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​​​​​​​​​​​Choose the class you are currently enrolled in below, or that you are interested in learning about, to visit the page for that class. Resources for each class are available to help you in your study of history. 

​Here you will find a number of documents relating to our study of Modern World History. The documents here will help students stay up to date with homework and reading assignments when absent, and also provide an opportunity for students to print out their own permission slips and documents in case they are lost.

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Together we will walk though the history of Western Civilization and study the origins and development of democracy from Ancient Greece and Rome to today’s diverse political world. In addition to engaging in the study of history, students will learn how historians go about uncovering and decoding the past. In addition, students will improve their writing and public speaking, and will engage in a number of activities designed to help bring history alive. I hope you enjoy our time together, and I hope you develop an understanding of our world, and how our past has helped shape it.

AP World History has several overarching goals, to guide students in developing a broad global perspective on history and the present, develop and sharpen the habits of mind and techniques of historical inquiry, and prepare students to take and pass the AP World History Exam given on or about the third Thursday in May. AP World History is a college-level course, and will require increased effort from students and the teacher. The additional reading and writing, and increased difficulty of the content itself, will challenge students and require them to take responsibility in planning and maintaining a schedule which allows them to study appropriately. Students will do history by working with primary and secondary source documents and following the methods set forth by todays leading world historians. The class will focus on global history and major trends that had wide ranging effects on more than two regions of the world, not specific events that had only a local effect. The specific and local events will be used to illustrate larger patterns present in the world, throughout history.