The American Pageant AP Edition
Core Code Alignment
Social Studies
History
09050000001: A.P. United States History
History
09050000001: A.P. United States History
Recommendation
Recommended Primary
Evaluation
This easy-to-access text includes well organized sections with a variety of supplemental resources that cover each historical era. The applications and resources are easy to access and understand. The textbook can be read digitally, printed, or listened to. The preparation materials for the AP exam are varied and explicit, giving students scaffolding for its preparation. There are a number of formative and summative assessments located throughout the book to help students monitor their understanding of the material.
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Content
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| Alignment | The content of this resource aligns with appropriate grade-level core standards and is current, well-researched and referenced from reliable sources. | The content of this resource aligns with most grade-level core standards but will need supplementary materials to ensure coverage of all the objectives for this course. | The content of this resource aligns with a few grade-level core standards for a portion of the course. | The content of this resource does not align with standards and objectives for this course. | ||
| This edition of American Pageant divides the narrative of American history into nine parts. Each part opens with an introductory essay highlighting major themse and perspectives to help students discover complex patterns of change over time and organize events, actions, and ideas into meaningful chains of cause and consequence. Each part contains conflicting quotations from original historical sources accompanied by questions that encourage critical thinking. Also included are sections that highlight historiographical debates and research on different kinds of primary sources. | ||||||
| Scaffolding | Scaffolding supports for these materials are complex and challenging, engage learners from various skill levels, assist all students in enhancing conceptual understanding, and offer opportunities for students to share evidence and research. | Scaffolding supports for these materials engage learners from various skill levels and assist students in enhancing conceptual understanding. | Scaffolding supports for these materials engage learners from various skill levels. | Scaffolding supports for these materials do not engage learners. | ||
| Scaffolding supports include an option to have the text read to the students using the ReadSpeaker option on each page. Each page of the digital text can be accessed section by section or the student can scroll through the textbook as a whole, page by page. Each individual page can be printed by the student. Students have the option of using a Notebook option that can be linked to an existing or new Evernote Account. Other supports include a digital glossary and Aplia application that helps student check their understanding by having them answer multiple choice questions for each text section. Also included is a homework application that includes essay questions based on the AP Essay Response bank and document-based questions with a checklist of how to complete the tasks based on the requirements for the AP exam. Other applications include digital flashcards for each chapter and writing activities to help students go beyond the chapter content and use primary sources to explore topics in more depth. | ||||||
| Navigation | Students can navigate the material independently. Instructions are clear and understandable. | The material contains instructions that are understandable and easy to navigate. Students may need educator support to navigate material. | The material may be used with direct educator support but lacks clear instructions. | The instructions in this material are unclear, and navigation is difficult. | ||
| Navigation tools are clearly labeled and easy to access. Each application contains easy-to-understand directions | ||||||
Accessibility
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| Physical Characteristics | The design of the material is ADA-compliant and can be utilized by all students. In physical terms, this material is durable, interactive, and provides high-quality audio-visual and tactile experiences for all users. The material contains modern, up-to-date, and relatable visuals, including diverse groups of people. | In physical terms, this material is durable, interactive, and provides high-quality audio-visual and tactile experiences for all users. | In physical terms, this material is fragile in construction, and provides limited tactile experiences for students. | In physical terms, this material is designed to be disposable and temporary. | ||
| Digital textbook and other resources are easily and quickly accessible online. Each tab is clearly labeled and there is no delay in accessing the text or the resources. | ||||||
| Technical Standards | The material goes above and beyond meeting all the technical standards, ensures student data privacy is safeguarded, and can be easily installed or accessed without technical assistance. Licensing information is clearly stated in the description. | The material meets all the requirements of federal and state laws, along with the accepted technical standards (ISTE Standards and VPAT Compliance). Additional technical specifications and limitations, including hardware requirements, bandwidth demands, student data privacy, and software/ web access restrictions, are adequately noted in the description. The design of the material allows for error-free installation or access without purchasing additional components. | The material is limited by specifications requiring additional materials, technical assistance, hardware, software, or infrastructure. Student data privacy could be at risk. Resources within the material end after a trial period. | Student data privacy is at risk. | ||
| Terms of Use, Accessibility, Supplemental Terms, and K-12 Terms of Use are all described on the Cengage course page accessible on the help tab of the textbook. Instructors can link to their existing Google Drive or OneDrive accounts to share their Google Docs or OneDrive Docs with students in this MindTap course, Instructors may also assign the documents in their Google Drive or OneDrive accounts as Learning Activities in the Learning Path or add them inline to a Reading Activity. | ||||||
| Adaptability | The material is currently relevant and adaptable for teacher and student use in individualized or group instructional settings across multiple content areas. The material can be customized for the needs of diverse learners. | The material is currently adaptable for a teacher or student to use in a limited instructional setting across a few content areas. The material can be utilized by diverse learners (not customizable). | The material has some features adaptable for students in at least one content area. The material has limited options to address the needs of diverse learners. | The material is not adaptable or easily incorporated into various educational settings or with various diverse learners. | ||
| Each chapter of the text includes reading activities, check your understanding practices, reading reviews, chapter tests, primary source writing activities, and analyzing of primary sources in the database which can be assigned and completed individually by students or as part of group instruction.These can be assigned or hidden by the teacher. Also included with the text is a video library and a U.S. History YouTube playlist. | ||||||
Pedagogy
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| Instructional Support | The material provides multiple examples and strong support to educators of ways to deliver instruction. These may include: -Scaffolding Lesson Plans, Personalized/Differentiated Instruction, Experiential Learning, Concept Mapping, Questioning Techniques, or Family Involvement. Furthermore, this material has content that can be problem/project-based, with incorporated skills and concepts that are integrated with all disciplines equally to support student sense-making. (Transdisciplinary/ Interdisciplinary Content Integration) | The material provides some examples to educators of ways to deliver instruction. It contains a few of the following: Scaffolding Lesson Plans, Personalized/Differentiated Instruction, Experiential Learning, Concept Mapping, Questioning Techniques, or Family Involvement. | The material contains limited instructional support on using the material with diverse groups of students, various skill levels, and student needs. | The material does not provide instructional support or examples for the educator. | ||
| Each part contains conflicting quotations from original historical sources accompanied by questions that encourage critical thinking. Also included are sections that highlight historiographical debates and research on different kinds of primary sources. Visual materials include documentary images, graphs, and tables which illuminate complex and important historical ideas. Also includes maps with topographical detail and clear labeling to better communicate the text's analytical points. Key terms are printed in bold in each chapter and defined in a glossary at the end of the book. Every chapter concludes with an explanded chronology and alist of readable books to consult to learn more. Key terms and a list of people to know from each chapter appear at the end of each chapter. An appendix contains annotated copies of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and key historical events and dates such as admission of the states and presidental elections. | ||||||
| Supplemental Resources | The material provides a wide variety of supplemental resources that are evidence-based and are linked to real-world circumstances and current events. | The material references numerous available supplemental resources. | The material references some available supplemental resources. | The material does not refer to any supplemental resources. | ||
| Text includes practice material for the AP United States History Exam including document-based questions, long essay questions, and a section for each chapter that includes a focus on the AP exam with a breakdown of what students must know, must understand, must connect, must develop, and must apply to be ready to take the AP exam. Also includes AP practice tests. | ||||||
| Assessments | The material contains a variety of formative and summative assessments aligned with Utah Core Standards, Personalized Competency-Based Learning, and Universal Design for Learning. It provides appropriate intervention strategies that lead to observable performance and real-world experiences for students. The assessments are ADA-compliant. | The material contains summative assessments aligned with Utah Core Standards with few interventions and is ADA-compliant. | The material contains a limited number of assessments without intervention strategies but is ADA-compliant. | The material does not provide assessment materials. | ||
| Each chapter of the text includes check your understanding practices, reading reviews, chapter tests, primary source writing activities, and analyzing of primary sources in the database which can be assigned and completed individually by students or as part of group instruction.These can be assigned or hidden by the teacher. Also included is a homework application that includes essay questions based on the AP Essay Response bank and document-based questions with a checklist of how to complete the tasks based on the requirements for the AP exam. Other applications include digital flashcards for each chapter and writing activities to help students go beyond the chapter content and use primary sources to explore topics in more depth. | ||||||
Culture of Learning and Belonging
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| Bias Free | This material is free from bias and is in compliance with all relevant federal and state laws, rules, and regulations, as listed in the next “2-Adequate” section for this item. Furthermore, this material focuses on shared identity and includes the unique characteristics & cultural differences of students in Utah. (53E-4-204.1) This material supports civic and character education. (53G-10-204) | This material is neutral and is in compliance with the laws, rules, and regulations below: -It can be used by all students regardless of sex, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or membership in any other protected class, such as ethnicity, or disability, as described in (R277-328). -This material supports educators to be in compliance with (53G-10-202.4), where they may not use their positions to endorse, promote, or disparage a particular religious, denominational, sectarian, agnostic, or atheistic belief or viewpoint. -The material is free from discrimination and does not support stereotyping of character traits, including hard work ethic. (53G-10-206) -It is free from advertising, e-commerce, or political interest and is in compliance with the law and community standards. | This material may be interpreted as biased. Or promoting advertising, e-commerce, or political interest. Or maybe considered to regard or treat some groups unfairly. | This material does not comply with federal and state laws, rules, and regulations. This material is biased and favors a point of view that may be distracting to the educational experience of students. | ||
| Each part of the text contains conflicting quotations from original historical sources accompanied by questions that encourage critical thinking by students. Also included are sections that highlight historiographical debates and research on different kinds of primary sources. | ||||||
| Cultural Awareness | This item has not been graded. | |||||
| Inclusive Components | This item has not been graded. | |||||
| Shared Values and Character Traits | This item has not been graded. | |||||
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