The AP World History course offers motivated students and their teachers the opportunity to immerse themselves in the processes that, over time, have resulted in increasing human interactions. AP World History offers an approach that lets students “do history” by guiding them through the steps a historian would take in analyzing historical events and evidence worldwide. The course offers balanced global coverage, with Africa, the Americas, Asia,
Europe, and Oceania all represented.
AP World History highlights six overarching themes that receive equal attention throughout the course:
1. Interaction Between Humans and the Environment (Environment)
2. Development and Interaction of Cultures (Culture)
3. State-building, Expansion & Conflict (Political)
4. Creation, Expansion, & Interaction of Economic Systems (Economics)
5. Development & Transformation of Social Structures (Social)
These themes serve as the unifying threads, helping students to put whatever is particular about each period into a larger framework. The themes also provide a way to make comparisons over time.
 You must bring these to class EVERYDAY
 Primary Textbook: World Civilization: The Global Experience (Advanced
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Placement Edition DBQ Update) , Fourth Edition. Peter Stearns, Michael Adas,
Stuart Schwartz, Marc Jason Gilbert. 2006
Three Ring Binder and lined paper for taking notes

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I have provided you with a class calendar. This is subject to change but I will give you a new one if that happens.
 This is your life line. You cannot tell me you didn’t know something was happening because it is on the calendar, in my room, on my website, and I am sending one home to your parents.
 Respect each other and yourself o Bullying will not be tolerated in any way!!!!!! o If bullying occurs the following actions will be taken:
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You will be asked to leave the class and visit the main office
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Your parents will be notified and a meeting to discuss your actions will be scheduled
 Respect the class as well as your time in it o Get to class on time o Pay attention
 Electronics: o Ok I know you have a phone. I know you want to use your phone.
HOWEVER, I only have a short amount of time to teach you and we can’t waste it.
o So you will put your phones in your bag and your bag under your seat at the beginning of each class. Neither will come out again!
o If I see your phone, I will ask you to put it away. If this becomes a problem we will have a discussion and if necessary parents will be involved.
o During tests: If I see a phone you will turn it in to me or go to the office.
This will be considered cheating and you will have to retake the exam.
NO EXCEPTIONS
 Summative Assessments: 90% (first quarter) o These include Tests, Quizzes and longer writing assignments. o RETAKES: all summative assessments can be retaken for full credit
 Formative Assessments: 10% o Summer Assignment o Other homework/classwork

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Each student is allowed to retake any quiz or test they feel they can Demonstrate
Mastery of the Skills being assessed
 Retakes will be allowed on all test and quizzes but must be completed by the end of each quarter.
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Retakes will be in short answer format and will replace the previous grade
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Your homework will determine whether you are eligible for the retake.
o If you have a 0 for any of the homework assignments up to that quiz/test, than you must first complete that assignment in order to be eligible for the retake.
o By turning in the missing assignment, it will make you eligible for retake BUT it will not change your score on the assignment.
 It is your responsibility to make up work when you have an excused absence or excused tardy.
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Crafting Historical Arguments from Historical Evidence o Identify, describe, and evaluate evidence about the past from diverse sources. o Extract useful information, make supportable inferences, and draw appropriate conclusions.
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Chronological Reasoning o Identify cause-and-effect relationships throughout various cultures and periods. o Identify and analyze large-scale cause and effect relationships across various cultures and periods o Separate clearly delineated periods of history from each other.
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Comparison & Contextualization o Compare related historical developments and processes across place and time and/or different societies. o Evaluate ways in which historical phenomena/processes relate to broader regional, national or global processes
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Historical Interpretation and Synthesis o Recognize the constructed nature of historical interpretation. o Identify the ways that an historian’s point of view can influence their interpretations o Recognize how models of historical interpretation/understanding can change over time.
*From The College Board Advanced Placement Course Description Book; World History. Fall
2011

The AP Exam for World History is a 2-part test. Part 1 is a multiple choice section containing 70 questions, which the student will have 55 minutes in which to complete. The questions are taken from the 6 different periods in approximately equal amounts, so there is no one particular period that is more or less important than the others.
Part 2 of the test requires you to write 3 different essays in 2 hours and 10 minutes (a
Comparison/Contrast essay, a Change Over Time essay, and a Document-Based Question essay).
Each essay requires not only a mastery of the necessary content, but also mastery of the particular writing techniques specific to each essay type.
All AP students are encouraged to take the AP Exam. The AP exam carries a fee of $87 that must be paid by the student before February 1 st
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Completion of the AP exam results in the awarding of a bonus 1.0 GPA credit weighting to the final grade of the course. A student that does not take or complete the exam will not receive this bonus.