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High School       AP US History Syllabus
 -Baltimore-                                 1st Semester 2017 -2018 School Year
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Welcome to AP US History for the 2017 - 2018 year. This syllabus will provide two tools for students (and parents). First, it will be a daily guide to the sequence of class, readings, and assignments.  Second, at the end of the semester it will provide a guide to studying for the exam. It will be updated weekly. If the sequence doesn't look correct to you or is out of date, your browser may be loading a stored page rather than the current page. Check the date at the bottom of the page to make sure you're up to date.

The course is college paced  with college level academic expectations. The most important thing is to read, and read ahead of the class. You are expected to take control of your academic experience, and  your ability to deal with the material and reading for the class will determine your grade and your score on the AP test. The test will be on May DATE. There are no makeup or alternative dates provided by the College Board.


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Course Objectives -  
1. Define and apply vocabulary
2. Develop a plan for research
3. Work in groups to develop common goals
4. Develop writing skills
5. Develop and implement study plans
6. Process and respond to various assessment tools
Instructional Objectives -
Complete Objectives are HERE
Class Policies Syllabus Supplement -

 This contains grading information for you. Please click HERE

Schedule - Week One
1/23,  R - No class

1/24, GldP2 - Objective - SWBAT describe the reasons for the beginning of WWI
Warm Up - Group discussion, reasons for the beginning of WWI
Lecture/ Discussion - Review US expansion in foreign conflicts, continue  688 to 696, the Great Migration 
Activity - Discuss Black History Month Project
Homework - Reading pg. 684 to 694, Short Response
  
1/25,  WP4 - Objective - SWU the domestic consequences of WWI
Warm Up - Discuss the Great Migration
Lecture/ Discussion - Expansion of government
Homework - Reading, following reading guide 

1/26 ,  PP6 - Objective - SW describe the legacies of WWI
Warm Up - Socrative, Versailles
Lecture/ Discussion -  Ch. 22 Pg. 694 - 702
Homework - Reading pg. 694 - 702, following reading guide
Week Two 

1/29, GrP7 - Objective - SWU the legacies of WWI on American culture
Warm Up - Discuss Versailles and Isolationism
Lecture/ Discussion - Ch. 22 pg. 704 - 718 
Homework - Reading pg. 704 - 718, Reading Guide

1/30, R - No class

1/31, GldP2 - Objective - SWBAT describe the ideas of intellectual modernism and the beginning of the Depression
Warm Up - Socrative
Lecture/ Discussion - Ch. 22 pg. 718 - 730
Homework - Reading pg. 718 -730, Reading guide

2/1, PP6 - Objective  - SWU the results of the Depression and the development of the New Deal
Warm Up - Ch. 22 quiz
Discuss the reasons why the Depression continued
Lecture/ Discussion - Ch. 23 pg. 734 - 747
Homework - Reading pg. 734 - 747, Reading guide 

2/2, WP4 - Objective - SWBAT describe the effects of the New Deal(s)  on society and government 
Warm Up - Socrative
Lecture/ Discussion - Ch. 23 pg. 747 - 755
Homework - Reading pg. 747 - 755, Reading guide
Week Three

2/5, GrP7 - Snow Day!
Activity - Assignment on PlusPortal

2/6, R - No class 

2/7, GldP2 - Snow Day!
Activity - Pg. 742- 43, Pg.  752 - 53
Activity - Assignment on PlusPortal

2/8, WP4 - Objective - SW wortk on BHM project
Mr. Marchand at Model UN conference

2/9, PP6 - SW wortk on BHM project
Mr. Marchand at Model UN conference
Week Four

2/12, GrP7 - Objective - SW complete BHM project
Activity - Ch. 22 Multiple choice quiz

2/13, R - No class

2/14, GldP2 - Objective - SWBAT describe the effects of the New Deal(s)  on society and government 
Warm Up - Socrative
Lecture/ Discussion - Ch. 23 pg. 747 - 755
Homework - Reading pg. 747 - 755, Reading guide

2/15, PP6 -SWU how big projects were part of the New Deal to provide employment
Warm Up - Socrative
Lecture/ Discussion - Pg. 755 -763 Complete Ch. 23
Homework - Complete reading guide

2/16,  No students
Week Five

2/19 - President's Day

2/20, WP4 - Black History Month Presentations

2/21, GldP2 - SWU the beginning of WW2 and the events that brought the US into the war
Warm Up - Prior knowlefdge
Lecture/ Discussion - Ch. 24 pg. 766 - 781
Black History Month Links
Homework - Reading guide

2/22, PP6 - Objective - SWU the domestic events at the beginning of American involvement
Warm Up - Guest teacher
Lecture/ Discussion - Ch. 24 pg. 772 - 773 (Pearl Harbor); 777 - 780 (Civil Rights); 783 (Racial Conflict); 787 - 788 (Japanese Internment) 
Homework - Reading guide

2/23, R - No class
Week Six

2/26, GP7 - Objective - SWU the domestic issues during the war and the war in Europe
Warm Up - Socrative
Lecture/ Discussion - Ch. 24 pg. 781 - 792
Homework - Reading guide

2/27, WP4 -Objective - SWBAT describe the war in the Pacific, the Holocaust at home, and the end of the war
Warm Up - Scorative
Lecture/ Discussion - Ch. 24 pg. 792 - 797
Homework - Reading guide, prepare for test

2/28, GldP2 - Emmaus

3/1, R - No class

3/2, PP6 - Wind Day
Activity - Short Response Set
Week Seven

3/5, GP7 - Part 7 Test

3/6, WP4 - Objective - SWBAT describe the origins of the Cold War and the reasons for the Korean War
Warm Up - Socrative
Lecture/ Discussion - Ch. 25 pg. 804 -815
Homework - Reading guide 

3/7 - Special Day of Service

3/8, R - No class

3/9, PP6 - Objective - SWU the compromises in  the New Deal and the anti communist movement of the 1950's
Warm Up - Korean War cheat sheet
Lecture/ Discussion - Ch. 25 pg. 815 - 829
Homework - Reading guide
Week Eight

3/12, GP7 - Objective - SWBAT describe the patterns of the elections from 1948 -1960
Warm Up - Kennedy Nixon debates 
Lecture/ Discussion - Review Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis
Activity - Look over elections from 1948 to 1960, preview 1964
Assign - Long Form Essay
Homework - Colmplete Reading Guide for Ch. 25

3/13, WP4 - Objective - SW return to 1945 and describe the affluent society of the postwar period
Warm Up - Cheat sheet on Bretton Woods
Lecture/ Discussion - Ch. 26 838 - 850
Homework - Reading guide 

3/14, GldP2 - Objective - SWU the development of suburbia and the populations shift to the sunbelt
Warm Up - Socrative
Lecture/ Discussion - Ch. 26 850 - 865
Homework - Reading guide

3/15, R No class

3/16 - Career Day
End of Third Quarter
Schedule - Fourth Quarter - Week One

3/19, PP6 - Objective  - SWU the beginnings of the civil rights movement folowing WWII
Warm Up - Groups, list of familiar people
Lecture/ Discussion - Ch. 27 868 - 883
Homework - Reading guide, pg. 868 - 883

3/20, WP2 - SWBAT describe the  progress of civil rights legislation and related events in the 1960's
Warm Up - Socrative
Lecture/ Discussion - Ch. 27 883 - 899
Homework - Reading guide, pg. 883 - 899

3/21, GldP2 - Snow Day!
Activity - Part One review packet

3/22, R - No class, Snow Day!

3/23, GP7 -SWU the high tide of liberalism and the effect of the Vietnam War 
Warm Up - Review election of 1960
Lecture/ Discussion - Ch. 28 902 - 906
Homework - Reading guide pg. 902 - 906
Week Two
3/26 PP6 -Holocaust Museum Field Trip

3/27, WP4 - SWBAT the movements that arose at the same time as the antiwar movement
Warm Up - Election of 1964
Lecture/ Discussion - Ch. 28 906 - 918
Homework - Reading guide pg. 906 - 918

3/28, GldP2 - SWU the events that turned public opinion against the Vietnam War
Warm Up - Antiwar footage, TV newscasts
Lecture/ Discussion - Ch. 28 918  - 924
Homework - Reading guide pg. 918 - 924

3/29, GP7 - SW gain insight into the emotional costs of the war
Activity - "The Ripple Effect"
Activity - Ms. Adelsberger pep talk
 
Spring Break!
Week Three

4/9, R - No class

4/10, WP4 - SWU divisions in American society, social, economic and political
Warm Up - Review "Ripple Effect" and general consideration of human perspectives in writing
Lecture/ Discussion - Ch. 28 924 to 935
Homework - Reading Guide, complete Ch. 28

4/11, GldP2 - SWBAT describe the race to the moon and space exploration in the 1960's-70's, and development of music in the same period
Warm Up - NASA footage
Lecture/ Discussion - Not in text, worksheet
Homework - Review Ch. 28

4/12  - Field Day

4/13 - Field Day
Week Four

4/16, GrP7 - SWU the transformations of sociey in the "Era of Limits"
Warm Up - Discuss prior knowledge
Lecture/ Discussion - Ch. 29 936 - 947
Homework - Reading guide, Ch. 29 936 - 947

4/17, R - No class

4/18, GldP2 - SWBAT describe the trends and events of Watergate
Warm Up - Review tax revolts and the beginning of organized conservative movement
Lecture/ Discussion - Ch. 29 pg. 947 - 948, supplemental notes and chronology
Homework - Reading guide Ch. 29 pg. 947 -948

4/19, WP4 -  SW examine the issues during the Carter administration
Warm Up - Summarize Watergate results
Lecture/ Discussion - Ch. 29 947 - 957
Homework - Reading guide Ch. 29 947 - 957

4/20 - PP6 - SWBAT describe  American culture during the Carter Era
Warm Up - Court cases of the Warren and Burger courts
Lecture/ Discussion - Ch. 29 957 - 965
Homework - Reading guide - Ch. 29 957 - 965 

Week Five

4/23, GrP7 - SWU how documents relect the 1960's and '70's
Activity - Pg. 940 - 941;  1, 2 and 3 - short responses
Activity - Pg. 954 - 955;  4 - 2 or 3 paragraph essay. Decide how to group these documents

4/24, R - No class

4/25, GldP2 - DBQ for part 8
Activity - DBQ for part 8

4/26, WP4 -Part 8 Test

4/27, PP6 -Ch. 30 968 - 980
Week Six

4/30, GP7 - Ch. 31 Ch. 30 981 - 999

5/1 - No class

5/2 - GldP2 - Ch. 31 1002 - 1033

5/3 - WP4 - Part 9 Test

5/4 - PP6 -
Week Seven

5/7, GP7

5/8, R - No class

5/9, GldP2 - 

5/10, WP4 - 

5/11 - THE TEST!!!!!!
Week Eight

5/14

5/15

5/16

5/17

5/18
Week Nine

5/20

5/21

5/22

5/23

5/24
Week Ten

5/27 - Memorial Day

5/28 -

5/29 -

5/30 -

5/31 -
End of Semester
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