1. AP WORLD HISTORY
Room H203
Period 7
Mrs. Poia

2. What is AP World History?
This is a one year course that journeys through the history of five major geographical regions: Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe and Oceania.
This course gives students the unique opportunity to learn the history of past civilizations through their culture, politics, geography and economic interactions.
Students will make connections and explore the similarities and differences between various historical eras, geographical regions and the diverse people who existed in these time periods

3. AP Classes:
AP classes allow students to take college level courses while still in high school
The textbook is a college level read
This course requires the writing of different types of essays and various other types of historical analysis
While there will be some lecture, most of the class periods will be devoted to students learning the required historical analytical skills
This will require the student to gain most of his/her content background from the assigned readings. It is imperative that students keep up with the reading assignments and notes activities.

4. FIVE COURSE THEMES:
The course is developed around five course themes and a collection of key concepts that span six different chronological periods, from approximately 8000 B.C.E. to the present.
Theme 1: Interaction Between Humans and the Environment
Theme 2: Development and Interaction of Cultures
Theme 3: State-Building, Expansion, and Conflict
Theme 4: Creation, Expansion, and Interaction of Economic Systems
Theme 5: Development and Transformation of Social Structures

5. UNITS OF STUDY: Unit 1: Early History up to 600 BCE
Unit 2: 600 BCE to 600 CE
Unit 3: CE
Unit 4: CE
Unit 5: 1750-early 1900s CE
Unit 6: Early 1900s-Present CE

6. Unit Exams:
There are weekly quizzes and students will periodically be writing one of the formal required essays (DBQ, Comparison-Contrast or Continuity/Change Over Time Essay)
The AP Exam given in May is optional but students usually take an AP class with the goal in mind to take this test
Students can earn college credit based on their performance and whether the college chosen accepts AP credit for that course
Here is a link for what colleges accept for every AP course:
The test costs money with financial aid available for those who may not be able to afford it
Sign up for the exam is online (more information will follow as we get closer to the test)

7. AP Exam May Format
Section I – 1 hour 35 minutes
55 multiple-choice questions (55 minutes; 40 % of exam score)
Three short-answer questions (40 minutes; 20 % of exam score)
Question 1- Required, Periods 3-6
Question 2- Required, Periods 3-6
Choice between: Question 3-Periods 1-3 OR
Questions 4- Periods 4-6
SAQ: 3 parts to every question
A. Identify
B. Explain
C. Apply
Possible skill will be: analyzing secondary source, CCOT, and Comparison

8. Section II- 1 hour 40 minutes
One document-based question (60 minutes, which includes a 15-minute reading period; 25 percent of exam score)
DBQ- Periods 3-6
One long-essay question, choice of 3 (40 minutes; 15 percent of exam score)
One question chosen from three options on the same theme/skill
Periods 1-2
Periods 3-4
Periods 5-6

9. Struggling?
Available before school, Break, Pride Period, and Lunch second half
Use the website: calendar, handouts, notes, assignments, and unit vocabulary & concepts list, etc. on Haiku
Online resources- too many to list- see Haiku

10. Website:

11. Companion Study Books available for purchase online

12. Grading:
The following is the grade percentage breakdown of the course:
Assessments (formative and summative) essays, quizzes, unit exams: 60%
Assignments- classwork and homework: 40%

13. What you will need for this class
Organization is very important for success in this class. Gone are the days of random papers in your bag cracked on the edges and frayed due to misplacement
Binders you bring every class meeting include:
Subsections titled: Notes, essays, assessments
Portable 3-hole puncher
Plenty of paper
Materials:
Three different highlighters, plus black, blue, and red pens, pencils, and erasers. Tabs optional.

14. What you will need for this class con’t
The right mindset- determined to stick with the grueling amount of content and work that is expected to be done on due date.
Attitude- that will allow you to persevere and not take lazy route leading to failure.
Expecting your personal best- you will grow here in this class and understand what taking your academic studies seriously means- in the end it’s not about knowing 10,000 years of history but seeing personal accomplishment at the end of the journey of APWH.
You’re gong to be amazed at what you can do when you apply the above.

15. Typical weekly schedule
A/B Block
Roughly one chapter a week, this will change slightly in Spring
Day 1- reading and completed notes checked beginning of class, skill work, activity, and quiz on reading due.
Day 2/3- finish any activity leftover from Day 1, Doc. Analysis, essay work, test

16. Incentives Quiz on Day 1 will be multiple choice.
*If you average 80% or higher on quizzes for the unit- you are exempt from taking the M/C questions on the test.
The incentive is to read and take notes over the weekend and come prepared for the week.
Assessments including quizzes and exams count for 60% of your grade.

17. How we study World History and what makes this class different from all the other classes you take:
On a daily basis we aim to use Habits of Mind:
1. construct and evaluate arguments: using evidence to make plausible arguments.
2. use documents and primary data: developing necessary skills to analyze point of view, context, and bias, and to interpret information.
3. develop the ability to assess issues of change in continuity overtime.
4. enhance the capacity to handle diversity of interpretations through analysis
5. see global patterns over time and space and connect local developments to global ones.

18. Contact Information:
Please me if you have questions or concerns:
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19. Sample Question:
1. Which global force was the FIRST to consistently integrate sub-Saharan Africa into a global network of exchange of goods and ideas? A. Islamic civilization B. Modern globalization C. Transatlantic slave trade D. The Roman Empire -Correct Answer is A