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address  \nPhone number: 515-965-9610 Scheduled Assistance  \nDaily: 8 :00-8:20 ; 8th period  \nMonday through Thursday: 4th period  \nPurpose (from the College Board)  \n\"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 full-year 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. \"  \nIntroduction (from the College Board)  \nThe A. P. U.S. History course focuses on the development of historical thinking skills (chronological reasoning, comparing and contextualizing, crafting historical arguments using historical evidence, and interpreting and synthesizing historical narrative) and an understanding of content learning objectives organized around seven themes, such as identity, peopling, and America in the world. In line with college and university U.S. history survey courses’ increased focus on early and recent American history and decreased emphasis on other areas, the A. P.  \nU.S. History course expands on the history of the Americas from 1491 to the present.  \nCourse Objectives  \n1. Learn the depth and breadth of United States history from pre-Colonization to modern day  \n2. Develop writing skills necessary for success in college-level social science courses  \n3. Build \"historians' habits of mind\" that allow for comprehensive document analysis, bias detection, source evaluation & the interpretation of primary & secondary sources of all types  \n4. Prepare for success on the AP Exam  \n5. Use United States history as a prism through which we examine and understand our modern world  \n6. Help students build mature habits of study, time management, and planning  \nWhat to Expect from Class  \nStudents are expected to participate in class through discussions, debates of key issues, and document analysis. Students are expected to continually develop their writing skills through regular short essays, essay exams and maintain a notebook of all class materials.  \nThe volume of material involved in a survey course of U.S. history is high, and students should expect to do a lot of close reading. Students will not only read in the text, but also from outside sources. 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Bring your charged Chromebook, and use it when asked to do so, and for its intended purpose.  \nCourse Objectives  \n1. 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