Syllabus


 * __Course Syllabus for Advanced Placement World History__**


 * Teacher**: Mr. Jamie Green
 * E-Mail**: jgreen@malden.mec.edu
 * Course Website**: |http://mrgreenapworld.wikispaces.com/

Our AP course in World History invites students to study history through a global lens, placing particular emphasis on point of view. Students will examine both primary historical evidence and secondary sources from multiple perspectives to understand history and draw their own conclusions. Particular attention will be given to analyzing change and continuity over time, comparisons among major societies and people, the institutions and values of societies, and the way such institutions and values are affected as a result of interaction among people as well as the critical analysis of primary documents in preparation for the AP test. In assigned reading, assignments, activities, and student run class discussions, there will be an emphasis on critical thinking and writing.
 * __Course Description__**

The course utilizes the five overarching world history themes throughout the course as unifying threads to aid students to place specific information about a society or period into a larger global framework. The themes include:
 * __Themes__**

· Demography and disease · Migration · Patterns of settlement · Technology · Religions · Belief systems, philosophies, and ideologies · Science and technology · The arts and architecture · State-building, expansion, and conflict · Empires · Nations and nationalism · Revolts and revolutions · Regional, transregional, and global structures and organizations · Agricultural and pastoral production · Trade and commerce · Labor systems · Industrialization · Capitalism and socialism · Gender roles and relations · Family and Kinship · Racial and ethnic constructions · Social and economic classes
 * Interaction between humans and the environment**
 * Development and interaction of cultures**
 * Political structures and forms of governance**
 * Creation, expansion, and interaction of economic systems**
 * Development and transformation of social structures**


 * __Texts:__**
 * **Stearns et al, World Civilizations**: A Global Experience AP 5th Edition. Pearson Education, Inc. 2007. Student resources for textbook available on line through //MyHistoryLab// site.
 * **//A History of the World in Six Glasses//** by Tom Standage.
 * Excerpts of **//Guns, Germs, and Steel//**: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond.
 * Reilly, Kevin. **Worlds of History**. Volumes One and Two. 3rd Edition. Primary source reader

We will be conducting the majority of this course using laptops. These will be provided by MHS. In addition you will be required to bring the following
 * __Course Materials__**
 * 3 Ring Binder
 * At least 2 different colored pens
 * Highlighter

Grades are assigned with the traditional grade scales as commonly accepted.
 * __Grading Policy__**

90-100 = A 80-89 = B 70-79 = C 60-69 = D 0-59 = F

Your grades will be established on the following basis. Major tests and Projects 35% Quizzes and Minor Projects 15% Homework 25% Class work (discussion etc) 25%