Bowick's AP World History 2013-14
Welcome to World History Advanced Placement (W.H.A.P.)
Brian Bowick-teacher/facilitator
W.H.A.P. Exam: Thrs May 17th 8AM Room #TBA (most likely Johnson and Wales
auditorium)
Required Summer Reading: Guns, Germs, and Steel (GG&S) by Jared Diamond
Required Essay on GG&S: 2 pages, typed, titled and double spaced. Run spell check.
Due day one.
PROMPT: Use the contents of Diamond's book and your own brain to debunk the
concept of racial superiority.
TEXT: Text: World Civilizations, The Global Experience. 6th Edition, AP Edition by
Stearns, Adas, Schwartz & Gilbert. Pearson Publishing Co.
ISBN 978-0-13-136020-4
To Order. 1 Call Pearson Warehouse 877-202-4572. -0rwww.pearsonhighered.com. It's mostly orange with a man from India reading a
book.
*This Text must be purchased by the student ASAP.*
Text books are expensive. If you take care of it, you will have a chance to sell it to
next year's WHAP students and make your money back. This text is adopted through
2015.
I will supply DSA LMC with a copy for student reference. Please note that LMC
policy is that NO reference material may be checked out. Reference materials
are for on premise use only.
This class is intense. Student are expected to keep up with the reading and
content. I emphasize reading, writing and skills. Skills allow students to use
what they know to respond to questions revolving around civilizations. We
write many essays for many purposes. We have many years to investigate in a
short amount of time, so a great deal of the work will be independent student
homework. Exam specific content will be wrought from our text.
We have 33 chapters of content to discover in 40 weeks. See reading schedule
below. *You will get a quiz over each chapter every Wednesday over content
and skills.
Overview of the Course
This AP World History course is designed to be an apt equivalent of a college
level course in content, scope and sequence. You are expected to do the
reading, create appropriate notecards and take Cornell style outline notes for
each of the assigned chapters and for the assigned primary source documents.
We will examine the history of the people of this planet called Earth. Our focus
is on human interaction, organization, movement, trade and conflict over
time. We will enjoy mastering the nature of change within larger political
frameworks and we will compare major civilizations. We will examine, nearly
everyday, primary sources in both texts and in visuals. We will also do
simulations and we will debate questions regarding the complexities and
ambiguities surrounding human commonalities and differences. Through this
method we will refine and develop the higher order thinking skills necessary
for your success at the next level of your educational career.
Content: The Six World History Themes for Student Investigation
1) Change and continuity from 8,000BCE to Present
2) Impact of interaction revolving around major societies
3) Impact of technology, economics and demographics on people and on the
environment
4) Systems of social structure, and gender structure
5) Development and exploitation of culture, religion and technology
6) Political shape – shifting, and political attitudes
A Sampling of Assignments Incorporated in this Class:
Timeline Assignment –Choose one of the WHAP themes and between ten and
fifteen events for the time period assigned. These events will demonstrate the
largest changes related to the theme and you will rank order the events on the
timeline according to its significance. You will explain each event and its
relevance.
Notecards Assignment-For each assigned chapter and each assigned primary
source reading, there are key terms to be mastered. These terms will be
highlighted in bold text in the reading. These constitute the content of the
objective, or multiple-choice, section of the May World History AP exam. Each
student will write the term on the front of the 3x5 notecard and the student
will classify that term according to PERSIAN (political, Economic, Religious,
Social, Invention/Innovation/Intelligence, Art and Near or geographic
location). Define the term on the back of the notecard and provide an example
and a comparative term. There will be a quiz every Friday for every chapter.
Between on third and one half of this assessment will be over notecard
material.
Doing World History AP or Do-WHAP Assignment–Table groups are to address
the teacher assigned, chapter based question pictorially. Responses may vary
according to Dr. David Smith’s methods of questioning history: comparison,
common phenomenon, diffusion, syncretism and big picture. Student will then
orally interpret their drawing in response to the question and the method of
inquiry for the rest of the class.
Research Projects- One Per Semester. Topic and times to be announced.
Core Activities & Other Assignments– worksheets and interactions designed to
help the AP student analyze content, people, events, conflicts, motivations,
outcomes and concepts.
Leader Analysis, Peoples Analysis, Conflict Analysis, Change Analysis
Societal Comparison, Document Analysis, Dialectical Journal
and Inner/Outer Circle Discussion Scenarios
Course Requirements
a) Take the Exam in May
b) Suit up and Show up (attend class, be on-time and be prepared)
c) Make-up missed work
d) Active participation
e) Pull your weight in both study groups and in class discussions as well as in
seminars.
Grades
a) 25% Essay, 25% Homework, 25% Tests & Quizzies, 15% Projects,
10% Participation
b) 100-90% =A, 90-80%=B, 80-70%=C, 70-60%=D, 60-50%=F
Essay Writing:
Thesis Creation, Time Reference and Historical SupportDBQ – (Document Based Questions) Students read and analyze a set of
documents and then write and essay about them.
COT – (Change Over Time) Students are required to essay about broad
changes in one or more regions in the world over a time period.
Comparison – (both Similarities and Differences) Students compare two or
more societies on a given set of issues.
*All essay assignments accompanied by supporting Rubric for grading,
chances are fair to midland that I will demand a rewrite of your essays: learn
to embrace this conscript.
*All essays must be: Typed, Titled, and Triple Spaced so I can bleed feedback
between the lines. Include all pre-writing and brain storming. Include all
PERSIAN doc analysis for DBQ so I can follow your logic..
I average your quarter grades to make your semester grades.
Chapter Work Week –Dates and Chapter Numbers
8/27
Intro pieces
Unit 1
9/3
9/10
9/17
9/24
10/1
The Classical Period
Ch 1 Human Prehistory
Ch 2 Classic Civs: China
Ch 3 Classic Civs: India
Ch 4 Classic Civs: The Med and Middle East
Ch 5 The Classical Period: Directions, Diversity and Decline
Unit 2
10/8
10/15
10/22
10/29
11/5
11/12
11/19
11/26
12/3
12/10
12/17
Post Classical Period
Ch 6 Islam
Ch 7 Islam Spreads
Ch 8 Africa and Islam
Ch 9 Byzantium and Orthodox Europe
Ch 10 Western Europe
Ch 11 The Americas
Thanks Giving Break. No chapter assignment
Ch 12 Unified China
Ch 13 Japan, Korea and Vietnam
Ch 14 The Mongols
Ch 15 1450 CE Changing Balance of World Power
Unit 3
1/8
1/14
1/21
1/28
2/4
2/11
2/18
Early Modern Period 1450-1750
Ch 16 The World Economy
Ch 17 The Transforming West
Ch 18 Russia Rising
Ch 19 Latin America
Ch 20 Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade
Ch 21 Muslim Empires
Ch 22 Asia Transforms
Unit 4
2/25
3/4
3/11
3/18
3/25
4/1
Industrialization
Ch 23 Western Industrial Society
Ch 24 European Global Order
Ch 25 Consolidated Latin America
Ch 26 Civilizations in Decline: Ottoman, China,
Spring Break No chapter Assignment
Ch 27 Russia and Japan
Unit 5
4/8
4/15
4/22
4/29
5/7
5/14
5/21
5/28
Modern World History
Ch28 WW1
Ch 29 Between the World Wars
Ch 30 WW2
Ch 31 Cold War
Ch 32 Revolutions in Latin America
Ch 33 Independence around the globe
Ch 34 Nation Building
Ch 35 World Politics