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WELCOME TO AP US HISTORY SPRING SEMESTER - MR. COLLIS



**__SUMMER ASSIGNMENT IS BELOW__** Students will read the first four chapters of A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn to prepare them for the culture and class struggles of Pre-Columbian History and English Colonial Rule.

Students are to write a one page essay comparing and contrasting the views of Zinn and the knowledge they have learned in previous classes about the European's first interactions with Native Americans.

Students will also read Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis. This work is crucial to understanding the founding of our country, the founding documents of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and the men who wrote them and created the ideas that our country follows today. It presents the founding fathers more as men struggling with the roles thrust upon them to lead, rather than them being perfect "godlike" men.

Students will write a two page essay analyzing the events of chapter 3: The Silence, describing in detail, why it was necessary for the founding fathers to deal with slavery by neglecting the conversation of slavery.

Each essay is to be handwritten to avoid plagiarism and copying from other students.

Both Founding Brothers and A People's History of the United States can be purchased on Amazon for around $10 each. Barnes and Noble also carries copies for sale.