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APUSH SUMMER ASSIG�ME�T DIRECTIO�S 2012

Congratulations on your decision to challenge yourself with the AP experience in United States History! Advanced Placement United States History, or APUSH, will provide you with the most challenging and rewarding academic experience you have encountered in your educational career. APUSH is designed to provide you the opportunity to experience college level work within the more structured and supported environment of the high school setting.

Using the Course Website

Please use the following directions for our online course website. If you have any difficulties, please email me at [email protected]. Understand that the website undergoes revisions each summer as I prepare for the new school year. Please feel free to email me questions at any time. You may also post your questions to the discussion area topic titled “Questions for Mr.

Roberts.” Please check your gmail accounts regularly for updates and clarifications on the

summer assignment.

1. Follow these directions for accessing your google docs and gmail:

A. Use Google Crome if possible B. Go to: http://student.guhsdaz.org C. Log in

a. User name: Student ID Number b. Password: Infinite Campus Password

D. Trouble Shooting When Logging in from Home

a. check that you are going to correct URL: http://student.guhsdaz.org (no www)

b. Try: http://docs.google.com/a/student.guhsdaz.org c. User name: Student ID [email protected] (only use for

this URL)

d. Password: Infinite Campus Password

2. Check your mail by going to the mail tab in the upper left-hand corner of the page.

3. Go to the email sent from me inviting you to my group and accept the invitation. If you had me as a teacher (including advisory), you are already a member and did not get an invite email.

4. Open a new tab and paste the following URL into your browser: https://sites.google.com/a/guhsdaz.org/roberts-apus-summer-assignment/

From the home page, you can access a variety of content from the website. As I said before, I

make changes to the site during the summer. You can click on any of the white tabs at the top of the page under the site title to go to different pages on the site. The discussion area is your link to your fellow students and to me. We will host school appropriate discussions throughout the year. Please be respectful of your fellow students as all school rules apply within this site. The documents will give you access to electronic copies or our assignments and various materials. The useful links will take you to sites helpful for the study of American History. Please explore each of the pages on the site and post questions or email me as necessary. I also suggest that you form study groups of four to five students to assist you in reviewing and preparing for exams.

Reading the First Three Chapters

You will need to check out a copy of the textbook, American History a Survey 11th edition, from the bookstore by Tuesday, May 29

th, 2012. The author of your textbook, Alan

Brinkley, is the highly respected department chairperson of the history department at Columbia University. You will also need to check out a copy of our test preparation book titled, “Multiple Choice and Free Response Questions with DBQ in Preparation for the AP United States History Examination 5th Edition, from the bookstore. You will need to read the first three chapters of the textbook over the summer and complete several tasks using the information you read about in these chapters. The test preparation book has a lot of good supplemental information and practice quizzes which will help you to understand your textbook and prepare for exams. I have included a key for the quizzes in this packet. Rest assured that this summer assignment does not include any fluff. Instead, I hope that this assignment will allow you the opportunity to get a head start on the work we will be doing throughout the year. That way, we will have more time in class for activities designed to prepare you for the rigors of the AP exam at the end of the year.

Understand that the text we use is a college level text. You cannot read this book the same way that you read a novel. Many of the concepts are complex and you will be expected to retain both knowledge of the concepts and the supporting details which explain the concepts. Your exams will be cumulative, meaning that each test throughout the year will cover all of the material from the beginning of the year. This means that you will have to review your notes on a regular basis, and of course, you will need notes to review.

Before reading each section of the text, you should review the reading questions I have provided in this packet. Often times, it is easy for readers to get bogged down in all of the information provided in such a high level text. The reading questions are designed to help you focus your attention on what is important. Review the essay questions from the study guides included in this packet. These big picture questions will help you frame the chapter into the main ideas. Next read the chapter introduction and scan the timeline at the beginning of the chapter. Then review the blue and brown headings for each section of the chapter. Finally, read the chapter conclusion at the end. By following this pre-reading procedure, you are preparing your mind to accept the information in an organized fashion.

You are then expected to annotate as you read the text. Please do not write in your text. Instead, you may use post it notes and a 70-100 page spiral notebook or a loose leaf binder. You can take the notes on the post it notes and leave them in your text as you read or you choose to take the notes directly in the spiral notebook or binder. When you take your notes directly in the notebooks or when you are organizing your post it notes in the notebook you should use the headings in each section of the book to title each section and sub-section of notes in the spiral notebook. Start by writing a brief summary covering the chapter introduction below your chapter title. Follow the Harvard outlining process by assigning each blue heading from the textbook a Roman numeral and each brown heading from the textbook a letter. Write these heading in your notebook and then place your postings under the appropriate heading or take your notes directly below the headings. Be sure to leave space to make additional notes as you place the post it notes in your notebook or write your notes directly in you notebook. This will also make it easier for you to read your notes later on when you review. Basically, divide each notebook paper in half. On the left-hand side will be the notes you take on the post it notes or directly into the notebook, on the right-hand side will be the room you leave to write your additional notes, etc. which are explained below.

As you organize your notebook, make additional notes which predict outcomes, connect ideas, summarize main ideas, ask and answer questions you think of and clarify key terms. You may end up with some questions you cannot answer which you will bring to class to be answered in group discussion. You should leave space in your notebook to write the answers to these questions. Finally, you should write a brief summary of a few sentences following each brown section. Don’t get bogged down with the details, stick with the main ideas presented in the

section. This process outlined above is how you will study and prepare for your exams for this class and in college. Simply reading the material is not enough to allow you to recall the amount of information you to need to remember for the test, nor does it prepare you for the high level of complexity you will encounter in the essay questions. Understand that this course is designed to help you prepare for the work you will need to do in order to be successful in college. Working together, I know we can be successful in helping you to prepare for the challenges you will face in your academic future.

�AME A�D �UMBER OF CHAPTER

SUMMARRY:

I. BLUE HEADI�G �AME A�D �OTES ADDITIO�AL �OTES

POST IT �OTE WITH YOUR �OTES OR

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A. BROW� HEADI�G �AME A�D �OTES



WRITE SUMMARY OF �OTES HERE

B. BROW� HEADI�G �AME A�D �OTES ADDITIO�AL �OTES



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Watching the Video Clips

You will find that you may learn in a variety of ways. Some people learn from reading, some from listening, some from seeing and some from doing. With this in mind, you will need to supplement your reading with other sources of information. Once source you will use will be video clips that correlate with the reading and our lessons in class. These clips can be found in two places on the website under useful links. You can either go the UC OPEN ACCESS site or the HIPPO CAMPUS site. Navigate to AP US History and then view the appropriate lessons. The lessons are organized in chronological order just like your textbook. After you read a chapter in the textbook, go to the website you choose and watch the clips which match up with what you read. Use the table of contents in your text to match up with the clips on your chosen site. As you watch the videos, you may pause them, watch them as many times as you like, or even read the text version by selecting the text tab. You should take notes while you watch and add these notes to the additional notes section of your notebook. You do not have to write down things you already wrote down when reading the text.

Completing the Reading Guides

I suggest previewing these questions before completing your reading to help focus your note taking skills. I have attached the reading guides which contain the questions with graphs and

spaces to answer each question for the first three chapters to this assignment. After you finish reviewing your notes, you are ready to answer the reading questions. Some questions are more easily answered using a chart, timeline, or bullets, while most of the questions can be answered with a 5-7 sentence paragraph. If you struggle with a particular reading question, I suggest posting a question on the discussion area so that I or your fellow students can help you with the question. You will find that you will actually understand the questions and material better if you take the time to explain your answers to your peers. This is why we will spend substantial time in and out of class discussing the answers to these questions in small groups. These “study groups” will be the key to your success and learning in this class and in your college career. You may work with other students to complete these reading questions but each student must write the answers on their own reading guides. During the year, we will complete these questions in class in small groups. I will be checking these guides the first week of class for a

grade.

Reviewing the Study Guides

I have attached the study guides for the first three chapters to this assignment. You are responsible for all of the information from the text, delivered in the lectures and from the study guides. In order to assist with this task, I have provided you with a list of all of the key terms and essay questions which have appeared on previous exams. You can find the definitions for these terms on the websites listed under the useful links tab. I will also be adding a list of these key terms and their definitions under the documents tab. The essay questions listed at the top of each study guide will help you frame to overall main ideas for the chapters. You are responsible for being able to answer each of these essay questions on your exams. You will find that the key terms will be used as supporting information to answer the essay questions. I suggest using the essay questions as topics for your study groups. You can also find the answers to many of these essay questions on the College Board website listed under useful links.

Completing the Quizzes

After completing your study of the assigned chapters, you will want to check your understanding of the material. Two websites under the useful links tab will give you access to electronic quizzes designed for this purpose. The first is the textbook website. Click on the link, go to the student center, select the appropriate chapter and then click on the quiz. After you finish, you submit your

answers and check to see the areas you still need to review. You follow the same process on the second site which is the history teacher website. Click on the link and then click on AP US History Quizzes on the tab at the top. Choose and click the quiz you want to take. This site grades each question as you answer. These questions will give you a good idea of the types of questions you will see on your exams. Reading the Supplemental Texts

In addition to reading the first three chapters in the textbook, you will also be required to read the first chapter and through page 59 in the second chapter of the first supplemental text. The title of the book is “Don’t Know Much about History: Everything You Need to Know About American History But Never Learned”by Kenneth C. Davis. You will also need to read the first three essays in the second supplemental text. The title of the second book is “A People’s History of the United States 1492 – Present” by Howard Zinn. You will need to purchase a copy of the Davis book for your personal use throughout the school year or check it out from the public library. I have posted a link to the online version of the Zinn book under the useful links tab. These books are very easy to read as compared to our textbook, and provide an interesting and sometimes humorous look at American history from the perspective of noted historians. It is critical for you to be exposed to a variety of historical interpretations. It is very important that you begin to understand that the study of history is much less the study of definitive facts, but rather the study of historical interpretation. I will spend very little time trying to convince you of a given historical perspective, but will instead teach you to read, analyze and evaluate a variety of historical interpretations and sources of information in order for you to form your own opinions and interpretations that you can support with evidence you have gathered. That’s right! I actually want you to think on your own and argue and support your own opinions! The updated paperback version of the Davis book was first published in 2003 by Harper Collins and later by Perennial in 2004. The ISBN number is 0-06-008382-4. The book cost $14.95 brand new in its paperback version and is available at most major book sellers, but is available for much less online at various dealers such as Amazon.com. I have seen it for prices ranging from $4 to $15, used to new, in both paperback and hardcover editions. You do not need to take notes while reading these books. Instead, you will need to participate in an online discussion with your classmates on the website. I have provided you with a posting topic in the discussion area of the website for each of the chapters and appendices in the Davis supplemental text and a posting topic for each of the essays in the Zinn supplemental text requiring you to post a response to a given question and to also comment on the response of at least one of your peers. Your comments should be appropriate, but please do not hesitate to agree or disagree. Make sure you support your arguments with evidence from your study. You are expected to complete the reading

assignments in these books and complete your online responses for chapter one only in the

Davis book and for the first three essays in the Zinn book, prior to the first day of school.

Please email me or leave me a message on the discussion area if you have any questions regarding these books.

The Weekly Schedule

One of the biggest challenges of taking AP and advanced coursework is learning to organize and structure your preparation time. Normally, colleges tell you that you should spend three hours outside of the classroom studying for every hour you spend in the classroom. Since high school requires you to attend additional classroom hours, we try to cut down on this number a bit. I

expect you to spend seven hours per week preparing for APUSH outside of the classroom. This seven hour figure should be the same for any other AP courses you take. Advanced courses normally take five hours per week, and regular courses take two to three hours per week. You also need to plan for a minimum of eight hours per day for sleep, two hours per day for at least three meals (30 min breakfast, 30 min lunch, and 1 hour dinner), travel time to and from school

and time to shower, etc. Add to this the hours needed for any extracurricular activities, church, a job and social time. Using these guidelines, you need to construct a seven day, twenty-four hours per day schedule for an average week. The schedule should be color coded, using one color per activity, on one piece of 8 ½ by 11 paper. Do not place doctor’s appointments, other appointments or other one-time events on the schedule. In other words, this is not a calendar for each individual day. It is a general schedule which will help you plan your time on a regular basis. You will be expected to submit this schedule on the first day of school, and revise it on a regular basis. See the next page for an example. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

10pm-6am Sleep

10pm-6am Sleep

10pm-6am Sleep

10pm-6am Sleep

10pm-6am Sleep

10pm-6am Sleep

10pm-6am Sleep

6-7am Shower and breakfast







7-7:30am Travel time





7-7:30am Personal time

7-7:30am Personal time

7:30-8:00am Meet with teachers, study groups





7:30-8am Personal time

7:30-8am Personal time

8:00am – 2:30pm classes and lunch





8:00am-12:00pm Catch up on Studying Time

8:00am-12:00pm Family Time

2:30-5:30pm After school activities





12:00-5:30pm lunch and job

12:00-5:30pm lunch and job

5:30-6:30pm Dinner

5:30-6:30pm Dinner

5:30-6:30pm Dinner

5:30-6:30pm Dinner

5:30-6:30pm Dinner

5:30-6:30pm Dinner

5:30-6:30pm Dinner

6:30-10:00pm Study Time





6:30-10:00pm Personal Time

6:30-10:00pm Personal Time

10pm-12am Sleep

10pm-12am Sleep

10pm-12am Sleep

10pm-12am Sleep

10pm-12am Sleep

10pm-12am Sleep

10pm-12am Sleep

The schedule listed above is just an example of the one you will construct. Your schedule will need to be complete, time specific and color coded. If you have any questions, please email me. As I stated above, this summer assignment will give you a head start on your work for this next year. Please email me with any questions at [email protected]. It is impossible to do this assignment well in a short amount of time. Please start early and plan ahead. Good luck and see you next school year! Sincerely, Mr. Roberts

Pre-Columbian Societies

Chapter 1 pages 2-9

1. Compare and contrast the civilizations of the �orth with the Civilizations of

the South.

Civilizations of the �orth Civilizations of the South

2. Why do historians disagree about whether or not the study of history is an

exact science? ________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________

What is historical interpretation? ___________________________________

________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________

Why is it important to treat history as an inexact science?_______________

________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________

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Transatlantic Encounters and Colonial Beginnings

Chapter 1 pages 9-23

1. What motivated Europe to look westward?

2. Why were Columbus’ voyages significant? _____________________________

________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

3. Describe the explorations and settlements of the Spanish. How did they treat

the �atives? What did they learn from the �atives? What effect did they

have on the Americas?

Explorations Settlements

Treatment of �ative Americans Learned from �ative Americans

Impact on America

4. Explain the origins of the African slave trade and the growth of the trade.

Origins Growth


1. What motivated the English and the French to get involved in exploration?

English French

2. Describe the explorations and settlements of the English. How did they treat





Impact on America

3. Describe the explorations and settlements of the French. How did they treat





Impact on America

4. Describe the explorations and settlements of the Dutch. How did they treat





Impact on America

Transatlantic Encounters and Colonial Beginnings

Chapter Two pages 32-40

1. Describe the difficulties faced by the settlers of Jamestown?

2. What ultimately saved the settlements of the Chesapeake? ________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Where did they learn these agricultural techniques? ___________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________

3. How did the settlement deal with the shortage of labor? __________________

________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________

4. How did the colony of Maryland differ from the original Chesapeake

Colony?

Maryland Chesapeake

5. Why was Bacon’s Rebellion significant? _______________________________

________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________


1. How did the settlement of the Plymouth Colony differ from the settlement of

the Chesapeake? How were they similar?

Plymouth Chesapeake

2. What motivated the creation of the Massachusetts Bay Colony? ___________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________

How was it different from the colonies of the Chesapeake?

Massachusetts Bay Chesapeake Bay

3. Describe the colonies and movements which splintered from the

Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Connecticut Valley �ew Haven

Rhode Island Anne Hutchinson

�ew Hampshire Maine

4. What difficulties did the colonists have with the �atives? How did the natives

assist them?

Difficulties Assistance


1. Describe the motivations behind the creation of each of the Restoration

Colonies. Compare and contrast these colonies with each other and the

colonies which were settled earlier. You may want to construct a chart.

English Civil War �ew York

Carolinas �ew Jersey

Pennsylvania Delaware

2. Describe the settlements in the Caribbean. Why were they so unstable? How

did they impact the settlement of the Americas?

Caribbean Settlement Instability Causes Impact on America

3. What lead to the founding of the colony of Georgia?

4. What lead to the conflict between the British and �atives?

5. Describe the evolution of the British Empire. How did the settlers respond to

this reorganization? How did the King respond to the settlers?

Evolution of Empire Settlers Respond King Responds

A.P. U. S. HISTORY: CHAPTER 1 STUDY GUIDE: PLEASE A�SWER THE

FOLLOWI�G WITH A THESIS STATEME�T A�D A BRIEF OUTLI�E: 1. In what ways was the early history of the Americas a Red, White, and Black

collision? 2. Compare and contrast England’s early efforts at colonization to Spain’s. Be sure to

take into account the incentives and sequence of events.

PLEASE FI�D THE HISTORICAL SIG�IFICA�CE OF THE FOLLOWI�G: Richard Hakluyt Enclosure movement English Reformation Merchant Capitalist Calvinist Puritans Mercantilism Church of England Coureurs de bois “Separatists” Sir Francis Drake Elizabeth 1st Spanish Armada James 1st Roanoke Sir Humphrey Gilbert Sir Walter Raleigh Plantations Utopia


FOLLOWI�G WITH A THESIS STATEME�T A�D A BRIEF OUTLI�E:

1. “Although New England and the Chesapeake region were both largely settled by people of English origin, by 1700 the regions had evolved into two distinct societies. Why did this difference in development occur?

2. Discuss the interaction between culture and the environment in developing the American culture.

PLEASE FI�D THE HISTORICAL SIG�IFICA�CE OF THE FOLLOWI�G: London Company “patroonships” Fundamental Orders “Starving time” William Penn King Phillip’s War House of Burgesses Oglethorpe Quakers Lord Baltimore Jamestown John Rolfe Headright system John Smith Indentured servants Sugar cultivation Tobacco Powhatan Plymouth Plantation Sir William Berkeley Pocahontas Puritans Bacon’s Rebellion Toleration Act “Freemen” Separatists William Bradford Anne Hutchinson “Theocracy” “Saints” Pequot War “City upon a hill” Mayflower Compact Squanto James River Thomas Hooker John Winthrop Roger Williams Plymouth John Cotton Navigation Acts Mercantilism “The elect” Glorious Revolution Sir Edmund Andros Hudson River Dominion of New England Leisler’s Rebellion New Amsterdam “Inner light” Philadelphia


FOLLOWI�G WITH A THESIS STATEME�T A�D A BRIEF OUTLI�E: 1. In the seventeenth century, New England Puritans tried to create a model society. What were their aspirations and to what extent were those aspirations fulfilled during the seventeenth century? 2. “Throughout the Colonial period, economic concerns had more to do with the settling of British North America than did religious concerns.” Assess the validity of this statement with specific reference to economic and religious concerns. 3. Analyze the extent to which religious freedom existed in British North American colonies prior to 1700.

PLEASE FI�D THE HISTORICAL SIG�IFICA�CE OF THE FOLLOWI�G: Congregationalism William and Mary “Visible saints” Patriarchy Town meetings Scotch-Irish “Covenant” The Great Awakening Dutch Harvard Patroonships

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