The change in content for the new 2016-2017 course redesign is not really that significant, but as you can see in the chart below, the assessment is a different story. I have written elsewhere about the importance of teaching and…
Get your Historical Thinking Skills on
DRAFT POST . . . Years ago when the AP World History course was brand new I could get by with lecturing the content and assigning a few textbook readings each week. Outside of practicing essays, I never mentioned or…
In the Beginning: Dealing with Period 1
In AP World History, not all Time Periods are created equal. Like the Third Estate in revolutionary France, Period 1 is immense but accounts for so little. Spanning 8000 BCE to 600 BCE, this era gets several chapters and 100+ pages…