ADVANCED PLACEMENT UNITED STATES HISTORY

Welcome to AP United States History "APUSH"! APUSH is offered to all ISP students who wish to take an accelerated AP class in U.S. History for college credit, usually equaling two-quarter courses. APUSH is a challenging course that is meant to be the equivalent of two freshman advanced introductory college courses.

This course is a two semester survey of U.S. History from discovery of the New World through the entire twentieth century. Solid reading and writing skills, with the willingness to devote considerable time to homework and study are necessary to succeed. Weekly reading will average thirty to forty pages of text as well as other reading material. Emphasis is placed on critical and evaluative thinking skills, essay writing, interpretation of original documents, and historiography.

This course is designed to prepare your student for the AP Exam in May of 2007. While we cannot guarantee passing the exam, we can claim that we have a 100% pass rate by all AP courses taught by Mark Cruthers since he started three years ago.