Mr. G @ AHS - Advanced Placement (AP) World History

Welcome to AP World History!

Hello Everyone! I hope you're looking forward to an exciting and challenging year in AP World History (affectionately (or not) often known as WHAP), because that's what WHAP is all about. On this website you will find everything you need to succeed this year. This landing page itself contains lots of important information. Immediately below is our CLASS CALENDAR, which lets you know exactly what assignments are due when. Scroll down after that to read about the (new) course curriculum, along with the links to the 4 AP World History Time Periods and Units. Finally, below that, you'll find general course-related material (the syllabus, the College Board's Curriculum Framework, and documents about note-taking, Open Forums, etc.

The sidebar to the left contains links to the other pages here that are useful. Each WHAP time period (1 through 4) has its own page, where you'll find detailed content information for each of the Key Concepts in that time period, sub-pages for each of the units, and finally, all of the various files (powerpoint slideshows, worksheets, readings, etc) that accompany that time period. PRETTY EVERYTHING YOU GET AS A HANDOUT IN CLASS WILL BE ON THOSE PAGES!

There are pages for the essays we'll be working on this year, too - click on "The WHAP Essays" to access those. The "WHAP Review Materials" should be pretty self-explanatory. You'll be accessing the treasure trove there quite frequently beginning in March and April in preparation for the AP Exam in May. Finally, the page entitled "Post-Exam Materials" contains materials we'll be using at the end of the year after you have (successfully) aced the AP Exam.

If you've got any questions about using this site or the materials on it, don't hesitate to let me know or ask me questions. I'm looking forward to a great school year - I hope you are too!

Robert Strayer's Ways of the World - access it here.

Starting in the FALL of 2019, the College Board decided to split it’s AP WORLD HISTORY course into two separate courses. This page is devoted to the second half: AP WORLD HISTORY: MODERN. Basically, this is part two of World History starting circa (around) 1200 CE. The College Board describes it like this:

In AP World History: Modern, students investigate significant events, individuals, developments, and processes from 1200 to the present. Students develop and use the same skills, practices, and methods employed by historians: analyzing primary and secondary sources; developing historical arguments; making historical connections; and utilizing reasoning about comparison, causation, and continuity and change over time. The course provides six themes that students explore throughout the course in order to make connections among historical developments in different times and places: humans and the environment, cultural developments and interactions, governance, economic systems, social interactions and organization, and technology and innovation.

— https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/pdf/ap-world-history-course-and-exam-description-1.pdf?course=ap-world-history-modern

The College Board divides world history into four chronological periods. They are:

Period 1 - Regional and Interregional Interactions: Pre-1200 C.E. to 1450

Period 2 - Global Interactions: 1450 to 1750

Period 3 - Industrialization and Global Integration: 1750 to 1900

Period 4 - Accelerating Global Change and Realignments: 1900 to the Present

Those time periods are then divided up into nine units as follows: (links to each individual time period and unit are below)

Course and Exam Description Effective Fall 2019.pdf — This is IT! The Motherlode - the entire course and curriculum in one pdf. Commonly referred to as "The Acorn Book," you'll get a hard copy of this on our first day of class and will be referencing it and using it frequently.

Syllabus 2019-20 - As the name implies, this is our syllabus (HERE is the syllabus one-pager you received in class)

"Ways of the World" by Robert Strayer (our textbook) - Yes, I have the entire book pdf format by chapter for when you are on the road! Lucky you, huh?

"Ways of the World" Website - site with ancillary textbook resources including flashcards for each chapter (NOTE - this site is for the 2nd edition of the text, so the chapter numbers are off)

The Cornell Method of Notetaking - Also called Two-Column Notes, it's what we'll be doing this year in WHAP

How to Write a Summary.docx — A worksheet to use as you learn to write good summaries.

How to write a Summary.pptx — The in-class presentation on summary writing.

Open Forum Instructions

Open Forum Master Rubric.pdf — This is the rubric for our Open Forums/Paideias/Socratic Seminars/Structured Class Discussions. Know it!

Open Forum Text Engagement Example.pdf - When I say "You must engage the text," THIS is what I'm talking about.

Some other important info & links:

AP World History Review Book - you will definitely want one of these soon. Many to choose from, just make sure you get one for the current year (2019-20) since the curriculum changed.
College Board WHAP Classroom Codes: SEE THIS SHEET for instructions on registering online with the College Board
- 2nd period: Y7DZZM
- 4th period: KGPXQ4
- 6th period: Q6MWK4