Fabric of a Nation: A History with Skills and Sources For the AP U.S. History Course

About this book

The only AP U.S. History book that weaves together content skills sources and AP exam practice is back and better than ever. AP U.S. History is about so much more than just events on a timeline. The Course Framework is designed to develop crucial reading reasoning and writing skills that help students think like historians to interpret the world of the pastand understand how it relates to the world of today. And Fabric of a Nation is still one of the only textbooks that covers every aspect of this course seamlessly stitching together history skills sources and AP Exam practice. In this new edition we make it easier than ever to cover all of the skills and topics in the AP U.S. History Course and Exam Description by aligning our content to the Unit Topics and Historical Reasoning Processes of each Period. An Accessible Balanced Narrative Theres only so much time in a school year. To cover everything and leave enough time for skill development you need more focused content not just more contentand to be most effective skills development should be accessible and placed just where it is needed. Within the narration are AP Skills Workshops and AP Working with Evidence features that support students as they learn the history and prepare to take the AP Exam. Fabric of a Nation delivers a thorough yet approachable historical narrative that perfectly aligns with all the essential content of the AP course. An up-to-date historical survey based on current scholarship this book is also easy to understand and fun to read with plenty of interesting details and a crisp writing style that keeps things fresh. Perfectly Aligned to the AP Scope and Sequence Fabric of a Nation has an easy-to-use organization that fully aligns with the College Boards Course and Exam Description for AP U.S. History. Instead of long meandering chapters this book is divided into smaller approachable modules that pull together content skills sources and AP Exam practice into brief 1- to 2-day lessons. Each module corresponds with a specific unit topic in the course framework including the contextualization and reasoning process topics that bookend each time period. This approach takes the guesswork out of when to introduce which skills and how to blend sources with contentall at a manageable pace that mirrors the scope and sequence of the AP course framework. Seamlessly Integrated AP Skill Workshops for Thinking and Writing Skills Inspired by the authors classroom experience and sound pedagogical principles the instruction in Fabric of a Nation scaffolds learning throughout the course of the book. Every module offers an opportunity to either learn or practice new skills to prepare for each section of the AP Exam in an AP Skills Workshop. As the book progresses the nature of these workshops moves from focused instruction early on to guided practice in the middle of the book and then finally to independent practice near the end of the year. Fabric of a Nation was designed to provide you and your students everything needed to succeed in the AP US History course and on the exam. Its all there. AP Exam Practice: We Boast the Most Material Every period culminates with AP Practice questions providing students a mini-AP exam with approximately 15 stimulus-based multiple-choice questions 4 short-answer questions 1 document-based essay question and 3 long-essay questions. Additionally a full-length practice exam is included at the end of the textbook. Because the modules in this book are divided into periods that perfectly align to the AP U.S. History Course and Exam Description its also easy to pair Fabric of a Nation with the resources on AP Classroom. Each textbook module can be used with the corresponding AP Daily Videos and Topic Questions while the AP Exam Practice at the end of each period can be supplemented with the Personal Progress Checks from AP Classroom.