2Nd Marking Period Outside Reading

US HISTORY AP

2nd Marking Period Outside Reading

Assignment Sheet

Please read each of the following articles, and write a two (2) page, double-spaced summary. Your summary should include a “thesis statement” that guides your summary. Each of the articles has a specified due date. If you want to earn extra credit, you may read and summarize any or all of the additional articles. Please make sure that your summaries are properly identified with OSR # and title of the article. Each of the summaries must be turned in both by hard copy and on turnitin.com.

Assigned Articles

Article One – Due Monday November 12 – Thomas Dublin’s “Women, Work, and Protest in the Early Lowell Mills” found in FAC pp 147 – 159.

Article Two – Due Tuesday November 20 – Edmund Morgan’s Slavery and Freedom: The American Paradox from Forging The American Character, Volume I, Chapter 4, pages 38-52.

Article Three - Due Thursday November 29– Stephen B. Oates’ “The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner’s Fierce Rebellion.” Found in Portrait of America, Vol. I pp. 191 – 205.

Article Four – Due Monday December 3 – Ira Berlin’s “ ‘I will be Heard!’: William Lloyd Garrison and the Struggle Against Slavery” found in POA, Vol. I pp. 205 – 213.

Article Five -- Due Wednesday January 2 – Stephen B. Oates’ “Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation” found in POA, Vol. I pp. 322 - 342.

Extra Credit Articles: All extra credit for 2nd marking period will be due on or before January 11, 2013!!!!!

Jack Larkin’s “ The Secret Life of a Developing Country (Ours)” found in FAC pp. 124- 146.

John F. Marszalek’s “Andrew Jackson: Flamboyant Hero of the Common Man,” Portrait of America,Vol. I, pages 215 – 228.

Johnny Faragher and Christine Stansell’s “Women and their Families on the Overland Trail” found in POA, Vol. I pp. 277 – 289.

Benjamin Quarles’ “Let My People Go: Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad” found in POA, Vol. I pp. 302- 311.

Stephen B. Oates’ “The Ravages of War” found in POA, Vol. I pp. 342 – 350.

Bruce Catton’s “Hayfoot, Strawfoot!” found in POA, Vol. I pp. 350 – 361

James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton’s “ ‘Call Me Mister’: The Black Experience During Reconstruction” found in POA, Vol. I pp. 361 – 375.

Eric Foner’s “The Checkered History of the Great Fourteenth Amendment” found in POA,

Vol. I pp. 375 – 383.