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.
Both volumes now live
The full-year bundle (Vol 1 + Vol 2) is on TPT — save 28% vs. buying separately. Get the bundle →
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
The whole survey — both volumes, live now.
Volume 1
To 1877
All 15 chapters — Indigenous America through Reconstruction. $44.99 on TPT.
Get it on TPT →Volume 2
Since 1877
Chapters 16–30 — the Gilded Age through the present. Same engine, all 15 chapters. $44.99 on TPT.
Get it on TPT →The bundle
Vol 1 + Vol 2
The complete two-volume survey — the whole American story, start to finish. Save 28% vs. buying the volumes separately.
Get the bundle →Full teacher walkthroughs
See exactly how to set it up and run it.
Step by step — deploy the companion, share one link, and grade the whole class from your own Google Sheet.
Give the Yawp the companion it deserves.
Try it with your students. 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.