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AP WORLD HISTORY
Syllabus
Mr. Rippey
[email protected] (and, for latest assignments as well as books and other resources for all my class,
go to www.rippey-sphs.info)
Books and Materials:
- World Civilizations (4th Edition for AP), Stearns, Adas, Schwartz and Gilbert)
- My Website (various readings, and list of good monographic histories)
- Any monograph that you might decide to read and present to the class
- Well organized notebook and notes
Objectives:
1) TO HELP YOU TO PASS THE AP WORLD HISTORY EXAM IN EARLY MAY!!!
2) To help you gain an understanding of the world civilizations, connections, and systems
around which our world is organized, and to understand how those institutions affect our
world and its people both in the past and today.
Types of Assignments:
You will prepare for the AP World History exam, and be evaluated in this course, by completing at least one
(although usually many more than one) of each of the following types of assessments:
1) Completion of summer assignment;
2) Completing weekly multiple choice quizzes based on chapter readings;
3)
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ESSAYS – about 1 per week
Document Based Questions (DBQ)
Comparison/Contrast (CC)
Change Over Time (COT)
4) Creating and critiquing AP standards multiple choice questions;
5) Completing unit tests on chronological time periods;
6) Completing at least 1 full AP practice test (including all 4 portions of the test);
7) Pairs complete a focused study on a chosen region, culminating 2 essays (midyear and end of year)
and selected information for a timeline of global history;
8) Completing State of the World 2012, an end of year, post exam project which will constitute much of
your 4th cycle grade.
Historical SKILLS
‐ Create historical arguments using evidence ‐ Chronological reasoning to determine causality ‐ Comparison and contextualization ‐ Historical interpretation and synthesis 5 THEMES of World History
Interaction Between Humans and the Environment
• Demography and disease
• Migration
• Patterns of settlement
• Technology
Development and Interaction of Cultures
• Religions
• Belief systems, philosophies, and ideologies
• Science and technology
• The arts and architecture
State-Building, Expansion, and Conflict
• Political structures and forms of governance
• Empires
• Nations and nationalism
• Revolts and revolutions
• Regional, transregional, and global structures and organizations
Creation, Expansion, and Interaction of Economic Systems
• Agricultural and pastoral production
• Trade and commerce
• Labor systems
• Industrialization
• Capitalism and socialism
Development and Transformation of Social Structures
• Gender roles and relations
• Family and kinship
• Racial and ethnic constructions
• Social and economic classes
ate Range Weight
HISTORICAL PERIODS and Key Concepts
Ancient Period
Technological and Environmental Transformations
8,000 B.C.E to c. 600 B.C.E. (5% of exam)
1) Geography and the Peopling of the Earth 2) Neolithic Revolution and Early Agricultural Societies 4) The Development and Interactions of Early Agricultural, Pastoral, and Urban Societies Classical Era
Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies
c. 600 B.C.E. to c. 600C.E. (15% of exam)
4) The Development and Codification of Religious and Cultural Traditions 5) The Development of States and Empires
6) Emergence of Transregional 7) Networks of Communication and Exchange Post-Classical - Medieval Period
Regional and Transregional Interactions
c. 600 C.E. to c. 1450 (20% of exam)
8) Expansion and Intensification of Communication and Exchange Networks 9) Continuity and Innovation of State Forms and Their Interactions 10) Increased Economic Productive Capacity and Its Consequences Early Modern Period
Global Interactions
c. 1450 to c. 1750 (20% of exam)
11) Globalizing Networks of Communication and Exchange 12) New Forms of Social Organization and Modes of Production 13) State Consolidation and Imperial Expansion Modern Era (Long 19th Century)
Industrialization and Global Integration
c. 1750 to c. 1900 (20% of exam)
14) Industrialization and Global Capitalism 15) Imperialism and Nation‐State Formation 16) Nationalism, Revolution, and Reform 17) Global Migration 20th Century to Present
Accelerating Global Change and Realignments
c. 1900 to the Present (20% of exam)
18) Science and the Environment 19) Global Conflicts and Their Consequences 20) New Conceptualizations of Global Economy, Society, and Culture Analysis of a Monographic History (extra credit)
At some point throughout the year, some of may choose to read a book about and teach class about a specific
history written about a specific topic, event, region, trend, or concept. This type of history is called a
monograph, and is what most historians actually write, rather than the giant textbooks we teachers force all of
you to read. Usually a monograph is actually much more interesting than a textbook because it goes much
further in depth on a focused topic, and you really get a great feel for what that topic is/was all about.
Your project is to read, then teach class about, the monograph you choose to read. It will count as 100 possible
points towards your cycle grade. For books, check my website, or just look in the back of the chapters of our
World Civilizations book to find many more. These books are often hard to find, and are not just lying around
the local library. Some I can get from Rutgers libraries for you, others you may have to purchase yourselves.
There are a few good bookstores in our area (1 in Montclair, a bunch in Manhattan), but the easiest place might
be online at Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and Powell’s Books.
Let me know in advance what book you will be doing, so that I can tell you when you will actually present it.
In general, it will take you at least a few weeks to buy and read the book and organize a presentation around it.
In other words, you should begin reading the book at least one month before the topic comes up in our class.
Things you should look for, understand, and be prepared to discuss in your presentation:
1) What is the author’s focus (or foci), and what questions will they be asking?
2) How does the author organize the book, and why?
3) What sources does the author use?
4) What is the author’s overall argument(s)?
(ie: what is that historian saying happened, according to their research?)
5) What evidence or examples does the author give to support their argument(s) (ie: SPECIFICS)?
5) What descriptions does the author give of the topic, and how does it connect with what we have learned
so far in our class, and how does it connect with the chapter in World Civilizations in which the book
falls?
6) In general, you should be prepared to discuss in depth whatever events, regions, trends, or concepts
that the book describes.
State of the World 2012
YOU WILL:
1) Choose a country or region;
2) Basic historical information (we should have done so already in class);
3) Research general (and some specific) contemporary information about that country or region.
Contemporary information should include details about
a) politics (recent elections, type of government, political parties in power, etc),
b) economy (type of economic system, conditions of average people, types of work, poverty, debt,
exchange rates, types of businesses or industries, etc),
c) society (people, religion, educational system and quality, music, family, etc),
d) problems (debt, deforestation, poverty, violence, civil wars, etc), and finally,
e) positives or causes for optimism (recent changes for the better, economic improvement, etc);
4) Be able to connect all of these to that country or region’s past. If there is continuity, you should explain
how, if there has been a change, you should explain why, etc. !!! (this is key)
5) Create an outline of all the information in the order and detail which you will present it;
6) Organize all of this information and teach class for one day, using some form of visual aids (this could
mean a powerpoint presentation, posters, charts, overhead transparencies, etc), some lecture, perhaps an
activity, etc.
Depending on Class Size, You May Choose from the Following Major Nations or Regions:
- China
- India
- Russia and eastern Europe (former Soviet bloc nations)
- Brazil
- Nigeria (or South Africa)
-------------------------- “The West” (Europe [mostly western Europe], Canada, Australia, and the United States)
- Latin America
- Asia (southern and eastern Asia, excluding China)
- Africa (excluding majority Muslim nations, most of which are in northern Africa)
- Muslim world (much of the Middle East, portions of north Africa, parts of Southeast Asia, and Indonesia)
State of the World 2012
GRADING RUBRIC
1
Unacceptable
Speaking voice,
Tone,
Clarity,
Eye contact
with audience.
Organization,
Order,
Thoroughness,
Preparation.
Correct and
well explained
knowledge of
topic and
detail.
Visual aid:
Clarity,
Visibility, etc.
Points: ____________________
Points x 5 =
2
Poor
3
Good/Satisfactory
4
Very Good
5
Excellent