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

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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

  
  
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  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  

  • Huck Finn intro File
  • Huck Finn Audio URL
  • Huck Finn etext (with Kindle download) URL
  • Huck Finn etext (chapter by chapter) URL
  • Huck Finn map URL
  • Dr. Gribben's NewSouth edition mp4 File
  • Should the N-Word Be Taken Out of Huck Finn? mp4 File
  • 60 Minutes: The N-Word (mp4) 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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  COMMON APP ESSAY

   

  • Common App Assignment File
  • Common App Prompts File
  • Common App Rubric File
  • How to Conquer the Admissions Essay File
  • A Wider Lens (sample essay #1) File
  • The Blue Armchair (sample essay #2) File
  • Why I Wear Underwear (sample essay #3) File
  • Punctured (Sample Essay) File
  • Brainstorming Guide File

  
  
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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

  
  
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  FONER TEXTBOOK-DIGITAL/AUDIO CHAPTERS
  

  • Foner, Give me Liberty, Introduction File
  • Foner, Give me Liberty, Chapter 1 File
  • Foner, Give me Liberty, Chapter 2 File
  • Foner, Give me Liberty, Chapter 3 File
  • Foner, Give me Liberty, Chapter 4 File
  • Foner, Give me Liberty, Chapter 5 File
  • Foner, Give me Liberty, Chapter 6 File
  • Foner, Give me Liberty, Chapter 7 File
  • Foner, Give me Liberty, Chapter 8 File
  • Foner, Give me Liberty, Chapter 9 File
  • Foner, Give me Liberty, Chapter 10 File
  • Foner, Give me Liberty, Chapter 11 File
  • Foner, Give me Liberty, Chapter 12 File
  • Foner, Give me Liberty, Chapter 13 File
  • Foner, Give me Liberty, Chapter 14 File
  • Foner, Give me Liberty, Chapter 15 File
  • Foner, Give me Liberty, Chapter 16 File
  • Foner, Give me Liberty, Chapter 17 File
  • Foner, Give me Liberty, Chapter 18 File
  • Foner, Give me Liberty, Chapter 19 File
  • Foner, Give me Liberty, Chapter 20 File
  • Foner, Give me Liberty, Chapter 21 File
  • Foner, Give me Liberty, Chapter 22 File
  • Foner, Give me Liberty, Chapter 23 File
  • Foner, Give me Liberty, Chapter 24 File
  • Foner, Give me Liberty, Chapter 25 File
  • Foner, Give me Liberty, Chapter 26 File
  • Foner, Give me Liberty, Chapter 27 File
  • Foner, Give me Liberty, Chapter 28 File
  • Foner Text Audio Chapters 14-26 URL

  
  
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  CHAPTER STUDY GUIDES (FONER)
  

  • Foner Master Terms List, Chapts. 1-27 File
  • Chapter 5 and 6 Studey Guide (Foner) File
  • Chapter 7 and 8 Study Guide (Foner) File
  • Chapter 9 and 10 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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