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Advanced Placement United States History (APUSH)Required Book for AP US History:
1. 16th Edition American Pageant Textbook 2016, Kennedy, & Cohen (Shall be checked out from the student store) ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-337-09015-5This APUSH course is designed to provide the same level of content and instruction that students would face in a freshman-level college survey class. APUSH classes generally use a college-level textbook as the foundation for the course.What Students Can & CANNOT Bring to AP TestingAP United States History
The Course
https://advancesinap.collegeboard.org/english-history-and-social-science/us-history
AP United States HistoryThe Exam Friday, May 9, 2025 @ 8am"The Following Links are outside the OPUSD district"
AP Exam Format → This 3 hour and 15 minute (195 total minutes) examination requires students to apply historical thinking skills and knowledge of content as they respond, in writing, to new short-answer, document-based, and essay questions. Newly designed multiple-choice questions ask students to use their knowledge of content to analyze and interpret primary and secondary sources. The exam consists of the following sections, in order:
Section I - 100 minutes- Part A: Fifty-five multiple-choice questions (55 minutes, 40 percent)
- Part B: Four short-answer questions (45 minutes, 20 percent)
- Part A: One document-based question (60 minutes, 25 percent)
- Part B: One long essay (35 minutes, 15 percent)
See above link for a representative sample of exam questions.
Beneficial Websites:Practice Quizzes:Google FRQ APUSH and select the first link!"The Following Links are outside the OPUSD district"Chapter Summaries:"The Following Links are outside the OPUSD district"StrategiesWriting TipsArguments & InferenceFallacies of RelevancePrimary Sources"The Following Links are outside the OPUSD district"United States Constitution- There shall be a surprise quiz on the Amendments of the U.S. Constitution on any given class period without a quiz or exam, once we cover that period of time! Know them ahead of time!Course Information:Course Syllabus: APUSH SYLLABUSCourse Outline: 2024-2025 Unit Exam CalendarVideo Permission Slip:
First Semester
Period 1/Unit 1: 1491-1607Unit 1 Calendar
Period 2/Unit 2: 1607-1754Unit 2 Calendar
Quick Prep (Amendments, Presidents, etc...) Quick PrepPersonality Test http://www.16personalities.com/
Period 3/Unit 3: 1754-1800
Unit 3 Calendar
Period/Unit 4: 1800-1848Unit 4 Calendar
Alexis De Tocqueville (1805-1859) Democracy in America (1835, 1840)xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/toc_indx.htmlFinal Exam: Review Textbook Chapters 1-22 (Kennedy & Cohen - 16th Ed.)
HOW DO I CALCULATE WHAT I NEED ON THE FINAL EXAMINATION TO GET THE GRADE I DESIRE?
Second SemesterPeriod/Unit 6: 1865-1898"The Following Links are outside the OPUSD district"
Period 8/Unit 8: 1945-1980The Summit Conference of 1960"The Following Link is outside the OPUSD district"The Man Who Saved the World: Secrets of the Dead"The Following Link is outside the OPUSD district"Period 9/Unit 9: 1980-Present"The Following Links are outside the OPUSD district"Santa Susana Field LaboratoryOne Step from Nuclear War9 Tales of Broken Arrows: Thermonuclear Near Misses Throughout HistoryAP Review Exams, Quizzes & StrategiesAPUSH Examination - Friday, May 9, 2025 at 8 a.m."The Following Links are outside the OPUSD district"Click or copy and paste the following link(s) into your browser.Video Review Links (2 video links are contained in the 1st link below)View Your Scores
