AP US History Schedule
2015-2016(Hicks)
Date
Class Topic
Assignment
8/31-9/1
9/2-9/3
Intro. to AP and Chap 1
Chap 2 European Settlement of the Americas/Emphasis
England/Decoding Primary D’s/Research Paper Overview
Summer Assignment Due for full credit 9/8
Chap. 3 New England/Middle Colonies/The Chesapeake/
Carolina’s & Georgia/Turnitin
Chap. 4 Great Britain’s relationship w/ its N. American
Colonies
Test Multiple Choice and Short Essay Chaps. 1-4/SQR3
Outlining
Colonial America
9/4-9/8
9/9-9/10
9/11-9/14
Primary Documents
Note Taking/Primary
Documents
Map/Outlining
Study for Quiz
123-139
The Revolution and Constitution
9/15-9/16
9/17-9/18
9/21-9/22
9/23-9/24
9/25-9/28
9/29-9/30
French & Indian War/Colonial Resistance/Cornell Notes
Causes of the Revolution/Cornell Notes
Revolutionary War/Core Structure/Little Red Cap (LRC)
Social Change-Revolutionary War/Core Structure/LRC
Essay for test & grading rubric on 9/29-9/30 Revealed
Articles of Confederation/Constitution Essay Writing &
Rubric
TEST Multiple Choice and Long Essay on Chaps. 5-6
Part of Chap. 7
139-156
159-173
173-185/Map
185-203
Study for Test
Map/203-216
The Early National Period/Jeffersonian Democracy/Jacksonian Democracy
10/1-10/2
10/5-10/6
10/7-10/8
10/9
10/13-10/14
10/15-10/16
10/19-10/20
10/21-10/22
Washington’s Foreign Policy/First Party Politics
Jefferson’s First Term/Test Essay Review
Jefferson’s 2nd term/Madison/War of 1812/Westward Exp.
Make-up day 1st Nine Weeks
Transportation Rev/Monroe/Peer Graded Essay
Industrialization/Peer Editing
1824-1840 Democratic Politics & Jackson
Jackson and His Legacy
10/23-10/26
TEST Mult. Choice and Long Essay on Chaps. 7 (last
part) – 10 (first part)
216-235
235-252
255-270
270-277
277-294
294-299
Study for Test/
Research Paper Topic
299-315
Six Sources/
Research Paper Contr.
Expansion
10/27-10/28
10/29-10/30
11/4-11/5
Religion and Reform Movements/Library
Tech./Culture/Everyday Life/Past-times - Library
Thesis statement writing
Arts and Literature/Immigration - DBQ Writing - Library
317-334/Thesis
334-343 377-384
RP Notes
384-400 –
RP Notes/Outline
11/6-11/9
The West/Manifest Destiny – Library
400-404 – Primary
Sources - RP Notes
Study for the test
345-362/RP Notes
11/10-11/11
11/12-11/13
TEST DBQ/Gold Rush/Maysville Rd
TEST Mult. Choice and DBQ Essay with two
documents End of Chap. 9, & 11 & 13
11/16-11/17
11/18-11/19
The Old South
Slavery in the Old South
11/20-11/23
Comp. of 1850/The Rise of the Repubs.
11/24
Make-up day 2nd Nine Weeks
Thanksgiving
Quiz Post Thanksgiving Break/Dred Scott/Harpers Ferry 437-452/Rough Draft
Secession/Lincoln Douglas Debates/Primary Sources
RP
ROUGH DRAFT OF RESEARCH PAPER DUE
452-460
Civil War/DBQ Prep.
The Civil War/Practice DBQ
460-475
TEST DBQ - The Civil War/Union Victory
Study for Test
TEST Multiple Choice Chaps. 12, 14 & 15
477-492
The Civil War
11/30-12/1
12/2-12/3
12/4-12/7
12/8-12/9
12/10-12/11
362-374/RP Notes
407-423/Rough Draft
RP
423-434/Rough
Draft RP
Rough Draft RP
Reconstruction
12/14-12/15
Reconstruction
12/16-12/17
Reconstruction/Quest
12/18
Snow Day Make Up Day “I Hope”
Winter Break
492-509/Final Draft
RP
511-557/Final
Draft RP
Urbanization, Immigration, Industrialization – The Gilded Age
1/4-1/5
Quiz Post Winter Break The West/US Indust. Post CW 557-573
1/6-1/7
Indust./The New South
1/8-1/11
Immigration/Middle Class/Reform Movement
1/12-1/13
Leisure/Public Education
1/14-1/15
1/19-1/20
1/21-1/22
1/25-1/26
Politics/Labor Movement
FINAL DRAFT OF RESEARCH PAPER DUE
Politics 1890's/Spanish American War/New US Imperil.
TEST Multiple Choice Chaps. 18-20 & Long Essay
575-591/Final Draft
RP
591-606 Final Draft
RP
609-624 Final Draft
RP
Final Draft of RP
624-639
Study for test
641-656
Grade Mr. Hicks
Progressivism/WWI/Roaring 20’s
1/27-1/28
2/1-2/2
2/3-2/4
2/5-2/8
Progressive Ideology
Women/Blacks/Taft Progressivism/Elec. of 1912/Wilson
Wilsonian Foreign Policy/WWI Peer Essay DBQ
WWI Home Front & Treaty of Versailles
657-674 Map
677-692
692-709
711-726
2/9-2/10
2/11-2/12
2/16-2/17
New Eco. Order/Jazz Age
TEST DBQ Jazz Age/Conflicts of the 20’s/Hoover
TEST Multiple Choice Chaps. 21-23
726-741
Study for Test
743-758
Great Depression & The WWII
2/18-2/19
2/22-2/23
2/24-2/25
2/29-3/1
3/2-3/3
3/4-3/7
The Great Depression & The New Deal
The New Deal/Minorities/Culture/Practice DBQ
Start of WWII/Neutrality/Pearl Harbor/Peer Grade DBQ
The Home Front and War Overseas
Victory/Primary Sources
TEST Multiple Choice & Long Essay Chaps. 24-25
3/8-3/9
3/10-3/11
3/14-3/15
3/16-3-17
The Cold War/GI Bill/ Anti-Communism/Korea
Cold War Home Front
McCarthyism/Ike/Little Rock
Cold War/Affluent Society/Conformity?/
The Other America
Make-up day 2nd Nine Weeks
758-777
781-789
789-806
806-812
Study for Test
815-830
The Cold War/Civil Rights/Vietnam
3/18
830-841 Map
843-859
859-873
875-892
Student Made DBQ’s
Spring Break
3/28-3/29
3/30-3/31
4/1-4/4
4/5-4/6
Hand in Student Made DBQ’s/Reading Quiz/Rebellion/
Kennedy Admin/Civil Rights
Johnson Admin/Vietnam
TEST DBQ Chaps. 26-28 Primary Sources
TEST Multiple Choice Chaps. 26-28/AP Review Game
892-903
Study for Test
Study for Test
905-919
Counter Culture/Watergate/ Malaise/Conservative Revolution
4/7-4/8
4/11-4/12
4/13-4/14
4/18-4/19
4/20-4/21
4/22-4/25
4/26-4/27
4/28-4/29
5/2-5/3
5/4-5/5
5/6
5/9
Counter Culture/Vietnam
Vietnam/Nixon Admin/ Watergate
Ford & Carter Admin.
Regan Revolution
Bush I/Cold War Ends
Clinton 1st Term
Clinton 2nd Term/2000 Election
Test Mult. Choice and Long Essay Chaps. 29-Page 973
Foner Clinton Packets
9/11/Bush II Administration/War on Terror
AP Test Review
919-933
935-952
952-963 Map
963-973
Foner Packet
Foner Packet
Study for Test
Foner Packet
AP Test Review
Sleep 8 Hours
AP Test
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Amsco United States History: Preparing for the Advanced Placement Examination
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