SYLLABUS

COURSE IDENTIFICATION:TITLE: AP World History and Enriched English 10

ACADEMY: Humanities

ROOM: HU 109

COURSE INSTRUCTOR:Leslie Keeney

PHONE: 896-5600 EXT. 5772

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PREREQUISITE(S): A serious commitment to the course

TEXTBOOK(S): Stearns, Adas, Schwartz, Gilbert: World Civilizations, McDougall-Littell World Literature

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course meets the requirements for English 10 and AP World History. Students will study world history from the foundations period (10,000 B.C.E) through the present. Students are expected to take the AP World History test in May. Writing pieces and literature selections reinforce the concepts and content of the social studies component of the course. Students will apply reading, research, writing, and speaking skills to demonstrate learning in analytical pieces.

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 / ACTIVITIES/ASSESSMENTS
1 – 5
Jan 5 – Feb 2 /

Unit Four: 1450 – 1750 (The Early Modern Period)

History Readings Stearns: 18-22
Literary Readings
  • 47Ronin Story by John Allyn
/ Assessments
  • Weekly Multiple Choice (history)
  • Literary Essays
  • Literature STAARS
  • Preparation: IDS and annotations
  • History Essays (biweekly)
Literary Analysis:
  • Imagery in 47 Ronin Story
History Essays:
  • To be announced

6 – 10
Feb 5 – March 9 /
Unit Five: 1750 – 1914 (Revolution and Imperialism)
History Readings Stearns: 23 – 27
Literary Readings
  • Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
  • Poetry Unit
/ Assessments
  • Weekly Multiple Choice (history)
  • Literary Essays
  • Literature STAARS
  • Preparation: IDS and annotations
  • History Essays
Literary Analysis:
  • Things Fall Apart: two or three extract essays
History Essays:
  • To be announced

11 -18
March 11 – May 4 /

Unit Six: 1914 – present (The Modern World)

History Readings : Stearns: 28 – 36
Literary Readings
  • Night by Elie Wiesel
  • Animal Farm by George Orwell
  • The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
/ Assessments
  • Weekly Multiple Choice (history)
  • Literary Essays
  • Literature STAARS
  • Preparation IDS: and annotations
  • History Essays
Literary Analysis:
  • Night: Imagery, language
  • Animal Farm: symbolism, allegory
  • The Good Earth:theme
History Essays:
  • To be announced

19 – 20
May 7 – May 22 / AP World History Practice Exam May 11,14
AP World History National Exam, May 17
Pre- APEnglish Final May 21 or 22 /
  • Multiple-Choice and Essay (comparison/ contrast, DBQ, and Change Over- Time)
  • English Final based on The Good Earth

CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION:

Grades will be based on a weighted system of categories in History: Essays will receive 45% weighting, exams 45%, preparation (IDs and EQs) 10%.

English grades will be similarly based with essays and tests receiving 45%, outside assignments including STAARS 45%, preparation (annotations) and participation 10%

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