About Me essay. Watch videos: Welcome to AP World History online.

 Unboxing AP World History. 

Complete Unboxing Scavenger Hunt (Google Form).

• Familiarize students with Course
• Understand scope of course timeline
• Understand relationship between learn objectives, historical developments, and illustrative examples 

• Understand historical claims 
• Understand how evidence supports claims
• Make and support a historical claim

• Understand Neolithic Revolution
• Make a historical claim and support it with evidence.

Read text on the rise of civilizations. Watch video on Making Arguments about River Valley Civilization.
Analyze evidence and make argument about the fall of the Indus River Valley Civilization. 

• Understand basic features of first civilizations
• Make an argument on archeological evidence.

Watch video on Classical State-Building. 
Make note of these required terms:
-Primary Sources
-Secondary Sources
-Marriage Alliances
-Tribute
-Identify
-Explain
-Contextualization

Continue to analyze documents from video. 

• Understand Primary Sources, Secondary Sources
• Explain how the following served as methods of state-building: Marriage Alliances, Tribute
• Understand the terms Identify and Explain
• Have a basic understanding of the skill of contextualization
• Analyze primary and secondary sources to make an argument about state-building

• Understand reasons for the decline of states in the Classical Age
• Analyze primary and secondary sources and make an argument about the decline of states 

• Understand basic features of major belief systems
• Understand the role belief systems played in civilizations before 1200

• Successfully contextualize a primary source

• Successfully complete multiple choice questions on content/textbook reading
• Successfully make an argument (claim and evidence)
• Successfully demonstrate use of skills: identify, explain, contextualization