AP WORLD HISTORY

1ST SEMESTER SYLLABUS

2015-16
PERIODS 1&2ANCIENT AND CLASSICAL
Aug. 22-Sept. 26
Chapters 1-5
Benchmark I TestSept. 26
PERIOD 3APOST-CLASSICAL
Sept. 27-Nov. 14
Chapters 6-10
Benchmark II TestNov. 14
PERIOD 4EARLY MODERN
Nov. 14-2nd Semester
Chapters 16-22
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

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AUGUST
22
Class Intro
Discuss Course,
Information, &
Parent Letter

23
Skills
How to read a
textbook

HW: Study for

regions quiz and 6
Glasses Test

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HW: Hammurabi
Code and 10
Commandments

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24
Quiz and SkillsWorld Regions Quiz
How write a thesis

HW: Neolithic
Revolution - Wood
Study for 6 Glasses
test
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30
31
Neolithic
River Valley Notes River Valley Notes
Revolution & Skills Mesopotamia & Egypt Indus R.V & China
Ethel Wood
Hammurabi Code
Reading due
and 10
Cause and Effect
Commandments
Agriculture a good
Due
thing?

25
SkillsHow to examine a
document using
HIPPO and POV

26
Test:
6 Glasses Test

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HW: Neolithic
Revolution Wood

HW: Persia Woods *************

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SEPTEMBER
2
Reading Quiz &
Document Analysis
Mesopotamia and
Egypt

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HW: Ch 8. or on line
lecture
Doc. Confucius and
Daoism

5 Labor Day

6 Reading Quiz &

Launch Project

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HW: Mauryan/Gupta *************

Wood or online lecture

12
Project:
Research Issues
U.S is facing

13
Project:
2nd Check Point
Research Issues U.S
is facing

14
Reading Quiz &
Project
Gallerywalk

HW: ***********

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

lecture and Plato the
Republic
21
22
Reading Quiz &
Present Project
Project:
Final day of project

HW: ***************

7 Project:
Research Empire

1
SkillsShort Answers

8 Project:
Research Empire

9 Reading Quiz &

Project:
1st check point
(Research to be
completed)
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HW: Greece Woods
or online lecture
Herodotus The
Histories
15
16
Project:
Project :
Come up with plan for Come up with plan for
U.S
U.S

19
Reading Quiz &
Project:
Critical Friends

20
Project:
Final Check Point

HW: Ch. 12

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26
*Periods
1&2
Test*
(M-C)
HW: Ch. 14

27
28.
Skills:
Essay: Compare
Essays and Synthesis and Contrast

29.
Go over Test

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HW: Religion Chart

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23
Present Project &
Religion Chart Due
(Last day of 6
weeks)
HW: Study for Test
30.
Reading Quiz &
Skills:
CCOT
Herodotus The Arabs
HW: Islam in N. Africa
& India Woods
Secondary Sources

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5
6
Reading Quiz &
Spread of Islam
Compare and Contrast: India and N. Africa
Umayyad vs. Abbasid

10
Columbus Day

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11
Notes:
Tang/Song

HW: Short Answers

12
Reading Quiz & Notes:
Tang/Song

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17
Notes:
Feudal Japan

18
Turning Point:
Fall of Rome and
Rise of Feudal
Europe

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24
Notes:
Byzantine Empire

25
Notes:
Byzantine Empire

HW: Feudal Japan

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Woods
Doc: Filial Piety
19
20
Reading Quiz & Medieval Skills:
Europe
CCOT
Watch The Dark Ages...How
Dark Were They Really?
Compare Feudal Japan and
Europe
HW: Code of Justinian
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w/short answers
26
27
Cause and Effect:
Short Answers on
The Crusades
Period 3
The Crusades - Pilgrimage
or Holy War

HW: Compare
Western and E.
Europe

HW: *************
13
Skills:
Turning Point

HW: Cause and Effect Essay

on the Crusades

7
Short Answers
Due &
Document:
Ibn Battuta in N.
Africa
Half Day of
School
HW: Ch. 13
14
Reading Quiz &
Skills:
Comparing
Tang/Song
Dynasties
HW: Ch. 16

21
CCOT Essay &
Code of Justinian
w/short answers
due

28
Essay Due
Black Death
Watch Mankind
Story of all of us:
Plague
End of 6 weeks
HW: Ch. 17

31
Notes:
Mongols
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NOVEMBER
1
Skills:
Turning Point
Impact of Mongols

2
Reading Quiz &

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7
DBQ Essay Due

8
Skills:
Compare Aztec and
Incas

Aztec and Incas Wood

9
Skills CCOT,
C&C:
International Trade

Mongol Khan
Ultimatum to the
Nations of Europe

3
Skills:
Mongol DBQ

4
Reading Quiz &
DBQ Essay

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DBQ Essay

10
Review:
Note Cards

11
No School
Veterans Day

HW: Study for Test

14
CBA:
Period 3

15
Skills
CCOT:
European Trade

16
Reading Quiz &
Go over Period 3
Test

17
Short Answers
Due & Skills:
Turning Point
Columbian
Exchange
Watch Mankind
Story of all us:
Columbian
Exchange

Ch. 22

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HW: Short
Answers

HW: Potato
Revolution

21

22

23

24

TH

ANKS

NO HOMEWORK
28 Activity:

NO HOMEWORK!
29 Notes:

Sugar Trade

Protestant
Reformation and
Catholic
Reformation

HW: CH. 23

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GIV

18
Turning Point
Essay:
Columbian
Exchange

25

ING

BREAK!

30

Reading Quiz
Notes:
Protestant
Reformation and
Catholic
Reformation
HW Ch. 24

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DECEMBER
1
Skills:
Turning Point in
Europe

5
Latin America
Society:
Examine Casta
Paintings

6
Latin America
Economy Notes

7
Notes: British
Colonies

12
STUDY FOR
MIDTERMS

13
STUDY FOR
MIDTERMS

14

**Semester

Test
HALF DAY

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2
Reading Quiz
Notes:
Conquest of the
Americas

8
9
Skills:
DBQ Essay
Compare British and Silver Trade
Latin American
Colonies
HW: Study for
Midterms
15
16

**SEMESTER
TEST
HALF DAY

**SEMESTER
TEST**
HALF DAY

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