Introduction to AP World History

Time PeriodsThemes Habits of MindStudying SmartTaking NotesReading your Text

Time periods

8,000 BCE – 600 CE: Foundations of Civilization

600 CE – 1450 CE: Expanding Zones of Exchange and Encounter

1450 CE – 1750 CE: Emergence of the First Global Age

1750 CE – 1914 CE: The Age of Revolutions and Empires

1914 CE – Present: A Technological Age

The Six Themes of AP World History1.Impact of interaction

among major societies (trade, systems of international exchange, war and diplomacy).

Buddha wearing a Roman toga? How did this happen???

The Six Themes of AP World History2. The relationship of change and

continuity across the world history periods covered in this course.

The Six Themes of AP World History

3. Impact of technology and demography on people and the environment (population growth and decline, disease, manufacturing, migrations, agriculture, weaponry).

The Six Themes of AP World History

4. Systems of social structure and gender structure (comparing major features within and among societies and assessing change).

The Six Themes of AP World History

5. Cultural and intellectual developments and interactions among and within societies

Pages from the Selected Teachings of Buddhist Sages and Son Masters (Pulcho Chikchi Simch’e Yoyol), the earliest extant book printed with movable metal type, dated 1377, Hungdok-sa Temple, Korea (Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris; Koreana 7, no. 2, 20-21).

The Six Themes of AP World History

6. Changes in functions and structures of states and attitudes toward states and political identities (political culture), including the emergence of the nation-state (types of political organization).

Habits of Mind Constructing and evaluating

arguments.

Habits of Mind Using documents and other primary

data“I am the punishment of God...If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.” - Gehghis Khan

Habits of MindAssessing issues of change and

continuity

Habits of Mind Handling diversity of interpretations

Habits of Mind Seeing global patterns in time and

space

Habits of Mind Comparing within and among societies

Habits of Mind Assessing claims of universal standards

Learning Styles Visual (spatial) You prefer using pictures, images, and

spatial understanding. Aural (auditory-musical) You prefer using sound and

music. Verbal (linguistic) You prefer using words, both in speech

and writing. Physical (kinesthetic) You prefer using your body, hands

and sense of touch. Logical (mathematical) You prefer using logic, reasoning

and systems. Social (interpersonal) You prefer to learn in groups or with

other people. Solitary (intrapersonal) You prefer to work alone and use

self-study.

Learning Strategies: Don’t study ALL THE TIME; Study SMART

#1 Your brain can hold seven items of information, plus or minus two items in working memory

Learning Strategies: Don’t study ALL THE TIME; Study SMART

#2 The addition of emotion can help you remember.

Can you make a story or a song out of what you are studying? You are more likely to remember it!

Learning Strategies: Don’t study ALL THE TIME; Study SMART

#3 The brain is SOCIAL and requires interaction to develop properly.› Don’t lock yourself in your dorm all night to

study!› Can you teach something to a friend and then

have them explain it to you? If you have to teach something, you really learn it!

Learning Strategies: Don’t study ALL THE TIME; Study SMART

#4 Practice/Rehearsal is critical to learning for the long-term.

Sooooo….you want to take the WHAP test May 2011? Don’t cram for your tests the night before you take them. Learn for the long-term.

Can you tell stories? Can you draw maps?

Learning Strategies: Don’t study ALL THE TIME; Study SMART

#5 We take in more information visually than through any other sense

Use charts, graphs, and write stuff down and look at it.

You can ask a friend for notes, but you will learn more effectively if you take your own notes.

How to read your textbook Survey the chapter:

› Look at the titles, heading, subheadings› What are you reading for?› What questions have you been asked on

your study guide?

How to read your textbook Question:

› Ask yourself, “What do I already know about this subject?”

› Read questions at the end of the chapter and make sure that you can answer them.

How to read your textbook Read:

› Look for answers› Read captions under pictures and graphs

and charts and data› Reduce your speed for difficult passages› Look up words that you don’t know

**BUILD YOUR SAT VOCABULARY!!!***› Only read one section at a time and make

sure you understand what you are reading

How to read your textbook Recite

› Orally ask yourself questions about what you have read

› Take notes from the book in your own words

› Write down p. #s on your study guide so you can go back to the information later

› Triple Strength Learning: See, Say, Hear› Quadruple Strength Learning: See, Say,

Hear, WRITE!

How to read your textbook Review

› If you don’t understand something, make a question so you can ask your teacher in class.

› Can you answer the question on the study guide without looking at the answer you have written?

› Use connecting maps (especially with people or events in history)

Why should you take notes?

To minimize your “rate of forgetting”Dr. Walter Pauk, Cornell University

Don’t take notes = Forget 60% in 14 daysTake some notes = Remember 60%Take organized notes and do something

with them = Remember 90-100% indefinitely!

“Remember, the questioner is the learner.”Dr. Walter Pauk – Director, Reading and Study Center – Cornell

University

The Forgetting Curve

Counseling Services, Study Skills Program – University of Waterloo

What Does the Research Show?

Verbatim note-taking is, perhaps, the least effective way to take notes.

Notes should be considered a work in progress.

Notes should be used as study guides for tests.

The more notes that are taken, the better.

Marzano, et al. Classroom Instruction that Works. 2001.

What Does the Research Show?

Students must analyze information at a deep level in order to decide what information to delete, what to substitute, and what to keep when they are asked to give a summary.

(Anderson, V., & Hidi, 1988/1989; Hidi & Anderson, 1987)

What Does the Research Show?

Reading comprehension increases when students learn how to incorporate “summary frames” as a tool for summarizing.

(Meyer & Freedle, 1984)

Summary frames are a series of questions created by the teacher and designed to highlight critical passages of text. When students use this strategy, they are better able to understand what they are reading, identify key information, and provide a summary that helps them retain the information.(Armbruster, Anderson, & Ostertag, 1987)

What Does the Research Show?

When students review and revise their own notes, the notes become more meaningful and useful.(Anderson & Armbruster, 1986; Denner 1986; Einstein, Morris & Smith, 1985)