09/08 Bellringer

•Take 5 minutes to look over Chapter 1-3 in textbook or skim over notes.

•Quiz 1 (Chapter 1-3)

In the 1730s & 1740s, there are two conflicting movements: the Great

Awakening and the Enlightenment

The Great Awakening encouraged traditional religious beliefs and a

revival of devout teachings

The Enlightenment encouraged debate and

critical thinking regarding society and

politics

Preachers like Jonathan Edwards &

George Whitefield were popular evangelists

Preachers used “fire & passion” & camp revivals”

to encourage people to examine their faith

The Great Awakening led to a rise of new religious

denominations like Methodists & Baptists

The Great Awakening took place in all colonies & became the first national American event

Documents of the Great Awakening

•Read through the three documents related to the Great Awakening and complete the assignments for each.

Writing for the AP Exam

Writing for the AP Exam

•Writing for a purpose, not to entertain•Not just informative writing•Also not quite persuasive writing as you would do in

English•Somewhere in between

What it is NOT

•Grandiose, flowery statements•“Throughout time there have been many questions of history that have puzzled and befuddled historians.”

•Unsupported generalizations•“Native Americans revered the land and treated nature with respect”

What it is NOT

•Anachronistic judgments•“European settlers in the 17th century were pretty stupid not to realize they could bring deadly disease and wipe out Native populations.”

•Overlong summaries or recitations of facts.•Don’t mistake vomiting facts for argument!!!

Points of Style

•ALWAYS use past tense!!!•ALWAYS use third person!!!• NEVER say “I,” “me,” “myself,” etc.

•NEVER use jargon, slang, or informal language

Three Types of History

•Narrative – To relate the story of a particular event or series of events•Descriptive – To paint a complete picture of a place,

people, or point in time•Argumentative – To propose and defend a point of view

regarding historical relationships and processes

In this class, yours will nearly always be Argumentative

So what’s your point?

•Argumentation means you are trying to support a particular position on or interpretation of a historical event or question.•Your position or interpretation is expressed in a clear, concise THESIS STATEMENT

A THESIS IS:● A controlling idea around which your paper is

built● A one-sentence answer to the historical

question being asked● A concise statement of your essay’s argument● A point of view adopted about a historical

problem● A proposition to be defended or argued

Good Thesis Statements:

● Deal with ALL aspects of the question● Take a clear position on the issue● Provide an organizational framework for

the essay● Address the core skill defined by the

question

● NOT SIMPLY A RESTATEMENT OF THE QUESTION!

Sample Question

“In the end, the settlement of the Americas by Europeans in the 15th and 16th centuries was a positive event for humanity”

Refute, modify or support the above statement.

Sample Thesis

Although the settlement of the Americas by Europeans following the arrival of Columbus in 1492 created many positive outcomes, the resulting issues of disease, human enslavement and biological diversity combine to make it on the whole a negative event for humanity.

Essay prompt: “To what extent and in what ways did European powers develop different patterns of colonization in North America? Support your answer with specific and relevant historical information from the period 1607 to 1754.”

Chronological Reasoning: Continuity and Change over Time

Thesis statement due tomorrow!!!

Skill 1: Chronological Reasoning

Historical causationHistorical thinking involves the ability to identify, analyze, and evaluate multiple cause-and-effect relationships in a historical context, distinguishing between the long-term and proximate.

Patterns of continuity and change over timeHistorical thinking involves the ability to recognize, analyze, and evaluate the dynamics of historical continuity and change over periods of varying lengths, as well as relating these patterns to larger historical processes or themes

PeriodizationHistorical thinking involves the ability to describe, analyze, evaluate, and construct models of historical periodization that historians use to categorize events into discrete blocks and to identify turning points, recognizing that the choice of specific dates favors one narrative, region or group over another narrative, region or group; therefore, changing the periodization can change a historical narrative. Moreover, the particular circumstances and contexts in which individual historians work and write shape their interpretations and models of past events.