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To Our Fellow Teachers

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he second edition of Fabric of a Nation extends our goal of creating a textbook that
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meets the needs of AP U.S. History students in our classrooms and yours. As
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Tveteran AP U.S. History teachers, exam readers, and workshop consultants, we have
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experienced firsthand the challenges in teaching this course, especially as the curriculum
framework and preparation levels of our students have changed over the years.
This edition of Fabric of a Nation is carefully aligned to the College Board’s Course
and Exam Description. It unites historical knowledge, thinking and reasoning skills,
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and scaffolded pedagogy to maximize student success in the class and on the AP U.S.
History Exam. We have expanded the pedagogy from three to six units, incorporated new
opportunities for primary-source analysis throughout the narrative, and included new
Thinking Historically or Writing Historically skill activities in every module. Each period
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includes all-new AP practice questions, and a new full-length AP practice exam is
provided at the back of the book. Unlike college textbooks that have been repackaged with
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some AP add-ons, we designed and wrote Fabric of a Nation specifically for AP students
from the ground up. The narrative is shorter, and the embedded pedagogy focuses on
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essential content and skills appropriate for all high school AP students.
Fabric of a Nation provides an accessible historical narrative that brings the College
Board’s curriculum framework to life. It’s tightly aligned to the course curriculum,
grounded in modern scholarship, and written to meet the diverse backgrounds of today’s
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AP U.S. History students. Unlike other textbooks, it seamlessly weaves primary sources
directly into the narrative. The primary sources we have chosen represent a diverse range
of voices and types of documents. They include analysis and comparison questions to
broaden students’ historical understanding and critical-thinking skills.
Fabric of a Nation’s nine time periods align with the College Board’s nine units of study,
and each of the 105 modules matches the College Board’s 105 unit topics. Every module
opens with a Focus feature, drawing attention to the same historical reasoning process
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targeted in the corresponding unit topic, and closes with an AP Skills Workshop exercise,
providing students with instruction or practice in how to think or write historically. All
modules can be taught in one to two days, aligning to the pacing recommended in the
College Board’s unit guides.
We’ve scaffolded the pedagogical instruction to provide students with step-by-step
instructions and practice for how to think historically, analyze documents, and write short-
answer, document-based, and long-essay questions. Using sample responses, graphic
organizers, and a graduated approach, each module builds and reinforces the knowledge and
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skills students need to understand history and be successful on the AP Exam.
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Finally, Fabric of a Nation also includes AP -style practice questions at the end of every
period, consisting of stimulus-based multiple-choice, short-answer, document-based, and
long-essay questions created by experienced item writers to give students solid practice
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with the kinds of questions they will encounter on the AP Exam. Additionally, students
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are supported with a robust running glossary of key terms, helpful AP Exam margin tips,
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and a full AP practice exam.
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Fabric of a Nation is the only textbook on the market made specifically for today’s AP
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U.S. History classroom by experienced AP U.S. History teachers. We’re confident your
students will benefit from it, and we are proud to share it with you.
Jason Stacy Matthew Ellington

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