AP EXAM REVIEW PROJECT – APUSH Spring 2024

Complete the following activities worth 10% of your final average.

Due: Thursday, May 9.

THE OVERALL ASSIGNMENT:

Choose any of the following activities to complete this project. They must be done
thoroughly and show your best efforts. Just a reminder, the Walton Honor Code
remains in effect. No plagiarism is allowed, and you must complete them alone
with no aid from your peers. We will be comparing your submissions so none
should look anything alike. The purpose is to help you prepare for the AP Exam so
the more you learn and remember, the better!
Do FIVE Activities for a possible 100%.
Do FOUR Activities for a possible 80%.
We are assuming that none of you will choose a 60, 40, or 20 percent for this
assignment!
Each of your five submissions must come from a different unit (Units 2-8). All
work should be typed and turned in at ONE TIME on paper. NO DIGITAL
SUBMISSIONS (Due date is May 9).
Unit 2: British Colonies through the French and Indian War (Chapters 2-4)
Unit 3: French and Indian War through 1800 Election (Chapters 5-7)
Unit 4: Jeffersonian Era through Antebellum Reforms (Chapters 7-10)
Unit 5: Manifest Destiny through Reconstruction (Chapters 11-14)
Unit 6: The Gilded Age (Chapters 15-18)
Unit 7: American Imperialist Expansion through World War Two (Chapters 19-23)
Unit 8: Cold War through Election of Ronald Reagan (Chapters 24-27)
Sample Format for Submitting Assignment:
1. The entire assignment should be typed and submitted as a single printed
packet.
2. Each activity should be listed chronologically by unit with a description and all
required documentation. Example:
Unit 2 Activity—Zoom Review (Date/Teacher)
*2 Questions (must have been submitted to the teacher host via
email before 5pm the day of the review session and copied into
your document)
*Page of notes taken during review
Unit 4 Activity—Art Review (Name of artwork)
*Copy of artwork (copy/pasted from online source)
*Description of its historical context/significance
*Answers to required review questions
Unit 5 Activity—Create Your Own DBQ
*Selected question
*7 primary source documents
*Outline answers to DBQ
Unit 7 Activity—Gilder Lehrman Review
*Copy of ENTIRE chart from the linked Google doc
Unit 8 Activity—College Board On-Demand Review
*Photo evidence
*One page of typed notes (outline form) of information on unit
Activity Options:
FIRST ACTIVITY: Art-Inspired Review (Limit 2)
Look over the U.S. Art PowerPoint on CTLS and choose ONE of the works of the 50
that are presented. Complete the following for your chosen artwork:
1. Copy/paste the image of that work and place it in your assignment.
2. Briefly describe the work of art (what is the topic, possible art form,
interesting details or symbolism, etc.).
3. Determine which unit the work of art fits into and do the following:
a. Describe the time period overall for that unit. What MAJOR EVENTS
made up the span of time? Describe FIVE of these briefly.
b. Choose and describe FIVE SPECIFIC POLITICAL CONCEPTS that were
part of the time period (people, legislation, movements, etc.)
c. Choose and describe FIVE SPECIFIC ECONOMIC CONCEPTS that were
part of the time period.
d. Choose and describe FIVE SPECIFIC SOCIAL CONCEPTS that were part
of the time period.

SECOND ACTIVITY: Teacher-led Zoom or In-Person Reviews (Limit 2)

To earn credit for a Zoom session, email two detailed questions about the unit
that use historical thinking skills (comparison, continuity and change over time,
cause and effect, multiple perspectives, etc.) to the host of the review (Snoddy,
Caudle, or Gordon) by 5pm the day of the review session. You must take at least
a page of typed outline notes during the session and submit them with your final
project. You must turn on your camera and keep it on for the duration of the
session. You must remain active in the session until it ends. Zoom records your
time in the session. All hour-long sessions begin at 7pm and will be an overview of
each unit with a Q&A period time permitting.
To earn credit for an in-person session, email two detailed questions about the
unit that use historical thinking skills (comparison, continuity and change over
time, cause and effect, multiple perspectives, etc.) to the host of the review
(Snoddy, Caudle, or Gordon) by 8am the day of the review session. You must
take at least a page of typed outline notes during the session and submit them
with your final project. You may not arrive late or leave early. You will be required
to sign-in to the session while there. All hour-long sessions begin at 4pm and will
be an overview of each unit with a Q&A period time permitting.
Jennifer.snoddy@cobbk12.org
Christine.gordon@cobbk12.org
Emily.caudle@cobbk12.org

Here’s the schedule:

Tuesday, 4/16, 4pm – Unit 2 Thursday, 4/25, 4pm – Unit 5
Thursday, 4/18, 7pm – Unit 3 Tuesday, 4/30, 7pm – Unit 6
Tuesday, 4/23, 4pm – Unit 4 Thursday, 5/2, 7pm – Unit 7

Attendance will be taken. You can attend as many as you would like for review’s
sake, but a limit of two will be given credit toward the exam review grade. You
MUST submit your questions via email by the deadline to receive credit. Students
whose questions arrive late or do not meet the criteria for historical thinking skills
will receive an email informing them that they are not receiving credit for that
review session.
Links to join Zoom sessions will be posted on CTLS the day of the session.

THIRD ACTIVITY: College Board On-Demand Review Videos (Review Sessions) on

AP Classroom (Limit 2)
After viewing each review video, provide at least a page of outline notes (typed)
of the information presented focusing especially on how the concepts and
information might be applied to potential free response questions. You must
include a photo of yourself with the review session screen as proof of viewing.
You may use videos from the 2021 or 2022 set of on-demand content review
videos in AP Classroom.
FOURTH ACTIVITY: Gilder-Lehrman Video Reviews (Limit 2)
Gilder-Lehrman reviews of periods 2-8. View the review video on the Gilder-
Lehrman website for your chosen unit here:
https://ap.gilderlehrman.org/
Then, complete the review sheet that can be found here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D8JopJK5xw-
x1Cb2PLOV6VZNGBH6fGpw_BGSUlodpIg/edit?usp=sharing
You may complete a total of 2 for credit for the exam review grade, but you are
free to view as many of the review videos as you would like.

FIFTH ACTIVITY: Create Your Own DBQ (Limit 2)

Create your own DBQ. Look through your study guides for Units 2-8. Select one of
the Critical Thinking/Essay Questions from the back of the study guide that you
have not already done in class as a DBQ. Then, select seven short primary source
documents that could be used to help answer that question. Remember that one
of your documents must be a visual document (art, photo, graph, chart, political
cartoon, etc.). Create an outline answer to the DBQ you have made. Write a thesis
statement, then outline your major paragraphs with a topic sentence, which
documents you would use, and one piece of outside information (not included in
the documents) as well as expanded analysis for three documents (POV, HC,
Audience, Purpose). You may complete a maximum of two DBQs.

SIXTH ACTIVITY: Chronology Activity (Limit 1)

Decades Matching Activity: Your teacher will provide you with an activity (Decade
by Decade Matching in the CTLS resources folder) in which you must match a set
of important historical events to the correct decade in which they occurred. The
decades begin with the 1760s and go through the 2000s. Because this activity
covers all the units, you may count it for whatever unit you need to complete
your reviews activities for Units 2-8. Include a printout of the document with
CORRECT answers for full credit. Accuracy matters! You may check your answers
with your teacher prior to submission.

SEVENTH ACTIVITY: Argumentation in Writing Practice Session during WEB on

April 10 (Limit 1)
Attend the argumentation practice session during Blocks A and B or C and D on
April 10 in Room 233. Complete the provided practice worksheet and submit it
with your review project packet. You must also sign in during the WEB Blocks and
participate in the activity throughout the session.

EIGHTH ACTIVITY: College Board On-Demand Practice Session Videos on AP

Classroom (Limit 2)
After viewing each practice session video, provide at least a page of outline notes
(typed) of the information presented focusing especially on how you will use the
strategies to answer that particular type of question (MCQ, SAQ, LEQ or DBQ) on
the AP Exam. You must include a photo of yourself with the review session screen
as proof of viewing. You may use videos from the 2023 or 2024 set of on-demand
content review videos in AP Classroom. The 2024 videos will become available
starting on April 22.