STATION 1
Reading Checks
Auto-graded comprehension questions tied to the chapter — so you know who actually read, before class even starts.
Flagship · APUSH & U.S. History
The interactive companion to The American Yawp.
Your class already reads The American Yawp — the free, open U.S. History textbook used in survey, dual-credit, and APUSH classrooms everywhere. This is the part it was missing: a browser-based companion where students do the chapter instead of just reading it, and every answer grades itself into your Google Sheet.
Free for a limited time
Volume 1 (To 1877) is free on TPT through Tuesday, June 30 — then $39.99. Grab it for your class now.
Sixty seconds inside the companion — reading checks, deep-zoom sources, review games, and the teacher's grading cockpit.
The part the textbook doesn't have
You keep the free textbook. I add the interactive layer.
What your class already uses
📖 The American Yawp
The free, open, peer-built U.S. History textbook. Wonderful to read — but static. Comprehension and grading are still on you.
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What the Companion adds
⚡ The interactive layer
Every chapter becomes five things students do — and all of it auto-saves, auto-grades, and lands in your spreadsheet, one row per student.
15chapters in Vol 1 (To 1877), every one fully built
5interactive stations per chapter — read, source, drill, write, grade
125+verified primary sources & period images woven throughout
2-in-1AP and Regular content in one product — flip it per class
Five stations, every chapter
A whole chapter's worth of work — done in the browser.
STATION 2
Source Analysis
Real primary sources — documents and images — with pinch-to-zoom and HIPP / HARPS sourcing prompts that build the AP skill.
STATION 3
Key Terms & Review Games
A terms drill plus real arcade review games where the questions are the gameplay — vocabulary that students actually want to grind.
STATION 4
Writing
A chapter writing prompt with live word count and a leveled scaffold — guided for Regular, argument-defense for AP.
STATION 5 · THE MOAT
Teacher Grading Cockpit
Every student's reading, sourcing, and writing lands in one place — auto-tallied, ready to read and grade. This is what no static packet can do.
Why a companion beats a PDF packet
The reading grades itself.
Every other Yawp resource on the market is a static document — a quiz pack, a slide deck, a worksheet you still have to collect and mark. Because this is a real Google web app, the assessment is built in.
- One row per student, per chapter — reading scores, source answers, terms mastery, and the full essay, timestamped on submit.
- It's your data, in your Drive. Not our server, not a third party. Sort it, filter it, export it like any spreadsheet.
- The Grading Cockpit pulls it into one teacher view — class mastery by chapter, every student's work a click away.
- You can change everything. Questions, prompts, points, and difficulty live in plain Sheet tabs you control — no code.
American Yawp Companion — Responses
Dashboard
Config
Responses
Scores
| Student | Chapter | Reading | Source | Essay | Status |
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| A. Rivera | Ch 4 · Colonial | 9/10 | 8/8 | 142 wds | Submitted |
| J. Okafor | Ch 4 · Colonial | 8/10 | 7/8 | 118 wds | Submitted |
| You | Ch 4 · Colonial | 10/10 | 8/8 | 156 wds | Submitted |
| M. Chen | Ch 4 · Colonial | 7/10 | 6/8 | — | Saving |
Live example — your real class fills in the same way, one row per student, per chapter.
Built in, for every classroom
One product that meets the whole room.
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AP & Regular in one
A teacher toggle swaps reading, writing, and source scaffolds between AP rigor and on-level support. No second product to buy.
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Translate & read-aloud
Built-in machine translation into ~190 languages plus read-aloud TTS — newcomers and IEP/504 students get in the door.
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CED reading pacing guide
A printable, date-stampable schedule that maps every Yawp chapter to its College Board unit and period.
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Semester review & trophy case
An all-chapters review mode and a badge wall that pulls the whole course together for exam season.
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No logins, no app
Students play with one link in any browser. Nothing to install, no accounts to manage, no student data leaving your Drive.
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Copy-paste resistant
Writing happens in the tool with live word count and paste blocking — the thinking is the student's, not a chatbot's.
No login required
Don't take my word for it — work a chapter.
Step into one chapter: answer a reading check, analyze a primary source, then watch your work land in the teacher's grading cockpit. The exact loop your students will run.
The full course
Vol 1 today. The whole survey, soon.
Volume 1
To 1877
All 15 chapters — Indigenous America through Reconstruction. Free on TPT through June 30, then $39.99.
Get it on TPT →Volume 2
Since 1877
Chapters 16–30 — the Gilded Age through the present. Same engine, fully built, releasing next.
The bundle
Vol 1 + Vol 2
The complete two-volume survey at a bundle price — the whole American story, start to finish.
Give the Yawp the companion it deserves.
Try Volume 1 with your students for free this week. Set it up in minutes, share one link, and grade the whole class from your own spreadsheet.
The American Yawp is a free, open U.S. History textbook licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. This Companion is an independent product that adapts and builds on that openly licensed text and shares its Yawp-derived content under the same license, with attribution to americanyawp.com. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the editors of The American Yawp or Stanford University Press.