Advanced Placement Information |
Turnitin.com Codes (Updated for Class of 2019!)
The 5 Course Themes
Interaction Between Humans and the Environment
Development and Interaction of Cultures
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This theme explores the origins, uses, dissemination, and syncretic adaptations of ideas, beliefs, and knowledge within particular societies and in circulation across societies. Studying a society's belief system(s) or religions, philosophical interests, and technical and artistic approaches is key to understanding how the society views itself and others and how it responds to multiple challenges, When people of different societies interact, they often share components of their cultures, deliberately or not. The processes of adopting or adapting new belief and knowledge systems are complex and often lead to historically novel cultural blends, A society's culture may be investigated and then compared with other societies' cultures as a way of examining uniqueness and commonalities of human expressions and abilities. It is also possible to analyze cultural trends and trace their influence across human societies.
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State-building, Expansion, and Conflict
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The theme of state-building, expansion, and conflict refers to the processes by which hierarchical systems of rule have been constructed and maintained and to the conflicts generated through such processes. In particular, this theme encourages the comparative study of different state forms (for example, kingdoms, empires, nation-states) across time and space and interactions between them. Continuity and change are also embedded in this theme through attention
to the organizational and cultural foundations of long-term stability on the one hand and to internal and external causes of conflict on the other. Students are encouraged to contextualize state development and expansion in relation to various productive strategies (for example, agrarian, pastoral, mercantile), to various cultural and ideological foundations (for example, religions, philosophies, ideas of nationalism), and to various social and gender structures. This theme also encompasses interstate relations, including warfare, diplomacy, and the formation of international organizations. |
Creation, Expansion, and Interaction of Economic Systems
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This theme surveys the diverse patterns and systems that human societies have developed to produce, distribute, and consume desired goods and services across time and space. It stresses major transitions in human economic activity such as the growth and spread of agricultural, pastoral, and industrial production; the development of various labor systems associated with these economic systems; and the ideologies, values, and institutions (such as capitalism and socialism) that sustain them. This theme also calls attention to patterns of trade and commerce between various societies, with particular attention to the relation between regional and global networks of communication and exchange and their relation to economic growth. These webs of interaction strongly influence cultural and technological diffusion, migration, state formation, social classes, and human interaction with the environment.
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Development and Transformation of Social Structures
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All human societies develop ways of grouping their
members and norms of interaction across social groups. Social stratification comprises distinctions based on gender roles, kinship systems, racial and ethnic associations, and hierarchies of wealth and class. The study of world history requires analysis of the processes through which such categories and practices were crated, maintained, and transformed. It also involves analysis of the connections between changes in social structures and other historical shifts, especially trends in political economy, cultural expression, and human ecology. |
Periodization
The College Board divides the course into 6 time periods.
The AP World Exam
The first 55 minutes are devoted to the Multiple choice section. You will have 55 minutes to answer 70 multiple choice questions. You will then take a break. Following the break, you will be given the Essay booklet. You will be given 2 hours and 10 minutes to write the essays. (Keep in mind: NO MORE THAN 20% of the EXAM WILL FOCUS SOLELY ON EUROPE).
Follow the Rules
1. Never underestimate the AP Test.
Expect the unexpected...It's gonna be early. For many of you (sadly), this will be the earliest you've been up all year. So, once you've completed the College Board's PRECIOUS paperwork, it will be you and the multiple choice section. Don’t just show up with a #2 pencil and expect everything to work out. It won’t.This is not some random test you're taking. You’ll have to be on your toes pretty early in the morning. The first section will be a wake up call. Don’t expect to just breeze through the multiple choice section. There will be multiple images, cartoons, readings, and quotes. You've been working on this stuff all year. Now is your chance to prove it. Remember, they can ask you anything that's ever happened ever.
2. Pace yourself...
70 Questions... 55 minutes. That's roughly 1.272727272727272727272727272727272 questions per minute. Clock Management will become your greatest asset. The multiple choice section is where you will run into time issues. (Very few people run out of time on the essay portion) You want to have at least a shot at all 70 questions. So, DO NOT GET STUCK ON A SINGLE QUESTION. If you find yourself lingering for more than a minute or two… skip it. You want to at least have a shot at each question. You don’t want to get bogged down on a question on Zoroastrianism for 20 minutes and end up not answering the last 10 questions. What if the last 10 questions were ones you knew? So, rule #2: Pace yourself.
3. Rank the Essays
After the break, you will be given the essay booklet. Inside this booklet are all three essays (the DBQ, the Compare-Contrast, and the Continuity and Change.) They’re gonna give you 10 minutes to read the DBQ documents and the other three questions. During this 10-minute span, you need to rank the three essays in order of your ability to answer them. Rule # 3: Rank the Essays. If the Compare/Contrast essay looks like its written in Klingon, save it for last. If the Continuity and Change Over Time is asking you about a place you’ve never heard of… save it for last. If the Worst Case scenario arises and you have never heard of anything these essays are talking about, then go with the DBQ. The DBQ is a measure of your historian abilities, not your historical knowledge. Once you’ve given the essays an order, get started. Most people finish the essay portion with plenty of time; so don’t worry.
Expect the unexpected...It's gonna be early. For many of you (sadly), this will be the earliest you've been up all year. So, once you've completed the College Board's PRECIOUS paperwork, it will be you and the multiple choice section. Don’t just show up with a #2 pencil and expect everything to work out. It won’t.This is not some random test you're taking. You’ll have to be on your toes pretty early in the morning. The first section will be a wake up call. Don’t expect to just breeze through the multiple choice section. There will be multiple images, cartoons, readings, and quotes. You've been working on this stuff all year. Now is your chance to prove it. Remember, they can ask you anything that's ever happened ever.
2. Pace yourself...
70 Questions... 55 minutes. That's roughly 1.272727272727272727272727272727272 questions per minute. Clock Management will become your greatest asset. The multiple choice section is where you will run into time issues. (Very few people run out of time on the essay portion) You want to have at least a shot at all 70 questions. So, DO NOT GET STUCK ON A SINGLE QUESTION. If you find yourself lingering for more than a minute or two… skip it. You want to at least have a shot at each question. You don’t want to get bogged down on a question on Zoroastrianism for 20 minutes and end up not answering the last 10 questions. What if the last 10 questions were ones you knew? So, rule #2: Pace yourself.
3. Rank the Essays
After the break, you will be given the essay booklet. Inside this booklet are all three essays (the DBQ, the Compare-Contrast, and the Continuity and Change.) They’re gonna give you 10 minutes to read the DBQ documents and the other three questions. During this 10-minute span, you need to rank the three essays in order of your ability to answer them. Rule # 3: Rank the Essays. If the Compare/Contrast essay looks like its written in Klingon, save it for last. If the Continuity and Change Over Time is asking you about a place you’ve never heard of… save it for last. If the Worst Case scenario arises and you have never heard of anything these essays are talking about, then go with the DBQ. The DBQ is a measure of your historian abilities, not your historical knowledge. Once you’ve given the essays an order, get started. Most people finish the essay portion with plenty of time; so don’t worry.
AP Reading
History through Film
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