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A.P. US HISTORY
MR. MCDONOUGH
WHHS 2013-2014
“Without challenges, there is no growth”
A.P. US History
 General Description
 Expectations
 Assessment and Grading
 The A.P. Exam
 Resources
General Description
Purpose:
-The AP U .S . History course is
designed to provide students with the
analytic skills and factual knowledge
necessary to deal critically with the
problems and materials in U .S history
.
-The program prepares students for
intermediate and advanced college
courses by making demands upon
them equivalent to those made by fullyear introductory college courses .
-Students should learn to assess
historical materials—their relevance to
a given interpretive problem, reliability,
and importance—and to weigh the
evidence and interpretations presented
in historical scholarship .
-An AP U .S . History course should
thus develop the skills necessary to
arrive at conclusions on the basis of an
informed judgment and to present
reasons and evidence clearly and
persuasively in essay format.
EXPECTATIONS
-Students “do the work”.
Student centered course.
Time is limited in class.
-Students seek out what they missed due to absences and Gifted programs
-It is assumed that students have an interest and desire to succeed
-Students actively participate and engage in class on a daily basis
Grading and Assessment
 Reading guides
 Class participation
 Projects (timeline)
 MC quizzes
 Essays
 DBQ’s
 Historical analysis of primary
and secondary documents
 Even distribution
The A.P. Exam
Content
Scoring and $ you save
 50% Section I MC
 80 questions (55 minutes)
 50% Section II
 DBQ and 2 essays (1 each from 2
groups of 2 essays) (15-minute reading
period, 115-minute writing period)
Score
of 1-5
• 1 or 2 unacceptable
• 3 some accepted
• 4 or 5 more widely
accepted
• IUP- $1500
• Penn State- $2000
• West Minster- $3000
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