Warm-Up: Tuesday, 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!

AP World History

Introduction

Course & Exam Description

Welcome to McWHAP!

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 ExamMultiple-Choice

70 questions

55 minutes

Document-based Question

1 essay question

50 minutes (includes a 10-minute reading period)

Chang-Over-Time Essay (CCOT)

1 essay question

40 minutes

Comparative Essay

1 essay question

40 minutes

Four Historical Thinking Skills1. Crafting Historical Arguments from Historical

Evidence

• Defining and framing a question about the past to address that questions through the construction of an argument

• Clear, comprehensive, and analytical thesis supported by relevant evidence

Four Historical Thinking Skills2. Chronological Reasoning

• Historical Causation – the ability to identify, analyze, and evaluate the relationships between multiple historical causes and effects

• Patterns of change and continuity over time

• Periodization – how historians categorize events into discrete blocks and to identify turning points

Four Historical Thinking Skills3. Comparison & Contextualization

• Comparison: describe, compare, and evaluate multiple historical developments within one society or across/between different societies, various chronological contexts, or geographical contexts

• 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 Skills4. Historical Interpretation & Synthesis

• Interpretation: analyze evidence, reasoning, contexts, POVs, & frames of reference across primary and secondary sources

• Synthesis: the ability to arrive at meaningful & persuasive understandings of the past by applying all of the other historical thinking skills

Course Themes1. 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 WHAPMap 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), place/region, description, &

significance

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 sub-sections 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 3

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.