About the Course​

Advanced Placement is a CollegeBoard program allowing students the opportunity to study college material and earn college credit, while still in high school. AP United States History has been revised for the 2014-2015 school year to not only focus on content knowledge, but to also allow time for student practice in historical analysis, interpretation, and writing skills.

 

Historical Thinking Skills that will be a focus within AP US History are: 

 

Skill 1: Chronological Reasoning

Historical causation

Patterns of continuity and change over time

Periodization

 

Skill 2: Comparison and Contextualization

Comparison

Contextualization

 

Skill 3: Crafting  Arguments from Evidence

Historical argumentation

Appropriate use of relevant historical evidence

 

Skill 4: Historical Interpretation and Synthesis

Interpretation

Synthesis