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About Me essay. Watch videos: Welcome to AP World History online.
![](/~history4/www.historyhaven.com/Videos/Unboxing.png) ![](/~history4/Videos/Unboxing.png) Unboxing AP World History.
Complete Unboxing Scavenger Hunt (Google Form).
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- Familiarize students with Course
- Understand scope of course timeline
- Understand relationship between learn objectives, historical developments, and illustrative examples
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Watch video Arguing in AP World History
Submit argument in ItsLearning (Analyze the social effects of metals on early farming communities.) Read pages on Paleolithic to Neolithic societies. |
- Understand historical claims
- Understand how evidence supports claims
- Make and support a historical claim
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Reading on Agricultural Revolution to Civilizations (See ItsLearning). Download the Flipgrid app and respond to teacher's video with an argument. |
- Understand Neolithic Revolution
- Make a historical claim and support it with evidence.
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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.
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- Understand basic features of first civilizations
- Make an argument on archeological evidence.
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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.
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- 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
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Analyze documents on decline of Classical Civilizations and perform tasks (use google form). |
- 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
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Read text on Cultural Traditions. Watch Crash Course videos on Buddhism and Islam through Edpuzzle (answer questions). Watch video on Belief Systems in Civilizations.
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- Understand basic features of major belief systems
- Understand the role belief systems played in civilizations before 1200
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Contextualize Document from South Asia on Flipgrid. |
- Successfully contextualize a primary source
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Summative Assessment on Unit Zero |
- Successfully complete multiple choice questions on content/textbook reading
- Successfully make an argument (claim and evidence)
- Successfully demonstrate use of skills: identify, explain, contextualization
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