Course ID: 152R
Pre-AP World History and Geography focuses deeply on the concepts and skills that have maximum value for high school, college, careers, and civic life. The course builds students' essential skills and confidence and helps to prepare them for AP European History. The learning model is that of a disciplinary apprenticeship, with students using the tools of the historian and geographer as sources, data, and analytical reading and writing take center stage in the classroom. In this course, students learn that historians and geographers are investigators intent on using the tools of their disciplines to uncover new evidence about the world and its inhabitants through higher order questioning, in-depth evidence based writing, and evidence based conversations. This course will focus on developing students content-area writing through short answers, long essay questions and document-based writing to help prepare them for the AP European History exam at the end of tenth grade.
1 high school credit