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What is AP World History: Modern?
What is AP World History: Modern?
From the College Board: 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.
Six Course Themes
Six Course Themes
The thematic learning objectives describe the knowledge colleges expect students to develop in AP World History: Modern in order to be qualified for credit. These themes focus on major historical issues and developments, helping students connect the historical content they study to broad trends and processes that have emerged over centuries.
In our classroom, we recognized these themes as the "SPICE-T" characteristics (social, political, interactions with the environment, cultural, economic, technology).
Course Units & Periodization
Course Units & Periodization
There are nine units of study within the AP World History Modern course, which fall within four broad chronological periods. The chart below, from College Board, illustrates the unit, chronological period, and weighting of each unit as it appears on the AP Exam.
The AP World History exam for the 2022 school year will be held ______ at ______ on campus. You will be informed of any testing format or date changes.
Classroom Materials and Resources
Classroom Materials and Resources
Parent Communication & Information
Parent Communication & Information
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