SYLLABUS
COURSE IDENTIFICATION:
TITLE: AP World History and Enriched English 10
ACADEMY: Humanities
ROOM:
HU 109
COURSE INSTRUCTOR:
Leslie Keeney
PHONE: 896-5600 EXT.: 5772
EMAIL: lkeeney@rrhs.rrps.k12.nm.us
WEB: http://www.orgsites.com/nm/87124/lkeeney
PREREQUISITE(S):
A serious commitment to the course
TEXTBOOK(S):
Stearns, Adas, Schwartz, Gilbert: World Civilizations, McDougallLittell World History: Patterns of Interaction and World
Literature, and Writer’s Inc.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course meets the requirements for English 10 and AP World
History. Students will study world history from the foundations period (10,000 B.C.E) through
the present. Students are expected to take the AP World History test in May. Writing pieces and
literature selections reinforce the concepts and content of the social studies component of the
course. Students will apply reading, research, writing, and speaking skills to demonstrate
learning in analytical pieces.
Habits of Mind:
 Constructing and evaluating arguments: using evidence to make plausible arguments.
 Using documents and other primary data: developing the skills necessary to analyze point of
view, context, and bias, and to understand and interpret information.
 Developing the ability to assess issues of change and continuity over time.
 Enhancing the capacity to handle diversity of interpretations through analysis of context, bias, and
frame of reference.
 Seeing global patterns over time and space while also acquiring the ability to connect local
developments to global ones and to move through levels of generalizations from the global to the
particular.
 Developing the ability to compare within and among societies, including comparing societies’
reactions to global processes.
 Developing the ability to assess claims of universal standards yet remaining aware of human
commonalities and differences; putting culturally diverse ideas and values in historical context,
not suspending judgment but developing understanding.
Themes:
 Impact of interaction among major societies (trade, systems of international exchange, war, and
diplomacy).
 The relationship of change and continuity across the world history periods covered in this course.
 Impact of technology and demography on people and the environment (population growth and
decline, disease, manufacturing, migrations, agriculture, weaponry).
 Systems of social structure and gender structure (comparing major features within and among
societies and assessing change).
 Cultural and intellectual developments and interactions among and within societies.
 Changes in functions and structures of states and in attitudes toward states and political identities
(political culture), including the emergence of the nation-state (types of political organization).
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SYLLABUS
WEEK
1–4
Jan 3 –
Jan 27
THEME/CHAPTER(S)/ADDITIONAL
MATERIALS
Unit Four: 1450 – 1750 (The Early Modern
Period)
History Readings Stearns: 16-22 (21 – 22 are
review)
Literary Readings
 Indian Givers: excerpt
 Don Quixote: excerpt
5-9
Jan 30 –
March 3
Unit Five: 1750 – 1914 (Revolution and
Imperialism)
History Readings Stearns: 23 – 27
Literary Readings

Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
 NY Times Article: “Ugly Images of
Asian Rivals Become Best Sellers in
Japan”
10 -16
Unit Six: 1914 – present (The Modern World)
March 6April 21
History Readings : Stearns: 28 – 36
Literary Readings
 Night by Elie Wiesel
 Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala
Markandaya available in the
bookroom)
17 - 18
April - 24
May 3
Practice Exam (course final)
AP World HistoryExam
 All material from the year
18-20
May 4 –
May 23
English Focus: Independent Author study
and research paper.
ACTIVITIES/ASSESSMENTS
Assessments
Chapter Tests
Weekly Grammar Paragraphs
Unit Exam
Snapshots
Literary Analysis Essays:
 Indian Givers extract essay
 Don Quixote characterization
Comparison/Contrast Essays:
 Interaction with the West
Document-Based Analysis Essays:
American and Muslim Slaveries
Assessments
Chapter Tests
Weekly Grammar Paragraphs
Unit Exam
Snapshots
Literary Analysis Essay
 Things Fall Apart: Characterization
Comparison/Contrast Essay
 Revolutions
DBQ Essay
 Imperialism
Change over Time Essay
Japan from 1500 to 1900
Assessments
Chapter Tests
Weekly Grammar Paragraphs
Unit Exam
Snapshots
Literary Analysis Essays
 Night:Imagery, Language
 Nectar in a Sieve:Theme
Change over Time Essay
 China between 1000 and 2000 C.E.
DBQ Essay
 Women in World History
Multiple-Choice and Essay (comparison/ contrast,
DBQ, and Change Over- Time)
Assessments
Presentation, Research Paper, Final Exam
CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION:
Grades will be based on a weighted system of categories in History: Essays will receive 45%
weighting, exams 45%, snapshots and notes 10%. English grades will be determined on a
straight point value system with each assignment scaled to 100%.
GRADING SCALE: See the student handbook for descriptions of performance levels.
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SYLLABUS
AP World History/Enriched English 10
Note: Essay dates subject to change!
Readings/Tests/Assignments – Spring Semester 2005
AP Text: World Civilizations
English Texts:
Section IV 1450 – 1750 The World Shrinks
Jan 3 - 6
Chapter 16, 17
review
Indian Givers excerpt : extract essay
Jan 9 – 13
Chapter 18 test
Begin Author Study
Jan 17 - 20
Chapter 19 DBQ
Don Quixote excerpt: test
Jan 23 - 27
Chapter 20 and review 21-22
1450 – 1750 exam Jan 27, 30
Section V 1750 – 1914 Industrialization and Western Hegemony
Jan 30 –Feb3
Chapter 23
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Compare/Contrast
Feb 6 - 10
Chapter 24
test COT
Things Fall Apart
Feb 13 – 16
Chapter 25
test,
Things Fall Apart
Feb 21 – 24
Chapter 26 – 27 DBQ
Essay: characterization
Feb 27 –
Review
Reading: NY Times Article
March 3
1750 – 1450 exam March 3,6
Section VI 1914 – present The 20th Century in World History
March 6 - 10
Chapter 28
COT
March 13 -17
Chapter 29
test
March 20 - 22
Chapter 30
Night by Elie Wiesel
March 27
Chapters 31 -32
Essay: imagery, language, tone
(spring break)
April 3 - 7
Chapter 33
DBQ
Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala
Markandaya
April 10 – 13
Chapter 34
test
Nectar in a Sieve
April 18 – 21
Chapters 35-36
Nectar in a Sieve
April 24 – 28
Final Exam April 26, 27, 28
Essay: Theme
May 1 - 5
Review and AP Exam: May 3
After the exam
May 8 – 12
Research
Author study
May 15 – 19
Research
Final Exam Presentations
May 22 or 23
English Final Exam
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