US HISTORY AP
1st Marking Period Outside Reading
Assignment Sheet
Students are expected to read and complete the assigned task for each of the following articles by the start of class on the assigned due dates. Students will be informed not less than a week in advance of the specific expectations for each assignment. Assignments may include but are not limited to writing a two (2) page, double-spaced summary at home, a class debate, a quiz, or an in class writing assignment. For any writing assignment, you should include a “thesis statement” that guides your summary. If you want to earn extra credit, you may read and summarize up to 5 of the additional articles. Please make sure that your summaries are properly identified with OSR # and title of the article. Each of the summaries written at home must be turned in both by hard copy and on turnitin.com.
Assigned Articles
Article One – Due Tuesday September 10 -Mary Beth Norton’s New England and the Chesapeake Compared concerning women in the colonies
Article Two – Due Friday October 11 – David McCullough’s John Adams and the Coming of the Revolution from Portrait of America, Volume 1, Chapter 7, pages 76-88.
Article Three – DueThursday October 24– Richard Hofstadter’s The Founding Fathers: An Age of Realism excerpted from The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It, 1967.
Article Four – Due Friday November 1 –Edmund S. Morgan’s Slavery and Freedom: The American Paradox from Forging the American Character, Volume I, Chapter 4
Article Five –Thursday November 7 –Peter L. Bernstein’s “The Erie Canal: The Waterway that Shaped a Great Nation” found in POA, Vol. I pp. 242 – 254.
Extra Credit Articles – ALL EXTRA CREDIT SUMMARIES ARE DUE NOV. 1
Carl Degler’s Were the Puritans Puritanical? From Forging The American Character, Volume I, Chapter 3, pages 27-37.
John Murrin’s Religion and Politics in Early America from Forging The American Character, Volume I, Chapter 6, pages 71-87.
James Kirby Martin’s The Myth of Popular Participation in the Revolutionary War from Forging The American Character, Volume I, Chapter 7, pages 88-96.
John B. Boles’ Slaves in Biracial Protestant Churches from Forging The American Character, Volume I, Chapter 12, pages 162-177.
Gary B. Nash’s Black People in a White People’s Country from Portrait of America, Volume 1, Chapter 3, pages 28-40.
Jon Butler’s The Evolution of Slavery in Colonial America excepted from Becoming America: The Revolution Before 1776, 2000.