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AP Summer Institute Agenda
Patrick Whelan, consultant
Monday
Morning
The World History approach
Organization of AP World History: Periodization, Themes, Historical Thinking Skills
Equity Policy Statement
Afternoon
The AP World History Exam Format
The AP Course Audit
Resources: Texts, Recommended Books, Summer Reading, World History Association
Tuesday
Morning
Period 1: To 600 BCE Key Concepts
 Views of continents
 Maps of language and Bantu migration
Period 2: 600 BCE to 600 CE Key Concepts
 Images of the Gandara Buddhas
Afternoon
Document Based Question—format, scoring and samples
Wednesday
Morning
Period 3: 600 CE-1450 CE Key Concepts
 Mongol Eurasia—looking at four documents
 The Qing-Ming Festival
Period 4: 1450-1750 Key Concepts
 The culture wars, conquest and 1491 by LeGuin
 Empires and rulers: religious policy, elites and marginalized, growth of empire
Afternoon
Evaluations
 Thinking skills and multiple choice questions
 Unit Exams
Continuity and Change over Time Essays
Thursday
Morning
Period 5: 1750-1900 key concepts
 The great divergence—industrialism in Britain (why not China?)
 Haitian Revolution
Comparative Essay
Afternoon
Period 6: 1900-Present
 April and the problems of teaching the 20th Century
 World War I statistics
 The demographic transition