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
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PREREQUISITE(S): A serious commitment to the course
TEXTBOOK(S): Stearns, Adas, Schwartz, Gilbert: World Civilizations, McDougall-Littell 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).
WEEK / THEME/CHAPTER(S)/ADDITIONAL MATERIALS / ACTIVITIES/ASSESSMENTS
1 – 4
Jan 3 – Jan 27 /
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
Chapter Tests
Weekly Grammar Paragraphs
Unit Exam
Snapshots
Literary Analysis Essays:
- Indian Givers extract essay
- Don Quixote characterization
- Interaction with the West
American and Muslim Slaveries
5-9
Jan 30 – March 3 /
Unit Five: 1750 – 1914 (Revolution and Imperialism)
History Readings Stearns: 23 – 27Literary Readings
- Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
- NY Times Article: “Ugly Images of Asian Rivals Become Best Sellers in Japan”
Chapter Tests
Weekly Grammar Paragraphs
Unit Exam
Snapshots
Literary Analysis Essay
- Things Fall Apart: Characterization
- Revolutions
- Imperialism
Japan from 1500 to 1900
10 -16
March 6- April 21 /
Unit Six: 1914 – present (The Modern World)
History Readings : Stearns: 28 – 36Literary Readings
- Night by Elie Wiesel
- Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya available in the bookroom)
Chapter Tests
Weekly Grammar Paragraphs
Unit Exam
Snapshots
Literary Analysis Essays
- Night:Imagery, Language
- Nectar in a Sieve:Theme
- China between 1000 and 2000 C.E.
- Women in World History
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. /
Assessments
Presentation, Research Paper, Final ExamCRITERIA 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.
AP World History/Enriched English 10 Note: Essay dates subject to change!
Readings/Tests/Assignments – Spring Semester 2005
AP Text: World CivilizationsEnglish Texts:
Section IV 1450 – 1750 The World Shrinks
Jan 3 - 6 / Chapter 16, 17 review / Indian Givers excerpt : extract essayJan 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 21-221450 – 1750 exam Jan 27, 30
Section V 1750 – 1914 Industrialization and Western Hegemony
Jan 30 –Feb3 / Chapter 23 Compare/Contrast / Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeFeb 6 - 10 / Chapter 24 test COT /
Things Fall Apart
Feb 13 – 16 / Chapter 25 test, / Things Fall ApartFeb 21 – 24 / Chapter 26 – 27 DBQ /
Essay: characterization
Feb 27 – March 3 / Review1750 – 1450 exam March 3,6 / Reading: NY Times Article
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 byElie Wiesel
March 27 (spring break) / Chapters 31 -32 /Essay: imagery, language, tone
April 3 - 7 / Chapter 33 DBQ / Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala MarkandayaApril 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 3After the exam
May 8 – 12 / Research / Author studyMay 15 – 19 / Research /
Final Exam Presentations
May 22 or 23 /English Final Exam
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