COURSE OUTCOMES
AP World History Modern
(July 2019)
The AP World History Modern course is an academic, yearlong course with an emphasis on non-
western history from 1200 to the present. The AP College Board has organized the course into
four historical time periods (Period 1: 1200-1450, Period 2: 1450-1750, Period 3: 1750-1900,
and Period 4: 1900-Present) while these four time periods are further divided into nine subtopics
that are designed to be examined through a thematic approach: Humans and the Environment
(ENV), Cultural Developments and Interactions (CDI), Governance (GOV), Economic Systems
(ECN), Social Interactions and Organization (SIO), along with Technology and Innovation
(TEC). The course relies heavily on college-level texts, primary source documents, and outside
readings. Students will be required to participate in class discussions and in group and individual
projects. A special emphasis will be given to historical writing through essay and document-
based questions (DBQ) along with historical thinking skills and reasoning processes. In addition,
objective exams, simulations, and integrated computer-technology assignments will also be
given as the AP College Board has designed a new system that allows students to participate in
“Personal Progress Checks,” by unit, through their College Board accounts once enrolled in the
class.
Course Units:
AP World History Modern is divided into nine essential units and five selective units. The
student is required to complete a total of ten units during the year. While all essential units must
be mastered, the instructor may choose which selective units to complete the required number
from those available. Students normally engage in this course in their Secondary II or III year.
The prerequisites for this course are mastery of the 20 essential unit outcomes from Literature I
and Writing I as well as World Geography. The prerequisite for AP World History is Modern
World History. However, if a school wishes to allow students to take the AP World History
course in place of Modern World History, the decision must be based on the following criteria:
previous academic record, level of English, attitude, and readiness for a university level course.
A school will need to seek out approval from their regional supervisor and make note of it in an
email or a letter to the QSI Curriculum Office.
The normal pace for this course leads to mastery of the nine essential unit outcomes in less than
one school year as it is expected that the students will sit for The College Board AP exam for
World History Modern in May of the given school year. At least one additional selective unit
must be completed as well for mastery of the course. A time requirement of five periods per
week is a minimum requirement or its equivalent; each period is to be a minimum of 45 minutes
in length.
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QSI follows the mastery model of education. Pre-assessment gauges the knowledge students
possess before beginning each unit. Group instruction with differentiation is applied to teach the
unit’s outcomes. Ongoing formative assessment is used to gauge teaching; informing the
instructor on when students are ready for assessment. Suggested rubrics are provided for unit
assessments.
The traditions of QSI teaching and its philosophy of mastery learning are applied to the
instruction of this course. This course supports and aligns to the success orientations,
competencies and knowledge noted in the QSI Cultural Studies Program Outcomes.
Course Teaching and Assessments:
The essential units are designed to be completed in the order outlined below. However, Selective
Unit 1 is designed to establish foundational understanding of world history modern; moreover, it
is a standalone unit and it is suggested that students are engaged in this unit at the beginning of
the year as determined by the teacher and the needs of the students. The other selective units are
designed to be opened concurrently with essential units, for a single unit, multiple units, or the
entire year. In these cases, the essential unit(s) should be entered into the QMS Desktop as
engaged for 4 periods per week, with the selective unit entered as engaged for 1 period per week.
Teachers should be mindful of the number of open units at any given time.
A note on pacing: if teachers choose to open selective units concurrently with essential units, the
essential units may be able to be engaged over multiple weeks.
Students who do not achieve at least a ‘B’ grade in each TSW, must continue to work toward
mastery after re-teaching of those TSWs. If a student cannot master the unit or TSWs, their unit
can be placed on Hold (‘H’), until they are able to master the skill. Re-teaching, correctives and
parent notification must be applied before a student can be deemed deficient in effort and
assessed with a ‘D’ (consult QSI policy). Proper behavioral and skill interventions along with re-
teaching are continued; assisting the student toward mastery. All students can succeed.
Suggested Course Materials:
The primary textbooks are:
The textbook identified for use in this course for the 2019-2020 school year will continue to be:
Traditions and Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past, publisher: McGraw Hill, 2007 by
Jerry Bentley and Herbert Ziegler.
The textbook identified for use in this course for the 2020 school year and beyond is:
1200 Update Ways of the World, publisher: Bedford St. Martins 2019 by Robert W.
Strayer and Eric W. Nelson.
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Teacher and student editions of Traditions and Encounters are available in each school while the
new textbook, 1200 Update Ways of the World, will be in publication for the 2020-2021 school
year. Online access is provided for the full text for both teachers and students for both textbooks.
Additional Course Materials:
There are various support materials for this course in the form of newspaper articles, videos,
movies, recordings, and other written works. Most of these sources are specific to the unit of
study, but in the case that the source materials cover multiple units, here are some places to start:
AP World History Books for Review: There are many reputable review books any of them
would be useful for students taking this course while the one outlined below is commonly used:
The Princeton Review:
Cracking the AP World History: Modern Exam 2020 Edition (available in November 2019)
AMSCO® Advanced Placement® World History: Modern. Perfection Learning Corp, 2019.
Online Resources:
There are various online support materials at the following sites:
AP College Board website is essential for teachers as it includes many lesson plans along with
access to past exams with a multitude of questions that can be used for test preparation. It is
extremely important that an AP instructor read and prescribe to the Course and Exam description
while it is required that the course audit be completed through the creation or adoption of a
course syllabus provided by the College Board on the audit page.
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Asia for Educators is organized by time period and into four categories: geography, culture,
language arts and religions and examines the importance of the East in modern historical studies.
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World History Connected is a resource center with journals and articles relevant to topics in
AP World History Modern course.
https://worldhistoryconnected.press.uillinois.edu/#
World History Matters is a resource center designed to help teachers and students locate,
analyze, and learn from online primary sources and further their understanding of the
complexities of issues in world history.
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Bridging World History is organized into 26 thematic units along a chronological thread.
Resources include videos, an audio glossary and interactives.
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World History for Us All is an innovative model curriculum with lesson plans and worksheets
on many topics investigated in AP World History Modern.
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Eyewitness to History is a collection of sources presented as history through the eyes that have
seen it.
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Fordham Primary Documents is a collection of public domain and copy permitted historical
texts presented cleanly for use in the classroom.
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Crash Course Videos, presented by John Green, act as good review material; they are presented
in a very energetic style and offer good summaries of all periods in history. The last link in this
series are transcripts for all of the episodes.
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CNN Millennium Series videos on select topics in world history.
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Project Gutenberg is a library of over 59,000 free eBooks.
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Teaching History with Technology acts as a platform for teachers to learn and apply
technology in the history classroom.
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The Flow of History is a “dynamic and graphic approach to teaching world history.”
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Women in World History is a unique site full of information and resources to help you learn
about women’s history in a global context.
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World Digital Library is organized by the Library of Congress and it offers a plethora of resources for
teaching history.
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The following is a list of Course Title Essential and Selective units:
Essential Units: (must be mastered to complete the course)
E01 – 1200-1450: The Global Tapestry
Materials:
Traditions and Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past, publisher: McGraw Hill, 2007 by
Jerry Bentley and Herbert Ziegler.
Chapters 18, 19 and 20
1200 Update Ways of the World, publisher: Bedford St. Martins 2019 by Robert W.
Strayer and Eric W. Nelson
Chapter 2
Additional Resource: Documents in World History: The Human Record: Volume I
E02 – 1200-1450: Networks of Exchange
Materials:
Traditions and Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past, publisher: McGraw Hill, 2007 by
Jerry Bentley and Herbert Ziegler.
Chapters 17 and 21
1200 Update Ways of the World, publisher: Bedford St. Martins 2019 by Robert W.
Strayer and Eric W. Nelson
Chapter 3 and 4
Additional Resource: Documents in World History: The Human Record: Volume I
E03 – 1450-1750: Land-Based Empires
Materials:
Traditions and Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past, publisher: McGraw Hill, 2007 by
Jerry Bentley and Herbert Ziegler.
Chapters 23, 26, and 27
1200 Update Ways of the World, publisher: Bedford St. Martins 2019 by Robert W.
Strayer and Eric W. Nelson
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Chapter 5
Additional Resource: Documents in World History: The Human Record: Volume II
E04 – 1450-1750: Transoceanic Interconnections
Materials:
Traditions and Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past, publisher: McGraw Hill, 2007 by
Jerry Bentley and Herbert Ziegler.
Chapters 22, 24, and 25
1200 Update Ways of the World, publisher: Bedford St. Martins 2019 by Robert W.
Strayer and Eric W. Nelson
Chapters 6 and 7
Additional Resource: Documents in World History: The Human Record: Volume II
E05 – 1750-1900: Revolutions
Materials:
Traditions and Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past, publisher: McGraw Hill, 2007 by
Jerry Bentley and Herbert Ziegler.
Chapters 28 and 30
1200 Update Ways of the World, publisher: Bedford St. Martins 2019 by Robert W.
Strayer and Eric W. Nelson
Chapters 8 and 9
Additional Resource: Documents in World History: The Human Record: Volume II
E06 – 1750-1900: Consequences of Industrialization
Materials:
Traditions and Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past, publisher: McGraw Hill, 2007 by
Jerry Bentley and Herbert Ziegler.
Chapters 29, 31 and 32
1200 Update Ways of the World, publisher: Bedford St. Martins 2019 by Robert W.
Strayer and Eric W. Nelson
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Chapters 10 and 11
Additional Resource: Documents in World History: The Human Record: Volume II
E07 – 1900 to the Present: Global Conflict
Materials:
Traditions and Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past, publisher: McGraw Hill, 2007 by
Jerry Bentley and Herbert Ziegler.
Chapters 33 34, and 36
1200 Update Ways of the World, publisher: Bedford St. Martins 2019 by Robert W.
Strayer and Eric W. Nelson
Chapters 12 and 13
Additional Resource: Documents in World History: The Human Record: Volume II
E08 – 1900 to the Present: Cold War and Decolonization
Materials:
Traditions and Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past, publisher: McGraw Hill, 2007 by
Jerry Bentley and Herbert Ziegler.
Chapters 35, 37
1200 Update Ways of the World, publisher: Bedford St. Martins 2019 by Robert W.
Strayer and Eric W. Nelson
Chapters 14
Additional Resource: Documents in World History: The Human Record: Volume II
E09 – 1900 to the Present: Globalization
Materials:
Traditions and Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past, publisher: McGraw Hill, 2007 by
Jerry Bentley and Herbert Ziegler.
Chapter 38
1200 Update Ways of the World, publisher: Bedford St. Martins 2019 by Robert W.
Strayer and Eric W. Nelson
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Chapters 15
Additional Resource: Documents in World History: The Human Record: Volume II
Selective Units: (to complete the course content or for additional study)
S01 – Foundations for World History Modern: The World Before 1200
S02 – Book Review
S03 – Media Analysis in World History
S04 – Create a Document Based Question
S05 – AP World History Test Preparation
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