1. AP World History
What to Expect

2. About AP
The Advanced Placement program enables students to pursue college-level studies while still in high school
AP provides willing and academically prepared students with the opportunity to earn college credit
AP World History is modeled after a comparable college course

3. What will we be studying?
BCE- Before the common era
CE- Common era
Why do we create certain time periods?
Transformative events
Led to a major change that influenced many people over a long period of time
Took place in two or more regions of the world
Led to more long distance interactions
There are always exceptions!

4. Time Periods 8000 BCE-600 BCE 600 BCE-600 CE
Hunter/ Gatherer Societies
Stone Age
Neolithic Revolution
Agricultural Revolution
600 BCE-600 CE
Classical Period
Civilizations created that still impact society today

5. Time Periods 600 CE-1450 CE 1450 CE-1750 CE Fall of Rome Rise of Islam
Middle Ages/ Dark Ages
1450 CE-1750 CE
Renaissance
European Maritime Revolution

6. Time Periods 1750 CE-1900 CE 1900 CE- Present Industrial Revolution
Improvements in science and technology

7. Thinking Skills Analyzing Evidence Interpretation Comparison
Primary/ secondary sources
Interpretation
Historiography
Comparison
Compare and contrast
Contextualization
Relate a more specific event to a larger pattern

8. Thinking Skills Synthesis Causation
Make connections across different time periods, geographic regions
Causation
Identify, analyze, and evaluate relationships among historical causes and effects
Patterns of continuity and change over time
How do things change?
How are they still the same?

9. Thinking Skills Periodization Argumentation Transformative events
Create an argument and support it using historical evidence

10. Themes Social Political Structures Interaction with environment
Structures/ systems, gender, race, class
Political Structures
State building, political ideologies, nationalism, conflict, imperialism
Interaction with environment
Terrain, climate, plants, animals

11. Themes Culture Economics Religion, philosophy, arts, technology
Trade, labor systems, industrialization, economic philosophies

12. AP Test
Course concludes with college- level assessment developed and scored by university faculty and experienced AP teachers
May
4 hours!
2 parts

13. AP Test Part 1 Part A Part B 55 multiple choice questions
55 minutes
40% of score
Part B
Short answer questions
4 questions
50 Minutes
20% of score
Lack of writing space usually the issue, not time

14. AP Test 10- 15 minute break Part 2 Part A Part B
Document Based Question (DBQ)
1 Question
55 minutes, includes a reading period
25% of score
Part B
Long Essay Question
1 question, chosen from a pair
35 minutes
15% of score

15. AP Test 5- Extremely well qualified 4- Well qualified 3- Qualified
2- Possibly
1- No recommendation
Your score on the test does not impact your grade in the class!