Warm-Up: Wednesday, 8/26
Get two post-it notes from the front table.
On one note, write down a few skills you have (think
academic) that will help you be successful in WHAP.
On the other note, write down one thing about WHAP
that has you worried.
When you finish, place each post-it in the appropriate
place on the front board. You have 3 minutes!
Welcome to WHAP!
What kind of class is WHAP?
WHAP is a reading and writing class.
You will read the entire textbook.
You will write for WHAP at least once every class
period.
You will work hard if you want to pass the AP test.
AP versus Pre-AP
What’s the difference?
AP classes are taken in order to earn college credit
via exam.
This is a college-level course with a college-level
textbook!
You must study to be successful.
The course will touch on mature themes.
AP World History Exam
You are ALL expected to complete the AP World
History Exam in May.
If you don’t plan on taking the test, you are wasting your
time. This is not worth the premium GPA points alone.
The test is 3 hours and 5 minutes long.
55-minute multiple-choice section: worth 50% of score
130-minute free-response section: worth 50% of score
AP World History Exam
Multiple-Choice
70 questions
55 minutes
Document-based
Question
Change-Over-Time
Essay (CCOT)
1 essay question
40 minutes
Comparative Essay
1 essay question
1 essay question
50 minutes (includes a
10-minute reading
period)
40 minutes
Four Historical Thinking
Skills
1. Crafting Historical Arguments from Historical
Evidence
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Defining and framing a question about the past to
address that questions through the construction
of an argument
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Clear, comprehensive, and analytical thesis
supported by relevant evidence
Four Historical Thinking
Skills
2. Chronological Reasoning
Historical Causation – the ability to identify,
analyze, and evaluate the relationships between
multiple historical causes and effects
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Patterns of change and continuity over time
Periodization – how historians categorize events
into discrete blocks and to identify turning points
Four Historical Thinking
Skills
3. Comparison & Contextualization
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Comparison: describe, compare, and evaluate multiple
historical developments within one society or
across/between different societies, various
chronological contexts, or geographical contexts
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Contextualization: the ability to connect historical
developments to specific circumstances of time and
place, and to broader regional, national, or global
processes
Four Historical Thinking
Skills
4. Historical Interpretation & Synthesis
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Interpretation: analyze evidence, reasoning,
contexts, POVs, & frames of reference across
primary and secondary sources
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Synthesis: the ability to arrive at meaningful &
persuasive understandings of the past by
applying all of the other historical thinking skills
Course Themes
1.
Interaction between humans & the environment: demography & disease, migration,
patterns of settlement, technology
2.
Development & interaction of cultures: religions, belief
systems/philosophies/ideologies, science & technology, arts & architecture
3.
State-building, expansion, & conflict: political structures & forms of governance,
empires, nations/nationalism, revolts & revolutions, regional/transregional/global
structures & organizations
4.
Creation, expansion, & interaction of economic systems: agriculture & pastoral
production, trade & commerce, labor systems, industrialization, capitalism &
socialism
5.
Development & transformation of social structures: gender roles & relations, family &
kinship, racial & ethnic constructions, social & economic classes
Historical Periodization
1. Technological & Environmental Transformations: to c. 600
BCE (5%)
2. Organization & Reorganization of Human Societies: 600 BCE
– 600 CE (15%)
3. Regional & Transregional Interactions: 600 CE – 1450 (20%)
4. Global Interactions: 1450 – 1750 (20%)
5. Industrialization & Global Integration: 1750 – 1900 (20%)
6. Accelerating Global Change & Realignments: 1900 – the
present (20%)
Testing in WHAP
Map Tests
Usually on Mondays, 1 per period (1 & 2
combined)
Matching format – study guides on
website, completion of guide worth 20
pts. of test grade
Timeline Tests
Usually on Tuesdays, 1 per period
Matching portion– 50%
5 identification questions – 50%
Short answer: event name given –
student gives date (within 50 years),
Study guides on website
Unit Tests
Usually on Thursdays, ~2 chapters per
test
Multiple-choice with occasional writing
portions
SPICE, CCOT, & SOAPPS-Tone charts as
well as chapter notes & assignments will
serve as your review
ALL TESTS WILL BE TIMED TO
MIRROR THE AP EXAM!!!
Reading Quizzes
10 multiple-choice questions (8 minutes) or 5
identification questions (short answer, 10
minutes)
Format will alternate
Students may use HAND-WRITTEN reading
notes on the quiz
Quizzes are valued as 2 daily grades
Reading Notes
You must take notes for each chapter – these are for a daily grade
Each chapter is divided into sections with RED titled headings and subsections with BLUE titled headings
You must take notes over the introduction of the chapter as well as each
section with a RED header
You must write down the title of each RED header and highlight the title in
YELLOW. For the introduction, just write “INTRODUCTION” and highlight in
YELLOW.
You must have notes written under each section, but you may use any format
(Cornell, outline – it’s up to you)
The better the notes – the better your quiz grades & test grades!
Note-taking Tips
You MUST read your textbook!
If you do not read, you will take too many notes,
and you will not fully comprehend the material.
Read each section once. Then, summarize the
information in your head. Then, read it again!
Finally, write down your notes in your spiral.
After you take notes for the entire chapter,
compare your notes with the Strayer outline online.
Fill in any gaps you may have.
Study Tips
Read over your notes before each reading quiz.
Study early and often – do not procrastinate studying for tests!
Read ahead!
Come to tutorials!
Stay on top of your grades.
Take care of business if you’re absent.
Get work in advance if you know you will be out.
If you’re out for a school-approved absence, you MUST complete assignments and
tests in advance!
NO LATE WORK WILL BE
ACCEPTED!!!!
You will get a zero if you do not turn something
in on time. You cannot reassess work that
earned a zero because it was not attempted.
Failing…
You will fail a reading quiz, test, and/or writing
assignment.
You will NOT fail the class – unless you do not
turn assignments in or do not attend tutorials.
Chapter 1 RQ:
Wednesday, September 2
Your first reading quiz and note check is next
Wednesday.
You MUST write your notes in a spiral.
If you do not have your titles highlighted in
yellow, you get a zero.