQ project is due this date
DATE
Mon, 1/30
Tues, 1/31
Wed, 2/1
Adv. Day
Thur, 2/2
Fri, 2/3*
Mon, 2/6
Pep Rally
Tues, 2/7
Wed, 2/8*
Thur, 2/9
Fri, 2/10*
Mon, 2/13
Tues, 2/14*
Wed, 2/15
Adv. Day
Thur, 2/16
Fri, 2/17
Tues, 2/21*
All Wednesdays are Late Start unless noted
TOPIC(S) / ACTIVITIES
The New Era
Intro DBQ Project & Step 1; Prohibition (video)
Hoover and the Depression – Vocab Quiz Ch. 27-28
Lecture: Causes of the Great Depression
Election of 1932 / New Deal
Hoover-FDR DBQ Practice
New Deal / Life in the 1930s
African Americans and the CCC
Second New Deal
Create DBQ Day 1 – Question & Outside Info
Legacy of the New Deal
SP #1: Did the New Deal Prolong the Great Depression?
Unit 12 Test: The Great Depression & New Deal (Ch. 27-28) + FRQ
Postwar Isolationism
Storm Clouds Gather (video)
From Isolation to War – Vocab Quiz Ch. 29-31
In class study time (read 1147-1155)
War Begins for the US
Create DBQ Day 2 – Outline work
War in North Africa & Europe
Propaganda Analysis
Allied Drive to Berlin
Create DBQ Day 3 – Document Work
A New Age is Born
SP #2: Should the U.S. have used the Atomic Bomb?
The Cold War Begins
Post War Hopes - Cold War Fears (video)
Containment / Civil Rights in the 1940s
SP #3: Whose fault was the Cold War?
Korean War / McCarthyism
Map-Date Test
David Halberstam’s The Fifties: Civil Rights (video)
HOMEWORK
(1048-1064 due)
1064-1079, Vocab
1080-1092
1092-1099
1099-1112, DBQ*
1112-1125
Study for Test, FRQ
1126-1137, DBQ*
1137-1147, Vocab
1156-1167, DBQ*
1167-1176
1176-1187, DBQ*
1187-1199
1200-1214
1214-1227
1227-1239, DBQ*
Map-Date Test
Study for Test
Wed, 2/22
Thur, 2/23
Fri, 2/24
Mon, 2/27
Tues, 2/28
Wed, 2/29
Thur, 3/1
Fri, 3/2*
Mon, 3/5
Tues, 3/6
Wed, 3/7
Thur, 3/8
Fri, 3/9
Mon, 3/12*
Tues, 3/13
Wed, 3/14
Thur, 3/15
Fri, 3/16
Mon, 3/19
Tues, 3/20
Wed, 3/21
Adv. Day
Thur, 3/22
Fri, 3/23
Mon, 3/26
Tues, 3/27
Wed 3/28
No Late Start
Unit 13 Test: World War II and Containment (Ch. 29-31)
In class study time (read 1240-48)
Consumerism and Conformity
SP #4: From Rosie to Lucy
Criticism of the 1950s – Vocab Quiz Ch. 32-33
Halberstam’s The Fifties: Conformity & Gender (video)
“I Like Ike”
SP #5: Were the 1950s Happy Days?
Foreign Intervention
Lecture: U.S. Foreign Policy 1950 to 1980
Problems Abroad / Civil Rights at Home
Create DBQ Day 4: Inferences
Unit 14 Test: Conformity and the Cold War (Ch. 32-33) + FRQ
Expansion of the Civil Rights Movement
SP #6: Was JFK strongly committed to Civil Rights?
LBJ & the Great Society + Presidents Test
In class study time (read 1323-1329)
Sixties Crescendo – Vocab Quiz Ch. 34-35
Create DBQ Day 5: Revisions
Roots of Rebellion
Debate: Whose ideas were better for the 1960s: MLK or Malcolm X?
Nixon and Vietnam
Dear America (video)
Nixon Triumphant
SP #7: Did the Antiwar Movement Prolong the War in Vietnam?
From Watergate to Carter
DBQ project DUE
Watergate Lesson & Intro Wiki Project
Unit 15 Test: Civil Rights, Counterculture, & Vietnam (Ch. 34-35)
In class study time (read 1390-1396)
The Reagan Revolution
DBQ Test
Reagan’s Legacy & George HW Bush
SP #8: Did Reagan Win the Cold War?
America’s Changing Mosaic – Vocab Ch. 36-37
DBQ Presentations – Day 1
Bush to Clinton / Republican Insurgency
DBQ Presentations – Day 2
Foreign Policy / The Election of 2000
DBQ Presentations – Day 3
Unit 16 Test: From Reagan to Now (Ch. 36-37)
Wiki DUE
Review: Colonial & Revolutionary Period
Review: Early Nationalist Period
Review: Antebellum Period
Review: Sectionalism  Reconstruction
Wiki Corrections DUE
FINAL EXAM (Ch. 1-37, 80 Questions, 15 % of term grade)
Review Final Exam
DBQ Analysis
AP U.S. History Exam – Friday, May 11, 2012, at 8 am
Return books week of May 14th
1248-54
1254-1265, Vocab
1266-1275
1275-1286
1286-1299
Study for Test & FRQ
1300-1311, DBQ*
1312-1323
1329 -1339, Vocab
1340-1355
1355-1364
1364-1375
1375-1389, DBQ*
Study for Test
1396-1406, DBQ
1406-1417
1417-1427, Vocab
1427-1437
1437-1446
Study for Test
Wiki Due
Study for Final
Study for Final
Wiki Corrections
Study for Final
Celebrate!
Study for AP Test