AP EUROPEAN HISTORY



AP WORLD HISTORY

1ST SEMESTER SYLLABUS

2015-16

PERIODS 1&2—ANCIENT AND CLASSICAL

Aug. 22-Sept.  26    

PERIOD 3A—POST-CLASSICAL

Sept. 27-Nov. 14        

PERIOD 4—EARLY MODERN

Nov. 14 – 2nd Semester     

It is impossible to lecture on the history of the entire world

in a school year, therefore, reading assigned chapters

is essential to success in class as well as on the AP exam!

Semester Test (Periods 1-part of 4) Dec. 15/16

Bold black=topic of the day

Regular black=activity of the day

Red=items due

Ethel Wood pages listed in parentheses

with each textbook chapter assigned

AUGUST

|22 |23 |24 |25 |26 |

|Class Intro |Skills |Quiz and Skills- |Skills- |Test: |

|Discuss Course, Information, & |How to read a textbook |World Regions Quiz |How to examine a document |6 Glasses Test |

|Parent Letter | |How write a thesis |using HIPPO and POV | |

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|HW: Study for regions quiz and 6 |HW:********* |HW: Neolithic Revolution - Wood|************* |HW:  Neolithic Revolution – Wood|

|Glasses Test | |Study for 6 Glasses test | | |

|29 |30 |31 | | |

|Neolithic Revolution & Skills |River Valley Notes |River Valley Notes | | |

|Cause and Effect | |Hammurabi Code and 10 | | |

|Agriculture a good thing? | |Commandments Due | | |

|Ethel Wood reading due | | | | |

|HW: Hammurabi Code and 10 |************* |HW: Persia – Woods |************* |************* |

|Commandments | | | | |

 

SEPTEMBER

| | | |1 |2 |

| | | |Skills- |Reading Quiz & Document |

| | | |Short Answers |Analysis |

| | | | |Mesopotamia and Egypt |

| | | |************** |HW: Ch 8. or on line lecture |

| | | | |Doc. Confucius and Daoism |

|5 Labor Day |6 Reading Quiz & Launch Project |7 Project: |8 Project: |9 Reading Quiz & Project: |

| | |Research Empire |Research Empire |1st check point (Research to be|

| | | | |completed) |

|***************** |HW: Mauryan/Gupta Wood or online|************* |************* |HW: Greece – Woods or online |

| |lecture | | |lecture |

| | | | |Herodotus The Histories |

|12 |13 |14 |15 |16 |

|Project: |Project: |Reading Quiz & Project |Project: |Project : |

|Research Issues U.S is facing |2nd Check Point |Gallerywalk |Come up with plan for U.S |Come up with plan for U.S |

| |Research Issues U.S is facing | | | |

| |HW: *********** |HW:  Ch. 11 or online lecture |************* |************* |

| | |and Plato the Republic | | |

|HW: *************** | | | | |

|19 |20 |21 |22 |23 |

|Reading Quiz & Project: |Project: |Reading Quiz & Project: |Present Project |Present Project & Religion |

|Critical Friends |Final Check Point |Final day of project | |Chart Due |

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|HW: Ch. 12 |**************** |HW: Religion Chart |************* |HW: Study for Test |

|26 |27 |28. |29. |30. |

|*Periods |Skills: |Essay: Compare and Contrast |Go over Test |Reading Quiz & Skills: |

|1 & 2 |Essay’s and Synthesis | | |CCOT |

|Test* | | | |Herodotus The Arabs |

|(M-C) | | | | |

|HW: Ch. 14 |************* |************** |*************** |HW: Islam in India – Woods |

| | | | |Secondary Sources |

 

OCTOBER

|3. Skills: |4. |5 |6 |7 |

|Continue practicing CCOT |Short Answer Day |Reading Quiz & |Spread of Islam— |Reading Quiz & Document: |

|Watch Islam, The Quran and the| |Compare and Contrast: |India and N. Africa |Ibn Battuta in N. Africa |

|5 Pillars | |Umayyad vs. Abbasid | | |

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|HW: ********** | | | | |

| |************* |HW: Islam in N. Africa - Woods |HW: ************* |HW: Ch. 13 |

|10 |11 |12 |13 |14 |

|Columbus Day |Notes: |Reading Quiz & Notes: |Skills: |Reading Quiz & Skills: |

| |Tang/Song |Tang/Song |Turning Point |Comparing Tang/Song |

| | | | |Dynasties |

|************* |***************** |HW: Feudal Japan – Woods |************* |HW: Ch. 16 |

| | |Doc: Filial Piety | | |

|17 |18 |19 |20 |21 |

|Notes: |Turning Point: |Reading Quiz & Medieval Europe |Code of Justinian Due Skills: |CCOT Essay |

|Feudal Japan |Fall of Rome and Rise of |Watch The Dark Ages...How Dark Were |CCOT | |

| |Feudal Europe |They Really? | | |

| | |Compare Feudal Japan and Europe | | |

|***************** |******************* |HW: Code of Justinian | | |

|24 |25 |26 |27 |28 |

|Notes: Byzantine Empire |Notes: |Cause and Effect: |The Crusades— |Essay Due |

| |Byzantine Notes |The Crusades |Watch The Crusades - |Black Death— |

| | |The Crusades - Pilgrimage or Holy War |Pilgrimage or Holy War? and |Watch Mankind Story of all |

| | | |discuss Crusades documents |of us: Plague |

| | | | |End of 6 weeks |

| |HW: Compare Western and E. |HW: Cause and Effect Essay on the | |HW: Ch. 17 |

| |Europe |Crusades | | |

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|Mongols | | | | |

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NOVEMBER 

| |1 |2 |3 |4 |

| |Skills: |Reading Quiz & |Skills: |Reading Quiz & DBQ Essay |

| |Turning Point |Mongol Khan Ultimatum to the |Mongol DBQ | |

| |Impact of Mongols |Nations of Europe | | |

|HW: ************* | ************* | Aztec and Incas - Wood | ************* |DBQ Essay |

|7 |8 |9 |10 |11 |

|DBQ Essay Due |Skills: |Skills CCOT, C&C: |Review: |No School |

| |Compare Aztec and Incas |International Trade |Note Cards |Veterans Day |

| | | |HW: Study for Test | |

|14 |15 |16 |17 |18 |

|CBA: |Rise of the Portuguese Questions|Reading Quiz & Skills |Portuguese Questions Due & |Turning Point Essay: Columbian|

|Period 3 | |CCOT: |Skills: |Exchange |

| | |European Trade |Turning Point | |

| | | |Columbian Exchange | |

| | | |Watch Mankind Story of all us: | |

| | | |Columbian Exchange | |

|Ch. 22 |****************** |Rise of Portuguese Questions |HW: Potato Revolution | |

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|TH |ANKS |GIV |ING |BREAK! |

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|NO HOMEWORK |NO HOMEWORK! | | | |

|28 Activity: |29 Notes: |30 | | |

|Sugar Trade |Protestant Reformation and |Reading Quiz | | |

| |Catholic Reformation |Notes: | | |

| | |Protestant Reformation and | | |

| | |Catholic Reformation | | |

|HW: CH. 23 |************* |HW Ch. 24 | | |

DECEMBER

 

|1 |2 |3 |1 |2 |

|Period 4 Overview— |****SSFE DUE**** |Exploration—Watch Columbus, de |Skills: |Reading Quiz |

|Discuss Period 4 PP | |Gama and Zheng He! 15th Century|Turning Point in Europe |Notes: |

| |World Economy— |Mariners | |Conquest of the America’s |

| |16 IOC | | | |

| | |Trade Routes— | | |

| | |Label trade route maps | | |

|************* |HW: Read Ch 17 (259-275) |************* |************* | |

|5 |6 |7 |8 |9 |

|Latin America Society: |Latin America Economy Notes |Notes: British Colonies |Skills: |DBQ Essay |

|Examine Casta Paintings | | |Compare British and Latin |Silver Trade |

| | | |American Colonies | |

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|12 |13 |14 |15 |16 |

|STUDY FOR MIDTERMS |STUDY FOR MIDTERMS |**SEMESTER TEST |**SEMESTER TEST |**SEMESTER TEST** |

| | |HALF DAY |HALF DAY |HALF DAY |

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