Ap World Syllabus

Propelled Placement World History Course Syllabus 2012-2013 Ms. Rebecca Layton Friendly High School Fort Washington, MD 20744 301-449-4900 Rebecca. [emailâ protected] organization Course Description: The Advanced Placement World History (APWH) course is a serious, year long, assessment of worldwide history from the time of 8000 B. C. E. to the present. The reason for APWH is to build up a more prominent comprehension of the development of worldwide procedures and contacts, in connection with various kinds of human societies.The course features the idea of changes in global systems and their causes and outcomes, just as correlations among significant social orders. This course additionally constructs a comprehension of social, institutional and mechanical points of reference that, alongside topography, set the human stage. The course is separated into five significant times of study. They are: ? Establishments: 8000 B. C. E. to 600 C. E. ? 600 C. E. to 1450 ? 1450 to 1750 ? 1750 to 1 914 ? 1914 to the present APWH Course Themes: The APWH course is guided by six subjects which will get equivalent consideration all through the course: . The elements of progress and congruity over the world history time frames shrouded in this course, and the causes and procedures engaged with significant changes of these elements. 2. Examples and impacts of connection among social orders and districts: exchange, war, strategy and worldwide associations. 3. The impacts of innovation, financial aspects and demography on individuals and the earth (populace development and decrease, malady, work frameworks, fabricating, movements agribusiness and weaponry. ) 4. Frameworks of social structure and sex structure (looking at significant highlights ithin and among social orders, and surveying change and congruity). 5. Social, scholarly and strict turns of events, including cooperations among and inside social orders. 6. Changes in capacities and structures of states and perspectives toward s states and political characters (political culture), including the rise of country state (sorts of political association). APWH Habits of Mind or Skills: The APWH course tends to propensities for psyche or abilities in two classifications: (1) those tended to by any thorough history course, and (2) those tended to by a world history course.Four propensities for mind are in the main class: ? Developing and assessing contentions: utilizing proof to make conceivable contentions. ? Utilizing records and other essential information: building up the abilities important to investigate perspective, setting and inclination and to comprehend and decipher data. ? Evaluating issues of progress and coherence after some time, including the ability to manage changes as a procedure and with inquiries of causation. ? Understanding assorted variety of translations through examination of setting, perspective and casing of reference.Three propensities for mind have a place in the subsequent class: ? Seeing worldwide examples and procedures after some time and space while likewise associating neighborhood improvements to worldwide ones and traveling through degrees of speculation from the worldwide to the specific. ? Looking at inside and among social orders, including contrasting societies’ responses with worldwide procedure. ? Monitoring human shared characteristics and contrasts while surveying cases of all inclusive principles, and seeing socially differing thoughts and qualities in verifiable setting. Required Materials: ? Bentley, J. what's more, Ziegler, H. 2003). Conventions and Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past. (third Ed. ). Boston: McGraw-Hill. ? Andrea, A. also, Overfield, J. (2005). The Human Record: Sources of Global History, Volume I: to 1700. (fifth Ed. ). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. ? Andrea, A. what's more, Overfield, J. (2005). The Human Record: Sources of Global History, Volume II: Since 1500. (fifth Ed. ). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Com pany. ? Loaded, J. also, Whelan, P. (2009). Kaplan AP World History . Kaplan Publishing Grading Criteria: Quarter evaluations will be processed by the accompanying components: ?Tests/Quizzes/Essays/Projects50% ? Homework25% ? Classwork/Participation25% Conduct: Students are relied upon to keep all guidelines in this class compare to those expressed in the Prince George’s County Code of Student Conduct. Timeliness is a need and lateness to class will bring about loss of interest focuses. Work missed in view of an unexcused nonattendance may not be made up. Work missed as a result of a pardoned nonattendance must be made up inside the week the understudy comes back to class. It is the obligation of the understudy to organize make up work.All assignments must be delivered on schedule; late work won't be acknowledged. Approach: This course is led utilizing an assortment of strategies: address/conversation, reenactments, agreeable learning exercises, introductions and autonomous e xamination/inquire about. All understudies are liable for perusing the assignments before coming to class with the goal that they may effectively take an interest. An assortment of film clasps and recordings are additionally utilized all through the course. Unit I: Foundations 8000 B. C. E. to 600 C. E. Week One Topics: Agricultural Revolution World Geography Geographic Determinism-Jared Diamond Discussion/DebateReadings: Course Introductions/Overview, Chapter 1 (Bentley) Major Assignments: Comparative Graphic Organizer: Early Civilization Assessments: Quiz: Chapter 1 Timed Writing: Comparative Essays on Early Civilizations Jared Diamond Take-Home Essay Weeks Two and Three Topics: Civilization Discussion/Debate Early Civilizations (Complex Societies) Economic Specialization/Trade Bantu/Aryan Migration Religion Readings: Chapter 2 (Bentley) Chapter 3 (Bentley) Chapter 4 (Bentley) Chapter 5 (Bentley) Chapter 6 (Bentley) Major Assignments: Annotated Timeline/Companion Essay Vocabulary Building Exercises (Ancient Civilizations)Assessments: Quiz: Chapters 2-5 Foundation Exam, Part 1: Chapters 1-6 Weeks Four and Five Topics: Classical Societies/Empires Economic Specialization/Development of Long Distance Trade Belief Systems (Religions of Salvation) Readings: Chapter 7 (Bentley) Chapter 8 (Bentley) Chapter 9 (Bentley) Chapter 10 (Bentley) Chapter 11 (Bentley) Major Assignments: Annotated Map: Greek/Roman Mediterranean Comparative Graphic Organizer: Classical Societies/Empires Comparative Graphic Organizer: Belief Systems Assessments: Quiz Chapters 7-11 Timed Writing: Document Based Question: Buddhism Weeks Six and SevenTopics: Cross-Cultural Interactions/Migrations Long Distance Trade Spread/Diffusion of Religion Spread/Diffusion of Disease Collapse of the Classical Societies/Empires Readings : Chapter 12 (Bentley) 1. 1-1. 15 (Andrea/Overfield, Vol. I) 1. 46-1. 54 (Andrea/Overfield, Vol. I) 1. 18-142 (Andrea/Overfield, Vol. II) Major Assignments: ASPIRE Chart Annota ted Timeline (AP Themes) Assessments: Foundations Exam, Part II: Chapters 7-12 Unit II: 600 C. E. to 1450 Week 8 Topics: Byzantium: A Survivor Society Islam: Rise and Expansion Economy and Society: Urbanization, Hemispheric Trade Readings: Chapter 13 (Bentley)Chapter 14 (Bentley) Major Assignments: Map Activity: Dar al Islam Vocabulary Building Exercises: Byzantine and Islam Assessments: Quiz: Chapter 13-14 Week 9 Topics: Restoration of Imperial Rule in China Islamic and Hindu Kingdoms Economic Development and Trade Culture and Society Readings: Chapter 15 (Bentley) Chapter 16 (Bentley) Major Assignments: Continuity-Change Over Time Graphic Organizer: Chinese Dynasties Assessments: Quiz: Chapters 15-16 Timed Writing: DBQ-The Silk Roads Week 10 Topics: Political Stability Economy and Society The Papacy Regional States and Expansion The CrusadesReadings: Chapter 17 (Bentley) Chapter 20 (Bentley) Major Assignments: Comparative Graphic Organizer: European and Japanese Feudalism Mini-DBQ : The Crusades Assessments: Quiz: Chapter 17 and 20 Unit II Exam, Part I: Chapters 13-17 and 20 Week 11 Topics: Turkish Migrations and Expansion Mongol Expansion and Empire Building Readings: Chapter 18 (Bentley) Major Assignments: Annotated Timeline (AP Themes) Vocabulary Building Exercises: Asia/Middle East Map Building Exercise: Turkish/Mongol Assessments: Quiz: Chapter 18 Timed Writing: CCOT Essay: The Mongols Weeks 12 and 13 Topics: West African Kingdoms/EmpiresIslamic Kingdoms/Empires Long Distance Trade: Trans-Saharan Trade/Indian Ocean Trade Culture and Society Mesoamerican Empires Readings: Chapter 19 (Bentley) Chapter 21 (Bentley) Major Assignments: Persuasive Essay: Why/Why Not Build Long Distance Trade Routes? Introduction: Empire Building Assessments: Quiz: Chapter 19 and Chapter 21 Quiz: Vocabulary/Map Week 14 Topics: Cross-Cultural Interactions Long-Distance Trade Crisis and Recovery Exploration and Colonization Readings: Chapter 22 (Bentley) 1. 55-1. 113 (Andrea/Over field, Vol. I) Major Assignments: ASPIRE Chart Annotated Timeline (AP Themes)Assessments: Quiz: Chapter 22 Unit II Exam, Part II: Chapters 18-22 (Excluding Chapter 20) Unit III: 1450 to 1750 Week 15 Topics: Exploration: Navigation and Motivation Colonization: Europeans to the Americas/South Asia Exchange: Transoceanic Trade Readings: Chapter 23 (Bentley) Major Assignments: Map Activity Vocabulary Building Exercises Annotated Timeline/Corresponding Essay (AP Themes) Assessments: Quiz: Chapter 23 Quiz: Vocabulary/Map Skills (Renaissance Europe) Week 16 Topics: Reformation/Counter Reformation Revival of Empire Capitalism-Expansion of Trade-Labor SystemsReadings: Chapter 24 (Bentley) Major Assignments: Vocabulary Building Exercises (Reformation) Essay: Transformation of Europe Assessments: Quiz: Chapter 24 Timed Writing: DBQ-Christian and Muslim Attitudes Towards Trade Week 17 Topics: The Spanish in the Americas Colonial Society European Expansion into the Pacific Readings: Chapter 25 ( Bentley) Major Assignments: Annotated Timeline Colonization Map Assessments: Quiz: Chapter 25 Timed Writing: Comparative Essay on Labor Systems Week 18 Topics: Labor Systems in the New World-Triangular Trade African Diaspora (Demographic Impact) Abolition of SlaveryReadings: Chapter 26 (Bentley) Major Ass