AP U.S. History
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In AP US History, students investigate significant events, individuals, developments, and processes in nine historical periods from approximately 1491 to the present. Students develop and use the same skills and methods employed by historians: analyzing primary and secondary sources; developing historical arguments; making historical connections; and utilizing reasoning about comparison, causation, and continuity and change. The course also provides eight themes that students explore throughout the course in order to make connections among historical developments in different times and places. American and national identity; work, exchange, and technology; geography and the environment; migration and settlement; politics and power; America in the world; American and regional culture; and social structures.
This class will meet twice per week:Â one 90-minute class to cover content, and one 60-minute lab to work on history skills.
There are 4 parts to the AP US History Test: multiple choice questions, short answer questions, long essay, and the document-based-question. The 2026 AP US History exam will be fully digital. Parents are responsible for securing a local testing site for the AP test. Even if students choose not to sit for the AP Exam, this course will demonstrate rigor as well as prepare students for college level work.
College Course Equivalent:Â AP US History is equivalent to a two-semester introductory college course in U.S. history. You can learn more about rigor and its depiction on a homeschool transcript at UNDERSTANDING COURSE CREDIT & GPA ON A HOMESCHOOL TRANSCRIPT in our Family Handbook.
There are no prerequisites for AP US History. Students should be able to read a college-level textbook and write grammatically correct, complete sentences.
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Becky Frank has been steeped in American History from her early days growing up on the family farm in Northeastern North Carolina. Although Barrow Creek Farm has been in her family since the 1680s, her parents were the first to live on it in three generations. On the farm she learned to milk cows, sheer sheep, and drive a tractor.
After an internship at Historic Edenton, she received a B.S. in Public History from Appalachian State University in 1992. Answering God’s call to teach in a classroom setting, she added teacher certification from East Carolina University to her degree in 1998. Becky then taught social studies in Gates County, North Carolina where her classes included U.S. History, World History, Economics, Government, and Humanities. In 2003 she married her husband John and left the classroom to start a family.
Becky has been teaching online for more than 10 years. She also homeschools her three children and is an active leader in the Children’s and Youth’s ministry at her church. She also enjoys gardening, cooking, scrapbooking and long walks with her kids and the family dog. Sharing the heritage of our great country is one of her passions as well. Her lifelong dream is to return to the family farm and make a portion of the acreage a living history site.
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