Social Studies 8

From the Pre-AP College Board Website:

Focusing on concepts and skills with maximum value for high school, college, careers, and civic life, Pre-AP World History and Geography is built around three enduring ideas:

1. History is an interrelated story of the world.
   This course explores the structures and forces that reflect and shape the regions, communities, governments, economies, and cultures of humanity—helping students develop an organized, meaningful understanding of time and space.

2. History and geography are inherently dynamic.
   As historians and geographers uncover new evidence, current assumptions are challenged, and previous arguments gain nuance and context. This course teaches students how to examine sources and data, establish inferences, and ultimately build and critique arguments.

3. Historians and geographers are investigators.
   Pre-AP World History and Geography is designed as a disciplinary apprenticeship in which students learn through the process of discovery by applying the tools of historians and geographers.

4. AUS Has Selected Pathway 2 for our Pre-AP  course
   Unit 1: Geography and World Regions (~7 weeks)
   Unit 2: The Early Modern Period, c. 1450 to c. 1750 (~7 weeks)
   Unit 3: The Modern Period, c. 1750 to c. 1914 (~7 weeks)
   Unit 4: The Modern Period, c. 1914 to the present (~7 weeks)