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Welcome to the JCIB APUSH page! Dr. April Miller has taught AP US History for over 15 years and really loves the course and hopes that you will, too. APUSH covers a huge amount of time: pre-colonization through the modern era.  Additionally, this constitutes the first part of the History of the Americas or IB HoA course; so it's vitally important to pay attention and enjoy it! Check here for updates and class announcements, also you should be able to access files for class handouts. We will tweak this as needed throughout the year - your suggestions are certainly welcome. Some handouts can be found on the Class Files page. And check out what happened "this week" in history - it's got its own page. Also review your skills at History Question of the Day.

===For starters, APUSH requires lots of reading, but if you keep up with it and read some (about an hour) before each class, you should be able to maintain the pace and your cool. The notebook will also work better for you if you keep up with it on a regular basis. It's like the old question goes "How do you eat an elephant?" ===

//one bite at a time, gang, one bite at a time// HOMEWORK


 * Read the Chapter - this is a constant; stay on top of your reading!!
 * Notebook preparation - terms, themes, 4C's, presidents, maps, notes, timeline (Political, Intellectual, Religious, Artistic, Technological, Economic, Social)

= = = = =In class= =Handouts= =UpComing=
 * Week 3 1/23 - 1/27: There will not be a test this week; we will have an open book assignment on Thurs/Friday
 * Week2 1/16 - 1/20: The West & Robber Barons
 * Week 1 1/9 - 1/13:Reconstruction
 * West & Reconstruction maps
 * Reconstruction DBQ

// Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. John Adams, 1765 // //Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.// // Abigail Adams, 1780 //