How to Read the APWH
book
Understand how the book is
organized
• Periodization pages
• Bentley’s periods differ from those the College Board uses
• Explain the major features of that time period
• Units of about 6 chapters that cover major regions for that time period
• Each chapter covers one region or two, sometimes it is a “sum it all up
for the time period” chapter
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-Each chapter starts with a vignette and picture to hook you or get your curious
Blue headings and Read Subheadings
Marginal Notes
Maps, Primary Source documents, Art, Architecture
Summary at the End (not great, do not copy  instead make a summary using
parts PERSIAN)
• Concludes with Chronology (helpful when making a timeline)
Hanumanasana
• Can’t do Hanumanasa right away! Need to warmup…my point?
• DON’T IGNORE THE PRE-READING!
Approach to Reading
• Pre-reading
• WARMUP!!! Only 5-15 minutes
• Skim pictures, headings, marginal notes, etc.  turn into questions
• Who, what, when, where, how; compare/contract
• During Reading
• FIRST READING  NO NOTES! JUST get a sense for what’s important
• SECOND READING: Annotate (names, dates, PERSIAN, diffusion,
Common Phenomenon, syncretism, similarities/differences between
regions)
• OUTLINE STYLE
• About 2 pages of notes (front and back); 4 pages total
• Post Reading
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Write a summary using parts PERSIAN
Create “Doing World Questions”
Write thesis statements (I will teach you that later….)
Take online quiz!!!
Outline Style
I. BLUE HEADINGS in ROMAN NUMERALS
A.RED HEADINGS get a #
• Everything else just gets a bullet
• Do not write in full sentences
• Continue to be indented (don’t go back to
the red line)
Summary
• Indent!
• Use PARTS PERSIAN and write some sentences
about these parts
• ONLY WRITE the most important info
• About 10 sentences
Doing World History Questions
• Cornell Style ( ? On left and answer on right)
• In page 8 of your toolkit!
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Big Picture
Compare/Contrast
Diffusion
Syncretism
Common Phenomenon
Big Picture
• Timeline!
• Five events, one must be a band
• Answers a question
Compare/Contrast
• Must show BOTH a similarity AND Difference
Diffusion
• What is spreading
• Can draw arrows
• Really good to do with economic, disease,
technology, language
Syncretism
• What is mixing/blending?
• Can be drawn
Common Phenomenon
• What is happening in two different places at the
same time INDEPENDENTLY of the other place
• Agriculture being invented in various river valley
civilizations
• Iron metallurgy being discovered at around the
same time in Southwest Asia and Africa
STUDY!
• After all your notes are done, study for the test!
• Reread your lecture notes
• Ask more questions of the marginal notes
• Take the online quiz
Next steps
• Friday night: pre-reading
• Saturday morning: 1st read
• Sunday: Re-read and take notes
• When reading Chapter 5:
• X pronounced “Sh”
• Xia  “Shia”
• Zh pronounced “Joh”
• Zhou  “Joh”
• Q pronounced “Ch”
• Qin  “Chin”