Unit 0: APUSH Thinking Skills

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Local Map

Click the image to the left and browse this geography overview.
​Things to consider:

• Direction
• Distance
• Elevation
• Longitude & latitude
• Physical geography vs. human geography
• Hydrosphere
• Climate
• ​Regions & borders
• ​Other observations?

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History vs.  Historiography

• Timeline Game: Sequencing, Periodization, Continuity & Change, Contextualization, Comparison
• ​Eras in history - Review an era and share with the class the brief "story" of the era
• History vs. historiography
• Wikipedia: Historiography of the United States
• ​American Pageant: "Europeanizing America or Americanizing Europe?" - p. 65-66 (14th edition)
• The debate over Confederate monuments​

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Historical Thinking Skills

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Course Theme: The "Empire of Liberty"

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Primary Sources from the Library of Congress

• Use the nine historical thinking skills and seven APUSH themes to interact with documents of your choosing

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Sample AP Exam

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Reading Strategies:
​American Pageant

• Critical Reading Strategies
• Part One Introduction - Founding the New Nation, 33,000 B.C.E.-1783 C.E. (p. 2-3)

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