EL SEGUNDO UNIFIED
EL SEGUNDO HIGH SCHOOL
COURSE OF STUDY
Course Title: Advanced
Placement
Department: Social Studies
Grade Level 11
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This is a rigorous college level U.S. History course that prepares students to take the AP Exam. The reading is intense and abundant. Students may earn college credit for a score of 3 or better on the AP exam. Prepaid registration for the exam by the end of the 4th week of fall semester is required. Students must receive a letter grade of “B” in order to advance to the next semester.
The Study of United States History is designed to provide
students with analytic skills and factual knowledge necessary to deal
critically with the problems and materials in
Length: One Year
Prerequisite for Enrollment: 90% or better in World History. Concurrent enrollment in English 11 Honors. Students must also be enrolled in Honors English. Students enrolled in AP U.S. History must take the A.P. exam (the cost of this exam is approximately $80.00)
Recommendation for Enrollment: Strong recommendation by a history teacher and score of 75% or better on the STAR
Type of Course: College Level
Based on the College Board Advanced Placement
Standards
1.0 The purpose of Advanced Placement United States History
1.1 The student understands that the study of United States History is designed to provide them with analytic skills and materials. ( Meaningful Integration of Core Knowledge)
1.2 Students prepare for intermediate and advanced college courses along with the demands upon them equivalent to those made by full-year introductory college courses . (Effective Communication, Personal and Social Development)
2.0 The nature and aspects of Advanced Placement United States History
2.1 Students learn to assess historical materials and their relevance to a given interpretive problem, their reliability, and their importance. (Critical Thinking/ Problem Solving; Meaningful Integration of Core Knowledge; Effective communication)
2.2 Students spend a significant amount of time learning to evaluate and judge the evidence and interpretations presented in historical scholarship. (Critical Thinking/ Problem Solving; Meaningful Integration of Core Knowledge; Effective communication
2.3 Students will develop the skills necessary to arrive at conclusions on the basis of Informed judgment and to present reasons and evidence clearly and persuasively in essay format.
2.4 Students apply the concepts of supply and demand to markets for factors such as labor, capital, and land as well as to product markets. (Critical Thinking/ Problem Solving; Meaningful Integration of Core Knowledge; Effective communication)
2.5 Students analyze the concept of derived demand, and understand how a factor’s marginal product and the marginal revenue affect the demand for the factor. (Critical Thinking/ Problem Solving; Meaningful Integration of Core Knowledge; Effective communication)
2.6 Students examine the labor market, particularly labor supply and wage employment determination. (Personal/Social Development, Critical Thinking/ Problem Solve, Meaningful Integration of Core Knowledge; Effective communication)
INSTRUCTIONAL METHODS
A. Lecture and guided practice
B. Investigations (Personal and social developments)
C. Computer generated assist instruction/testing
D. Class work and Homework
E. Individual work
F. Group Work
G. Projects
EVALUATION/GRADING OF STUDENT WORK
A. Quizzes and Chapter Work
B. Semester exam
C. Comprehensive final exam
D. Homework and classroom participation
E. Projects
INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS
A. Text: The American Pageant, eleventh edition by Houghton Mifflin
B. Supplemental text to the American Pageant