APUSH Summer Homework

If your last name is A-L, email Mr. Ko at kod@sfusd.edu. If your last name is M-Z, email Mr. Vedar at vedar_apush@gmail.com

All assignments must be completed and ready to present on the first day of school, Monday 8/19. You will email outlines and study guides during the summer, but have hard copies of them ready to turn in by 8/19. Have your video ready to show on a USB on 8/19 as well.

Email with any questions ASAP.

1. Outline chapters 1-4 using Cornell notes.

Email deadlines are as follows:

Chapter 1: 6/15

Chapter 2: 6/29

Chapter 3: 7/13

Chapter 4: 7/27

• See the attached files for chapters and instructions on how to do Cornell notes. Outlines should be between 1/4 and 1/2 the number of pages as the chapter (20 page chapter is between 5 and 10 pages of outline).
• Must be hand-written.
• You may either scan or take digital photos of them. Send a single file per assignment, whether that’s a .pdf or .zip or .rar or .doc with embedded images. The point here is to avoid making me manually download fifteen .jpg files per assignment.
• Also make sure your assignment is clearly labeled “last name first name assignment (eg. Ko David Chapter 1 Outline.pdf). As you might guess, naming your file “chapter 1 outline.pdf” makes it impossible to tell whose file is whose.
• Ditto for the subject line as well.

2. Complete study guides for chapters 1-4. Do these AFTER you outline, to make sure you understand the material. If you do them at the same time, you won’t absorb the content as well.

Email deadlines are as follows:

Chapter 1: 6/22

Chapter 2: 7/6

Chapter 3: 7/20

Chapter 4: 8/3

• Must be hand-written.
• Do these after the outlines. This way you can make sure that your outlines are detailed enough, and reinforce your content mastery.
• You may either scan or take digital photos of them. Send a single file per assignment, whether that’s a .pdf or .zip or .rar .doc with embedded images. The point here is to avoid making me manually download fifteen .jpg files per assignment.
• Also make sure your assignment is clearly labeled “last name first name assignment (eg. Ko David Chapter 1 Study Guide.pdf). As you might guess, naming your file “chapter 1 study guide.pdf” makes it impossible to tell whose file is whose.
• Ditto for the subject line as well.

3. 3-5 minute video on your family’s immigration/migration to SF.

• Go as far back as you can with as much detail as you can.
• It must be a self-contained video file (mp4, flv, mov, wmv, etc.)
• Use either Windows Movie Maker or iMovie.
• Make sure that you finalize/export your film. If you don’t, you’ll simply have a file telling us where on your computer the audio and images are.
• Bring it on a USB drive so we don’t have to sit around watching the file download from your email.
  
  I recommend the following steps for your video:

1. Brainstorm
2. Ask/research to fill in gaps
3. write a script
4. find family photos
5. find photos on images.google.com
6. fill in any blanks
7. record audio
8. import into iMovie or Windows Movie Maker
9. drag and drop photos in
10. edit photo lengths to match audio
11. finalize
12. rejoice

4. Memorize the state map of the US

         You will take a test to correctly name all the states in the US. It will be perfect score or fail, though you can retake it repeatedly during the first week until you get a perfect score.