• World History
    • Introduction to AP World History >
      • Course Description
      • Requirements
      • Chronological Framework
  • Historical Content
    • Prehistory
    • 1st Wave Civilizations >
      • Ancient Near East
      • Ancient South Asia
      • Ancient East Asia
      • Americas & Africa
    • Classical Age >
      • Classical India and China
      • Classical Greece
      • Classical Rome >
        • Greco-Roman Assessment Activity
      • Midterm Exam
    • Post Classical Age >
      • Mediterranean Basin
      • Indian Ocean Basin
      • East Asia: Chinese Hegemony
      • 1200-1450: Reorganization of the Post Classsical Age
    • Global Interactions
    • FINAL REVIEW
  • Calendars
    • Intro to APWH Calendar
  • Research Sites and Skill Development
    • Test Review Questions
    • Research Sites
    • Literacy Skills
    • ECONOMICS
    • Historical Research and Writing
  • Message Board
HISTORY APPRECIATION
Contact Mrs Carroll
 bcarroll@socsd.org
Course Texts and Other Readings

Principal Student Textbook:
Bentley, Jerry. Traditions and Encounters: Essentials. 3rd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill,
2006.
 
Other Supplemental Textbook and Secondary Readings:
Spodek, Howard. The World’s History. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001.
Stearns, Peter. World  Civilizations. 3rded.  New York:  Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers,  2001.

Wood, Ethel. AP  World History:  Essential  Coursebook.  Reading,  Pennsylvania:  WoodYard
Publications, 2008.

 
Primary Source Readers (list not all-inclusive):
Jewsbury, George F. Selections From Longman World History. I.  New York:  Addison Wesley Longman, Inc., 2003.

Reilly, Kevin. Readings  in World Civilizations. I 3rd ed. New York:   St. Martin’s Press, 1995.

Rogers, Perry M. Aspects of Western Civilization II. 4th   ed.  Upper Saddle River, NJ:  Prentice Hall, 2000.

 Rogers, Perry M. Aspects of Western Civilization II. 4th   ed.  Upper Saddle River, NJ:  Prentice Hall, 2000.
Grading Policy
Tests                                                                                     30%
Writing  Assignments                                                       30%
Reading  Assignments and Class Participation           40%

Students must make-up all exams as soon as possible after an excused absence. 
Therefore, it is the student’s responsibility to contact the teacher during
office hours immediately upon returning to school to arrange a make-up exam. 
Failure to follow this policy will result in a failing test grade.

All assignments should be completed  individually, unless otherwise specified.  Any type of cheating, including plagiarism, is obviously unacceptable and will result in consequences according to school policy.  Refer to the Student Handbook for further details regarding this policy.

Final course grade is calculated as follows: 
Quarter 1                                         21%
Quarter 2                                         21%(midterm  exam accounts for 20% of 2nd quartergrade)
Quarter 3                                         21%
Quarter 4                                         21%
Regents Exam                                 16%