| AP United States History
COURSE TITLE: Advanced Placement United States History
LENGTH OF COURSE: One Year
TYPE OF CREDIT: Social Science Core (10 credits)
GRADE LEVEL: 11
PREREQUISITES: Teacher Approval
TEXTBOOK:
The American Pageant, Houghton Mifflin Publishing, 1998 Edition, ISBN 0 669 39728 8.
SUPPLEMENTAL READING LIST:
Students will read four of the following:
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
My Antonia, Willa Cather
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Arthur Haley and Malcolm X
Autobiography of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass
Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
If I Die in a Combat Zone, Tim O'Brien
The Giver, Lois Lowry
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet B. Stowe
REFERENCE MATERIALS:
Merriam-Webster's High School Dictionary, Holt, Reinhart, and Winston, Inc., ISBN 0 03 096 484 9
World Maps (Physical and Political, Demographic, Climate, Natural Resource, Economic Activity, Time Zones)
Atlas for each student
Class set of dictionaries
A set of National Geographic CDs for each site
Appropriate software
SUPPLEMENTAL FILMS:
Cold War, CNN Series
Red Empire, A&E Series
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
The Advanced Placement Program in United States History is designed to provide students with the analytic skills and factual knowledge necessary to deal critically with the problems and materials in United States history. The program prepares students for intermediate and advanced college courses by making demands upon them equivalent to those made by full-year introductory college courses. This course meets and exceeds the California standards in that there is intensive study on the pre-Civil War era of American history. This course will begin with the discovery of the New World. Students should learn to assess historical materials -- their relevance to a given interpretive problem, their reliability, and presented in historical scholarship. An Advanced Placement United States History course will develop the skills necessary to arrive at conclusions on the basis of an informed judgment and to present reasons and evidence clearly and persuasively in essay format.
Students taking the Advanced Placement course are expected but not required to take the Advanced Placement test.
BOARD ADOPTED DATE: July 21, 1999; Resolution No. 6-00.
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