APWH covers over 10,000 years of human history from every region of the world and we will discuss all of this content in less than 9 months. Try and wrap your mind around that! It would be impossible/unfair to expect students to remember every specific detail from this vast amount content and then test the students on it at the end of the year. Thus to make this course and it's AP Exam more manageable the College Board has selected several overarching themes/events/trends/actions that define each time period and have identified them as "key-concepts". Every multiple choice and free-response question that is on the AP exam in May will be related to one/several of these Key-Concepts.
It is vital that each student becomes familiar with these key-concepts and knows them before each unit exam and the AP Exam.
-Print off the key-concepts attachment (either the full version or condensed) and place them in the first section of your binder
-Print off each Freeman-pedia graphic organizer and place them after the key-concepts in the first section of your binder in chronological order.