Advanced Placement United States History II Ms. Jacquelyn Orleck Room 113 jorleck@duxbury.k12.ma.

us Welcome to your Junior Advanced Placement History course! Many people view history merely as a set of dates and facts to be memorized, but history is more than that. History is an ever-changing discipline, periodically discovering new evidence and revising old commonly held beliefs. Its not enough to learn history itself; one must learn history from the true essence of human experience. This course is designed for that purpose. The ultimate goal of this course is preparation for the AP Exam in the spring. Throughout this course, students will be provided with content, practical knowledge of U.S. history, practice their critical thinking activities, and experience effective writing techniques. This course is divided into periods of time and emphasizes themes throughout American history. This will be a rigorous and challenging course. Hard work, dedication, and academic independence will be essential to success. Course text: Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People. This text will be provided to you can be left at home. Required materials: y 3 ring binder with plentiful loose leaf paper. y Composition notebook (to be left in Rm 113) Supplemental text (strongly encouraged) AMSCO: United States History Preparing for the Advanced Placement Examination, Second Edition o IBSN: 978-1-56765-660-2 o Available at Amazon.com and AMSCO site Date of AP Exam: Friday, May 11th during the morning session Fee: $87 xpectations of Students & Student Responsibilities: y Students are expected to arrive to class ON TIME and ready to work with a pen or pencil, assignment notebook, homework, and history binder (3-ring). You must bring the same history binder, every day! You will not be allowed to go to your locker to retrieve these items once class has started. y Students are expected to be ACTIVE participants in class discussions and activities. We learn the most when we ask questions, volunteer our ideas, and consider the ideas of others. Active participation involves both contributing to discussion and listening to others. y Students are expected to be RESPECTFUL at all times- respectful of peers, teachers, ideas, comments, and differences. Each of us has a part in the responsibility of creating a respectful environment at Duxbury High School. y Students are expected to be HONEST at all times, adhering to the rules laid out in the DHS Student Handbook.

Expectations of Academic Work y The College Board requires nightly homework assignments that are challenging. Because this is upper-level material, you are required to actively read and take notes on each section that I assign. y No shortcuts will be accepted. Copying information from a friend, internet sources, or even an online reference is no replacement for reading the assigned text, and organizing important themes and details into notes. y Homework will be checked by frequent and unannounced quizzes and by the instructor evaluating the quality of discussion. You will not receive any credit for simply taking notes your credit will be earned from your evaluation and synthesis of material. y Homework reading assignments will be posted on the board, given to you on a weekly calendar, as well as posted to the course website (through the DHS website). y Assignments are due at the beginning of each class and no late work will be accepted.

Assessment & Grading Policy y For each unit, you will be given a unit guide at the beginning of the unit that will serve as both a framework and a study guide for the material covered. y Tests will be given at the end of each unit, two or three times per quarter, depending on the number of units in a given quarter. Quizzes will also be given and will be both announced and unannounced. y Quarter grades will be comprised of tests, quizzes, homework and other assignments, current events, and class participation and preparedness. The breakdown of the grading policy is subject to change during the year, as it depends on the amount of assignments during each quarter. y Absence from school is NOT considered an excuse for lack of preparation for class. When a student is absent, it is that student's responsibility to speak to his/her classmates about what he/she missed and check the file for any handouts. Students are given weekly calendars at the beginning of the week that include the entire week's assignments, and are therefore aware of the exact homework assignments for each night. Calendars and assignments are updated and posted on the course blog. y Students are expected to turn in outstanding homework due to an absence on the day they return to school. They will be given a day of make-up time for each day of absence. If a student is too ill to do the homework, I ask that parents/guardians inform me of this through a note. y If a student is absent on the day of a test, that test will be made up the next day the student is in school, except in the case of a multiple-day absence. In that case, appropriate arrangements will be made. y Any work that a student misses due to an unexcused absence will automatically be recorded as a zero. This includes quizzes and tests. y Any appointments made to make up work that are missed will result in a zero for that assignment.

1. Development of the West in the Late Nineteenth century y Expansion and development of western railroads y Competitors for the West: minters, ranchers, homesteaders, American Indians y Government policy toward American Indians y Gender, race, ethnicity in the far west y Environmental impacts of Western settlement 2. Industrial American in the Late Nineteenth century y corporate consolidation of industry y effects of the technological development on worker and workplace y labor and unions y national politics and influence of corporate power y migration and immigration: changing face of the nation y proponents and opponents of the new order, Social Darwinism and Social Gospel . Urban Society y urbanization and the lure of the city y city problems and machine politics y intellectual and cultural movements and popular entertainment 4. Populism and Progressivism y agrarian discontent and political issues of the 19th century y origins of Progressive reform: municipal, state, national y Roosevelt, Wilson, Taft as Progressive Presidents y Women s roles: family, workplace, education, and reform y Black America: urban migration and civil rights initiative 5. The Emergence of America as a World Power y imperialism political and economic expansion y War in Europe and American neutrality y WWI at home and abroad y Treaty of Versailles y Society and economy in the postwar years 6. The New Era: The 1920s y the business of America and the consumer economy y Republican politics: Harding, Hoover, Coolidge y The Culture of modernism: science, the arts, and entertainment y Responses to Modernism: religious fundamentalism, nativism, and prohibition y The ongoing struggle for equality: African Americans and Women 7. The Great Depression and the New Deal y causes of the Great Depression y the Hoover administration s response y FDR and the New Deal y Labor and union recognition y The New Deal coalition and its critics from the Right and the Left y Surviving hard times: American society during the Great Depression

8. The Second World War y the rise of fascism, militarism, in Japan, Italy, and Germany y Prelude to war: attack of neutrality y The attack on Pearl Harbor and U.S. declaration of War y Fighting a multi-front war y Diplomacy, war aims, and wartime conferences y The US as a global power in the Atomic Age 9. The 1950s y Emergence of the modern civil rights movements y The affluent society and other America y Consensus and conformity: suburbia and middle class America y Social critics, non conformists, and cultural rebels y Impact of changes in science, technology and medicine 10. The Turbulent 1960s y From the New Frontier to the Great Society y Expanding movements for civil rights y Cold war confrontations: Asia, Latin America, and Europe y Beginning of Dtente y The antiwar movement and counterculture 11. Politics and Economies at the end of the Twentieth Century y The election of 1968 and the Silent Majority y Nixon s challenges: Vietnam, China, Watergate y Changes in the economy: energy crisis, deindustrialization, and the service economy y The New Right and the Reagan revolution y End of the Cold War 12. Society and Culture at the End of the Twentieth Century y demographic changes: surge of immigration after 1965, sunbelt migration, and the graying of America y revolutions in biotechnology, mass communication, and computers y Politics in a multicultural society 13. The United States in a Post-Cold War World y Globalization and the American economy y Unilateralism v. multilateralism in foreign policy y Domestic and foreign terrorism y Environmental issues in a global context

Extra Help y I encourage students to make appointments with me whenever extra help is needed. It is a students responsibility to make appointments with me whenever they have questions, problems or would like to chat. I am available most days after school. Please talk with me so we can arrange a mutually exclusive time. I am looking forward to teaching you this year!