APUSH 2015-2016 Portfolio Project

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 full-year introductory college courses. Students should learn
to assess historical materialstheir relevance to a given interpretive
problem, reliability, and importanceand 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. (APUSH Course Description Fall 2010 College
Board)
This project is designed to develop these skills.
Procedure
Students will choose from the list provided the projects that he/she wants to
complete meeting the Project Checkpoint Deadlines. Students MUST meet
the deadlines to stay on track during this Project. The following is the list of
Checkpoints and the expectations for each of these. STAY ON TRACK! You
will be given class days to work on your projects. It is expected that you use
that time to its fullest.
Thursday: October 15, 2015: From America before the English to A New
Nation (Ch. 1-8)
Students will complete the following: 5 Inquiry Projects, 3 Analysis Project
and 1 Synthesis Project using technology.
Thursday: December 10, 2015: From Expansion of Democracy to The Rift
(Ch. 9-16)
Students will complete the following: 5 Inquiry Projects, 3 Analysis Project
and 1 Synthesis Project using technology.
Thursday: March 10, 2016: From the Gilded Age to Imperialism &
Consequences (Ch. 10-24)
Students will complete the following: 5 Inquiry Projects, 3 Analysis Project
and 1 Synthesis Project using technology.
Thursday: May 12, 2016: From Navigating the Cold War to A New World
Order (Ch. 25-31)
Students will complete the following: 5 Inquiry Projects, 3 Analysis Project
and 1 Synthesis Project using technology.