We will be using the APUSH Blog to have discussions related to our class. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me. Thanks and enjoy.
APUSH – MR. FOLEY
Some info to help with your DBQ...
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/courses/teachers_corner/3497.html
http://chaffeyaphistory.homestead.com/files/dbq_tips.htm
QUIZ CENTRAL
http://www.historyteacher.net/USProjects/USQuizzes/
To help with DOCUMENTS...
http://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/archive/files/apparts_b60cd02284.pdf
To help with Religion...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_religion_in_the_United_States
REVIEW TIME...
AWESOME TIME LINE
http://www.animatedatlas.com/timelineexp.html
JEOPARDY REVIEW GAMES
http://www.superteachertools.com/jeopardy/usergames/May201018/game1273024774.php
STRIVE FOR FIVE
http://ww4.whfreeman.com/Broward/StriveforFive.html
AP ERA QUIZZES
http://www.phschool.com/curriculum_support/brief_review/us_history/index.html
Era Outlines
One Page Outlines of Above Topics with Notes
- Exploration
- Colonization
- Life in the Colonies
- Causes of the Revolution
- Critical Period
- Making a Nation
- War of 1812
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Creating an American Culture
- Native American Treatment
- Sectional Differences
- Westward Expansion
- Causes of the Civil War
- The Civil War
- Reconstruction
- Industrialization and Corporate Consolidation
- Gilded Age: Politics and Urbanization
- Foreign Policy - 1865-1914
- Progressive Era
- World War I
- The 1920s
- The Great Depression
- Foreign Policy in the 1930s
- World War II
- Truman and the Cold War
- Eisenhower and Modern Republicanism
- Kennedy's New Frontier
- Nixon
- The United States Since 1974
- Civil Rights Movement
- Women's Equality
DO NOT PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT IS BELOW THIS LINE...
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The following format is what I would like you to use for your current reading assignment.
WRITING REFLECTIONS
A reflection is a “reply” to documents you’ve read. It is an
intellectual response with feeling. It
is not formal writing, but it is a chance to play with the ideas you’ve read
about. You should think and write about
the following:
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Why is this important information to
learn? Wonder and ask so what?
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How does this relate to what I have
learned before?
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How do these new concepts help me
better understand the major issues we are studying or relate to Current Events?
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How does this relate some part
reading or experience to your own life and your own values and experiences?
A reflection is not a summary of what you have learned.
The elements of a good reflection:
- It
is thoughtful. There must be
evidence you engaged yourself intellectually in some aspect of the reading
and that you made a concerted effort to think in depth about one or more
issues.
- There
is some evidence of making connections between the ideas in the
assignment or events with some other aspect of your own experience or even
an idea you studied in another course. You need to go beyond the
information and make inferences, analyze, interpret, imagine, synthesize.
- You
consider perspective. What
is the context in which the material was written? How might different groups see this
differently? How does this relate
to your point of view?
- You
take a stand.
Here are starters for your journal:
What I learned that I did not previously know. . .
What really interested me. . .
What I now understand better is. . ;
What I don’t understand is;
What I’m still curious about is.
I am wondering. . .
What I’d really like to know more about is
What surprised me was. . .
Wouldn’t it have been better if?
I see a significant connection with. . .
REFLECTION WRITING
RUBRIC
A Deep
Thinker:
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Provides strong evidence that you
engaged in the topic; you seem curious, enthusiastic and moved by the material.
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You go beyond the material by
wondering how? or why? or what if? or by using your imagination, or by making
inferences, analyzing, or synthesizing.
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You include interesting and
appropriate specifics, anecdotes, concrete examples to clarify your points.
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You offer strong understanding of
various perspectives, you can empathize with others.
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You make a clear and effective
attempt to connect the material with ideas you have studied.
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You take a clear stand which is
supported effectively.
A High
Level Thinker
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You have engaged yourself in the
topic.
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You go just beyond describing the
material by wondering, imagining, analyzing or making inferences.
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You use of specifics, anecdotes,
examples.
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You demonstrate signs of being able
to empathize with different perspectives
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You make an effective and clear
attempt to connect the material with what you have been studying and/or
personal experiences
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You take a clear stand
A
Thinker who needs to engage a bit more
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You seem only somewhat engaged. You
write a summary not a reflection.
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You don’t stray much from the
material presented. There is little
evidence of wondering or analyzing.
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Only one or two references to specifics.
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You have not connected the
information to its context or attempted to look at different perspectives.
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You do not indicate a point of view.
You
need to pull up your socks!
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You seem bored. You are just going
through the motions.
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You don’t show you understand the
material.
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You do not use concrete examples.
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You have a difficult time seeing
things from other peoples’ perspectives.
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You haven’t connected the
information to other things you have learned.
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You do not take a stand.