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Explains that AP History courses emphasize historical thinking through primary and secondary source analysis, argument development, and themes that connect developments over time. 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AP Exams are given each year in May. Students who earn a qualifying score on an AP Exam are typically eligible , in college, to receive credit, placement into advanced courses, or both. Every aspect of AP course and exam development is the result of collaboration between AP teachers and college faculty. They work together to develop AP courses and exams, set scoring standards, and score the exams. College faculty review every AP teacher’s course syllabus.  \nThe AP Program offers three history courses: AP European History, AP United States History, and AP World History: Modern. All three history courses focus on the development of historical thinking while learning required course content. Themes foster deep analysis by making connections and comparisons across different topics within the course.  \nEach AP History course corresponds to a typical introductory college history course.  \nIn AP U.S. History, students investigate significant events, individuals, developments, and processes from approximately 1491 to the present. Students develop and use the same skills and methods employed by historians: analyzing primary and secondary sources; developing historical arguments; making historical connections; and utilizing reasoning about comparison, causation, and continuity and change. The course also provides eight themes that students explore throughout the course in order to make connections among historical developmentsin different times and places: American and national identity; work, exchange, and technology; geography and the environment; migration and settlement; politics and power; America in the world; American and regional culture; and social structures.  \nRECOMMENDED PREREQUISITES  \nThere are no prerequisites for AP U.S. History. Students should be able to read a college-level textbook and write grammatically correct, complete sentences.  \nThe course content is organized into commonly taught units of study that provide a suggested sequence for the course. These units comprise the content and conceptual understandings that colleges and universities typically expect students to master to qualify for college credit and/or placement. This content is grounded in themes, which are cross-cutting concepts that build conceptual understanding and spiral throughout the course.  \nHistorical Thinking Skills  \nThe AP historical thinking skills describe what students should be able to do while exploring course concepts. The list that follows presents these skills, which students should develop during the AP U.S. History course.  \n■ Developments and Processes  \n♦ Identify and explain a historical concept, development, or process.  \n■ Sourcing and Situation  \n♦ Identify and explain a source’s point of view, purpose, historical situation, and/or audience.  \n♦ Explain the significance of a source’s point of view, purpose, historical situation, and/or audience, including how these might limit the use(s) of a source.  \n■ Claims and Evidence in Sources  \n♦ Identify and describe a claim and/or argument in a source.  \n♦ Identify the evidence used in a source to support an argument.  \n♦ Compare the arguments or main ideas of two sources.  \n♦ Explain how claims or evidence support, modify, or refute a source’s argument.  \n■ Contextualization  \n♦ Identify and describe a historical context for a specific historical development or process.  \n♦ Explain how a specific historical development or process is situated within a broader historical context.  \n■ Making Connections  \n♦ Identify patterns among or connections between historical developments and processes.  \n♦ Explain how a historical development or process relates to another historical development or process.  \n■ Argumentation  \n♦ Make a historicall","cbCaiilmZ2twb0Vs","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiilmZ2twb0Vs","pdf",93909,"English","# About the Advanced Placement Program (AP)\n## AP History courses and focus\n# AP U.S. History course scope\n## Historical thinking skills\n## Recommended prerequisites\n## Course organization by themes\n# AP United States History Exam Structure\n## Assessment overview and timing\n## Format of assessment\n## Exam components","[{\"question\":\"What is the goal of the Advanced Placement Program in high school?\",\"answer\":\"The program enables students to take college-level courses and earn college credit, advanced placement, or both while still in high school.\"},{\"question\":\"What skills do students build in AP U.S. History?\",\"answer\":\"Students develop skills such as sourcing and situation analysis, claims and evidence in sources, contextualization, making connections, and argumentation supported by specific evidence.\"},{\"question\":\"How is the AP U.S. History Exam structured and timed?\",\"answer\":\"The exam lasts 3 hours and 15 minutes and includes 55 multiple-choice questions, 3 short-answer questions, 1 document-based question, and 1 long essay question, with specified time allocations for each section.\"}]","AP United States History - Course Overview - Exam Structure | PDF",1789894929]