List of Lessons for 2011 AP Summer Institute at the College of Wooster

 Nine to Five
 
 "Only in America"
 "The Message"
 Excerpt from Part 4 of The Hip-Hop Years
 "We Didn't Start the Fire"
 "With God on Our Side"
 
 Gordon Parks' photo of Ella Watson
 
 1993 DBQ
 
 Africans Americans in the Late Colonial Period - Documents Lesson
 
 2005 DBQ - "Radicalism" of the American Revolution?
 
 1985 DBQ - Effectiveness of the Articles of Confederation
 
 2006 DBQ - Changing Roles of Women, 1770-1860
 
 2009 DBQ - "Many Thousands Gone"?, 1775-1830
 
 Simulation: Economy and Society in 1830s America
 
 Video: Solomon Northup's Odyssey: "Twelve Years A Slave"
 
 Slave Songs
 
 Free Response Essay: The Aftermath of the Mexican War, 1845 -1855
 
 Lincoln's "House Divided" Speech, June 16, 1858 - a primary source
 
 Lincoln-Douglas debates - excerpts from a primary source
 
 The Davis Resolutions - a primary source
 
 Jubilee: Literature as History
 
 1996 DBQ - Reconstruction: How much of a revolution?
 
 Land and Labor during Reconstruction - Documents Lesson ("Jigsaw")
 
 1989 DBQ - Booker T. Washington vs. W. E. B. DuBois, 1877-1915
 
 2003 Form B DBQ - The Progressive Era
 
 2008 Form B DBQ - Evolution of Immigration and Immigration Restriction, 1880-1924
 
 Multimedia lesson: Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series
 
 2003 DBQ - The New Deal
 
 2001 DBQ - Cold War fears
 
 Oral History in the Classroom: Clarence Jones on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
 
 TET 1968: excerpt from Vietnam: A Television History
 
 "I Feel Like I'm Fixin to Die Rag" and "Okie from Muskogee"
 
 2008 DBQ - Social, Economic and Political Impact of the Vietnam War
 
 2011 DBQ - International and Domestic Challenges faced by the Nixon Administration
 
 Ira Berlin's New Interpretive Framework for African-American (and all of U.S.?) History
 
 The Significance of Rap Music and Hip-Hop for U.S. History since 1965
 
 
 A Brief List of Additional New Recommended Resources for Teaching AP US History
 
 Teachers' Websites
 "DBQs since 1983" (Mr. Marc Gonzales AP US History)
 Sue Pojer, "American History A.P. Main Page" on Historyteacher.net
 Sue Pojer, PowerPoint Palooza
 
 Recent Books
 Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone. The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America.
 Ira Berlin, The Making of African America. The Four Great Migrations, chapter 5.
 Roger Daniels, Coming to America. A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life., Second edition.
 Joseph Ellis, Founding Brothers, chapters 2-5.
 Eric Foner, Give Me Liberty! An American History. Second edition.
 Michael Henry, U.S. History Skillbook. Second edition.
 David Reimers, Other Immigrants: The Global Origins of the American People.
 Tricia Rose, The Hip Hop Wars. What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hip-And Why It Matters.
 Larry Starr and Christopher Waterman, American Popular Music. From Minstrelsy to MP3.
 Alan Taylor, American Colonies. The Settling of North America.
 
 Recently Released Audio and Video Resources
 Byron Hurt, Beyond Beats and Rhymes
 iTunes U (especially lectures by David Blight, Claybourne Carson, Joanne Freeman, Jack Rakove, and Tricia Rose)
 Tricia Rose, "The Hip Hop Wars"
 The Hip-Hop Years (a four part British documentary)

 

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