AP World History - Glencoe High School

In this advanced year-long course, students will study the cultural, economic, political, and social developments that have shaped the world from c. 1200 CE to the present. Students will analyze texts, visual sources, and other historical evidence and write essays expressing historical arguments. Skills students will learn include evaluating primary and secondary sources, analyzing the claims, evidence, and reasoning you find in sources, putting historical developments in context and making connections between them, developing a claim or thesis and explaining/ supporting it in writing.