Course Descriptions

AP US Government Course Description (PDF)
US Government Course Description (PDF)
​AP US History Course Description (PDF)
US History Course Description (PDF)
AP Human Geography Course Description (PDF)
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SIT Topic Examples (2011 - ) - shared Doc

Outside Reading & Writing

Summer Reading 2019
AP & US Government - 1984 by George Orwell
AP & US History - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
AP Human Geography - The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo

Parallel Reading Lists 2018 - 2019 - see Novels & Films tab

Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States
Audio version (youtube) *also available via Audible for one credit
​PDF version
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Information of Interest

Note-Taking Strategies (PDF)

Typings vs Handwriting Notes & Assignments:
A Learning Secret (Scientific American)
To Remember a Lecture (The Atlantic)
What you miss when you take notes on a laptop (Harvard Business Review)
Long term Comprehension (Association for Psychological Science)
4 Specific Benefits of Handwriting

Personality Test: Myers-Briggs Test
Myers-Briggs, decoded (PDF)
Careers & Majors for Your Personality Type

​Helping Verbs (sing to Jingle Bells): 
be, being, been
am, is, are
was, were, has, have, had
do, does, did, can, may, might, must,
shall, would, should, could, ought

Active Verb List