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AP World History PACING CALENDAR
Unit 1: Technological and Environmental Transformations (- 600 BCE)
Essential Questions:
In what ways did the Neolithic Revolution lead to new and more complex economic and social systems within human societies after 10,000 BCE?
Students Learning Outcomes:
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Use archeological evidence to trace the migration of hunting-foraging bands of humans from East Africa throughout Eurasia, Australia, and the Americas.
Describe how practice of agriculture and pastoralism associated with the Neolithic Revolution transformed human societies and led to new and more complex social and economic
systems over time.
Understand why geography, climate, and other aspects of the physical environment helped to determine why core and foundational civilizations first emerged in certain regions of the
world but not others.
Understand how control over resources influenced state formation within core and foundational civilizations and be able to cite evidence for social stratification in these early civilizations.
Evaluate the ways in which culture is both cause and consequence of the increasing complexity of core and foundational civilization and how it helped to reinforce social and political
institutions during this time period.
Dates
Aug 15-16
(2)
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
 Welcome and Intro
 Why Study History
 Balloon Globe Activity of
Ancient Civilizations
 Brief Overview of Course
Description
HW: Stearns, World
Civilizations, pgs 1-7
(Handout); take reading
notes in the format you are
most comfortable with
 Reading Quiz
 Note-Taking and Success
in AP Strategies
 Video Notes: Human
Migrations, BHP Lesson
6.3 “How Did the First
Humans Live?”
HW: Bentley, Traditions and
Encounters, pgs 5-19
(Textbook); as you read,
complete the timeline,
PERSIAN chart, and focus
questions
1
 Reading Quiz
 Cause and Effect Chart
and Discussion on
Migration
 Explanation and work
time on Case Study
HW: Bentley, pgs 18-28; as
you read, take notes using
outline format (Roman
Numerals or Bullets with
indentation)
2
 Reading Quiz
 Concept Cards Group
Activity
 Video Notes: Crash
Course #1 – Agri Rev
HW: Diamond’s “To Farm or
Not to Farm” (pgs 104-113);
take notes using Cornell
notes format and answer
the guiding question “What
do you think his thesis is?”
Aug 19-23
(min day Thur)
 Concept Card Quiz
 Video Notes: Bridging
World History – Agri Rev
 Diamond Discussion
HW: Write a thesis
statement that responds to
this prompt (due on
Thurs.):
“Based on your understanding of
Diamond’s thesis, analyze at least
one economic and one social
change that resulted from the
Neolithic Revolution. Draw
evidence from at least two early
human societies.”
 Reading Quiz
 Thesis Statements
 Thesis Statements
Activity
Collected
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Graphic Organizer on
 Group Work Day on Case
Women and Patriarchy
Studies
HW: Based on your readings
HW: Reilly, Worlds of
History, articles by Boulding and discussions, evaluate
and compare two historians’
and Lerner (Handout); as
you read, take notes using accounts of the origins of
patriarchy in early river
the two-column format
civilizations. Write a thesis
(due on Friday)
based on your results using
the thesis rubric as a guide.
MINIMUM DAY
Finish Group Case Study
Reilly, Worlds of History,
articles by Boulding and
Lerner (Handout); as you
read, take notes using the
two-column format (due on
Friday)
Boulding, “Women and the Agricultural
Revolution"
Lerner, “The Urban Revolution: Origins
of Patriarchy"
3
Aug 26-30
 Thesis Statements
Collected
 Case Study Gallery Walk;
add notes to PERSIAN
charts from summer
assignment
HW: Strayer, Ways of the
World, pgs 115-131
(Handout); answer the
questions related to each
document and the “Using
the Evidence” questions for
both sections.
 Reading Quiz
 Thesis Statement Activity
 Intro to COMP essay and
AP rubric
 Practice thesis writing
HW: Study for the Unit Test;
Finish Key Concept Focus
Questions
In-Class COMP
Essay
Notebooks
Collected
Unit Test
(50 MC and 1 Short
Answer)
 Unit 1 Change and
Continuity Chart
 Introduction to Unit 2
HW: Stearns, pgs 34-39
(Handout); as you read,
take notes using the Mind
Map format
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