Description

AP United States History online course focuses on developing students’ abilities to think conceptually about U.S. history from approximately 1491 to the present and apply historical thinking skills as they learn about the past. There are seven themes of equal importance built into this course: identity; peopling; politics and power; work, exchange, and technology; America in the world; environment and geography; and ideas, beliefs, and culture that provide areas of historical inquiry for investigation. These require students to reason historically about continuity and change over time and make comparisons among various historical developments in different times and places.

Study materials (e-books, Discovery Education, etc. ...) for FLVS Global courses are INCLUDED in the price of the course.

Course Structure

Study Scope and Sequence

While the course follows a narrative structure supported by the textbook and audiovisual materials, the following seven themes described in the AP U.S. History Course and Exam Description are woven throughout each module of study:
1. Identity (ID)  2. Work, Exchange, and Technology (WXT) 3. Peopling (PEO)
4. Politics and Power (POL)
5. America in the World (WOR) 6. Environment and Geography (ENV) 7. Ideas, Beliefs, and Culture (CUL)

Historical Thinking Skills

These skills reflect the tasks of professional historians. While learning to master these tasks, AP U.S. History students act as “apprentice historians\":

• Chronological Reasoning

• Historical Causation
• Patterns of Continuity and Change Over Time
• Periodization
• Comparison and Contextualization 

• Crafting Historical Arguments from Historical Evidence 

• Historical Interpretation and Synthesis 


Course syllabus

Syllabus AP US History

• Syllabus AP US History

Materials required

For this course you need to secure the following textbook and materials (if lab kit is listed, check first the possibility of using your school lab prior to buying the lab kit):

Price

course fee: 777,- EUR / 18 500,- Kč