The AP Exam Learning Objectives Understand the structure

The AP Exam

Learning Objectives • Understand the structure of the AP exam and the resources available • Explain the origins of the first Americans • Explain how different native groups adapted to their environment.

Summer Homework: Lies My Teacher Told me • Chapter 5 Quote: “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, and if faced with courage, need not be lived again. ” (Page 137) • Chapter 7 Quote: “The history of a nation is, unfortunately, too easily written as the history of its dominant. ” (Page 201)

American Indians • What was the most interesting thing you learned from this reading? • Did it challenge any stereotypes you had? • Is the term American Indian problematic to you?

Why should I care? • What is history? • How do you think history, specifically U. S. history should be taught? I. e. what should you walk away knowing and why. • Why is history important? i. e Why should I care about a bunch of dead people? • Is it possible to teach (or learn) history without bias?

Primary Source Versus Secondary Source • What is the Difference Between a Primary Source and Secondary Source?

Primary Source • Original, first-hand account of an event or time period • Usually written or made during or close to the event or time period • Original, creative writing or works of art Examples? ? ?

Secondary Sources • Analyzes and interprets primary sources • Second-hand account of an historical event Examples? ? ?

Evaluating Sources • With the person next to you decide which source you trust the most

AP Resources • • College Board Website Crash Course US History AP US History Review Videos and Time Line Gilder Lehrman Institute

College Board Webstite • • Historical Thinking Skills (7) Thematic Objectives (10) Concept Outline, Time Periods (Page 22) Exam Description (124)

Webquest • Go to Dkuluris. weebly. com • Click on Webquest for Pre-Colombian North America. Due 8/14. 25 informal points and follow the directions • Due 8/14, we will have 30 minutes in class on Thursday

• As native populations migrated and settled across the vast expanse of North America over time, they developed distinct and increasingly complex societies by adapting to and transforming their diverse environments. • Different native societies adapted to and transformed their environments through innovations in agriculture, resource use, and social structure.

• The spread of maize cultivation from presentday Mexico northward into the present-day American Southwest and beyond supported economic development, settlement, advanced irrigation, and social diversification among societies.

• Societies responded to the aridity of the Great Basin and the grasslands of the western Great Plains by developing largely mobile lifestyles

• In the Northeast, the Mississippi River Valley, and along the Atlantic seaboard some societies developed mixed agricultural and huntergatherer economies that favored the development of permanent villages.

• Societies in the Northwest and present-day California supported themselves by hunting and gathering, and in some areas developed settled communities supported by the vast resources of the ocean.