Blog Assignments

 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his "I Have a Dream" Speech - 47 years ago today.

Hey AP historians,

I hope you are all having an excellent weekend so far! I want to bring some needed clarification to the new online aspect of the course so that there is no confusion.


Beginning with the week of Monday 8/30- Sunday 9/5 all students in our section of AP US History will need to create TWO ORIGINAL blog posts here on this site while COMMENTING on at least three other students' posts throughout the week. At least one of your original blog posts must be directly related to certain detail or question you had about the reading (please see the sample post on this later today); the other blog post should be about a modern-day event you consider either relevant to what we are currently studying, or it may be about a newsworthy story you think would be interesting to discuss. For these original blog posts, please have page numbers from The American Nation textbook, links to news sources, and other citations available in order for us to have a strong and meaningful discussion.

When you COMMENT on your co-historians' posts, make sure you address at least THREE other students' original blog posts throughout the week. I hope that with time we can exceed these minimum requirements. Blogging on this site is a required assignment for this course, worth a total of 45 points each week. If any of you have issues regarding problems with web access and your ability to fulfill this assignment, please see me.

ONE FINAL REMINDER: Don't forget to send me your email addresses at nhs.usaz.history@gmail.com so that I can add you as blog authors! Have a great weekend everyone! Paz!

-Carlos Fco. Parra