Mrs. Roberts
 

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The Advanced Placement Program in U.S. History is designed to provide
students with the analytic and factual knowledge necessary to deal
critically with the problems and material in United States history. The
course prepares students for intermediate and advanced college courses by
making demands upon them equivalent to those made by a full-year
introductory college course. Students should learn to assess historical
materials - their relevance to a given interpretive problem, their reliability,
and their importance and to weigh the evidence and interpretations
presented in historical scholarship. The course should then develop the skills
necessary to arrive at conclusions on the basis ofan informed judgment
and to present reasons and evidence clearly and persuasively in essay
format. A driving force of the class is preparation  for the national
advanced placement examination.
 

COURSE OBJECTIVES - The student will:

1. Explain facts and concepts of the broad spectrum of United States
    history according to the outline.

2. Analyze and interpret primary sources including documentary materials,
    maps, statistical tables, and pictorial and graphic evidence of
    historical events.

3. Take notes from both printed materials and lectures or discussions.

4. Write effective and organized essays.

5. Express historical concepts with clarity and understanding through oral
    presentations.

6. Cite sources and credit phrases and ideas of others in written and oral
    presentations.

7. Employ study skills that emphasize independent study and self-discipline
    necessary for college level work loads.

8. Correlate world events of the present with their historical background
    and impact on political and historical change.

9. Explain the political, social, and economic philosophies that
    contributed to the major developments of the American Republic.

10. Write a document-based essay that incorporates the information in
     primary sources with the knowledge acquired from personal study in a
     scholarly manner.