Godfrey APUSH Readings 2012-2013
AP = American Pageant AI = American Issues SF = Social Fabric ; T=Tuesday H=Thursday F=Friday
Unit 1: American Beginnings & Growing Pains (33,000 BCE – 1763 CE)
T 8/21: AP 1 New World Beginnings (33,000 BC- AD 1769)
H 8/23: AP 2 Planting of English America (1500-1733)
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T 8/28: AI 1 European Exploration & Settlement in N. America
H 8/30: AI 2 Search for Freedom & Fortune; Colonizing N. America
F 8/31: SF 1 New Ways: Indian and European
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T 9/4: AP 3 Settling the Northern Colonies (1619-1700)
H 9/6: AP 4 American Life in the Seventeenth Century (1607-1692)
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T 9/11: AP 5 Colonial Society on the Eve of the Rev. (1700-1755)
H 9/13: FRQ ESSAY + AI 4 Societal Patterns in N. Am.
F 9/14: SF 3 Puritan Husbands and Wives
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T 9/18: DEBATES
H 9/20: AI 3 The Colonial Relation Defined
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T 9/25: AP 6 Duel for North America (1608-1763)
Unit 2: New American Republic is Launched & Tested (1763 – 1824)
H 9/27: AI 5 Choosing Sides in the Revolution
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T 10/2 MC TEST (Q1-40) + AP 7 Road to Rev Part I. (1763-1775)
H 10/4: MC TEST (Q 41-80) + AP 7 Road to Rev Part II.
F 10/5: SF 8 Social War
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T 10/9: AP 8 America Secedes from the Empire (1775-1783)
H 10/11 AP 9 Confederation and Constitution (1776-1790)
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T 10/16: AP 10 Launching New Ship of State (1789-1800)
H 10/18: AI 6 A Republic Takes Shape + DBQ ESSAY ASSIGNED
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T 10/23: AP 11 Triumphs/Travails of Jeffersonianism (1800-1812)
H 10/25: AP 12 2nd War of Independence (1812-1824)
F 10/26: DBQ ESSAY DUE + SF 10 The Industrial Worker
Unit 3: Mass Democracy, Expansion, & Sectionalism (1824 – 1854)
T 10/30: AP 13 Rise of Mass Democracy
H 11/1: AI 11 Reform Ferment
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T 11/6: MC TEST (Q 1-40) + AP 14 Forging National Economy Part 1
H 11/8: MC TEST (Q 41-80) + AP 14 Forging National Economy Part 2
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T 11/13: AP 15 Reform Ferment and Culture (1790-1860)
H 11/15: DEBATES
F 11/16: SF 15 African-American Family
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T 11/20: AP 16 South & Slavery Controversy (1793-1860)
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T 11/27: AP 17 Manifest Destiny and Legacy (1841-1848)
H 11/29: AP 18 Renewing Sectional Struggle (1848-1854)
Unit 4: Civil War, Reconstruction, & Industrialism (1854 – 1900)
T 12/4: FRQ ESSAY + AI 12 The Debate Over Slavery
H 12/6: MC TEST (Q 1-40) + AP 19 Drifting Towards Disunion Part I.
F 12/7: MC TEST (Q 41-80) + AP 19 Drifting Towards Disunion Part II.
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T 12/11: AP 20 Girding for War: North & South (1861-1865)
H 12/13: SF 20 Why Soldiers Went to War
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T 12/18 (EXAM PER): AP 21 Furnace of the Civil War (1861-1865)
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T 1/8: AP 22 Ordeal of Reconstruction (1865-1877)
H 1/10: AI 15 Reconstruction + Formation of Review Teams + DBQ ASSIGNED
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T 1/15: AP 23 Political Paralysis in Gilded Age (1869-1896)
H 1/17: AP 24 Industry Comes of Age (1865-1900)
F 1/18: DBQ ESSAY DUE + SF 5 (Vol 2) Labor Violence in America
Unit 5: Urban Growth, Imperialism, & Taming Capitalism (1865 – 1916)
T 1/22: MC TEST (Q 1-40) + AP 25 America Moves to City Part I.
H 1/24: MC TEST (Q41-80) + AP 25 America Moves to City Part II.
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T 1/29: AP 26 Great West & Agricultural Rev. (1865-1896)
H 1/31: AP 27 Path of Empire (1890-1899)
F 2/1: AI 16 New South & New West
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T 2/5: AP 28 America on World Stage (1899-1909)
H 2/7: DEBATES
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T 2/12: AP 29 Progressivism & Repub. Roosevelt (1901-1912)
H 2/14: AI 19 Establishing a New Order
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T 2/19 FRQ ESSAY + SF 7 Immigration and Cultural Conflict
H 2/21: AP 30 Wilsonian Progressivism at Home & Abroad (1912-1916)
Unit 6: Great War, Boom & Bust, New Deal and WWII (1917 – 1945)
T 2/26: MC TEST (Q 1-40) + AP 31 War to End War (1917-1918)
H 2/28: MC TEST (Q 41-80) + AP 31 War to End War Part 2
F 3/1: AI 21 Cultural Tensions in New Era...1920s
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T 3/5: AP 32 American Life in Roaring Twenties (1919-1929)
H 3/7: AP 33 Politics of Boom and Bust (1920-1932) + DBQ ASSIGNED
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T 3/19: AP 34 Great Depression & New Deal (1933-1939)
H 3/21: DBQ ESSAY DUE + SF13 Nation Confronts the Great Depression
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T 3/26: AP 35 FDR and Shadow of War (1933-1941)
H 3/28: AP 36 America in WWII (1941-1945)
Unit 7: Modern America from Cold War to Present (1945 – 2000)
T 4/2: MC TEST (Q 1-40) + AP 37 Cold War Begins (1945-1952) Part 1
H 4/4: MC TEST (Q 41-80) + AP 37 Cold War Begins Part 2
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T 4/9: AP 38 Eisenhower Era (1952-1960)
H 4/11: AP 39 Stormy Sixties (1960-1968)
F 4/12: SF 17 The Baby Boom
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T 4/16: AP 40 Stalemated 70s (1968-1980) Part 1 (Nixon & Ford)
H 4/18: AP 40 Stalemated 70s (1968-1980) Part 2 (Carter)
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T 4/23: AP 41 Resurgence of Conservatism Part 1 (thru 1988)
H 4/25: AP 41 Resurgence of Conservatism Part 2 (thru 2000)
F 4/27: AI 28 Challenges of a Changing World
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T 4/30 : DEBATES
H 5/2: Topics Since 2000
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T 5/7: In-Class Review [AP Art Exam]
H 5/9: In-Class Review [AP Eng Lit]
F 5/10: In-Class Review [AP Lang & Comp]
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T 5/14: In-Class Review [AP French]
W 5/16 = OFFICIAL APUSH EXAM 8 AM-12 NOON
H 5/17: Essays Discussion + Optional Unit 7 Multiple Choice
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DATE OF END-OF-COURSE EXAM ???? TBA