Lesson
Unit 4 Essay Activity
A concluding lesson for Unit 4 (1844-1877).
Learning objectives
- Students will be able to construct an AP-Style Long Essay using resources from Unit 4 of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness to practice constructing a historical argument.
- Students will be able to analyze the AP Long-Essay Rubric to reflect on their own skills in the context of the AP Exam.
Materials
Lesson plan
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Standards
Advanced Placement
- Topic 5.5 · Sectional Conflict: Regional Differences
- Topic 5.6 · Failure of Compromise
- Topic 5.10 · Reconstruction
- Theme · Politics and Power
- Theme · Social Structures
- Learning Objective · Unit 5F
- Learning Objective · Unit 5G
- Learning Objective · Unit 5K
- Historical Development · 5.2.I.A
- Historical Development · 5.2.I.B
- Historical Development · 5.2.I.C
- Historical Development · 5.2.II.B.ii
- Historical Development · 5.2.II.C
- Historical Development · 5.3.II
- Reasoning Skill · Developments and Processes
- Reasoning Skill · Source Claims and Evidence
- Reasoning Skill · Contextualization
- Reasoning Skill · Making Connections
- Reasoning Skill · Argumentation
- Reasoning Process · Causation
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