Schedule for 1st Semester August - Discuss class guidelines and AP expectations Create personal history mapping outline Analyze the past, present and future (theories) Summer reading assignment journals due, first day of class Summer reading quiz - first week September - Reasons for the study of history Early American and the Indians (Chapter 1 Test)\ Chapter 1 Reading Study Guide The Colonies and the world of exploration Chapter 2 Reading Study Guide and test Calvinism and the Puritans:Impact on the Americas Oral History Project Assignment October - Oral History Project Presentations Triangular Trade and the Colonies Chapter 4 and Chapter 5 Readings Issues, People and Events of the American Revolution DBQ Practice and the Viewpoints of the British/Americans Great American History Quiz Contest November - George Washington and colonial leadership The Founding of the new nation:Articles of Confederation Federalists vs. Anti-Federatlists Bill of Rights and Personal Freedoms Problems of the new nation and the early Presidents December - Thomas Jefferson and Democracy