AP United States History (11 grade) th
AP U.S. History is a rigorous full year course, designed to provide students with a college-level academic experience and prepare them for the Advanced Placement examination on May 9th, 2025. In the first trimester, students will examine transformative events of cultural, economic and political significance to the development of “America” beginning with European settler colonization in the 16th century, bookended by the United States’ first experiment in bi-racial democracy during the period of Reconstruction after the American Civil War in the 1860s. The course emphasizes two key skills: reading comprehension (the textbook, primary sources, and historians' interpretive essays) and analytical and interpretive essay writing. We will find ourselves reading and wrestling with a broad array of primary source testimony and secondary source historical interpretations.
20th Century World History (11 grade) th
This course encourages students to think about history critically and to question our understanding of the past. Students consider the roles of policymakers, leaders, laborers, families, minorities, and citizens of other countries in shaping how the United States of the 21st century looks and operates. The class uses selected events and characters from the twentieth century to hone their analytical reading, writing, and research skills and to reflect on the American experience. In this course, the class will continue to work on the essential skills of the historian: summarizing, drawing conclusions, comparing and contrasting, analyzing cause and effect, hypothesizing, and making inferences.
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