Goals and Objectives: The course is to help a student receive college credit and also to be successful in the World History AP exam, which will be taken in May. The following objectives will be covered in class:

- Distinguish and analyze different types of historical evidence and differing historical points of view
- Recognize and apply reasonable criteria for the acceptability of historical evidence
- Read and interpret historical texts (primary and secondary) critically and synthesize them for oral and written discussion
- Analyze social, political, economic, cultural, and diplomatic impact on the area under study
- Understand the roles of choice and of cause and effect in history
- Assess the use and the potential misuse of historical analogies in contemporary situations

Skills to be used in the course: These skills are to be used throughout the course and are important for college work:

1. Basic Skills

· Reading - students must be able to locate, understand, and interpret written information in prose and in documents such as manuals, graphs, and schedules.

· Writing - students must be able to communicate thoughts, ideas, information, and messages in writing, and create documents such as reports.

· Listening - students must be able to receive, attend to, interpret, and respond to verbal messages and other ones.

· Speaking - students must be able to organize ideas and communicate orally.

2. Thinking Skills

· Creative thinking - students must be able to generate new ideas.

· Decision making - students must be able to specify goals and constraints, generate alternatives, consider risks, and evaluate and chose the best alternative.

· Problem solving - students must be bale to recognize problems and devise and implement a plan of action.

· Knowing how to learn - students must be able to use efficient learning techniques to acquire and apply new knowledge and skills.

· Reasoning - students must be able to discover a rule or principle underlying the relationship between two or more objects and apply it when solving a problem.

3. Personal Qualities

· Responsibility - students must be able to exert a high level of effort and persevere toward goal attainment

· Self-esteem - students must believe in one's own self-wroth and maintain a positive view of oneself.

· Sociability - students must be able to demonstrate understanding, friendliness, adaptability, empathy, and politeness in group settings.

· Self-management - students must be able to asses oneself accurately, set personal goals, monitor progress, and exhibit self-control.

· Integrity and honesty - students must choose an ethical course of action.

Offered to 10th - 12th graders

Teacher:
Mr.Brad Owens

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