->WHAP Syllabus

->WHAP Academic Contract
Your first assignment is to have the WHAP Academic Contract signed and returned by Friday, August 26.
Required World History AP Text:
World Civilizations: The Global Experience. 6th Edition by Peter Stearns

Required Materials

1. One 3¨ three-ring binder
2. Eight binder page separators.
3. One five-subject spiral notebook to use for class notes.
4. Three or four packages of 3x5¨ note cards for making flashcards (leave home)
   --You may need more of these over the course of the school year.
5. A valid e-mail address that will remain valid over the course of the school year.

Content Mastery Map
By the end of the course students will demonstrate mastery of the following information:

1. Correctly locate each of the basic features of world geography: continents, oceans, major rivers
2. Correctly locate the key political units prior to 600BCE, from 600BCE to 600CE, from 600CE to 1450CE, from 1450CE to 1750CE, from 1750CE to 1914CE, and from 1914CE to the present
3. Define basic economic terms
4. Identify and describe key cultural and social systems across each time period covered
5. Locate and describe the principal international connections that developed across each of the time periods covered
6. Discuss the issue of periodization in history with a direct focus on world history
7. Describe and explain the key demographic and environmental changes that have taken place in each of the time periods covered
8. Describe and explain political revolutions and independence movements, and new political ideas from various parts of the globe
9. Discuss various theories about the rise of Western dominance in the period from 1750-1914 and explain how Western dominance has impacted other societies around the world
10. Discuss the rise of nationalism around the world, along with ways that nationalism has changed in major nations
11. Explain new forces of revolution and other sources of political innovations in the modern world
12. Discuss the impact of major global economic developments

WHAP REGIONAL MAP ERA 1
->Era 1 Content Map
->Chapter 1
ERA 2
->Era 2 Content Map
->Chapter 2 China
->Chapter 3 India
->Chapter 4 Mediterrean Empires
->Chapter 5 Diversity and Decline

ERA 3
->Era 3 Content Map
->Chapters 6, 7, and 8 Spread of Islam
->Chapter 9 The Byzantine Empire
->Chapter 10 Post-Schism Europe

SPICE Project
Period 1
--Chapter 11
--Chapter 12
--Chapter 13
--Chapter 14
COMPLETE ERA 3.2 QUESTIONS

Period 3
--Chapter 11
--Chapter 12
--Chapter 13
--Chapter 14
COMPLETE ERA 3.2 QUESTIONSAWESOME WORK!
--Chapter 15
MIDTERM EXAM STUDY GUIDE ERA 4
->Unit 4 Content Map
-->Chapter 16 Age of Exploration
-->Chapter 17 Changes in Western Europe
-->Chapter 18 Absolutist Russia

SPICE Project
*SPICE Question Guidelines
Period 1
--Chapter 19
--Chapter 20
--Chapter 21
--Chapter 22
COMPLETE ERA 4 QUESTIONS For Period 1

Period 3
--Chapter 19
--Chapter 20
--Chapter 21
--Chapter 22
COMPLETE ERA 4 QUESTIONS for Period 3
Connections 2 Episode 10 Déjà vu
--VIDEO Review Questions

ERA 4 Visual Review ERA 5
->Era 5 Content Map
-->Chapter 23 The Age of Revolution (Outline)

ERA 5 SPICE Project
*SPICE Question Guidelines
Period 1
--Chapter 24
--Chapter 25 (Outline)
--Chapter 26 (Outline)
--Chapter 27
COMPLETE ERA 5 QUESTIONS For Period 1

Period 3
--Chapter 24 (Outline)
--Chapter 25
--Chapter 26 (Outline)
--Chapter 27 (Outline)
COMPLETE ERA 5 QUESTIONS For Period 3


Era 5 SPICE Outline
ERA 5 Visual Review