Welcome!

Dear AP US History Students for 2009-2010:

As is the expectation of students enrolled in the Honors Program, you will have an assignment to complete over the summer to prepare for AP US History.

Relax, it is completely within your ability to achieve and will not take you weeks to complete.  Rest assured, no students have died or even had a nervous breakdown in the completion of this assignment!  The assignment does reflect my expectations for the caliber of student you are and the dedication you will show throughout the class next school year.  If you feel that this assignment is far beyond your capabilities, please contact your counselor now about making a different U.S. History selection for next year.  I am confident that your past Honors/AP World History teachers have prepared you well for the class and that the counselors won’t be receiving multiple change requests.

All of the materials have been placed on-line for you this year.  In order to navigate your way to the assignment and the materials to use to complete the assignment, follow these instructions:

1. Access the MCHS website at www.mchs.net

2. Once on the home page, click on the MCHS Faculty link

3. Next, click on Social Studies.  I would bookmark this site now.

4. On the next screen, click on my name Glenda Smith which is at the top of the list of teachers’ names.

5. Then enter this password when prompted to do so:  mchsap07

You can download and print any of the materials provided there.  In case you do not have a reliable internet connection or your connection is very slow, making downloading difficult, you may contact Mrs. Hill in her office at Central across from the Cbrary.  She can burn a CD for you with all the materials on it.  See her by May 28th.  She will not be at school over the summer to do this for you.

Rest assured that all of the summer work will yield a grade in the fall.  It is not busy work for the sake of work. Don’t procrastinate about getting started on it.  It is far too much to complete in a day or two before the school year begins in August. If you don’t get the work done, besides having a huge and uncorrectable grade deficit in the fall, you will be completely unprepared for major grade-effecting activities on the first day of class in August.

I am looking forward to exploring American history with you next school year in AP US History.  Have a great summer.

Mrs. G. Smith

I do not believe that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislatures, nor done many unholy things that men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the chance.

Jane Addams