AP World History First Semester
The two great challenges of AP World are figuring out an efficient way of digesting the material you’ll be given, and of quickly organizing and writing a compelling historical essay under time pressure. This course aims to provide students with effective ways of meeting the particular requirements of AP history classes to avoid the usual first quarter shock of lower-than-expected essay grades, while at the same time teaching the students ways to organize the mass of material efficiently to cut down on panic around finals, and allow easier access of information in the essays, exams, and debates that follow so quickly upon one another in the course. Students will be encouraged to submit rough drafts of their papers for detailed comments so that they better learn how to write history essays and will work on developing the critical thinking skills needed to identify and analyze problematic historical documents.
