Advanced Placement®—Social Studies
Grades 9–12
Achieve AP® Success with AMSCO® Coursebooks
- Make college-level content accessible to all your students without sacrificing the rigor required for success on the new AP® social studies exams.
- Can be used as your primary classroom resource when you submit your course audit to the College Board.
- Get the benefit of decades of AP® expertise with our team of veteran AP® teachers, Exam Readers, Test Item Writers, Table Leaders, APSI Instructors, and College Board Consultants.
- Develop collaboration, writing, and analytic skills with features such as Think As a Historian, Think As a Political Scientist, and Write as a Psychologist.
- Organized by the most current CEDs, AP® texts by AMSCO® deliver streamlined content with just the right level of subject depth and text complexity.
- Diagnose student performance and build exam confidence and competence with carefully crafted AP®-style multiple-choice and free-response questions correlated to specific learning objectives from the course framework.
- Check for student understanding and assess skills with a complete practice test that mirrors the directions, timing, question formats, and content scope of the actual AP® exam.
“What impressed me the most…was its attention to the format of the AP® exam. Other guides hit the topics in the College Board provided curriculum framework well but what sets this book apart is how those topics are directed at the skills necessary to succeed on the AP® exam. This moves beyond the assessments which are similar in difficulty and style to the items on released tests.”
Social Studies Instructional Coach
Houston, Texas
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The Promise and Challenge of Advanced Placement®
Prepare Students for Success
- Consistently updated and modeled after the most current AP® course and exam descriptions, AP® editions provide scaffolded instruction, high-quality primary sources, guided inquiry, rich content, and multiple practice opportunities—all necessary for success on the AP® exam.
- Students will learn to think critically, evaluate sources, and develop coherent arguments—skills required in college, career, and civic life.
Detailed Alignment to College Board Frameworks
Successfully Navigate the AP® Course and Exam
- Each text has been carefully correlated to the corresponding AP® course and exam framework and promptly updated following College Board course updates and exam revisions.
- Written and reviewed by College Board consultants and award-winning instructors, our materials meticulously cover the entire course scope and expectations in the proper sequence and within a concise narrative.
Making AP® Accessible to ALL Students
Readability
- Making college-level content accessible to high school students is of the utmost importance in ensuring success.
- Each text is carefully written and designed to ensure all students comprehend key ideas, learn and use concept vocabulary, and build their analytical and writing skills.
Scaffolded Learning Tasks
- AMSCO® curriculum builds capacity, without sacrificing rigor, and supports students in developing the content knowledge and skills necessary to be successful.
- In early chapters, guiding questions accompany primary sources to build a particular analytical skill.
- Initial inquiry and essay tasks are designed to be narrow in scope, allowing students to master smaller skills first.
- Instruction and tasks to develop disciplinary practices and reasoning skills move from simple to complex as students gain competence.
Streamlined Content
- Each text is built to meet the specific thematic learning objectives as well as the Key Concepts, Key Topics, or Enduring Understandings for each unit. As a result, the depth and breadth of content coverage aligns precisely with the AP® frameworks and exams.
- Advanced Placement®—Social Studies
