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Does AP US History instruction get you down? At Mano Koa Enterprises, we say teaching APUSH is "A'ole Pilikia" (No Problem in Hawaiian). Revolutionize your instruction of history with an entire year's worth of culturally responsive instruction which gives students an active role in studying history.

In this award winning (2021 Gilder Lehrman Oregon History Teacher of the Year) product, every AP US History lesson is designed with the following three cutting edge pedagogical principles:

Storifying The Past: Designing narratives with multiple perspectives to which students can take agency and contribute to building classroom community.
Gamifying The Past: Students are given multiple opportunities to reason out variables from the past through scavenger hunt contests, review games, and tabletop strategy games in which historical events and factors become levels and variables for students to reason out.

Socializing Knowledge: Students have constant opportunities to build connections with content and skills.

This whole year's curriculum contains the following elements: Check out the individual periods below

35 original lessons with detailed lesson plans covering the following Periods:
Period 1: (1491-1607) - Try it out for FREE
Period 2: (1607-1754)
Period 3: (1754-1800)
Period 4: (1800-1848)
Period 5: (1848-1877)

This curriculum is intentionally designed to "get Abraham Lincoln dead by Christmas" assuming school starts around Labor Day weekend and ruling out more than 2 snow days.

A full complement of SAQ, DBQ, LEQ, and MCQ Prompts. 9 DBQ Sets.
All DBQs have analysis guides for Point of View, Purpose, Context and Intended Audience.
MCQs have an answer key with brief explanations as to what skill/theme each question hits.
Originally designed "blueprints" to help students develop their DBQ and LEQ academic writing skills.
A Classroom management design to help you cut down on your home grading by having you grade assignments during class collaboratively with the student.

Each lesson contains a series of Express Notes which are calibrated to align with the following six textbooks:

Newman’s AMSCO: United States History: Preparing for the Advanced Placement Examination
Kennedy, American Pageant
Henretta, America’s History
Brinkley, American History: A Survey
Berkin, Making America: A History of the United States
Fraser, By the People

Every Express Note contains an Answer Key giving you the power of six APUSH textbooks.

Unsure you want to make the voyage? No pilikia! Try our FREE Period 1 (1491-1607) total curriculum. Good luck and enjoy your hands on adventure through American History!

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