AP World History Course Description
The College Board lists this description as, "AP World History is designed to be the equivalent of a two-semester introductory college or university world history course. In AP World History students investigate significant events, individuals, developments, and processes in six historical periods from approximately 8000 B.C.E. to the present. Students develop and use the same skills, practices, and methods employed by historians: analyzing primary and secondary sources; making historical comparisons; utilizing reasoning about contextualization, causation, and continuity and change over time; and developing historical arguments. The course provides five themes that students explore throughout the course in order to make connections among historical developments in different times and places: interaction between humans and the environment; development and interaction of cultures; state building, expansion, and conflict; creation, expansion, and interaction of economic systems; and development and transformation of social structures." In short, the goal of this course is to compare the interaction of societies and how they developed to create our present day society.
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AP Exam- May 17th, 2018
This exam has two sections:
Section 1:
Part A: 55 minute time limit with 55 multiple choice questions.
Part B: 40 minute time limit for 3 short answer question.
Section 2:
Part C: 60 minute time limit for a DBQ, a document based question.
Part D: 40 minute time limit for a LEQ, a long essay question.
Part A (40% of grade) + Part B (20%) + Part C (25%) + Part D (15%) = Weight given to each part in sections 1 and 2
Section 1:
Part A: 55 minute time limit with 55 multiple choice questions.
Part B: 40 minute time limit for 3 short answer question.
Section 2:
Part C: 60 minute time limit for a DBQ, a document based question.
Part D: 40 minute time limit for a LEQ, a long essay question.
Part A (40% of grade) + Part B (20%) + Part C (25%) + Part D (15%) = Weight given to each part in sections 1 and 2
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Key Concepts
Wow 19 Key Concepts!
I bet that's a lot more than you were expecting. Don't worry though there's only 3 or 4 for a Period. Except for the fact that you have to apply it to every theme in AP World History too. |
Periods
Only 6 periods? That sounds pretty easy right? Well that's until you learn that each period has upwards of 8 chapters in them and each chapter has its own set of notes that lead into other notes. What did we get ourselves into!?
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Themes
So there are only 5 themes in AP World History. That's pretty easy. This must be our break right? Wrong. With the themes you have to apply them to every single thing you learn, Good Luck, you'll need it.
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What do these mean?
Causation- The relationship between cause and effect, and how it shaped people's actions throughout history.
Periodization- The separation of world history into 6 time periods.
Comparison- Comparing two or more historical facts or events and how they were established and how they relate to other parts of history.
Continuity and Change over time- An evaluation of the evolution and progress of things between periods.
Argumentation- Arguing for a certain point in regards to history and its development.
Causation- The relationship between cause and effect, and how it shaped people's actions throughout history.
Periodization- The separation of world history into 6 time periods.
Comparison- Comparing two or more historical facts or events and how they were established and how they relate to other parts of history.
Continuity and Change over time- An evaluation of the evolution and progress of things between periods.
Argumentation- Arguing for a certain point in regards to history and its development.