This advanced placement course is designed to provide students with the analytic skills and factual knowledge necessary to deal critically with the problems and materials in U.S. history. The program prepares students for intermediate and advanced college courses. Students should learn to assess historical materials - their relevance to a given interpretive problem, their reliability, and their importance - and to weigh the evidence and interpretations presented in historical scholarship. This course is a comprehensive study of American History from the arrival of European Explorers in the 15th century to the present. The opportunity to take the AP Exam will be available at the end of the course. Light summer reading required.
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