SYLLABUS
COURSE IDENTIFICATION: TITLE: AP World History
ACADEMY: Humanities
ROOM: HU 109
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Leslie Keeney
PHONE: 896-5600 EXT.: 5772
EMAIL:
WEB: http://www.orgsites.com/nm/lkeeney/
PREREQUISITE(S): none
TEXTBOOKS: Stearns, Adas, etc..: World Civilizations 4E
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course meets the requirements for Advanced Placement World History. Students will study world history from the Foundations period (8,000 B.C.E) through the present. Students are expected to take the AP World History test in May. Students will write historical essays frequently and learn to analyze historical documents.
Habits of Mind:
· Constructing and evaluating arguments: using evidence to make plausible arguments.
· Using documents and other primary data: developing the skills necessary to analyze point of view, context, and bias, and to understand and interpret information.
· Developing the ability to assess issues of change and continuity over time.
· Enhancing the capacity to handle diversity of interpretations through analysis of context, bias, and frame of reference.
· Seeing global patterns over time and space while also acquiring the ability to connect local developments to global ones and to move through levels of generalizations from the global to the particular.
· Developing the ability to compare within and among societies, including comparing societies’ reactions to global processes.
· Developing the ability to assess claims of universal standards yet remaining aware of human commonalities and differences; putting culturally diverse ideas and values in historical context, not suspending judgment but developing understanding.
Themes:
· Impact of interaction among major societies (trade, systems of international exchange, war, and diplomacy).
· The relationship of change and continuity across the world history periods covered in this course.
· Impact of technology and demography on people and the environment (population growth and decline, disease, manufacturing, migrations, agriculture, weaponry).
· Systems of social structure and gender structure (comparing major features within and among societies and assessing change).
· Cultural and intellectual developments and interactions among and within societies.
· Changes in functions and structures of states and in attitudes toward states and political identities (political culture), including the emergence of the nation-state (types of political organization).
WEEK / THEME/CHAPTER(S)/ADDITIONAL MATERIALS / MAJOR GRADED ASSIGNMENTS / EXIT STD(s)1 – 5
Aug. 10 – Sept. 8 /
Unit One: 8,000 B.C.E. – 600 C.E. Foundations
· Periodization/Themes· Rise of Civilization
· Empires
· World Belief Systems
Readings Stearns Chapters 1 – 5
· Additional handouts
· Summer Reading: Ishmael / Assessments
· Multiple Choice
· Essential questions and IDs
Historical Essays
· CC: River Valley Civilizations
· CCOT: Fall and recovery of empires
6 - 14
Sept. 11 – Nov. 3 /
Unit Two: 600 – 1450
The Postclassical Period
· Islam: Rise, Expansion, and Trade· Africa
· Economic and Government Systems: Feudalism, Neo –Confucianism
· The Americas
· Nomadic Invasions
History Readings Stearns Chapters 6 - 15 / Assessments
· Weekly Multiple Choice Essential questions and IDs
Historical Essays
· DBQ: Han and Roman attitudes toward technology
· Photo Essay: Heir to Three Traditions: The Byzantines (addresses CCOT)
· DBQ: Treatment of Women
· Aztecs/Incas (set up CC)
· CC: Mongols
14 -18
Nov. 6 – Dec. 8 /
Unit Three: 1450 – 1750
The World Shrinks
History Readings : Stearns Chapters 16 - 18· Rise of the West
· Rise of Russia / Assessments
· Weekly Multiple Choice
· Essential questions and IDs
Historical Essays
· CCOT: Cultural, Political, Economic Impact of Islam
· DBQ: Merchants in Islam and Christianity
· CC: Spain vs. Russia empire building
19
Dec. 11 – 14 / Semester Exam
· History exam will include material from chapters 1 - 18 tin Stearns. / · History: Multiple Choice and Essays
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