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AP World History Mrs. Spray Syllabus 2nd period Room B162 Email: [email protected] (preferred method of contact) Office hours: Before school 7:30-7:45, during unit lunch, and after school 2:45-4:00 or by appointment. Text Ways of the World, by Robert W. Strayer, New York: Bedford St. Martin; 2nd ed., 2013 Course Description The breadth of world history has always posed challenges for AP teachers to create opportunities for deep conceptual understanding for students while addressing a syllabus largely driven by sheer scope. The AP World History course outlined in this course and exam description addresses these challenges by providing a clear framework of six chronological periods viewed through the lens of related key concepts and course themes, accompanied by a set of skills that clearly define what it means to think historically. The course’s organization around a limited number of key concepts instead of a perceived list of facts, events, and dates makes teaching each historical period more manageable. The three to four key concepts per period define what is most essential to know about each period based upon the most current historical research in world history. This approach enables students to spend less time on factual recall, more time on learning essential concepts, and helps them develop historical thinking skills necessary to explore the broad trends and global processes involved in their study of AP World History. The themes and key concepts are intended to provide foundational knowledge for future college-level course work in history. Command of these course themes and key concepts requires sufficient knowledge of detailed and specific relevant historical developments and processes — including names, chronology, facts, and events — to exemplify the themes and key concepts. However, the specific historical developments and processes taught in an AP World History course will vary by teacher according to the instructional choices each teacher makes to provide opportunities for student investigation and learning for each key concept and theme. Advanced Placement Themes This course highlights these 5 overarching themes, which I label SPICE: 1. S - Social: Development and transformation of social structures Gender roles and relations Family and kinship Racial and ethic constructions Social and economic classes 2. P – Politics State-building, expansion, and conflict Political structures and forms of governance Empires Nations and nationalism Revolts and revolutions Regional, trans-regional, and global structures and organizations 4. C - Culture Development and interaction of cultures Religions Belief systems, philosophies, and ideologies Science and technology The arts and architecture 5. E – Economics Creation, expansion, and interaction of economic systems Agricultural and pastoral production Trade and commerce Labor systems Industrialization Capitalism and socialism 3. I - Interaction between humans and the environment Demography and disease Migration Patterns of settlement Technology Advanced Placement Periodization Students will analyze the processes and causes involved in continuities and changes across these historical periods. Periodization to 600 B.C.E. 600 B.C.E. – 600 C.E. 600 C.E.-1450 1450-1750 1750-1900 1900-Present Period Title Technological and Environmental Transitions Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies Regional and Trans-regional Interactions Global Interactions Industrialization and Global Integration Accelerating Global Change and Realignments Grading System All of the students’ projects, discussions, assignments and activities fall under one of the following categories: Homework (25%) Quizzes (25%) Participation/Class work (20%) Exams/Papers/Projects (30%) Classroom Rules My behavioral expectations of you: 1. Be Prepared: Bring all books and materials to class. 2. Be Prompt: Be in assigned seat when the bell rings. Turn in assignments on time. 3. Be Proper: Stay seated until directed by teacher. 4. Be Polite: Respect the people, equipment and furnishings of Room 612. 5. Observe all rules in the RHS Student Handbook. Advanced Placement Exam Students are encouraged to take the AP World History Exam on AP World History Exam is May 12, 2015. The AP World History Exam will consist of: Part 1: 70 multiple-choice questions to be answered during a 55-minute session. This accounts for 50% of the overall AP Exam score. Part 2: Free Response Questions: These account for the remaining 50% of the exam and will be weighed equally. 1. A Document-Based Question (DBQ) to be answered in a 50-minute session (including a mandatory 10 minute reading period). “The primary purpose of the DBQ is not to test students’ prior knowledge of subject matter but rather to evaluate their ability to formulate and support an answer from documentary evidence. The DBQ is an exercise in both analysis and synthesis. It requires that students first read and analyze the documents individually and then plan and construct an appropriate response to the essay question based on their interpretation of the documentary evidence as a whole. What is desired is a unified essay that integrates analysis of documents with treatment of the topic. There is no single “correct” answer, instead various approaches and responses are possible depending on the students’ ability to understand the documents and ultimately to judge their significance.” (College Board) 2. A change-over-time (COT) essay covering at least 2 of the periods in the course outline in a 40-minute session (including 5 minutes to plan and outline the essay). “This question deals specifically with change over time and is focused on large global issues such as technology, trade, culture, migrations, and biological developments. The question may concentrate on one cultural area or several.” (College Board) 3. A comparative essay focusing on broad issues in world history and dealing with at least two societies in a 40-minute session (including 5 minutes to plan and outline the essay). “This essay focuses on developments in at least two societies interacting with each other or with the major themes or events (culture, trade, technology, migrations, etc.).” (College Board)