Lesson
Unit 6 Essay Activity
A concluding lesson for Unit 6 (1898-1945).
Learning objectives
- Students will be able to construct an AP-Style Long Essay using resources from Unit 6 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 7.1 · Contextualizing Period 7
- Topic 7.4 · The Progressives
- Topic 7.9 · Great Depression
- Topic 7.10 · New Deal
- Topic 7.15 · Comparison in Period 7
- Learning Objective · Unit 7A
- Learning Objective · Unit 7D
- Learning Objective · Unit 7J
- Learning Objective · Unit 7K
- Learning Objective · Unit 7O
- Historical Development · 7.1.I.C
- Historical Development · 7.1.II.B
- Historical Development · 7.1.III.A
- Historical Development · 7.1.III.C
- Historical Development · 7.3.I
- Historical Development · 7.3.II
- Historical Development · 7.3.III
- Reasoning Skill · Developments and Processes
- Reasoning Skill · Source Claims and Evidence
- Reasoning Skill · Contextualization
- Reasoning Skill · Making Connections
- Reasoning Skill · Argumentation
- Reasoning Process · Comparison
- Reasoning Process · Causation
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