1. Reading your APUSH Text Book
AP US History

2. About Me Never enrolled in an AP class in high school!
Did graduate from Earlham College
Have taught US History, World History, Sociology, Psychology, Government, Economics
8+ years of teaching experience
Degree is in Psychology
Earlham College

3. College Level Reading Expectations
Immigration in US History class

4. Build on your background knowledge
Social Science classes you’ve taken:
US Government
Economics
World History
How did these classes organize social studies?
Political, Economic, Social (P, E, S)
Liberal vs conservative (political spectrum)
What / so what
Cause and effect
PERSIA
These are still VALID structures!

5. Set a Purpose Find a way to connect to your themes APUSH Themes
APUSH Historical Thinking Skills
Cause and effect
Chronology
Connections across time
Connect back and forward
Synthesis

6. Trends and Theme connections.
Details that separate 4s from 5s.
Add to all written components.

7. Adjust Your pace How long did it take you to read this last chapter?
It took me ~ 90 minutes
Knowing what I know
Annotating how I do
Did it take you longer? Shorter? Much longer or shorter?

8. Annotation Annotate for your purpose Methods
What is always your purpose?
Methods
Sticky notes
Outlining the chapter
ID cards
What / So What
Connections / Synthesis

9. SAGE Vocabulary S = Synonyms A = Antonyms G = General context
E = Examples
All textbooks use THIS structure to teach key vocabulary

10. Examples from the Chapter
Decisive in Jefferson’s victory was the three-fifths clause of the Constitution. By counting three-fifths of the slave population for the purposes of congressional and Electoral College representation, the Constitution gave white southern voters a bonus that helped Jefferson with the White House.
What is the three-fifths clause?

11. Even more galling to American pride than the seizure of wooden ships was the seizure of flesh-and-blood American seamen. Impressment – the forcible enlistment of sailors – was a crude form of conscription that the British, among others, had employed for over four centuries.
What is impressment?

12. Not all of Madison’s party was reluctant to fight
Not all of Madison’s party was reluctant to fight. The complexion of the Twelfth congress, which met late in 1811, differed markedly from that of its predecessor. Recent elections had swept away many of the older “submission men” and replaced them with young hotheads, many from the South and West. Dubbed war hawks by their Federalist opponents, the newcomers were indeed on fire for a new war with the old enemy.
What are war hawks?

13. The close tally revealed deep divisions over the wisdom of fighting
The close tally revealed deep divisions over the wisdom of fighting. The split was both sectional and partisan. Support for war came from the South and West, but also from Republicans in populous middle states such as Pennsylvania and Virginia. Federalists in both North and South damned the conflict, but their stronghold was New England, which greeted the declaration of war with muffled bells, flags at half-mast, and public fasting.
What do sectional and partisan mean?

14. Additional Resources APUSH Review Gilder Lehrman Review
Hip Hughes History