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Topical organization—105 topics aligned directly to the APUSH College Board® framework.
Within each of the nine course units, the content, topics, course themes, and learning objectives focus on developing the historical thinking skills and reasoning processes for the AP® exam and college success.
Each topic includes:
Extensive AP exam preparation includes hundreds of topic-specific questions, unit reviews with long essay questions, AP-style Document-Based Questions, and a full-length practice test.
A Teacher Resource includes an answer key, a correlation of each question to the College Board framework, and customizable PowerPoint slides.
Teacher materials are sold only to educators and with a school purchase order. Contact Customer Experience to order.
This classic, chronological approach to U.S. History is a College Board-approved alternative to topic-based instruction and has been updated to reflect the latest CED.
The concise and accessible narrative is divided into 31 chapters and 9 chronological periods.
Topic activities focus on practicing historical thinking skills—historical developments and processes, sourcing and situation, claims and evidence, context, connections, and argument.
Unit activities build writing skills for the long essay and Document-Based Questions.
Unit activities develop and practice three critical historical reasoning processes—comparison, causation, and continuity and change over time.
Perfection Learning/AMSCO has partnered with Rice University, publisher of OpenStax textbooks, to provide the most in-depth resources and support for your AP U.S. History classroom instruction and College Board course audit approval.
The College Board-approved OpenStax U.S. History resource has been aligned with the U.S. History AP coursebook from Perfection Learning/AMSCO. With the AMSCO program, you will receive all of the OpenStax student resources which are:
A FREE Pacing Guide shows how the AMSCO and OpenStax resources work together for instruction.
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