AP World History – Tentative Schedule (2014-2015)
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LESSON/ACTIVITY
Course Intro; Syllabus/Expectations
Course Intro; Reading and Writing in AP World
History; Organization; Themes, Timeframes, Essays;
Learning Log Topics assigned; “Time is Nothing” Video
and Discussion
AP WORLD HISTORY SLO PRETEST; Read “The Worst
Mistake in the History of the Human Race” and
Discussion
Social Studies Fair Project; Discussion “The Myth of
Continents”
Introduction – Early Civilizations and the Classical
World; A Review of Time (Assignment), Ancient
Civilizations (Video), What is Civilization? (Reading);
Performance Task assigned
Neolithic Revolution – The Agricultural Revolution
(CC), Neolithic Revolution (Website Discussion),
Neolithic Revolution (Presentation), Nomads v.
Civilizations (Chart)
Mesopotamia and Egypt – Mesopotamia (CC),
Mesopotamia: From Nomads to Farmers (Video),
Ancient Mesopotamia (Presentation)
Mesopotamia and Egypt continued – Ancient Egypt
(CC), Ancient Egypt: The Gift of the Nile (Video),
Ancient Egypt (Presentation), Ancient Mesopotamia
and Egypt (Chart)
Ancient India and China – Indus Valley Civilization
(CC), India and China (Videos), Indus River Valley
(Presentation), Shang China (Presentation), Indus and
Huang He Valley (Chart), Ancient Civilizations Primary
Sources (Assignment)
Essay Writing - Comparative
Review – “Inventors” (Mankind)
UNIT TEST
PERFORMANCE TASKS DUE; Unit 1 Learning Log due
14. Social Studies Fair Research
15. Classical China – 2,000 Years of Chinese History (CC),
Qin and Han China (Presentation), Han China (Video),
Daoism and Confucianism (Presentation), Great Wall
of China (Assignment); Performance Task assigned
READINGS
Syllabus, Expectations
N/A
Read “The Myth of Continents”
Read Chapter 1 (Strayer), View Online
Notes Chapter 1 (Duez)
Read Chapter 2 (Strayer), View Online
Notes Chapter 2 (Duez); Watch and
complete “The Agricultural
Revolution” (Crash Course)
Read Chapter 3 (Strayer), View Online
Notes Chapter 2 (Duez); Watch and
complete “Mesopotamia” (Crash
Course)
Watch and complete “Ancient Egypt”
(Crash Course)
Watch and complete “Indus Valley
Civilization” (Crash Course)
Review Chapters 1-3
Review Chapters 1-3
Study!
Prepare Performance Tasks
Select your Social Studies Fair
Research Topic
Read Chapter 4 (Strayer), View Online
Notes (Duez); Watch and complete
“2,000 Years of Chinese History”
(Crash Course)
Read Chapter 5 (Strayer), View Online
Notes (Duez); Watch and complete
“Buddha and Ashoka” (Crash Course)
16. Classical India – Buddha and Ashoka (CC), Classical
Indian Achievements (Video), Buddhism and Hinduism
(Presentations)
17. Classical Mediterranean Civilizations – The Persians
and the Greeks, Alexander the Great (CC), Ancient
Greece, (Presentation), Ancient Greece and Ancient
Persia (Videos)
18. Review – “Iron Men” (Mankind)
19. Classical Mediterranean Civilizations continued – The
Roman Empire, or Republic (CC), Ancient Rome
(Presentation), Rise of Christianity (Presentation),
Classical Empires (Chart)
20. Isolated Civilizations and the Decline of Classical
Civilizations – The Silk Road and Ancient Trade (CC),
The Decline of Classical Empires (Compare and
Contrast Essay), Classical Empires (DBQ)
21. Essay Writing – The CCOT
22. Review – “Empires” (Mankind)
23. UNIT TEST
24. PERFORMANCE TASKS DUE; Unit 2 Learning Log due
25. Social Studies Fair Research
26. Introduction – The Post Classical World; Performance
Task assigned
27. The Rise of Islam – Islam, the Quran, and the Five
Pillars (CC), Islam (Presentations and Videos),
Religions of the World – Islam (Assignment), Umayyad
and Abbasid Map (Assignment)
28. The Decline of the Abbasid Dynasty and the Spread
of Islam, Islam in India (Video)
29. African Civilizations and the Arrival of Islam – Mansa
Musa and Islam in Africa (CC), Mali (Video), Kingdoms
of Africa (Presentation), Post-Classical African
Societies (Chart), Ibn Battuta (Assignment)
30. The Byzantine Empire – Christianity from Judaism to
Constantine (CC), Fall of the Roman Empire (CC),
Byzantine Empire (Presentation), Byzantium (Video),
Byzantine Empire (Map), Byzantine Empire
(Assignment)
Review Chapter 4; Watch and
complete “The Persians and the
Greeks”, “Alexander the Great” (Crash
Courses
Read Chapter 6 (Strayer), View Online
Notes (Duez)
Read Chapter 6; Watch and complete
“The Roman Empire, or Republic”
(Crash Course)
Read Chapter 7 (Strayer), View Online
Notes (Duez); Watch and complete
“The Silk Road and Ancient Trade”
(Crash Course)
Review Chapter 6
Review Chapter 7
Study!
Prepare Performance Tasks
Review Social Studies Fair
Requirements
Review Social Studies Fair
Requirements
Read Chapter 8 (Strayer), View Online
Notes (Duez); Watch and complete
“Islam, the Quran, and the Five Pillars”
(Crash Course)
Read Chapter 11 (Strayer), View
Online Notes (Duez)
Review Chapter 8; Watch and
complete “Mansa Musa and Islam in
Africa” (Crash Course)
Read Chapter 10 (Strayer), View
Online Notes (Duez); Watch and
complete “Christianity from Judaism
to Constantine”, “Fall of the Roman
Empire” (Crash Courses)
Review Chapter 10; Watch and
complete “The Dark Ages” (Crash
Course)
31. The Western European Middle Ages – The Dark Ages
(CC), The High Middle Ages (Presentation), Middle
Ages (Video), Middle Ages (Map)
32. The Western European Middle Ages continued – The
Crusades (CC), Japanese Feudalism v. European
Feudalism (Presentation), Crusades, Black Death
(Videos), Middle Ages (Assignment)
33. Meso-American Societies, Early Mesoamerican
Civilizations (Presentation), Aztec and Inca
(Presentations), Mayans, Aztecs, and Incas (Videos),
Aztecs and Incas (Map), Aztecs and Incas (Chart),
Compare and Contrast (Assignment)
34. Tang and Song China and the Spread of Chinese
Influence in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, Tang and
Song China (Presentation), Kingdoms of Southeast
Asia and Korea (Presentation), China: From Past to
Present, Feudal Japan (Videos), Lady Murasaki
(Primary Source), Son of Heaven Proposal
(Assignment), Tang and Song Dynasty (Questions)
35. The Mongols – The Mongols (CC), Mongols
(Presentations), Mongols (Videos), The Mongols
(Questions)
36. SOCIAL STUDIES FAIR PROJECTS DUE
37. The World in 1450: Change in the Balance of World
Power – International Commerce (CC), The Black
Plague, The Beginnings of the Renaissance (Videos)
38. The World in 1450: Change in the Balance of World
Power continued – The Beginnings of the Age of
Exploration, Gunpowder and explosion of world war
(Videos), The World by 1450 (Questions), DBQ
39. Review – “Warriors”
40. Review – “Plague”
41. UNIT TEST
42. PERFORMANCE TASKS DUE; Unit 3 Learning Log due
43. MIDTERM/FIRST SEMESTER FINAL EXAM
44. MIDTERM/FIRST SEMESTER FINAL EXAM
45. Review – “Survivors” (Mankind)
46. Introduction to The Early Modern Period;
Performance Task assigned
47. The World Economy – Columbus, De Gama, and
Zheng He (CC), The World Economy (Presentation),
The Age of Exploration (Video), The Columbian
Exchange (Questions), Age of Exploration (Chart)
Review Chapter 10; Watch and
complete “The Crusades” (Crash
Course)
Read Chapter 13 (Strayer), View
Online Notes (Duez)
Read Chapter 9 (Strayer), View Online
Notes (Duez)
Read Chapter 12 (Strayer), View
Online Notes (Duez); Watch and
complete “The Mongols” (Crash
Course)
Prepare Social Studies Fair Projects
Review Chapter 13; Watch and
complete “International Commerce”
(Crash Course)
Review Chapters 8-9
Review Chapters 10-11
Review Chapters 12-13
Study!
Prepare Performance Tasks
Study!
Study!
N/A
N/A
Read Chapter 14 (Strayer), View
Online Notes (Duez); Watch
“Columbus, De Gama, and Zheng He”
(Crash Course)
Read Chapter 15 (Strayer), View
Online Notes (Duez); Watch “The
Columbian Exchange”, “The Spanish
Empire, Silver, and Runaway Inflation”
48. The World Economy continued – The Columbian
Exchange (CC), The Spanish Empire, Silver, and
Runaway Inflation (CC), Changes Over Time (Essay)
49. Review – “Treasure” (Mankind)
50. The Transformation of the West - The Renaissance
(CC), The Transformation of the West (Presentation),
The Renaissance, The Protestant Reformation
51. The Transformation of the West continued – The
Seven Years War, Tea, Taxes and the American
Revolution (CC), The Enlightenment (Video), The
Enlightenment (Questions)
52. The Rise of Russia – Russia, the Kievan Rus, and the
Mongols (CC), The Rise of Russia (Presentation), Rise
of Russia (Video), Russian Expansion (Map)
53. Latin America and Africa during the Age of the
Atlantic Slave Trade – The Atlantic Slave Trade (CC),
Early Latin America (Summary), The Spanish in Latin
America, Colonization of the Americas
(Presentations), Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade
(Summary), Cortes and Glory, Pizzaro and the Incas,
Slave Ship (Videos), Primary Sources
54. Review – “New World” (Mankind)
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(Crash Courses)
Review Chapter 15
Watch and complete “The
Renaissance” (Crash Course)
Read Chapter 16 (Strayer), View
Online Notes (Duez) ; Watch and
complete “The Seven Years War”,
“Tea, Taxes and the American
Revolution” (Crash Courses)
Review Chapter 14; Watch and
complete “Russia, the Kievan Rus, and
the Mongols” (Crash Course)
Review Chapter 15; Watch and
complete “The Atlantic Slave Trade”
(Crash Course)
Review Chapter 14
Review Chapter 15; Watch and
complete “Venice and the Ottoman
Empire” (Crash Course)
The Muslim Gunpowder Empires – Venice and the
Review Chapter 16; Watch and
Ottoman Empire (CC), Muslim Gunpowder Empires
complete “The Amazing Life and
(Summary), The Story of Akbar, The Story of Suleyman Strange Death of Captain Cook” (Crash
(Videos), Islamic Gunpowder Empires, The
Course)
Gunpowder Empires (Presentations), Gunpowder
(Map), Gunpowder Empires (Questions and Chart)
Asian Transitions – The Amazing Life and Strange
Study!
Death of Captain Cook (CC), Asian Transitions
(Summary), China: Past and Present (Video), Ming and
Qing China (Presentations), Feudal Japan
(Presentations), Transitions in China and Japan
(Assignment)
Review – “Pioneers” (Mankind)
Study!
UNIT TEST
Prepare Performance Tasks
PERFORMANCE TASKS DUE; Unit 4 Learning Log due
N/A
Introduction to The Industrial Age; Performance Task
Read Chapter 17 (Strayer), View
assigned
Online Notes (Duez); Watch “The
French Revolution”, “Haitian
Revolutions”, “Latin American
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61. Early Industrialization and Imperialism in the 19
Century – The French Revolution, Haitian Revolutions,
Latin American Revolutions (CC), Comparative
Revolutions (Presentation), Causes of the French
Revolution, The Continuing Revolution, Causes of the
American Revolution, American Colonies (Videos),
French Revolution, Napoleon (Presentations),
Comparative Revolutions (Chart), Congress of Vienna
and the Revolutions of 1848 (Assignment)
62. Early Industrialization and Imperialism in the 19th
Century continued – Coal, Steam, and the Industrial
Revolution, Capitalism and Socialism (CC), Industrial
Revolution (Summary), Industrial Revolution (Video),
Industrial Revolution, The Making of Industrial Society
(Presentations), Industrialization (Graphic Organizer),
Adam Smith v. Karl Marx (Assignment), Change Over
Time (Essay)
63. Review – “Revolutions” (Mankind)
64. Civilizations in Transition: Latin America, the Islamic
Empires, and Qing China – Imperialism (CC),
Imperialism (Summary), Britain in India (Video),
Imperialism and India and Imperialism
(Presentations), Primary Source, Latin American
Revolutions, Results of the Latin American
Revolutions (Presentations)
65. Civilizations in Transition: Latin America, the Islamic
Empires, and Qing China continued – Decline and Fall
of the Ottoman Empire, Rise and Fall of Qing China
(Presentations), Decline of the Ottoman Empire,
Decline of the Qing Empire (Videos), Territorial Losses
of the Ottoman Empire, China and Japan (Timeline),
Fall of Qing China Summary (Assignment), Change
Over Time (Essay)
66. Russia and Japan – Industrialization Outside the
West – Samurai, Daimyo, Matthew Perry, and
Nationalism (CC), Industrialization of Russia and
Japan, Japan Samurai to Industry, Meiji Japan, Russia
and Japan’s Industrialization (Presentations), RussoJapanese War, Meiji Japan (Videos), Russian Decline
in the late 19th Century (Assignment), Meiji Emperor
(Questions)
67. Review – “Speed” (Mankind)
68. UNIT TEST
69. PERFORMANCE TASKS DUE; Unit 5 Learning Log due
Revolutions” (Crash Courses)
Read Chapter 18 (Strayer), View
Online Notes (Duez); Watch “Coal,
Steam, and the Industrial Revolution”,
“Capitalism and Socialism” (Crash
Courses)
Review Chapters 17-18
Read Chapter 19 (Strayer), View
Online Notes (Duez); Watch and
complete “Imperialism” (Crash Course)
Read Chapter 20 (Strayer), View
Online Notes (Duez)
Review Chapter 19; Watch and
complete “Samurai, Daimyo, Matthew
Perry, and Nationalism” (Crash Course)
Review Chapter 20
Study!
Prepare Performance Tasks
N/A
70. Introduction to The Modern Era; Performance Task
assigned
71. WWI and the Years Between the Wars – Archdukes,
Cynicism, and World War I (CC), WWI (Presentation),
WWI, Years Between the Wars, Russia: 1905-1920
(Videos), The Treaty of Versailles, Decolonization after
WWI, Gandhi, WWI Propaganda (Assignment)
72. WWI and the Years Between the Wars continued The Years Between the Wars, The Russian Revolution
(Presentations), Chinese Civil War (Video), Primary
Source, Nationalism in China, Turkey, and India
(Assignment), Russian Revolution (Chart), The Years
Between the Wars (Assignment)
73. WWII – World War II (CC), WWII: The Road to War
(Video), WWII (Presentation), Diagrams (Assignment),
WWII Propaganda (Assignment), Compare and
Contrast (Essay)
74. The Cold War – USA v. USSR Fight: The Cold War (CC),
Cold War (Presentation), Cold War (Video), World In
Crisis (Assignment), Cold War (Assignment), We Didn’t
Start the Fire (Assignment)
75. Latin America, the Middle East, and China: 1950 to
the Present – Communists, Nationalists, and China’s
Revolutions (CC), Decolonization, Decolonization in
Africa, Cuba (Presentations), China Rises, Mexico
(Videos), Latin American Social and Cultural
Movements (Chart), Decolonization (Map), Compare
and Contrast (Essay)
76. Nation Building in East Asia and the Pacific Rim –
Decolonization and Nationalism Triumphant (CC),
Southeast Asia and the Pacific Rim (Presentations),
Vietnam (Video), Asia (Map), Asia (Chart), Asian
Nationalism and Gender Roles (Assignment), DBQ
77. Globalization and Resistance – Globalization I and
Globalization II (CC), Globalization (Video), 1914Present, The Global Village, Women in the 20th
Century, Globalization (Presentations), Globalization
(Assignment), Current Event (Assignment), Women as
Leaders (Assignment)
78. Review – “New Frontiers” (Mankind)
79. UNIT TEST
80. Review
81. SLO POSTTEST
82. Review
83. AP MOCK EXAM
Read Chapter 21 (Strayer), View
Online Notes (Duez); Watch and
complete “Archdukes, Cynicism, and
World War I (Crash Course)
Review Chapter 21
Review Chapter 21; Watch and
complete “World War II” (Crash
Course)
Read Chapter 22 (Strayer), View
Online Notes (Duez); Watch and
complete “USA v. USSR Fight: The Cold
War” (Crash Course)
Review Chapter 22; Watch and
complete “Communists, Nationalists,
and China’s Revolutions” (Crash
Course)
Read Chapter 23 (Strayer), View
Online Notes (Duez); Watch and
complete “Decolonization and
Nationalism Triumphant” (Crash
Course)
Read Chapter 24 (Strayer), View
Online Notes (Duez); Watch and
complete “Globalization I”,
“Globalization II” (Crash Courses)
Review Chapter 23-24
Study!
N/A
Study!
Review first three units
Review last three units
Study terms, concepts
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Review
AP WORLD HISTORY EXAM
PERFORMANCE TASKS DUE; Unit 6 Learning Log due
Project – TBD
Project – TBD
FINAL EXAM/SLO ASSESSMENT
FINAL EXAM/SLO ASSESSMENT
Study essay writing; Good luck!
Prepare Performance Tasks
N/A
N/A
Study!
N/A
N/A; Congratulations!