AP US History 2015/2016 Assignments

DBQ Worksheet- look for the DBQ in the appendix of American Pageant (P A116).  Use the worksheet to help you formulate ideas for you essay.  You will need to have this worksheet completed to help write your essay in class.

Semester Final!!!! The semester final will be given upon return from Winter Break.  This exam will cover the entire semester and is worth 1 test grade.  Attached is a study guide with questions for students to answer to help prepare for the exam.  Go back through my previous posts to find any insights that are not in your notebooks.

 

More importantly, this exam is optional but can help your grade immensely.  First, if you have missed any tests (like the last one given on Dec. 16 covering the Civil War), this test is not optional.  You currently have a fail for those exams and only this final can be used to change those missing test grades. 

 

This final exam will also be able to replace any previous test if the final exam grade is higher than a previous test.  If you earn a "B" on the final, I will replace any test score where the student scored lower than a "B".  This final exam can dramatically change a students grade for the better.  If a student already has an "A" in the class, relax!!!!  You do not need to take the exam and you earned a well deserved rest.  Congratulations on a good semester.  For all other students, please look back over the old insights, answer the questions in the study guide, review the study guide, create note cards, and work hard over the break (or at least the last week.)  If you cram Sunday night, you will not do well.

 

Also attached is a sample question from the final.  The questions are document based, so you need to read the document, figure it out, and apply what you have learned with the help of the document to answer the questions.

Test Civil War, Reconstruction

 

Look at Dec 3 and Dec 12 posts for Chapter Insights and Lecture Notes

Quiz- Reconstruction, also included insights for Civil War

three person debate pbs website

CH 22 Insights, Quiz on Tue

Quiz- Pre-Civil War and Civil War (worth 2 quiz grades.  Also, if you score higher on this quiz than the Pre-Civil War Quiz from before Thanksgiving Break, I will replace that score too.)

 

Attached is the cheat sheet/study guide you need to know and additional pp

Test Retake Ch 13,14,15,17 (Age of Jackson) at lunch.  This grade will replace the previous test grade if you score higher.  Attached is the study guide.  Use the PP attachments to help find the answers and write them on the study guide (read it and see what you don't remember), then create a cheat sheet (study that), then make note cards for anything on the cheatsheet you can't remember.

DBQ Essay- Did slavery cause the Civil War.  Attached is a PP that breaks down how to put the essay together with the docs and OI that you can use.  Hopefully, if were at class you have enough information to write this without the attachments, but if you need them, here they are.

Quiz CH 16/18 and 19- , closed note, big formative assessment worth 2 quiz grades postponed till Tuesday (not Monday).  I want to finish the lecture notes that I began last week on the causes of the Civil War (as well as allow people to focus on the retake for the test Monday at lunch).  It does not mean that you should blow off all work and not study ahead of time.  Attached are the answers to the above chapters and the lecture notes.  There is a lot of information with a lot of specific events you need to know, so begin memorizing it.

CH 19 Insights (complete to prepare for DBQ)

Ch `16/18 Insights (Quiz will be postponed but students need to complete Insights to help write a DBQ next week.)

Ch 17 Due Tue/Wed

Quiz- Ch 13,14,15 (not ch 17)  Attached is a study guide, so your assignment to help you study is...

1) answer the study guide by reviewing your chapter insights or the attached insights.  After reviewing the study guide and testing yourself...

2) Create a Cheat Sheet.  YOU WILL BE ABLE TO USE THE CHEAT SHEET ON THE QUIZ TOMORROW!!!  Rules for the cheat sheet(FAILURE TO ADHERE TO THESE RULES MEANS THAT YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO USE THE CHEAT SHEET)

 

1) cut one piece of paper in half and use both sides

or

2) use 1 whole piece of paper but ONLY THE FRONT SIDE

extra credit will be given for the cheat sheet

DBQ Cluster and Paragraph- Write 1 cluster and 1 paragraph about 2 of the arguments from the thesis developed in class on the Indian reaction to interaction with white America (not argument #1 regarding the American reaction.)  You can choose either of the 2 arguments

No hw due except to finish CH 13 for anyone that has not completed it yet.

Ch 13 Insights- Reading Quiz Tuesday (postponed from Monday)

Missouri Compromise Interactive Map- this is for the in class assignment.  It is not homework (but if you are absent you need to answer the questions in the attachment)

 

Essay Marbury v Madison for anyone who was not able to complete the essay in class (Per 2,4 because of PSAT and Homecoming activities).  Attached in an outline of how to put the essay together.

In class Essay- Essay will be based on the readings we started in class on Marbury v Madison.  Make sure to read the text, answer the question in the handout, and be prepared for the question that will be asked in class.

 

Assignment postponed till Tues/Wed

MAKE UP TEST #2- at lunch (1 day only).  All students in order to participate need to bring in a 1 page CHEAT SHEET.  Image if you could bring 1 sheet of paper in with all of the facts you can't remember in time for the exam.  Remember to study from it before taking the exam (They will not be allowed to be used during the exam, b ut are an invaluable study tool.)  Base the CHEAT SHEET on the study guide.  Remember to create note cards also based on the prior exam questions that we have reviewed in class.

Ch 11 Insight Quiz

Test #2- Pre-Revolutionary War-1800

 

Attached are all of the Power Points that deal with this unit in order to help fill out your study guide if needed. 

 

Top Tip to Study

After getting the answers to the study guide, look over the terms and see what you know and remember.  Whatever you don't remember, write it on 1 sheet of paper as if it is a large cheat sheet.  Use this sheet to help memorize those terms.  If there are still terms you can't master, use notecards.  Also, don't forget to look at the reviewed quiz questions.

 

Here are the answers to the Study Guide that I posted on the weeeked (It's coming down at 6:30, ideally your study guide should already be answered.) 

Study Guide Due Test on Chapters 7,8,9,10.  Define the terms to help prepare for the test on Tue and Wed.  For anybody looking online, here is the study guide with the answers also.  Have a good weekend (they will be taken down Monday).

CH 10 Due- attached are the qustions and the previous day's lecture. Make sure to look over the lecture before you begin reading.  It will help you understand the chapter.)

Quiz- Constitution (Closed note quiz based on Ch 9 and lecture notes "Confederation and Constitution".  Also attached is a study guide if you want to focus on what you need to know for the Quiz (just look up Constitution terms).

Reading on the Articles of Confederation (reading assignment attached below)

1) Highlight important parts in Text

2) Circle Terms

3) Parenthesize two key ideas in each section of the text

 

1 Paragraph and cluster of Factor 3 (Br. Army Actions) on the essay question "How did the 4 factors cause Americans to rebel" (powerpoint attached below "Rewrite and Define Subsections)

Ch 9 Insights Due- be ready for a Reading Quiz

Ch 7/8 Quiz (closed note) Please study, I will replace your Ch 7 quiz score if you score higher on this quiz.

Retake for Test #1- all students are invited to retake the first Test of the semester.  Please download and print the attached power point with access to the study guide you used before but with my information.

 

Retake will take place during lunch Thur, after school till 3:45 on Wed.  You can take the retest once.  The retest will replace your Test #1 and any quiz score from before the Test#1 date if you get a higher score.  A good score can dramatically change your grade!

Ch 8 Insights Due

Pre-Revolutionary War Quiz- closed note based on CH 7 Insights and Lecture Notes (Study!!!) CH 7/ years leading to Revolutionary War notes/ power point is attached.

CH 7 Insights Due- There will be an open Insight quiz upon arrival to class.

Test #1- Be prepared for your first test on Tuesday Per. 1,5,7 and Wednesday P.2,4.  It will cover Ch 2,3,4/5,6.  Attached is a study guide with exactly what you need to master.

Ch 4/5 and Ch 6 Insights Answers- here are the power points to answer what you need to know for the test and study guide in case you missed them in class.

Ch 6 Insights Due

Ch 4/5 Insights Due (note that both chapters are on the same sheet, Ch 5 is at the bottom)

Ch 3 Insights Due

Here is the power point for Ch 3 in case anyone was absent or needs it.  Please include it in your notebook if you do not have it.

Ch 2 Insights Due Friday (P2,4), Tues (P 1,5,7)

Also attached is the first lecture, Discovery and Settlement of the New World, as a preview of Ch 2

CH 2 Quiz will be given upon arrival to class (use can use your notes and Insights as an aid

 

Table of Contents

1) Lecture- Discovery and Settlement of New World

2) Ch 2 Insights