Download ADVANCED PLACEMENT UNITED STATES HISTORY SYLLABUS

VISIONS AND COUNTERVISIONS SYLLABUS
2015-2016
Mrs. Giordano a/k/a “Mrs. G.”
Room 906
[email protected]
863-471-5500 ext. 265
This is a year long course with an average enrollment of 20 students. The academic
calendar uses a 90 minute, alternating block schedule.
Teaching Strategies
This course is divided between lecture, Socratic seminar and guided individual and
collaborative research. Students are responsible for maintaining an awareness and
understanding of current events, especially as they relate to the subject matter, as these
are often discussed in class.
Course Description
This course is designed to provide students with the analytic skills and knowledge
required to understand United States and European History, Economics and American
Government. Students will learn to assess historical materials as to their relevance to a
given interpretative problem, to weigh the evidence and interpretations presented in
historical scholarships, to arrive at conclusions on the basis of informed judgments and to
present these conclusions with articulate reasoning, supported by persuasive evidence.
All students enrolled in the course will take the EOC at the end of April. Their score on
the EOC will count as 30% of their final course grade. The course is taught on an
advanced level and requires a substantial amount of reading and preparation for every
class (with an average time commitment of 1-2 hours per night).
Content
Historical topics of study will include the following: life and thought in colonial
America; revolutionary ideology; constitutional development; Jeffersonian and
Jacksonian democracy; nineteenth-century reform movements; Manifest Destiny; the
Civil War and Reconstruction; immigration; industrialism; Populism; Progressivism;
World War I; the Jazz Age; the Great Depression; The New Deal; World War II; The
Cold War; the post Cold-War era, and the United States at the beginning of the twentyfirst century. Critical analysis will be encouraged in the following areas: the
development of an American identity; the evolution of American culture; demographic
changes over the course of America’s history; economic trends and transformations;
environmental issues; the development of political institutions, citizenship and social
reform movements; the role of religion in making the United States and the United States
in a global arena. Economic principals, both macro and micro will be introduced within
the various units as will information on the inception and development of government,
from tribal and colonial thru the Articles of Confederation to the Constitution and the
expansion and conflict prevalent in the federalist structure. Specific units will include
discussion and written analysis of relevant historical scholarship, differing and changing
interpretations of events over time and the impact of various historians on those who
succeed them. Critical interpretation of political cartoons, charts, graphs and maps will
also be developed.
Course Texts
There are two required texts for this course:
 The Americans, Danzer, Klor de Alva, Kreiger, Wilson & Woloch.
Access to this text outside of class is online only and access to the internet
throughout the duration of the course is required.
Website access is my.hrw.com The generic student username is bluestreak and the password is
bluestreak.


http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/americans_rec05/book_home.htm?state=FL
Florida US History End of Course Assessment Test Prep Workbook, Holt
McDougal
Additional readings, as indicated below. The majority of the texts will be accessed
online.
Grading will be as follows: Quizzes and Tests - 40%; historical essays – 30%; and
Exams – 30%. All essays, except those written in class must be typed (doublespaced). Essays will be graded on a rubric designed to measure the following factors:
content; use of documentary and supporting evidence; grammar; spelling and depth of
analysis. Multiple choice questions will be of the type used in the End of Course
exam.
*Acceptance of assigned work after due date is at the sole discretion of the
instructor and if accepted will be subject to an 11 point penalty per day for each
day after due date. *Assignments are not timely submitted unless they are
printed prior to class. Students will not be allowed to print completed
assignments in class.
Individual Student Electronic Devices
Use of an individual student electronic device in class is at the sole discretion of
the instructor on a daily basis and requires specific permission. Unauthorized
use of individual student electronic devices during class will result in disciplinary
action. Use of an individual student electronic device without specific permission
by instructor is presumed unauthorized.
Readings from other sources, listed below, will either be read and discussed in class
or copies of readings will be distributed and assigned as directed. Test dates will be
announced in advance, with weekly quizzes over the readings, vocabulary and class
discussion. Assignments may be omitted, substituted or added as scheduling allows.
Reading Assignments and Course Calendar
First Semester, First Quarter
Unit One American Beginning to 1877
Week One (33,000 B.C.-1763 A.D)
Why explore, why colonize?
The Americans: Chapter 1
Wheeler, Becker, vol.1, Chapter 1-selections from Cortes
first letter to King Charles I of Spain and Native American
Accounts of Cortes’ conquest
Case study, Government and Economic structure of Spain
and Great Britain
Explorers All Star Team
Compare/Contrast Colonial Chart
Mayflower Compact
Transformation of Colonial Virginia, Bacon's rebellion
The Economics of Mercantilism
Case study: the purpose, types and effect of taxation-then
and now.
Week Two (1763-1800)
Chapter 2, Revolution and the Early Republic
Wheeler, Becker, vol. 1, Ch. 4, The Trial of Captain
Preston
Common Sense, Thomas Paine
Patrick Henry, Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death speech
Declaration of Independence
Interactive Revolutionary War
Compare/contrast Articles of Confederation-Constitution
Federalist/Anti-Federalist Papers
Election of 1800-Second American Revolution
Case study: the formation of political parties and party
platforms despite the admonition of Washington
Week Three
(1800-1850)
Chapter 3, The Growth of a Young Nation
Marbury v. Madison, a case study
Roundtable Discussion-issues during presidencies of
Washington, Adams and Jefferson
War of 1812 Chart
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, Worchester v. Georgia
Debate-How Democratic was Andrew Jackson
Democracy in America, de Tocqueville
The Economics and Politics of Manifest Destiny
Mexican-American War Chart
Week Four-Five
(1850-1877)
Chapter 4, The Union in Peril
The Changing Place of Women
Excerpts from the Autobiography of Frederick Douglas
Slavery and Sectional Attitudes
Religion and Reform Roundtable Discussion
Dred Scott v. Sanford
The Election of 1860 and formation of the Confederate States
State Secession Ordinances
Socratic Seminar-was secession legal?
Abraham Lincoln’s First and Second Inaugural Addresses
The Corwin Amendment
Civil War Chart
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Gettysburg Address
Reconstruction Plans Chart
Lincoln Conspiracy Trial
Jefferson Davis Treason Trial
Unit Two, Bridge to the 20th Century (1877-1917)
Week Six
Chapter 5, Changes on the Western Frontier
Land Rush, Far and Away
William Jennings Bryan, Cross of Gold speech
Populist Party Platform, The Farmer’s Movement
Turner's Frontier Thesis
Theodore Roosevelt, Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Debate over the Philippines-Documents
Theodore Roosevelt, The New Nationalism
Socratic Seminar-the Economics and Politics of Imperialism
Week Seven
(1877-1900)
Chapter 6, A New industrial Age
Wheeler, Becker, vol.1, Chapter 11, Horatio Algier
Populists and Progressives (recent scholarship)
Progressive Reforms Chart
Vertical and Horizontal Intergration
Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas
Andrew Carnegie, Wealth
Debate-Robber Barons or Captains of Industry
Socratic Seminar-the economic and politic implications of
industrialization
Week Eight
(1877-1914)
Chapter 7, Immigrants and Urbanization
The Jungle, Upton Sinclair, selected readings
How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis, selected readings
Immigration and Ellis Island
Week Nine
(1877-1917)
Chapter 8, Life At the Turn of the 20th Century
New Technologies, Race Relations, Public Education and the
Dawn of Mass Culture
SCOTUS interprets the 14th Amendment, Plessy v. Ferguson
(1896)
Cross of Gold, William Jennings Bryan
Socratic Seminar: Monetary Policy
Unit 3, Modern America Emerges, 1890-1920
Week Ten
(1890-1920)
Chapter 9, The Progressive Era
Populists and Progressives Honorarium
Progressive Reforms Chart
Federal Reserve Act 1913
The Volstead Act, 1919
Socratic Seminar: Economic and political impact of the
Federal Reserve and Volstead Acts.
US v. Farmer’s Loan & Trust (1984)
Socratic Seminar-the Sixteen Amendment
Week Eleven
(1890-1920)
Chapter 10, America Claims An Empire
Wilsonianism, Idealism, Pragmatism
Woodrow Wilson, The Old Order Changeth
Foreign Policy Chart-Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson
The US as a World Power
Week Twelve
(1914-1920)
Chapter 11, The First World War
Socratic Seminar: The Cause of WWI was: Alliances,
Militarism, Industrialization or Nationalism
Woodrow Wilson, The Fourteen Points
World War I Chart
Socratic Seminar: New technologies of war and their effects
on society
Wilson vs. Henry Cabot Lodge: The Treaty of Versailles, the
League of Nations and the economic and political
implications on the US and the world.
Unit 4, The 1920s and the Great Depression
Week Thirteen
(1919-1929)
Chapter 12, Politics of the Roaring Twenties
Russian Revolution and the Red Scare
The Communist Manifesto, Marx& Engels, selected readings
The political and economic impact of the Palmer Raids
Schenck v. US (1919)
Trial and Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
Justice Denied in Massachusetts, Edna St. Vincent Millay
Immigration, the economics and politics of the quota system
Union activism and Labor Unrest
Scandals and the Harding Administration
The Economics of Credit, superficial prosperity and the US
GDP
Week Fourteen
(1920-1929)
Chapter 13, The Roaring Life of the 1920's
Economic, social and political impact of Prohibition
Flappers and the changing role of women
The Scopes Trial, reenactment
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Roaring Twenties Party
THANKSGIVING BREAK, November 23-29, 2015
Week Fifteen
(1929-1933)
Chapter 14, The Great Depression Begins
Herbert Hoover, Rugged Individualism
The Great Depression Game
CHRISTMAS BREAK, December 21-January 4, 2016
Week Sixteen
(1933-1940)
Week Seventeen
Unit 5
Week Seventeen
(1931-1941)
Chapter 15, The New Deal
Franklin Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address
N.L.R.B. versus Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation
New Deal Programs and Laws Chart
Socratic Seminar: Effects on the US of the New Deal
Franklin Roosevelt, The Quarantine speech
Franklin Roosevelt, The Four Freedoms speech
World War II and its Aftermath (1931-1960)
Chapter 16, World War II Looms
German Constitution of 1919 (Weimar Republic)
Case Study: Political effects of hyperinflation in the Weimar
Republic
Hitler’s Enabling Act
Week Eighteen
(1941-1945)
Chapter 17, The United States in WWII
FDR, Day That Will Live in Infamy
Interactive WWII battles
Walt Disney and Withholding, economic, social and political
implications
Debate over dropping the Atomic Bomb (historical viewpoint)
The Bretton Woods Conference
Week Nineteen
Review
FINAL EXAMS SEMESTER ONE
January 11-15, 2016
Semester Two
Week One
(1945-1960)
Week Two
(1946-1961)
Chapter 18, Cold War Conflicts
The origins of the Cold War (historical viewpoint)
Timeline of the Cold War
Chapter 19, The Postwar Boom
America becomes a manufacturing Superpower
Unit 6, Living with Great Turmoil, 1954-1975
Week Three
(1960-1968)
Chapter 20, The New Frontier and The Great Society
Lyndon Johnson, The Great Society speech
Lyndon Johnson, The Power of the Media
Edward R, Murrow, Television and Politics
Excerpts from Television and Politics
Week Four
(1954-1968)
Chapter 21, Civil Rights
Brown v. Board of Education
Brown revisited, Parents Involved in Community Schools v.
Seattle School District and Meredith v. Jefferson County
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farwell Address
John Kennedy, Inaugural Address
Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have a Dream speech
Week Five
(1954-1975)
Chapter 22, The Vietnam War Years
Gulf of Tonkin Incident/Resolution
Tet Offensive
The Changing Role of the Media, Chronkite and LBJ
Vietnamization
Week Six
(1960-1975)
Chapter 23, An Era of Social Change
Griswold v. Connecticut, Eisenstadt v. Baird
Roe v. Wade
Gonzales v. Carhart (recent scholarship)
Unit 7, Passage to a New Century, 1968-Present
Week Seven
(1968-1980)
Chapter 24, An Age of Limits
Week Eight
(1980-1992)
Chapter 25, The Conservative Tide
Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Addresses 1981, 1985
Ronald Reagan, Berlin Wall Speech
SPRING BREAK-March 14-20, 2016
Week Nine
(1992-Present)
Chapter 26, The United States in Today's World
Bush v. Gore, 2000
George W. Bush, Washington National Cathedral Prayer
Service, September 2001
George W. Bush, Joint Session of Congress, September 2001
Rudy Giuliani, Farewell Address, 2001
Week Ten
Epilog, Issues for the 2ist Century
The War on Terror
US as the lone superpower
Week Eleven-Twelve
REVIEW-EOC (End of April, 2016?)
Week Thirteen
Florida Government and Politics
Florida Constitution Scavenger Hunt
Florida House and Senate
Florida Ballot Initiative and Referendum processes
Florida Supreme Court
Local Government-School Board, CRA, City, County and
special districts
Week Fourteen
Federalism and Politics
Sovereign, Concurrent and Cooperative Federalism
The politics of Devolution
Socratic Seminar: Purpose, accomplishments, excesses and
usurpations of government
Current Events – federal government
Week Fifteen
The Supreme Court, Economics and Politics
History and politics of the Supreme Court: the court as
arbiter; the court as advocate.
Recent Decisions: Fisher v. UT, US v. Windsor, Shelby
County v. Holder, Hollingsworth v. Perry
Week Sixteen
Current Macroeconomic Issues
Globalism, Free Trade and National Sovereignty,
absolute/comparative advantage, Trade deficit/surplus
GDP/Debt, Ease of Doing business country comparison
Labor and Unemployment
World Policy Issues and Economic Impact
Environment and the Economy
Week Seventeen
Current Microeconomic Issues
Individual saving, investing, consumerism
Education, employment and opportunity cost
Entrepreneurism and business identities
Marketing Strategies
Week Eighteen
Final Project