CarpBronchos 🐴 5 AP United States History

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In AP U.S. History, students investigate significant events, individuals, developments, and processes in nine historical periods from approximately 1491 to the present. Students develop and use the same skills and methods employed by historians: analyzing primary and secondary sources; developing historical arguments; making historical connections; and utilizing reasoning about comparison, causation, and continuity and change. The course also provides eight themes that students explore throughout the course in order to make connections among historical developments in different times and places: American and national identity; work, exchange, and technology; geography and the environment; migration and settlement; politics and power; America in the world; American and regional culture; and social structures.

Friday, September 5, 2025

Views of Columbus 🧭

🎯 Learning Targets

Explain the context for European encounters in the Americas from 1491 to 1607

⏰ What We Did

Debriefed and discussed the views of William Bennett and Howard Zinn about Christopher Columbus

⚙️ Resources

📖 Corresponding Reading

Read and take notes on Chapter 1 in American Yawp before M 8 Sep 2025

💻 Homework

Read one of the two provided articles on Columbus (Bennett or Zinn) and answer the article response prompts on a separate sheet of paper before class on F 5 Sep 2025
Obtain a 3" three-ring binder and 10 tabs before class on M 8 Sep 2025

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	AP Microeconomics
	iCampus
	Civics
	AP United States History
	Civics

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	The American Yawp
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	APUSH Binder
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Views of Columbus 🧭

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