Overview, AP World History

Three Major Goals For This Year:

(1) Think and (2) Communicate like world historians and (3) grasp the data of world history.

For a list of AP World terms and topics, click here. In order to get a handle on so much data, students must fill out a Global Impact Chart re: every unit of instruction this year. What matters most to world historians is how an event/concept/person/etc. shaped global patterns (economic, political, cultural) or how the lives of millions across cultural and political regions were effected by such forces. (Click here for your global impact chart please.) In essence, this is a matter of finding and understanding cause-and-effect relationships. I will look at these charts at the end of a unit–if you have it done, it is a 100 quiz grade (half done is a 50, not at all=0). I will not look at ALL of them, I will grade them at random–it will come as a surprise (please keep up with the work in this class).

* The yearlong course consists of four major units of instruction:

1. the “Shifting Global Balance of Power, 500 CE- present”
2. the development of “World Trade, 500 BCE to present”
3. Film Review, CNN’s Millenium (click here)
4. AP review unit

* All students must maintain an e-portfolio/ on-line portfolio:

• Click here for WordPress blog sign-up
• Here is an idea of what it should look like etc., click here
• As a class, we will go over and fill-in info re: the first time period (mostly the 9th grade material); we will do this on the second day of classes; we will use Peter Stearns, World Civilizations: Global Experience, fifth edition as part of this e-portfolio project ( I have a classroom set of these)
• If you finish this list two weeks before the AP exam, you will receive an A for a test grade; the day before the AP exam=B+, after the exam, but before grades close=C; incomplete=D

Back to first trimester page, click here

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