Assignments 2007-2008
Oct. 1: Chapter 3 Quiz - "Society and Culture in Provincial America" Read pages 90-101 from textbook, Chapter 4 - "The Empire in Transition"
Oct. 2: Discussion of the gradual loosening of ties between the American colonies and the British Empire. Intoduction of King George III, Peace of Paris, Proclamation of 1763. Read pages 101- 114.
Oct. 3: Jonathan Edwards DBQ assignment is due. Primary document reading from Stamp Act Congress, Discussion of British retaliation to colonial actions. Read excerpts from Bernard Bailyn & John Locke.
Oct. 4: Revolutionary ideology: Discussion on Bailyn/Locke readings. Influence of Locke on colonial resistance. Homework TBD.
Oct. 5: Classwork - reading from Gordon Wood on radicalism of American Revolution. Homework: Essay on ideological orgins of the American Revolution.
Oct. 26: Note check on Chapter 5 "The American Revolution"
Oct. 29: Oral review of chapter. Begin creating review sheet for Chapter 5.
Oct. 30: Review of Chapter 5 - Jeopardy!
Oct. 31: Chapter 5 test.
Nov. 1 & 2: A&E Biography video on Thomas Jefferson.
Nov. 5: Chapter 5 TEST. Test will be worth 100 points and consist of multiple choice, true-false, fill in the blanks and a short essay. Homework: Read pages 148-158.
Nov. 6: Introductory lecture on the U.S. Constitution: Interpretations, meanings and theories. Homework: Consitution writing assignment.
Nov. 9: Review of shortcomings on Articles of Confederation, advocates of reform, dichotomy of Federalists vs. Republican ideology.
Nov. 12: Lecture on Bill of Rights, constitutional convention, alliance between Madison and Hamilton, "New Jersey" and "Virginia" plans, Federalist Papers.
Nov. 13: state ratification of Constitution, Hamilton's national bank, bi-cameral legislature, three branches of government, Hamilton's taxation plan. Students should have read and taken notes up to page 161 from Chapter 6.
Nov. 14: Madison's Federalist #10 assignment available. Assignment is due Nov. 20 and is worth 50 points.
Nov. 15: Review for 1st trimester exam.
Nov. 30: I will distribute Document=Based Question (DBQ) packets to the class Friday. Students will have until Wednesday to complete them. We will wrap up Chapter 6 early next week and have a test Wednesday.
Dec. 6: Field trip to NC Museum of History for "The Lost Colony" exhibit.
Dec. 14: Over break, you will be required to do the following: 1. Read or finish reading Chapter 7 and take notes for the entire chapter. We've already had a quiz on the first half of Chapter 7. We will have a quiz on the second half of Chapter 7, on Thursday, Jan. 3.
2. You will also over the break read all of Chapter 8. This is one of our "expedited" chapters that we will cover quickly. I will provide you with an outline, summary, lecture notes and pertinent questions.
3. You will be required to read Chapter 9 and take notes. Notes will be checked when we returned from our holiday break.
DO NOT PUT OFF THIS WORK! IT IS VITAL FOR THIS COURSE AND TO PREPAPRE FOR THE AP TEST. WORK A LITTLE AT A TIME AND IT WILL GET DONE.
Jan. 7: Lecture on Chapter 8. You should have received this chapter's vocabulary list on Friday. If you did not, please see me asap so I can give you a copy.
Jan. 8: Document-based question (DBQ) worth 60 points. The topic will be early U.S. foreign policy (1789-1804). Please make sure you review this topic prior to the DBQ. so that you can use additional knowledge beyond the documents you will be given. If you have any questions on format and content, ask them Monday.
Jan. 9 & 10: Lectures on Jacksonian Democracy. Reading notes on Chapter 9 will checked on January 9 and are worth 30 points.
Jan. 23: Vocabulary sheets for Chapter 10 are due Friday, along with Chapter 10 notes. I will distribute the Chapter 11 vocabulary sheet on Friday.
Jan. 28: Chapter 11 - "Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South" : Monday and Tuesday. Chapter 12 - "Antebellum Culture and Reform" : Wednesday and Thursday. Friday: Quiz on Chapter 12.
Also: Primary documents and questions from Chapter 10 are due Tuesday. For those who were not here, the assignment is due Thursday.
Feb. 4: I will hand back Chapter 10 and Chapter 11 quizzes. Lecture on Chapter 13: Manifest Destiny, Americans in Texas, the Westward Migration, Stephen Austin, Sam Houston, the Alamo, Santa Anna.
Feb. 5: Handout from James McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom, Oregon Territory, Expansion and War, Election of James Polk, California, the Mexican War, Compromise of 1850, Dred Scott, "Bleeding Kansas". John Brown, the election of Lincoln.
Feb. 6: Part 1 of Ken Burns' Civil War video. Students will receive a worksheet with 30 questions. The worksheet is worth 50 points.
Feb. 7 & 8: Lectures on the Civl War.
Your only at-home assignment this week is to read Chapters 13 & 14. I WILL CHECK CH. 13 NOTES ONLY ON FRIDAY. Notes are worth 30 points.
Week of Feb. 11
Feb. 11: In-class project on major battles of the Civil War. Class will be broken up into 6 small groups. Each group will be assigned a major Civil War battle. Students will have 10 minutes to create a brief presentation on the battle answering "who, what, where, when & why" from the textbook. Each group will report out their findings. Students will be required to take notes on ALL of the battles.
Feb. 12: The Gettysburg Address. Teacher will read document aloud, then ask for students' primary reactions to the document. Then students will receive a worksheet asking specific questions about the address. The worksheet is due at the end of class. If it is not completed students will have to finish it for homework.
Feb. 19: ATTENTION JUNIORS: Please do not forget that TOPICS are due for RESEARCH PAPERS. This is the first part of the timeline of assignments we discussed in class and which are detailed on the research paper sheet I distributed in class. On Tuesday, when you return to school, all you need to do is come to class with a piece of paper that has your name on it and your research topic. For this, you will earn 10 points!!! PLEASE DO NOT FORGET. YOU WILL RECEIVE A ZERO IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A TOPIC.
Feb. 19: Ch. 14 Vocabulary Sheets are due. (70 points)
Feb. 22: Ch. 15 Vocabulary Sheets are due. (70 points)
AP U.S. History test preparation books: If you are planning to take the AP U.S. History exam on May 9, you need to purchase, borrow or somehow obtain a test preparation book and begin practicing questions at home. I will be assigning at least four more Document-Based Questions before the exam, but it is YOUR responsibility to take the initiative to practice questions and familiarize yourself with the test at home. If you are having a difficult time getting a book, see me and I will assist you in finding one.
Feb. 25: Class oral reports on different aspects of Reconstruction and their connections to what the U.S. is doing in Iraq.
Feb. 26: Continuation of class reports. Sources due for research paper (10 points).
Feb. 27: Analysis of Kenneth Stamp reading. If you have not received the Stamp's handout please see ASAP!
Feb. 28: Reconstruction wrap-up lecture. Homework: Read first half of Chapter 16.
Feb. 29: Chapter 16 intro. lecture.
March 3: 2nd lecture on Chapter 16, Review of documents given out on Friday: The Dawes Act and The Frontier in American History.
March 4: Wrap-up lecture on Chapter 16 and chapter note check (30 points).
March 5: Chapter 16 quiz. Introductory lecture on Chapter 17.
March 6: Lecture on Chapter 17 & distribution of vocabulary list (Due March 11, 75 points.)
March 7: Wrap-up lecture on Chapter 17. DBQs due!
March 8 & 9: Read Chapter 18. Work Chapter 17 Vocab. list.
March 10: Video on Homestead Strike. Begin lecture on Ch.18, plus vocab list and notes for 18. Being reading Chapter 19. I also have my Ch. 17 lecture notes available for anyone who wants them.
March 11: Lecture on Chapter 19
March 12: Lecture of Chapter 19. Ch. 18 Vocab list due.
March 13: Lecture on Chapter 20
MARCH 13: REMINDER - Your THESIS STATEMENT and 15 NOTE CARDS ARE DUE TOMORROW. This assignment is worth 10 points and brings you one step closer to completing your research paper.
March 17: Class work - Chapter 18 Vocabulary sheet. Please pay attention to the AP College Board themes I wrote on the first page of the vocab sheet. As per our discussion Friday, all Vocab sheets will due AFTER spring break. If you like, you may hand them in earlier.
March 18 & 19: U.S. imperialism, Spanish-American War, annexation of the Philippines, Puerto Rico, the "Open-Door" policy with China.
March 31: Lecture on Woodrow Wilson, biography intertwined with his progressive reforms as president, his vision as a moral world leader who was destined to create a new world order based on "moral democrac." America's "strained neutrality" concerning World War I. Distribute "Roosevelt Corrolary" to Monroe Doctrine, setting stage for U.S. to become international "police force" and interventionist in the realm of foreign policy.
April 1: U.S. intervention into WW I after 1916 elections. Discussion of new war technology, trench warfare. Domestic scene during war, including discussion of agencies and boards established.
April 2: Wilson's post-war Fourteen Point Plan, including the creation of a League of Nations. U.S. Senate bitter opposition to plan, including speech by U.S. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. Wilson's stroke during national tour to garner support for his 14-point plan. Defeat of the League of Nations, setting stage for unfair war reparations on Germany by Britain and France, setting the stage for WW II.
April 3: The Roaring Twenties. Youth culture, speak-easies, bootleggers, the "Lost Generatio." F. Scott Fitzgerald and flappers.
April 4: Causes of stock market crash of 1929 serving as catalyst for economic collapse in 1928. Review of presidencies of Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover and the election of FDR.
April 7 & 8: The Great Depression. The Dust Bowl. The New Deal.
April 9: Storm clouds in Europe. America girds for another war. Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. FDR's declaration of war.
April 10 & 11: WW II
REMINDER: MR. STANCAVISH WILL BE STAYING AFTER SCHOOL EVERY AFTERNOON from 3:30 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. from April 8 to May 8 for extra AP U.S. History test prep sessions. During these sessions, we will review material we've covered throughout the year, practice multiple choice questions and work on document-based questions and short essays. Practice, practice, practice=a higher score on the AP test.
April 14-17 (no class on Friday, April 18): wrap-up of World War II: brief biography of Harry Truman, Hiroshima & Nagasaki, the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan. Lecture on Cold War: foreign policy of containment, the Iron Curtain, the War Pact, McCarthyism, the Red Scare, impact of the Cold War on American society, Eisenhower years, 50s culture.
WW II Vocabulary sheet due by April 18.
HOMEWORK FOR BREAK: Read chapters 29 & 30. Take notes for Chapter 29 only, but make sure you READ Chapter 30 as there are many important aspects of US post-war history included in the chapter. Chapter 29 notes will be checked Wednesday, April 23.
April 28: Discuss of Friday's DBQ. Many of you impressed me with your performance on the DBQ! I am proud of all of you. Keep practicing! A high score on the AP exam is function of how much time YOU put in to reviewing and studying. Lecture on 50s culture, Eisenhower years. distribute Chapter 30 Vocabulary sheet, due May 5.
April 29: early civil rights movements of the late 1950s dovetailing into discussion of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The Kennedy administration - The New Frontier, the ordeal of liberalism, Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Peace Corps, Space program, assasination in Dallas.
April 30: Lyndon Baines Johnson and the Great Society, escalation of U.S. intervention in Vietnam, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, LBJ's war on poverty, Medicare and Medicaid, SNCC, Freedom Rides, the Tet Offensive, LBJ's decision not to run, assassination of King and RFK, election of Nixon.
May 1: The New Left, Hippie CounterCulture, feminism, environmental causes, Nixon, Kissinger and "Vietnamization." Kent State, "Peace with Honor", the fall of Saigon, Nixon and China, the Watergate Crisis.
May 5-8: IN-CLASS REVIEW FOR AP EXAM. You will have a DBQ on Tuesday.
May 9: AP Test. 9 a.m. Good luck! You have all worked hard and I am confident that every one of you taking has worked hard to prepare. You all bring your own unique set of abilites and talents that will result in high scores. Believe!
