Strahn/Tranel: AP American Studies (AP US History and Honors English III)

Topic outline

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  COURSE INFO

  • Summer Reading Assignment (2018-19) File
  • AP American Studies Disclosure Document File
  • Accessing Moodle Page Instructions File
  • Foner Chapter Terms, 1-27 File
  • Intro Questionnaire File
  • English III Honors Major Works File
  • Hot Seat Instructions and Rubric File
  • College Board APUSH Concept Outline, Periods 1-9 File
  • Short Answer Question Overview (Fall 2018) File
  • Stimulus Based Multiple Choice Questions Handout (Fall 2017) File
  • Enrichment (Extra Credit) Projects (Fall 2018) File
  • Class Participation Self-Evaluation Rubric (2018) File
  • Rough Assignment Calendar--Semester 1 (2018-19) File
  • American Origins Reflection File
  • Enrichment Reading List File
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  READINGS, VIDEOS AND PODCASTS

  • Cherokee Origin Story File
  • Judeo-Christian Origin Story File
  • 1491--America Before Columbus (Not Required) File
  • America Before Columbus Video (Not Required) URL
  • Columbus letter File
  • HOT SEAT #1--Axtell, Moral Reflections on the Columbus Legacy File
  • Crash Course in History--The Columbian Exchange (John Green) URL
  • Sepulveda and Las Casas File
  • Las Casas, Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies File
  • Comparing Jamestown and Plymouth File
  • European Colonization of the New World Video (Not Required) URL
  • Crucible Character List File
  • New England Primer File
  • Schiff, The Witches of Salem (Not Required) File
  • Hutson, Still Puritan After All These Years (Not Required) File
  • New England Readings File
  • Echoes of Winthrop File
  • Linker, Calvin and American Exceptionalism (2009) File
  • The Crucible, Act Three File
  • Gottlieb Mittelberger, On the misfortune of Indentured Servants (1754) File
  • Indentured Servant Letters File
  • Olaudah Equiano, The Middle Passage File
  • Crash Course--The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Video (Not Required) URL
  • The Atlantic Slave Trade Video-Ted Talk Cartoon (Not Required) URL
  • Reason and Religion--The Philosophical Origins of the American Revolution File
  • Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God File
  • Ben Franklin, Proverbs File
  • The First Great Awakening Video (Not Required) URL
  • Homegoing Chaps. 1-2 File
  • Homegoing Character List File
  • What was society like in colonial North America? (Video--Not Required) URL
  • William Byrd's Diary File
  • The French and Indian War's Impact on America URL
  • Crash Course in History-French and Indian (Seven Years) War Video--John Green URL
  • Abigail and John Adams Letters File
  • Ben Franklin's "Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced" File
  • The Accomplishments of Ben Franklin File
  • Thomas Paine, Common Sense Excerpt File
  • Declaration of Independence File
  • Runaway Slave Advertisements, 1746-1849 File
  • How did colonial women express revolutionary ideas? (Video--Not Required) URL
  • How were native people affected by the American Revolution? (Video--Not Required) URL
  • How did slavery change after U.S. independence from Britain? (Video--Not Required) URL
  • HOT SEAT #2--Zinn and Wood, Contrasting Views of the Founding Fathers File
  • Phillis Wheatley poems File
  • Jefferson comments on race File
  • Federalists and Anti-Federalists Handout File
  • Why did Federalists and Anti-Federalists disagree about representation? (Video--Not Required) URL
  • Various Comments on Washington File
  • Jefferson and the Indians File
  • Red Jacket, Tecumseh, and Black Hawk Speeches File
  • HOT SEAT #3--Violence in American Life File
  • Emerson & Thoreau readings File
  • Emerson and Thoreau quotations File
  • Thoreau's Philosophy (Video) URL
  • Pro Slavery Arguments File
  • Alexander Telfair-Instructions to an Overseer File
  • A Catechim For Slaves (1854) File
  • Letters from Four Escaped Slaves (1840-1860) File
  • Hot Seat #4--Antebellum Feminism and Its Modern Parallels File
  • Frederick Douglass--Battle with Mr. Covey File
  • Frederick Douglass, The Meaning of the Fourth of July for the Negro (1852) File
  • Political Parties Handout File
  • Civil Disobedience, Thoreau File
  • Thoreau and Civil Disobedience (Non-Required Video) URL
  • HOT SEAT #5--Evaluating John Brown File
  • Various Lincoln Readings File
  • Emancipation Proclamation File
  • Gettysburg Address File
  • Frederick Douglass, Memorial Oration on Lincoln File
  • The Mississippi Black Codes (1865) File
  • Sharecropping Contract File
  • Frederick Douglass Criticizes Reconstruction (1882) File
  • Debating Reconstruction File
  • Whitman's Song of Myself excerpts File
  • Whitman's Come up from the Fields, Father File
  • Whitman's O Pioneers! File
  • Dickinson's "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" Original File
  • Emily Dickinson "Much Madness" File
  • Emily Dickinson "My Life Closed Twice" and "Some Keep the Sabbath" File
  • The Story of an Hour File
  • Chicago World's Fair of 1893 Video URL

    Watch from beginning to 12:44; skip to 35:00 (The State Buildings) and watch to 37:30; skip to 101:20 (The Midway) and watch to 107:50; skip to 114:00 (The Ferris Wheel) and watch to the pictures of the firefighters.

  • Industrialization Pros and Cons File
  • How America Became a Superpower URL
  • Imperialism vs. Anti-Imperialism File
  • Twain on Imperialism File
  • Whitman on Imperialism File
  • Twain's Battle Hymn of the Republic Revised File
  • Frank Lloyd Wright Study Guide File

    See the assignment on Google Classroom with links to information and videos to help you complete this study guide.

  • Teddy Roosevelt--In The Arena, 1901-1910 URL
  • Upton Sinclair The Jungle excerpt File
  • HOT SEAT #6--Civil Liberties in Wartime File
  • Iron Jawed Angels URL
  • President Ignores Suffrage Pickets (1917) File
  • 20,000 March in Suffrage Parade (1917) File
  • 50 Facts on Iron Jawed Angels File
  • Comparing Washington, DuBois, and Garvey File
  • One Book One Bozeman Enrichment URL

    See the Bozeman Public Library schedule for events in Feb. 6, 11, 12, 19, and 26 related to Love and Other Consolation Prizes. Attend the event and write a 1-page reflection on what you learned. 10 enrichment points per event/reflection (maximum of 2 events for 20 points).

  • American Protective Association Oath (1893) File
  • The Pope's Dream--A Roman Catholic America (Political Cartoon) File
  • The Ku Klux Klansman Manual (1925) File
  • Woody Guthrie Song Lyrics File
  • Franklin Roosevelt, The Four Freedoms Speech File
  • Japanese Internment Overview URL
  • FDR's Failure of Moral Leadership File
  • HOT SEAT #7--Dropping the Atomic Bomb File
  • Atomic Cafe Video Excerpts (28 min) URL
  • Atomic Cafe Video Segment Note Guide File
  • Emmett Till Segment--Eyes on the Prize URL
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott Segment--Eyes on the Prize URL
  • King, When Peace Becomes Obnoxious File
  • Little Rock Segment--Eyes on the Prize URL
  • Little Rock Video Segment Note Guide File
  • Birmingham Segment (Part 1)--Eyes on the Prize URL
  • Birmingham Segment (Part 2)--Eyes on the Prize URL
  • King, I Have a Dream File
  • Lyndon Johnson, Why We Are In Vietnam File
  • King, Why I am Opposed to the War in Vietnam (1967) File
  • Student Protest Statements of the 1960s File
  • Protest Songs of the 1960s and 1970s File
  • Hot Seat #8--Comparing MLK and Malcolm X File
  • Martin Luther King vs. Malcolm X URL
  • Tim O'Brien, On The Rainy River File
  • Tim O'Brien, Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong File
  • Tim O'Brien, Speaking of Courage File
  • Hot Seat #9--Comparing Afghanistan and Vietnam File

  
  
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  STRAHN'S POWERPOINTS

  • Pre-Columbian America File
  • The British Colonies File
  • The Puritans File
  • Servants and Slaves--Mittelberger and Equiano File
  • Great Awakening and Enlightenment File
  • Causes of the American Revolution File
  • Native American Influences on the Founders File
  • Effects of the American Revolution File
  • The Constitution File
  • Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison File
  • Nationalism and the Market Revolution File
  • George Catlin: Preserving the Wild Frontier File
  • The Age of Jackson File
  • The Cotton Kingdom File
  • Moral Crusaders File
  • Manifest Destiny, Sectionalism, and the Causes of the Civil War File
  • The Civil War File
  • Lincoln Cartoons File
  • Reconstruction File
  • The Gilded Age File
  • Remington and Russell Art File
  • Populism, Immigration and the Spanish American War File
  • Spanish American War Cartoons File
  • The Progressive Era File
  • World War I File
  • Lewis Hine, Mother Jones, and Child Labor File
  • The Jazz Age File
  • Ashcan School of Art File
  • Harlem Renaissance File
  • Great Depression File
  • World War II File
  • Truman and the Early Cold War File
  • America in the 1950s File
  • Kennedy, Johnson, and the Cold War File
  • Nixon, Reagan, and the Republican Revolution File
  • Globalization and its Discontents, 1988-2001 File

  
  
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  Ms. T's Powerpoints/Articles/Videos on Art, Lit, etc.

  • Puritan Art File
  • John Singleton Copley--America's Revolutionary Artist File
  • Jefferson's Architecture File
  • Romanticism File
  • Emerson and Thoreau overview ppt File
  • George Catlin art File
  • Cole article File
  • Exploring Thomas Cole URL

    Examine the 5 "Course of Empire" paintings.  Click on DECODE to learn about the details of each painting.

  • Slave Spirituals File
  • Walt Whitman File
  • John Singer Sargent File
  • Mary Cassatt File
  • John Sloan and the Ashcan School of Art URL
  • George Bellows and the Ash Can School of Art URL

  
  
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  SAQ, Long Essay, and DBQ Help

  • Short Answer Question Handout (Fall 2017) File
  • Writing the Long Essay Question (Fall 2018) File
  • LEQ Rubric (Updated Dec 2017) File
  • LEQ #1 Prompts (Fall 2018) File
  • Suggestions for Thesis Statements File
  • Thesis, Topic Sentence, Context and Analysis (Fall 2018) File
  • Writing the DBQ Handout (Fall 2018) File
  • DBQ Rubric (Updated Fall 2017) File
  • Sample DBQ--Westward Expansion (2014) File
  • Sample DBQ Essay--Westward Expansion (2014) File
  • Possible DBQ #1 (Midterm) Prompts (Fall 2018) File
  • DBQ Activity--The Mexican-American War File
  • Possible DBQ #2 Prompts (2018) File
  • Possible DBQ #3 Prompts (2019) File

  
  
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  CHAPTER STUDY GUIDES (FONER)
  

  • Foner Master Terms List, Chapts. 1-27 File
  • Chapter 5-6 Study Guide (Foner) File
  • Chapter 7-8 Study Guide (Foner) File
  • Chapter 9-10 Study Guide (Foner) File
  • Chapter 11-12 Study Guide (Foner) File
  • Chapter 13 Study Guide (Foner) File
  • Chapter 14-15 Study Guide (Foner) File
  • Chapter 16-17 Study Guide (Foner) File
  • Chapter 18-19 Study Guide (Foner) File
  • Chapter 20-21 Study Guide (Foner) File
  • Chapter 22-23 Study Guide (Foner) File
  • Chapter 24-25 Study Guide (Foner) File
  • Chapter 26-27 Study Guide (Foner) File

  
  
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  REVIEW VIDEOS
  

  • John Green's Crash Course Review Videos Folder
  • Gilder Lehrman AP Review Videos URL
  • The Century (Link to 48 15-minute videos Overviewing 20th-Century American History) URL

  
  
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  SECOND SEMESTER MIDTERM
  REVIEW MATERIALS
  

  • Strahn's Midterm #2 study Guide (2019) File
  • Lit/Cult 2nd semester midterm review File
  • Dani's Review File

  
  
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  Presidents Exam/Debates

  • Presidents Exam--Full List of Presidents (2019) File
  • Period 1-2 Bracket (2019) File
  • Perod 5-6 Bracket (2019) File
  • Final Four Tournament Instructions (2019) File
  • Presidential Accomplishments File
  • Jonathan Coulton, The Presidents Song File
  • The Animainiacs--The Presidents File
  • Presidents--Kinesthetic Memory Approach File
  • Presidential Libraries/Museums URL

    Try this for lesser known presidents.

  
  
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  AP EXAM REVIEW MATERIALS

  • AP Exam Format (2019) File
  • College Board APUSH Concept Outline, Periods1-9 File
  • Key Topics from College Boards APUSH Concept Outline File
  • Strahn's AP Exam Review Packet File
  • Strahn's APUSH Glossary for Notecards File
  • Practice Multiple Choice Exam File
  • Practice Multiple Choice Exam--Answer Key File
  • Past APUSH DBQ Topics, 1973-2018 File
  • Frequently Asked Multiple Choice Questions (2018) File
  • Practice LE Prompts File
  • Gilder Lehrman APUSH Exam Prep Website URL
  • APUSH Writing Strategies and Practice Activities URL
  • Multiple Choice Strategies File
  • Tranel's Top 100 T-Bones Review File
  • Major Eras Review Game File
  • APUSH Supreme Court Review Game File
  • Wars in American History File
  • US Presidents and their Policies File
  • APUSH Movements, Ideas, Philosophies, and isms--A Review File
  • APUSH Supreme Court Cases--A Review File
  • APUSH Groups and Organizations File

  
  
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  SIXTIES MUSEUM RESOURCES

  • Sixties Museum Assignment File
  • Wikipedia--decent starting point URL
  • Overview URL
  • PBS timeline URL
  • Another timeline URL