AP World History- ThemesI will identify and analyze the five themes of World History.

Bell Work• Why did you decide to take AP World History?• What do you hope to get out of this class?• If you could categorize world history, how would

you do it? What types of categories would you choose?

Mr. Mitchell’s Classroom Expectations

My expectations for you this year:• You will attend (Physically and Mentally)• You will complete all assignments• You will make an effort to succeed

1. I will be respectful of others and the classroom learning environment

• Be attentive and listen to those who are speaking• Speak like a lady or a gentleman (No Cussing or

offensive language)• Treat other how you want to be treated• Keep your classroom and the materials clean and

in proper order• Wait until the teacher is done with instructions

before asking for things that are not part of the lesson

2. I need to be in class on time and ready to work • Be on time• Be in dress code• Bring all your needed materials• Sit in the your assigned seat• Get started on your bell work immediately• No personal grooming in class (Make-up, Hair,

etc.)

3. I will leave my cell phones, electronic devices, and other non-learning items in your locker.

• If it is in class you will be asked to quietly give the item to Mr. Mitchell and you may retrieve it at the end of the day.

• Second time and it is out of Mr. Mitchell’s hands and will placed in the office.

4. I will raise my hand and wait for permission to speak or to get out of your seat.

5. I will be Responsible

• You are responsible for your own education• Turn in your work completed and on time• Let the teacher know when you will be absent• Ask for your make up work• Ask for assistance

Themes of World History• In order to better learn and approach World

History and to give it a framework for understanding.

• There are five themes in World History that we use to accomplish this.

• They are SPICE

Cornell Notes• Write your title across the top page• World History Themes – SPICE

• For each Theme• Left Hand Colum = theme title• Right Hand Colum = • Bullitt Point Notes• Synthesize a one sentence summary of the paragraph

explaining the importance of the theme.

Thematic Approach• Students in this course must learn to view history

thematically. The AP World History course is organized around five overarching themes that serve as unifying threads throughout the course, helping students to relate what is particular about each time period or society to a “big picture” of history. The themes also provide a way to organize comparisons and analyze change and continuity over time. Consequently, virtually all study of history in this class will be tied back to these themes by utilizing a “SPICE” acronym.

Social• Development and transformation of social

structures • Gender roles and relations• Family and kinship• Racial and ethnic constructions• Social and economic classes

• Sentence Summary:

Check for Understanding• In a constructed response, explain why having a

social theme helps us understand world history.

Political• State-building, expansion, and conflict• Political structures and forms of governance• Empires• Nations and nationalism• Revolts and revolutions• Regional, trans-regional, and global structures and

organizations

Check for Understanding• In a constructed response, explain why having a

political theme helps us understand world history.

Interaction between Humans and the Environment• Demography and disease• Migration• Patterns of settlement• Technology

Check for Understanding• In a constructed response, explain why having a

environmental interaction theme helps us understand world history.

Culture• Development and interaction of cultures• Religions• Belief systems, philosophies, and ideologies• Science and technology• The arts and architecture

Check for Understanding• In a constructed response, explain why having a

cultural theme helps us understand world history.

Economic• Creation, expansion, and interaction of economic

systems• Agricultural and pastoral production• Trade and commerce• Labor systems• Industrialization• Capitalism and socialism

Check for Understanding• In a constructed response, explain why having a

economic theme helps us understand world history.

DOL

1. Identify and explain each of the five themes of world history.

1. S2. P3. I4. C5. E

2. Explain why it is important to use themes while learning about world history in a 3 to 5 sentence constructed response.

Note TakingI will learn the strategies to properly take notes independently using an AP World History textbook.

Development of the Human Experience.I will analyze the development of the human experience through the Paleolithic Era and the Neolithic Revolution.

Bell work• Describe the Hominids• Explain the migration of Homo Erectus and Homo

Sapiens.• Why is their migration impor tant?

Note Taking Skills• Our basic structure is going to be Cornell Notes

however with a few modifications.• World History is about the “Big Idea” or “Big

Picture” and not the specific details.• You are not an effective copy machine, thus you are not

expected to copy the whole chapter into your notes.

The Hominids• Out of Eastern Africa, bones from 5 million years

ago found• “Lucy” discovered in Ethiopia• Estimated date of death: 3.5 million years ago

• Animals adapt themselves to environment• Hominids adapt environment to themselves• Use of tools• Language• Complex cooperative social structures

Australopithecus• “the southern ape”• Had opposable thumbs and fashioned tools• Choppers, scrappers…food preparation tools

Homo Erectus• “Upright-walking” man• Smarter than Australopithecus• Fashioned mores sophisticated tools• Cleavers, hard axes

• Development of the understanding of tending fire• Cook food• Defense against predators• Source of artificial heat

• Increased intelligence and language skills• Communicate complex ideas like coordinated hunts

Migration of Homo Erectus• Effective tools, fire, intelligence, and

communication allowed Homo Erectus to migrate.• Homo Erectus migrated to areas in Europe, Asia, and

Africa

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Global spread of hominids and Homo Sapiens

Homo Sapiens

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Homo Sapiens• Adaption to the Environment• By 13,000 BCE Homo sapiens in every inhabitable part of the world• Archaeological finds:• Sophisticated tools• Choppers, scrapers, axes, knives, bows, arrows• Cave and hutlike dwellings• Use of fire, animal skins for warmth.

• Hunted several mammal species to extinction• Climactic change may have accelerated process• Their growth led to the extinction of the Mammoth

Homo Sapiens• “Consciously thinking humans”• Larger brains and remarkable intelligence gave Homo

Sapiens a survival advantage because they understood the world around them and exploited resources and communicated complex tasks.

• Migration of Homo Sapiens• Their intelligence provided them with more mobility

because they could adapt the environment and move into colder regions that the Homo Erectus could not.• Spread to every part of the world including New Guinea,

Austrailia and the Western Hemisphere.

Note Taking Practice• Read the Paleolithic Society section and create notes

for each subsection as well.• Remember:• Read looking for the “big picture” concepts

• 1st Paragraph is the “Thesis” of the Section/Subsection,• Read it on 14 and write the thesis across the top

under you section heading.• Hunting and gathering peoples• Include information here proving your thesis• Social Order and Hunting

• Paleolithic Culture• Neanderthal Peoples – Burial• Cro-Magnon Peoples• Venus Figurines• Cave Paintings

Paleolithic Society• Thesis: “Old Stone Age” Humans in this era forged

for food as hunters and gatherers. (Developed a richer culture)

• Economy and Society of Hunting and Gathering Peoples• Hunting and gathering required movement which

disallowed for accumulated wealth with social classes.• More Equality between sexes because women provided

more caloric food consumption be gathering than men did by hunting.• Hunting big game successful because of coordinated

attacks and new bows and spears.• Abondent areas began to see more perminant settlements

arrive.

Paleolithic Society• Paleolithic Culture• Neanderthal Peoples had more ritual burials which show a

development of culture in the human experience.• Cro-Magnon Peoples• Homo Sapiens Sapiens• More developed the Neanderthals• New weapons- Spear Throwers, Bows, Harpoons• Venus Figures- Importance of fertility demonstrates

value in life and growing the community• Cave paintings- Demonstrate culture (Pride in the

hunt, Religious connection to the hunt) and intellectual power of the human species

Notes Expectation• At the end of your notes on each chapter you

need to write a 5 sentence summary/reflection for each of the SPICE themes summarizing the key “big ideas” from the chapter concerning each theme.

• You need to create 5 questions

Bell Work• Explain the shift to agriculture in the Neolithic Era

in 7 sentences, include the importance.