GloriousCause - Section 3 = pages through 680

This is your 3rd and final post on The Glorious Cause. Use Reading Thoughts and Thinking Like a Historian. You may comment on another person's blog.

Glorious Cause - Section 2 = pages through 460

This is your 2nd posting for The Glorious Cause. Use Thinking Like a Historian and/or Reading Thoughts. You may comment on another person's blog.

The Glorious Cause - Section 1 = pages through 230

This is your 1st Blog on the Glorious Cause. Be sure to use Reading Thoughts and Thinking Like a Historian. You may respond to one other person's blog.

Rise to Rebellion - Section 3 = The Flag Unfurled

This is your 3rd and final blog. You may respond to another person's blog.

Rise to Rebellion - Section 2 = Lions and Lambs

This is your 2nd Blog. You may also respond to another person's blog. Use Reading Thoughts and Thinking Like a Historian.

Rise To Rebellion Section 1 = Part 1 The Right and The Power

This will be your 1st blog about the book Rise to Rebellion. Use Reading Thoughts and Thinking Like a Historian. Also you may do a second blog here commenting on another person's blog.

The American Revolution by Woods-Section 3 = Part 5 Republicanism, Part 6 Republican Society, and Part 7The Federal Constitution

This is your 3rd and Final Blog for The American Revolution by Woods. You may also comment on another person's blog. Use Reading Thoughts and Thinking Like a Historian.

The American Revolution - =Section 2- Part 3 Revolution and Part 4 Constitution-Making and War

This is your 2nd blog for the American Revolution by Woods. You may also comment on another person's blog. Make sure you are using the Reading Thoughts and the Thinking Like a Historian.

The American Revolution by Woods - Section 1 Part 1 Origins and Part 2 American Resistance

This is where you put your first blog for the book The American Revolution by Woods. You may also make a comment about one of your classmates blogs.

1776 Section 3 - The Long Retreat

This will be your 3rd and final blog. You may also comment on one other person's blog.

1776 - Section 2 - Fateful Summer

This is where you make your 2nd blog on the Section section of 1776. You are also free to comment on one other person's blog.

1776 Section 1 - Part 1 The Seige

Please blog one comment analyzing Part 1 using either a Reading Thought or Thinking Like a Historian. You may also make a comment about a colleagues blog.

APUSH Summer Reading Assignment 2011

Directions: All DCE APUSH students are required to read one of the following books in August 2010. You may pick up a copy of your book selection in the H.S. Library by June 9. There are only 80 books and 108 students. First come first serve. Otherwise you are responsible for getting a book from the public libraries or by purchasing online or at one of the bookstores in town.

1776, by David McCullough - nonfiction account that gives life to the year of our independence.

The American Revolution, by Gordon Woods -A concise 170 page summary of the events surrounding the American Revolution.

Rise to Rebellion, by Jeff Shaara - This historical fiction novel chronicles the events of the period 1770- 1776.

Glorious Cause, by Jeff Shaara - This historical fiction novel is about the Revolutionary War.

As you read your book selection you are asked to use the Reading Thoughts and Thinking Like a Historian Inquiry Categories to analyze and interpret what you read. I am asking you to post a blog entry after each of the following 3 sections.

1776

Section 1 = Part 1: The Seige
Section 2 = Part 2: Fateful Summer
Section 3 = Part 3: The Long Retreat

The American Revolution

Section 1 = Part 1 Origins and Part 2 American Resistance
Section 2 = Part 3 Revolution and Part 4 Constitution-Making and War
Section 3 = Part 5 Republicanism, Part 6 Republican Society, and Part 7The Federal Constitution

Rise to Rebellion

Section 1 = Part 1 The Right and The Power
Section 2 = Lions and Lambs
Section 3 = The Flag Unfurled

Glorious Cause

Section 1 = pages through 230
Section 2 = pages through 460
Section 3 = pages through 680


In each of your blogs you are asked to reflect on a minimum of 2 reading thoughts and 2 categories of Thinking Like a Historian. After each section blog you must also interact/reply to a specific comment by the previous blogger. For example you might question their logic/position or reasoning.