1. travel
2. tourist destinations
3. africa

Advanced Placement World History
Summer Assignments
2015/16
Students preparing to take Advanced Placement World History (APWH) next year are required to complete the following
assignments over the summer break. All assignments are due on the day specified in the assignment.
Assignments will be submitted through Edmodo. The APWH code for Edmodo is 8sts3b. After the 22nd of May, the
group will be locked. Do NOT wait until the last minute to sign up for Edmodo.
Failure to turn in assignments when due, will result in immediate withdrawal from the class.
Assignment #1: History exercise
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Read the directions for the assignment.
Post assignment on Edmodo before midnight on the 22nd of May.
Instructors will also be posted on Edmodo.
Due date: May 22, 2015
Assignment #2: Ishmael - Vocabulary & Analysis
1) Read Ishmael by Daniel Quinn.
2) The book must be checked out from me. You may not write in the book, but I suggest you use post it notes to
flag important information.
3) Define the words, write the sentence the word is found, and note the page the term was found in the reading.
4) Post assignment on Edmodo before midnight on the 26th of June.
5) Due date: June 26, 2015
Assignment #3: Chapter 1 – reading guide questions & Period 1 vocabulary
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Read chapter 1 in the textbook.
Answer the reading guide questions.
Post answers to Edmodo before midnight on the 7th of August.
Due date: August 7, 2015
Assignment #4: Geographical Assignment
1) Study the countries in the various regions paying close attention to what countries are in each region.
2) You will have a region quiz on August 10, 2015. Do NOT wait until the day before to study for this quiz. Spelling
counts.
3) An example has been placed on Edmodo along with Regions document.
4) Date of exam: August 10, 2015
Remember! All assignments have a due date. Failure to complete assignments by the
date specified will result in automatic withdrawal from the class.
Feel free to turn things in early.
A note:
I will be checking my email and Edmodo periodically over the summer. If you have any questions for me, please do not
hesitate to email me or send me a direct post in Edmodo. I will get back to you as soon as possible. My email address is
[email protected].
A suggestion:
Do not wait until the last minute to complete the assignments. All assignments are time consuming and impossible to
complete in a day.
An explanation:
The assignments are designed to encourage you to think critically and begin preparing for the rigor of the class. The
terminology is essential to understand the main concepts relating to Period 1 of the course. The map activity will
introduce you to the areas of study for the year. None of the activities was created to “ruin” your summer, just get you
ready for the journey you will take next year in APWH.
A reminder:
When you received this assignment packet, you signed an APWH contract. Part of the contract addressed the issue of
academic honesty. Remember, all these assignments should be yours alone and not copied from a past or future
member of APWH. Copying someone else’s work is considered cheating. Cheating will not be tolerated.
A word of encouragement:
APWH is an exciting class, and I am happy you have decided to take this journey. By completing the application process,
signing the contract, and accepting this packet, you have shown dedication to the process of learning. I hope you have a
wonderful summer. Remember, I am only an email or Edmodo message away.
Dedra Burdette
History Instructor
Gray Junior High School
Colquitt County High School
2015 Summer Work CALENDAR
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Ishmael vocabulary
& Analysis due
before 11:59 pm
Work on assignments due
8/7
1) Period 1 Vocabulary
2) Reading guide:
Chapter 1
3) Look over regions –
Quiz (day 1)
8/7
Period 1 – vocabulary due
Reading guide questions
8/10
Region Quiz
www.calendarlabs.com
Assignment #1
History Exercise
Due: 5/22/15
Objective: Students will “Thinking like a Historian,” using artifacts from a wallet to decipher the life of the owner of the wallet.
Directions:
1. Read the directions completely before attempting the assignment.
2. Using the artifacts listed; write a story about the owner of the wallet.
3. The story should NOT just restate the artifacts, but should explain why the items were important to understanding the
history of the person who lost the wallet.
4. A little research may be needed in order to understand all the artifacts.
5. Make sure to describe the person using the artifacts.
6. You MUST use all the artifacts to tell the persons story.
EXAMPLE:
Situation: A purse has been found on the subway. The following are things the purse contained. Using the artifacts from the purse, explain what you know about the
owner.
Artifacts:
AP World History textbook by Peter Stearns Pens – red, blue, black, green
Grade counter
Rubber bands – various colors
$1.00 calculator
Gem clips
Post-it notes
Cow composition book
Subway token
Bookmark shaped like a horse
Example:
Oh my! Someone left a purse on the subway. I decided to pick it up. I wanted to examine the purse to see if I could locate some type of identification of
the owner. Instead of looking inside on the subway, so I gently hung it over my shoulder and decided to look inside when I got home. Once home, I opened the purse.
To my surprise, it was not a purse at all. It was a book bag.
I cautiously looked inside the book bag. I felt a little uncomfortable looking into someone else’s bag, but I was sure it would help me find the owner.
Unfortunately, I could not find any personal information about the owner.
However, the contents were interesting. Looking at the artifacts in the book bag, I begin to create a picture of the owner. It appears she was a teacher. She
does not live close to the school she works because she left the book bag on the subway. She is an instructor for AP World History class because she has a textbook in
her bag. She has been teaching advanced students since 2013, the gifted students, because the textbook was AP World History by Peter Stearns copyright date 2013.
The bookmark shaped like a horse marked the topic her students were studying. It was the Mongols, one of my favorite empire builders.
History Exercise
Situation: A wallet has been found on the streets of New York City. The following items are contained within the wallet. Using the items, write a
story about the owner. The items are in no particular order.
Directions: Write a story using all of the artifacts about the owner of the wallet found.
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20 British one pound notes
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A 1976 Harvard University graduation class list.
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2 ticket stubs from a recent Paris showing of the play Les Miserables.
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A wedding announcement from an April wedding (wedding took place this April).
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Four (4) different business cards.
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A corner of an envelope with a 1993 Cairo, Egypt postmark and Egyptian stamp.
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A well worn, typed card with the following quote:
“A Prince should know how to use the beast’s nature wisely, He ought of beasts to choose both the lion and the fox; the lion cannot
guard himself from traps, nor the fox from wolves. He must therefore be a fox to discern traps and a lion to drive off wolves.”
(Machiavelli)
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A Phi Betta Kappa key
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Two (2) New York City subway tokens.
10. A dried, pressed rose.
Assignment #2
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
Questions & Vocabulary (Due: 6/26/15)
Directions: Read the book and answer the following questions. The questions are critical thinking questions, so answers
should be in sentences or paragraphs, not one word.
1. Why does Daniel Quinn use a Gorilla – Ishmael to be the teacher?
2. Who was the student?
3. Why is the student frustrated at the beginning of the story?
4. How does the student change as the story is told?
5. What components must be in place for civilization to begin (characters of a civilization)?
6. On page 89, Mr. Quinn describes “how things came to be this way”. Explain.
7. Describe the “three dirty tricks” God played on humans.
8. Describe the “4 things Takers do that are never done in the rest of the community”.
9. Explain how the peacekeeping law promotes diversity and the Taker’s way promotes ecological fragility.
10. Who is Mother Culture?
11. Why is the year 8000 BCE significant?
12. What is the Taker premise?
13. What is the Leaver premise?
14. Name three Leaver societies, and explain why they should be examples for Taker societies.
15. Why is the closing of the eyes significant?
16. Why is the gorilla upset when Mr. Sokolow says “you are not Goliath”?
17. How does Mother Culture feel about the Plains Indians’ choice to go back to hunting and gathering? Why did
the Plains Indians do this?
18. Why is the student upset at the end of the book?
19. What did you learn from this book about the world?
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
Vocabulary (due: 6/26/15)
Directions:
1. Define the words listed below (you may not use more than 5 words for the definition).
2. Write the sentence where the term was located and record the page number where the sentence was located.
3. Use the format listed below.
Word; definition; Sentence; page #
Please number.
1) charlatan
2) olfactory
3) menagerie
4) piety
5) sarsen
6) ebb
7) koan
8) ratiocirlation
9) epitomized
10) fugue
11) quixotic
12) morosely
13) meteoric
14) axiom
15) coterminous
16) katydids
17) vagaries
18) tenuous
19) quavered
20) benevolence
21) pessimistic
22) anarchy
23) megalomaniac
24) prodigiously
25) despond
26) progeny
27) usurped
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uxoriousness
progenitor
presentiments
largess
dreck
contrivances
countenance
nonplussed
paean
facile
Bwana
senectuous
paradigm
Assignment #3
Due: 8/7/15
Robert W. Strayer
Ways of the World: A Brief Global History
Ways of the World: A Brief Global History with Sources
Chapter 1, First Peoples: Populating the Planet to 10,000 B.C.E, Study Guide (Original: pp. 3-33; With Sources: pp. 3-47)
Out of Africa to the Ends of the Earth: First Migrations
1. What was the first hominid species to use fire in a controlled fashion?
2. Where did Homo sapiens first emerge?
3. How were settlements in Africa planned?
4. To where did humans migrate after they left Africa?
5. What occurred as European peoples moved southward into warmer regions?
6. What new technologies and artifacts emerged in Central Europe, Ukraine, and Russia?
7. Describe Dreamtime and what it represents.
8. What was the route of migration into North America?
9. What does the wide distribution of Clovis technology suggest?
10. How did Austronesian migrations differ from other early patterns of human movement?
The Ways We Were
11. In what ways did a gathering and hunting economy shape other aspects of Paleolithic societies?
12. Why did Paleolithic societies have more leisure time?
13. In what way did Paleolithic people alter the natural environment?
14. What does the presence of Venus figurines across Europe suggest?
15. Why did some Paleolithic peoples abandon earlier, more nomadic ways and begin to live more settled lives?
Comparing Paleolithic Societies
16. According to Richard Lee, what were the most prominent features of the various aspects of San life?
Technology—
Diet/Food—
Work—
17. What is the idea behind the system of unequal gift exchange?
18. What important transformation in technology occurred among the Chumash and what did it bring to them?
19. In what ways, and why, did Chumash culture differ from that of the San?
20. Why was the Brotherhood of the Tomol Guild so important?
Explain the significance of each of the following:
Hadza—
“insulting the meat”—
Jomon culture—
megafaunal extinction—
n/um—
trance dance—
Period 1 Vocabulary
agrarian
41
polytheism
agriculturalists
42
predator
alphabets
43
prehistory
anthropology
44
quipu
archaeology
45
self-sufficient
BCE
46
specialization
Bureaucracy
47
surplus
CE
48
transregional
century
49
urban planning
civilization
50
ziggurat
creation myth
cultural diffusion
culture
cuneiform
decade
Directions: Define the following terms
using a dictionary.
deity
divine
domestication
egalitarian
elites
erosion
extinct
foraging
generation
geography
hierarchy
hieroglyphs
history
innovations
kinship groups
Mesolithic period
metallurgy
migration
millennia
monotheism
Neolithic period
nomadic
Paleolithic period
patriarchy
Due date: 8/7/15
AP Regions to Know
st
Directions: On August 10, 2015 (1 day of school), you will take a quiz over the regions. The quiz will be fill-in-the blank. You must
know the correct regions the nations are located plus be able to spell them correctly.
North Africa
Algeria
Libya
Tunisia
Western Sahara
Egypt
Morocco
Southern Africa
Angola
Botswana
Democratic Republic of Congo
Lesotho
Malawi
Mozambique
Namibia
South Africa
Swaziland
Zambia
Zimbabwe
South Asia
Afghanistan
Bangladesh
Bhutan
Nepal
India
Pakistan
Sri Lanka
East Africa
Djibouti
Ethiopia
Madagascar
South Sudan
Tanzania
Eritrea
Kenya
Somalia
Sudan
Central Africa
Afghanistan
Kyrgyzstan
Turkmenistan
Xinjiang
Kazakhstan
Tajikistan
Uzbekistan
Southeast Asia
Cambodia
Laos
Myanmar (Burma)
Singapore
Vietnam
Indonesia
Malaysia
Philippines
Thailand
West Africa
Benin
Chad
Gambia
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Mauritania
Nigeria
Sierra Leone
Burkina Faso
Côte d’Ivoire
Ghana
Liberia
Mali
Niger
Senegal
Togo
Mid.East/ Southwest Asia
Armenia
Yemen
Azerbaijan
Bahrain
Georgia
Iran
Iraq
Israel
Jordan
Kuwait
Lebanon
Oman
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Syria
Turkey
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Meso. America/Caribbean
Meso-America
Belize
El Salvador
Honduras
Nicaragua
Caribbean
Bahamas
Dominican Republic
Jamaica
Trinidad & Tobago
Costa Rica
Guatemala
Mexico
Panama
Cuba
Haiti
Puerto Rico
Central Africa
Burundi
Cameroon
Central African Republic (CAR)
Equatorial Guinea
Gabon
Republic of Congo
Rwanda
Sudan
Uganda
Democratic Republic of Congo
East Asia
China (PRC)
Japan
North Korea
South Korea
Taiwan (ROC, China)
South America
Argentina
Brazil
Colombia
French Guiana
Paraguay
Suriname
Venezuela
Bolivia
Chile
Ecuador
Guyana
Peru
Uruguay