About+the+Course

**Betty Friedan **
 * "WOMEN OF THE WORLD UNITE! YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT YOUR VACUUM CLEANER." **


 * Welcome to the 2012 - 2013 Advanced Placement United States History class at Archbishop O’Hara High School, affectionately known as APUSH. **



** Skills, Attitudes and Expectations ** Understand that this is a college course, available for college credit from Rockhurst University. More information to follow.

Learn how to deal with ambiguity, examine different points of view, master a broad body of historical knowledge.

Learn how to exercise responsibility.

Learn how to organize, learn to learn for the "long haul". Review for the long haul. Go over materials covered in class on your own each night!!! Don't throw one thing away from History Class. Use a filing system!

Working within time limits! 55 minutes for 80 multiple choice questions, FRQ 5 to plan, 30 to write, DBQ 15 to read and plan, 45 to write. We will practice timed writing and testing all year long. Meet deadlines.

Keeping an interactive notebook. Spiral, industrial strength, 150 page notebook for history.

Juggling several demanding courses and active social and extracurricular schedules at the same time.

Learning to listen, read, and follow directions individually and working well as a team to produce products and solve problems.

Dealing with serious, demanding reading materials. When and how to read closely, when and how to skim. Knowing that reading is homework.

Learning to write an AP FRQ and DBQ college level "historical essay". Addressing the Prompt.

Handling and interpreting different types of primary and secondary resources such as cartoons, graphs, letters, photographs, etc.

Learning how to take and use effective notes for yourself all year long!

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Demonstrating an understanding of historical chronology and an understanding of "Historiography".

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Challenge yourself to work as hard as you can.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Learn how to use your ipad and WHEN to use it.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Learn how tothink conceptually about the American past and we will focus and ultimately recognize historical change over time with emphasis on the following themes recommended by AP: American Diversity. American Identity, Culture, Demographic Change, Economic Transformations, Environment, Globalization, Politics and Citizenship, Reform, Religion, Slavery, and War and Diplomacy.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Prepare for and successfully passthe AP U.S. History Exam.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Student Tools** <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**or**  <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Ways of Thinking About History**
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">What are the Political, Religious, Intellectual, Cultural, Economic, Technological, Artistic, Geographical, Social implications of the historical event? Think **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">PRICE TAGS **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">!!
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">What are the Immediate, Short-Term, and Long-Lasting implications of the Events?
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Is there Change-Over-Time?
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">What are the Causes and Effects? What do Historians say about it?

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Questions you should ask yourself when tackling difficult reading materials:
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">What is the author's thesis?
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">What is the evidence used to support the thesis?
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">What is the author's conclusion?
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">What is the author's perspective and/or bias?
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">What is your opinion of the historical significance?

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Explain the "gist" of the article in your own words.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Think **S.O.A.P.S Tone** when evaluating difficult Primary Source Materials: Subject, Occupation (Time and Place) Audience Purpose Speaker Tone Questions you should ask when studying evidence and documents:
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">What exactly does the document mean?
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">How well situated was the author to observe or record the events in questions?
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">When, how, and to whom was the report made?
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Is there bias, either in the report, or in yourself, that must be accounted for?
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Is there any faulty reasoning? If so, why is it faulty?
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">What specialized information is needed to interpret the source?
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Do the reported actions seem probable according to the dictates of informed common sense?
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Is there corroborating testimony?
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Is it a valuable (primary or secondary) source in its origin and purpose?
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">In what way does the evidence assist you in drawing a conclusion?