Lesson
Unit 5 Essay Activity
A concluding lesson for Unit 5 (1877-1898).
Learning objectives
- Students will be able to construct an AP-Style Long Essay using resources from Unit 5 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 6.4 · The “New South”
- Topic 6.7 · Labor in the Gilded Age
- Topic 6.14 · Continuity and Change in Period 6
- Learning Objective · Unit 6C
- Learning Objective · Unit 6E
- Learning Objective · Unit 6L
- Historical Development · 6.1
- Historical Development · 6.1.I.C
- Historical Development · 6.1.II.B.ii
- Historical Development · 6.1.II.D
- Historical Development · 6.2
- Historical Development · 6.3
- Historical Development · 6.3.II.C
- Reasoning Skill · Developments and Processes
- Reasoning Skill · Sourcing and Situation
- Reasoning Skill · Source Claims and Evidence
- Reasoning Skill · Contextualization
- Reasoning Skill · Making Connections
- Reasoning Skill · Argumentation
- Reasoning Process · Continuity and Change
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