AP World History Teaching Units
They are intended to assist teachers in leading students through the best practices available for teaching of world history. They are organized in a systematic and coherent form to include numerous activities and broad questions of interpretation. The production team expresses its regret at the delays in preparing these units for publication, and its pleasure at being able to share them with teachers and students.
These units will soon be published by the College Board in print-on-demand format. The site at which the units will become available may be reached with this link: AP World History Teaching Units. (The actual URL for the site is
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/members/article/1,3046,151-165-0-27565,00.html.) This site now lists titles of the units. In the near future it will list summaries of the units, and will guide users to purchase of the individual units, as they become available.
Meanwhile, in anticipation of publication, and to put versions of the teaching units in teachers' hands as soon as possible, portions of the units are made available here.
For each of the thirteen units, you may download the opening summary, which describes lesson activities, objectives, materials, and links to the organization of the course. The units are listed in order of the time frame of the course. Units A1 through A4 address the Foundations section; units B1 and B2 address the period from 1000 to 1450; units C1 through C3 address the period 1450-1750; unit D1 addresses the time from 600 to 1914; and units E1 through E3 address the period since 1914.
[Word] [RTF] A1: The New World History: Introductory Unit. By Deborah Smith Johnston.
[Word] [RTF] A2: The Spread of Universal Religions: Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam. By Donald Johnson.
[Word] [RTF] A3: Early Afro-Eurasian Empires as Culturally Diverse Entities. By A. J. Andrea
[Word] [RTF] A4: Trading Patterns in AfroEurasia Before 1000 C.E. By Sharon C. Cohen.
[Word] [RTF] B1: Travel And Interchange: 1000-1450. By A. J. Andrea.
[Word] [RTF] B2: The Severing of Eastern and Western Christian Civilizations. By A. J. Andrea
[Word] [RTF] C1: Free and Unfree Agrarian Workers: Peasants and Slaves, 1550-1750. By James Diskant.
[Word] [RTF] C2: Major World Leaders and the Role of the Individual in Society 1450-1750. By Timothy Connell.
[Word] [RTF] C3: The Encounters of 1492 and their Influence on the Wider World. By Donald Johnson.
[Word] [RTF] D1: The Economic Role of Women in World History 600-1914. By Linda Black.
[Word] [RTF] E1: Peasant Rebellions of the Twentieth Century. By Timothy Connell.
[Word] [RTF] E2: Decolonization: Struggle for National Identities, 1900-2001. By James Diskant.
[Word] [RTF] E3: Consumerism and Global Cultures. By Sharon C. Cohen.
Additional materials produced at the 2001 workshop include AP World History Best Practices, edited by Patrick Manning and Deborah Smith Johnston (College Board, 2002) and the "AP World History Web Guide" by Marc Jason Gilbert and Peggy McKee, available in the Teacher's Corner section of the AP Central website.
For comments or questions on these teaching units, contact Patrick Manning at planeterra@comcast.net.
