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Course Overview:
Course Overview:
AP World History is a challenging college-level course structured around investigating five-course themes and 23 key concepts in four different chronological periods from the 1200s CE to the present. Besides covering the relevant historical facts from these eras and linking these facts to the analysis of the themes, the course requires you to master nine historical thinking skills. During the year, you will be provided with the opportunity to examine primary sources, such as documentary material, pictorial and graphic materials, maps, political cartoons, statistical tables, and works of art. In addition, you will be provided with exposure to both factual narrative and to the interpretations of World History from the perspectives of a variety of different writers and historians. Historiography is the history of history. You will examine how people have thought about and written about historical events. You will also be allowed to develop your analytical and interpretive writing skills, practicing short answer questions as well as document-based and long essay question essays. Besides the short answer questions, you will be writing at least one essay in every unit.
To assess your knowledge of each part of each unit in AP World History and to prepare you for the AP Exam, you will be required to show your understanding in the following test formats:
Long-Form Essay Questions
Document-Based Essay Questions
Short-Form Answer Questions
Standard Content-based Multiple-Choice Questions
Stimulus / Analysis-Based Multiple Choice Questions
This course is one of the more challenging Social Studies AP courses offered, but students will learn a lot about history, how to interpret it, and how to write about it professionally.
Key Units / Themes of AP World History:
Key Units / Themes of AP World History:
Grading Resources / Overview of the AP Exam:
Grading Resources / Overview of the AP Exam:
Exam Overview:
Exam Overview:
According to College Board, the following chart (at right) breaks down the time, weighting, and question type that students can expect on the AP Modern World History Exam.
Students will be tested on their historical knowledge of course material from 1200 CE to the present using a variety of short answer, free response, and multiple choice questions developed by College Board.
Exam Overall Scoring:
Exam Overall Scoring:
Posted here (at right), is the scoring criteria for the AP Modern World History Exam. The College Board grades the exam on a 1-5 scale. Traditionally, colleges are looking for a student to get a 4 ("well-qualified") or 5 ("extremely well qualified") on their AP Exam to award credit(s). Some colleges will also accept a 3 ("qualified"), but that is not universal. Depending also on the college, students may be awarded 3-5 credits.
Ap Grading Rubrics:
Ap Grading Rubrics:
Posted here (at right), are the scoring criteria for the LEQ and DBQ writing portions of the AP Modern World History Exam.
The LEQ Rubric:
The LEQ Rubric:
The LEQ or "Long Essay Question" rubric is designed with a total of 6 points. College Board states that students will choose from three long-form essay questions from different periods of the course focused on broad concepts designed to test a student's content knowledge without sources. To receive the highest score possible on this part of the exam, students must develop an argument and support it with an analysis of specific, relevant historical evidence that they learned during the course.
The DBQ Rubric:
The DBQ Rubric:
The DBQ or "Document-Based Question" rubric is designed with a total of 7 points. College Board states that students will utilize 7 primary source documents and develop an essay that addresses a historical question, using the primary documents as evidence. Students will need to examine areas of historical significance and understand them while also acknowledging themes and periods from the AP World History course timeline.
Course Textbook & Study Resources:
Course Textbook & Study Resources:
Course Textbook:
Course Textbook:
Overview: Ways of the World is the ideal textbook for your redesigned AP® World History classroom. Like the AP® course, it supports, Ways of the World focuses on significant historical trends, themes, and developments in world history. Authors Robert Strayer and Eric Nelson provide a thoughtful and insightful synthesis that helps students see the big picture. Each chapter then culminates with collections of primary sources organized around a particular theme, issue, or question, allowing students to consider the evidence the way historians do.
About the Author: Robert W. Strayer (PhD, University of Wisconsin) taught African, Soviet, and world history for many years at SUNY College at Brockport, where he received Chancellor's Awards for Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship. In 1998 he was a visiting professor of World and Soviet history at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. Since 2002, he has taught world history at the University of California, Santa Cruz; California State University, Monterey Bay; and Cabrillo College. His scholarship includes work in African history (Kenya: Focus on Nationalism, 1975; The Making of Mission Communities in East Africa, 1978); Soviet history (Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse?, 1998; The Communist Experiment, 2007) and World History (The Making of the Modern World, 1988, 1995; Ways of the World, 2009, 2011). He is a long-time member of the World History Association and served on its Executive Committee.
Students are also encouraged (after August 1st) to sign up for AP Classroom, provided by the College Board. AP Classroom provides an online platform with flexible instructional resources for each AP course to support student learning of all course content and skills. Some of the features utilized for AP Classroom by your instructor might be:
Unit Guides for each section of your course, which provide both an overview and a deep dive into the content and skills covered on the AP Exam.
AP Daily Videos, led by experienced AP teachers, are short, on-demand videos created by the College Board to help students understand essential course concepts.
Online formative assessment questions, modeled after those you will see on the AP Exam, that are assigned to check student understanding of course topics as well as to practice essential writing and historical recall skills.
Every student should feel confident in their AP History classes. On this channel, AP teacher Steve Heimler helps prepare you with a mixture of seriousness and buffoonery in order to build the confidence and skills needed to get an A in your class and a 5 on your AP Exam.
In 42 episodes, author & history enthusiast John Green will begin teaching you the history of the world! This course is based on the 2012 AP World History curriculum, from growing the first crops in the First Agricultural Revolution to global textile production in the 2010s.
Freeman-pedia is devoted to the history of the world. The goal of this channel is to help students navigate the world of AP World History: Modern. AP teacher Ben Freeman shares his own experience building educational content to help you with your AP Modern World material.
Anti-Social Studies was created by Emily Glankler after years of hearing how little adults learned (or remembered) from their history classes. Emily decided to open up her classroom to the public through podcasts and social media to supplement the high school history experience.
Jim Rhodes is an AP World teacher in California. He made a slew of AP World video series to help his students navigate the skills and content of the course. His videos do a great job of breaking down the history as well as the writing aspects of the AP World History Exam.
AP World Course Calendar:
AP World Course Calendar:
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