APUSH HANDOUTS


The following page contains a list of the 'Mini-Syllabi' that are given out every one to two weeks. They contain the reading pacing guide for the text, the notecards list, and the focus questions for each chapter. Also included are the readings and assignments from the Document readings (if applicable).

You will also find various notes handouts, powerpoint presentations and the occasional miscellaneous item that accompanies the topic being covered.

Practice Quizzes site:

APUSH ONLINE PRACTICE QUIZZES

Streaming video site:

iCue.com

Second Quarter Calendar (2008-2009)

JANUARY 2009

M T W TH FR

5

•Welcome Back!!!

•Syllabus adjustments

•No Ch 17 Exam

•Finished working on ch 17 quadrant activity

Texas 24 - Ohio State 21

6 - PLC

•EV 18 lecture

  - Rise of Big Business

  - Advent of the New South

  - Sharecropping and the Jim Crow South

  - Labor development

7

•Whiteboard lecture over EV 18 continued

•Document packet questions - divided into groups  - assigned questions:

   - The New South

   - Labor Violence

8

•Document packet discussion and questions - continued

•EV 19 summary notes

 

Florida 24 - Oklahoma 14

9

•EV 17, 18, 19 MC EXAM

•EV 18 and 19 notecards due

12

•Return and correct ch 17-19 Exam

•Video on Post-bellum immigration, industrialization and urbanization

13

•Video: The Gilded Age (review)

•Completed test corrections

14 - FINALS 1,2,7

•Pd. 2 Final Exam (75 multiple choice)

•Robber Barons or Captains of Industry Essay Question

15 - FINALS 3,4

•NO APUSH

16 - FINALS 5,6

•NO APUSH

DECEMBER 2008

M T W TH FR

1

•Opening Civil War lecture

•Civil War short answer questions handout

•Civil War video clips (iCue.com)

•Opening DVD segment: Civil War Journal - Fort Sumter

2 - PLC

•Continued Civil War lecture

3

•460-468

Readings Quiz

•Continued Civil War lecture

4

•EV 15 notecards due

•Civil War lecture finish

•EV 15 M-C Exam

5

•Mr. C absent to day - at LPSDO working on CRTs

•Civil War Document questions due today

•Civil War Video (optional notes for extra credit)

8

EV 16 syllabus: Reconstruction

•Reconstruction notes (overhead)

•Abraham Lincoln discussion - followed by DVD segment of Lincoln - followed by more discussion of Lincoln's legacy and person.

9 - PLC

•Return work - go over quizzes

•Correct EV 15 MC Civil War exams

•Readings Quiz over 477-488

•Reconstruction Video segment

10

•Continue Reconstruction Video segment

•Reconstruction One-Pager assignment discuss

11

•EV 16 One-Pager Assignment  - worked on in class - due tomorrow

Reconstruction PPT slides

12

•EV 16 notecards due

•EV 16 Short answer questions due.

•EV 16 MC Exam

15

EV 17 syllabus - Trans Mississippi West after the Civil War

•Corrected EV 16 Exams

•Long discussion about history and religious symbols - connected to the Western US

16

•PLC

Native American encounters in the American West - postbellum PPT slides

17

Settling the West PPT slides

•Begin "Quadrant" activity

18

•Continue Quadrant Activity

Western Myth and growth PPT slides)

•Over the Break syllabus (EV 18 syllabus and EV 19 syllabus)

19

•SNOW DAY! *****

 

22 - BEGIN WINTER BREAK
23 24 - CHRISTMAS EVE 25 - CHRISTMAS DAY 26
29
30 31 - NEW YEAR'S EVE

JAN 1. NEW YEAR'S DAY 2009

Huskers 26 - Clemson 21

 

NOVEMBER 2008

M T W TH FR

3

Welcome Back

Video on Antebellum America

•DVD clip on Van Buren's presidency

4 - PLC

•Went over tests from ch 9-10 today

•Video clip on Causes of the Civil War and Antebellum Abolitionism

 

5

•Worked in Lab 132 today on •Antebellum Reform ABC-CLIO assignment

•Gave handout for 1840s Town Hall Meeting Personas

6

•Rocket Recognition Rally

•Assigned roles for 1840s Town Hall Meeting Personas

•Discussion of Antebellum reform

•Half -Day in the Media Center

7

•Lab 130 - working on the antebellum Reform ABC-CLIO assignment

10

•Worked in Lab 131 on Antebellum Reform and Slavery Positions

•NY band trip

11 - PLC

•Veteran's Day (assembly) - shorter class period

•Old South and Slavery video clips from iCue.com

•NY band trip

12

•NY band trip

•Worked in Lab 131 on Antebellum Reform and 1840s personas

13

•NY band trip

•No Class today - State Volleyball

14

•Worked on 1840s personas  in lab 131

and will present on Monday the 17th

17

•Present 1840s Town Hall Meeting personas in class

18 - PLC

EV 13 Syllabus - Manifest Destiny

•Expansionism discussion and notes

19

•Manifest Destiny PPT slides and lecture

20

•Mr. C at District meeting

Video on Westward Expansion

•Class worktime on ch 13 notecards, etc.

21

•1/2 period lecture on Mexican War

•EV ch 13 M-C Exam

EV 14 Syllabus - 1850s

24

•Opening lecture on the 1850s PPT slides

•421-427 Readings Quiz

•Continued lecture on 1850s

25- PLC

•Returned past work

•Gave back ch 13 M-C exams to correct with open book

•Lectured on 1850s remainder of period

26

•EV 14 notecards, short answers, ch 13 corrected tests DUE TODAY

•iCue.com video clips on the 1850s - first half of period

•EV 14 M-C Exam

EV ch 15 syllabus (Civil War)

27 - THANKSGIVING DAY 28 - THANKSGIVING  BREAK

First Quarter - 2008 Calendar

OCTOBER 2008

 M T W TH F
   

1

•203-210 Readings Quiz

•1790s PPT continued - Neutrality with Europe and George Washington's presidency

2

•210-216 Readings Quiz

•Continue 1790s PPT slides

•John Adams DVD clip

3

•EV 7 notecards due

•Finish 1790s PPT slides - Quasi-War with France

•Give Take Home Multiple Choice Exam today - Due Monday.

6

•1790s take home exam due

•Finish 1790s PPT - Revolution of 1800 (Election of 1800)

•John Adams DVD clips

7 - PLC

•2002 #3 AP Free Response Essay - assigned

EV ch 8 Syllabus - Jeffersonian America

Jefferson PPT

8 - GDE Testing Day

•Thomas Jefferson

Jefferson Admin Chart

Jefferson-Madison comparison

9

•2002 Q#3 due today - beginning of class

•Begin Group project questions as stated in the ch 8 syllabus

•Class time given to work in groups

10

•243-247 Readings Quiz (War of 1812)

•War of 1812 PPT slides

•Class time given to work in groups

Documents assignment for chapter 8 topics

13

•ch 8 Group Presentations today (finished in class and then presented)

14 - PLC

James Monroe PPT slides and lecture

15

•Document assignment due

•EV ch 8 notecards due

•EV 8 Exam

16

EV 9 syllabus

Jackson PPT slides begin

     - Transportation, Industrial, Market Revolutions

17

•Continued lecture on Antebellum "Revolutions"

20

•All chapter 9 'stuff' due:

notecards and document questions

ch 10 syllabus

•Andrew Jackson DVD segments:

   - The Presidents clip

   - White Man's Democracy (notes)

21 - PLC

•Readings Quiz over 285-294

Jackson PPT slides lecture

•Jacksonian Democracy

22

•Jackson PPT Slides

23

•Readings Quiz over 299-303

•Jackson PPT Slides

Antebellum Reform PPT slides

24

•EV ch 10 MC Exam

•EV 10 notecards due

•One-Pager over EV 303-315 due

FALL BREAK

Though there are no formal assignments over the break, it is recommended that you read chapters 11 and 12 from the textbook.  We will cover it briefly the first week of November.

FALL BREAK

This would be a great opportunity to get caught up with the first quarter assignments if you are missing any of them.

FALL BREAK FALL BREAK FALL BREAK

SEPTEMBER 2008

M
T W TH F

1

NO SCHOOL - LABOR DAY

2 - PLC

•Colonization discussion

3

•Henretta 3 MC Exam

•Henretta 3 notecards due

4

•Henretta 3 MC Exam

•Henretta 3 notecards due

•2001 AP Question #2 in class essay

5

(Mr. C absent - jury duty)

•Slavery and Freedom video

•Document book assignment

8

•Preliminary to chapter 4 on English Colonial society in North America 1720-1765

Henretta 4 (pp. 101-121)

•Document book pp. 60, 65, 72 #1-3 due tomorrow

9 - PLC

•Handout ch 4 syllabus (Henretta 4)

•Assigned ch 4 One-Pager

•Lecture

10

•Readings Quiz over 112-121

•Lecture on

11

•Henretta 4 MC Exam

•Henretta 4 notecards due

•Henretta 4 Focus Questions due

12

•Begin French and Indian War

Change books - Checked out the Enduring Vision

•Assigned chapter 5 "Roads to Revolution" "EV 5 syllabus"

15

•Lecture on 1763-1775

1763-1775 PPT

16 - PLC

•Lecture on 1763-1775

17

•Handed out 1999 DBQ and 2004 DBQ

•Discussed the DBQ process and essay writing in general

•Video segments from iCue.com

18

•Discussed 1999 and 2004 DBQ questions

•Started Video Segment from "Liberty: the American Revolution" - Reluctant Revolutionaries

19

•Chapter 5 notecards due

•Video segment on the 1760s and early 1770s

•Wrote Thesis Paragraph on the 1999 DBQ

EV ch 6 syllabus handed out

22

•Video: The American Revolution

•Lecture and Discussion: American Revolution PPT (Revolutionary War PPT)

23 - PLC

•Readings quiz: 178-185

•Continued Lecture on Revolution

24

•Finish Revolutionary War notes

1777-1789 PPT slides

25

•Finish 1777-1789 PPT slides

•Liberty! American Revolution video Segment "Are We to Be a Nation?"

26

•EV ch 6 Multiple Choice Exam

•EV ch 6 notecards due

•EV ch 6 Take home essay due

29

EV ch 7 Syllabus - The 1790s

•Finish 1777-1789 PPT slides

30 - PLC

•195-203 Readings Quiz

1790s PPT - The Critical Period

•Alexander Hamilton article (World-Herald) on the financial situation and government's response

     

AUGUST 2008

M
T
W
TH
FR
   

20

•Freshman Only

21

•Class Procedures, Expectations, Overview, AP information, Introductions

22

•Book Checkout

•Syllabus

•Dual Credit options

•First syllabus (Henretta 2)

25

•More discussion of dual credit options, etc.

•Video segment on settling the Americas

26 PLC

•Finished video segment

Chesapeake Colonies PPT

27

•Chesapeake slides PPT finish

New England Colonies PPT

•Henretta 2 MC Exam

•Henretta 2 notecards due

•Henretta 2 document questions due

28

(Mr. C absent - appt)

•Counselor discussed SCC dual credit

•Handout ch 3 syllabus (Henretta 3)

•Handout Colonial Comparison chart and Colonization reading

29

•Colonization reading in class

•Group work on American Colonization comparison chart

 

Topic Chapter Syllabus Pertinent Handouts or Notes Powerpoint Presentations Miscellaneous
1877-1900 TOPICS
EV 17-19
Gilded Age Group Assignment
Gilded Age PPT  
U.S. EXPANSION
EV 20
  Imperialism PPT  
PROGRESSIVISM
EV 21
     
WORLD WAR 1
EV 22
 
WWI PPT
 
THE 1920S
EV 23
  1920s PPT  
GREAT DEPRESSION & NEW DEAL
EV 24
  Depression PPT  
SPRING BREAK ASSIGNMENTS
08 Spring Break
     

 

Topic Chapter Syllabus Pertinent Handouts or Notes Powerpoint Presentations Miscellaneous
WORLD WAR 2 EV 25 World War II Packet  
EARLY COLD WAR
EV 26
ch 26 Essay Question
Cold War PPT  
EISENHOWER & THE 1950S
EV 27
IKE DBQ RUBRIC
   
LIBERALISM ASCENDANT (1960s)
EV 28
RICHARD NIXON
EV 29
NEW CONSERVATISM (1980s)
EV 30
Reagan and Conservatism Packet Right Turn Movie Clip
OTHER...        
REVIEW  

(2006 version)

ignore any dates!!!

(thank you Mr. Wood)

Who Am I? PPT