AP United States History History / Social Sciences | Grade 11 | AP Course | Fulfills History Requirement 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. In the first trimester, students examine the transformative events of cultural, economic, and political significance to the development of America beginning with European settler colonization in the sixteenth century, bookended by the United States’ first experiment in biracial democracy during Reconstruction after the Civil War. The course emphasizes two key skills: reading comprehension, including the textbook, primary sources, and historians’ interpretive essays, and analytical and interpretive essay writing. Students read and wrestle with a broad array of primary source testimony and secondary source historical interpretation throughout the year.
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