Apush Summer Assignment
AP UNITED STATES HISTORY, 2013-14
EUGENIA LANGAN, TEACHER
SUMMER ASSIGNMENT
This summer assignment is due on the first day of class of the 2013-14 school year. It will count as a test grade. Failure to turn the assignment in on time may result in your being booted out of AP.Your answers must be typed.Be sure to read the questions carefully and answer all subquestions within each question.
1. Read 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles Mann, then write the answers to the attached study questions about the book. You must buy this book.
2. Read Chapter 1 of People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn, then answer the attached study questions about the chapter. A copy of that chapter is attached, but you must buy a copy of this book as there will be assigned readings from it throughout the course.
SHORT ANSWERS, NOT ESSAYS!
ANSWER IN YOUR OWN WORDS,
ON’T QUOTE OR COPY WORDS FROM THE BOOKS
YOU MUST DO THIS ON YOUR OWN. IT IS NOT A GROUP PROJECT! IDENTICAL ANSWERS WILL BE GRADED ZERO FOR CHEATING!
THIS ENTIRE ASSIGNMENT, INCLUDING THE READING,
SHOULD TAKE ABOUT ONE WEEK
STUDY QUESTIONS FOR MANN, 1491
(Page references are to the 2006 paperback edition)
1. Until quite recently, most American history textbooks taught that before Europeans invaded the Americas Indians were savages who lived in isolated groups and had so little impact on their environment that it remained a pristine wilderness. We now know from scientific discoveries that this account was wrong. What is the effect of learning that most of what we have assumed about the past is "wrong in almost every aspect," as Mann puts it on page 4?
2. There are many scholarly disagreements about the research described in 1491. If our knowledge of the past is based on the findings of scholars, what happens to the past when scholars don’t agree? How convincing is anthropologist Dean R. Snow’s statement, "you can make the meager
EUGENIA LANGAN, TEACHER
SUMMER ASSIGNMENT
This summer assignment is due on the first day of class of the 2013-14 school year. It will count as a test grade. Failure to turn the assignment in on time may result in your being booted out of AP.Your answers must be typed.Be sure to read the questions carefully and answer all subquestions within each question.
1. Read 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles Mann, then write the answers to the attached study questions about the book. You must buy this book.
2. Read Chapter 1 of People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn, then answer the attached study questions about the chapter. A copy of that chapter is attached, but you must buy a copy of this book as there will be assigned readings from it throughout the course.
SHORT ANSWERS, NOT ESSAYS!
ANSWER IN YOUR OWN WORDS,
ON’T QUOTE OR COPY WORDS FROM THE BOOKS
YOU MUST DO THIS ON YOUR OWN. IT IS NOT A GROUP PROJECT! IDENTICAL ANSWERS WILL BE GRADED ZERO FOR CHEATING!
THIS ENTIRE ASSIGNMENT, INCLUDING THE READING,
SHOULD TAKE ABOUT ONE WEEK
STUDY QUESTIONS FOR MANN, 1491
(Page references are to the 2006 paperback edition)
1. Until quite recently, most American history textbooks taught that before Europeans invaded the Americas Indians were savages who lived in isolated groups and had so little impact on their environment that it remained a pristine wilderness. We now know from scientific discoveries that this account was wrong. What is the effect of learning that most of what we have assumed about the past is "wrong in almost every aspect," as Mann puts it on page 4?
2. There are many scholarly disagreements about the research described in 1491. If our knowledge of the past is based on the findings of scholars, what happens to the past when scholars don’t agree? How convincing is anthropologist Dean R. Snow’s statement, "you can make the meager