1. BACK TO SCHOOL NIGHT
Mr. Sakole
Room 169

2. Welcome
Contact Information:
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(not-so best)
For those of you who watched
LOST… Despite the resemblance,
unfortunately I am not Dominic
Monaghan.

3. Curriculum Vitae Education: B.A. – History B.A. – Education
The College of William and Mary
M.A. – Education
George Mason University

4. My Website

5. LCPS Vision
Many chapter assessments will be completed AT HOME in Vision

6. REMIND Send a text to: 81010 With the message: @518557
Used to be called Remind 101
Receive text messages to student/parent phones
SOME homework/quiz/test due dates or instructions
Changes due to snow days
Send a text to:
81010
With the message:
@518557

7. AP WORLD HISTORY
Curriculum – Designed as a survey course by the College Board, a not-for-profit educational company. Based around 5 historical themes and 6 chronological eras Emphasis on 9 historical thinking skills European history accounts for only 20% of the curriculum Covers period from around 8000BCE to the present day (10,000 years covered in 8 months)

8. AP World History
AP Testing Students take an AP Exam on Thursday May 11th Potential to earn up to 6 college credits from one AP course

9. AP World History Changes to the APWH exam – effective September 2016
55 multiple-choice questions
4 Short Answer Questions (SAQs)
Choice of 2 Long Essay Questions (LEQs)
One Document Based Question (DBQ)

10. College Credit
The scores that are required to earn college credit vary per college/university
UVA = score of 5 to get 3 credits
James Madison = score of 5 to get 6 credits
George Mason = score of 4 to get 3 credits, 5 to get 6 credits
Mary Washington = score of 3 to get 3 credits
Last year 89% of Broad Run’s students (156 out of 173) received a 3 or higher
Last year 100% of students I tutored (33 students) received a 3 or higher
National Average = 51%

11. WORK LOAD Reading almost every night from a college level textbook
AP World History requires:
Reading almost every night from a college level textbook
Approximately 1 hour a night
Approximately 2-3 hours per chapter
Reading comprehension assessment for each reading assignment
Taking at least 2 unit exams consisting of multiple-choice questions and at least 2 Short Answer Questions (SAQs) per quarter
Writing at least 2 Long Essay Questions (LEQs) and/or Document Based Questions (DBQ) essays per quarter
At least 1 major project per quarter and several minor ones

12. ASSESSMENT
Unit tests (45 % of student’s grade) Essays/Writing Assessments (20% of student’s grade) Chapter Reading Assessments – Socratic Seminar, Quizzes, etc. (20% of student’s grade) Projects (15% of student’s grade)

13. EXPECTATIONS The student will complete all reading assignments
The student will be ready to participate in class and will participate responsibly
The student will advocate for him/herself
The student will make up all assessments and missing work in a reasonable amount of time (1 week is the expectation)

14. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What more can I tell you about me or the AP World History Class? If you would like to ask a question or make a comment specific to your child, please feel free to /call me at a later time!