Sunday, May 20, 2012


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 6. There are only 100 books and 100 students, But only 10 of each title, so it is 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.

Redcoats and Rebels: The American Revolution Through British Eyes 




The Long Fuse: How England Lost the American Colonies 1760-1785 by Don Cook

A Short History of the American Revolution by James Stokesbury



The American Revolution: Revised Edition by Edward Countryman



The New American Revolution Handbook: Facts and Artwork for Readers of All Ages, 1775-1783 by Theodore Savas


The Real History of the American Revolution: A New Look at the Past by Alan Axelrod



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

Glorious CauseSection 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.