AP World History
Unit 1 – Technological and Environmental Transformations
8000 B.C.E. to c. 600 B.C.E.
Essential Question: In what ways did the Neolithic Revolution lead to new and more complex economic and social systems
within human societies after 10,000 B.C.E.?
Objectives: Students will 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
Required Reading:
Ways of the World by Robert Strayer
Chapter 1 – First Peoples: populating the Planet, to 10,000 B.C.E.
Chapter 2 – First Farmers: The Revolutions of Agriculture, 10,000 B.C.E. – 3000 B.C.E.
Chapter 3 – First Civilizations: Cities, States, and Unequal Societies, 3500 B.C.E. – 500 B.C.E.
24
C Day
25
Day 1 - Registration
31
A Day
A Day
26
B Day
27
Day 2 – Intro to AP
World History
1
2
B Day
Day 4 – Ch. 2 Notes,
Compare/Contrast early
civilizations
Reading quiz: Ch. 1-2
7
A Day
8
No School
Labor Day
A Day
A Day
3
A Day
Day 3 – Human
Migrations and Ch. 1
Notes
World Regions &
Vocab Quiz
B Day
28
4
Day 5 – Ch. 3 Notes,
Hammurabi and the Law
of Moses
Reading quiz: Ch. 3
9
B Day
Day 6 – UNIT 1
Exam, Lateral
Thinking Puzzle,
Intro to CCOT
Day 1 – C Day
August 24
Registration
Introduction to the course
Materials
1st Quarter Begins
Day 2 – Intro to AP World History
August 25
Seating Chart
Emergency procedures / book check out
Course Syllabus and Expectations / Binder Set up / absent basket
Unit Calendar explanation & class website
B Day
NO SCHOOL
STAFF DEV.
10
A Day
Day 7 – CCOT Written
Exam
11
B Day
What is History? ppt
Why historical thinking matters - http://historicalthinkingmatters.org/why/
Overview of AP World History Hunt
5 Themes of AP World History (SPICE)
Summer Assignment discussion & collection
DUE: PIRATES charts, CCOT Essay, and Guns, Germs and Steel Questions
***TEST: APWH Pre-Test
HW: Quiz on AP maps and common world history vocabulary on Thursday
HW: Read pages 11-32
Day 3
August 27
QUIZ: AP World Regions Maps and Vocab (Summer Assignment)
Video – David Christian – The History of our World in 18 minutes
Bridging World History, Unit 3, “Human Migrations”
Lecture : Chapter 1 Notes - Peoples: populating the Planet, to 10,000 B.C.E.
Student Map Activity – tracing patterns of early human migration over time
Questions from Unit 3, “Human Migrations”
Hw: Read pages 49-67
Day 4
August 31
QUIZ: Chapter 1-2 Reading
Guns, Germs, and Steel discussion
Chapter 2 Notes - First Farmers: The Revolutions of Agriculture, 10,000 B.C.E. – 3000 B.C.E.
World History For Us All – Era 3
Reilly – Worlds of History, Chapter 1
Compare/Contrast early civilizations
Hw: Read pages 85-113
Day 5
September 2
QUIZ: Chapter 3
Chapter 3 Notes - First Civilizations: Cities, States, and Unequal Societies, 3500 B.C.E. – 500 B.C.E.
Personalities and Problems – Hammurabi and Moses: Law as a Mirror of Civilization
Reilly – “Women in Prehistory” by Margaret Ehrenberg and “Women in the First Urban Communities”
Day 6
September 8
UNIT EXAM
Lateral Thinking Puzzle
CCOT Intro
Day 7
September 10
Written Exam
CCOT