AP World History

For many of you AP world History will be your first experience with an AP class, this class will be both rewarding and very demanding. We must cover close to 10,000 years of World History is just under eight months, in order to prepare you for the AP exam in May, so to get a jump start on the information you will be required to complete a summer assignment. This assignment will be due August 26, 2011, however when school begins we will hit the ground running so waiting until school starts to complete this assignment is not advisable.
This assignment carries two purposes: giving the teacher insight into your thinking and reasoning abilities and giving you, the student, insight into the type of assignments and level of thinking required in an AP class. Successful completion of this assignment will help secure a solid foundation for AP World History. You will find that AP courses typically have fewer daily grades and more emphasis is placed upon major test grades. Successful completion of this assignment will have a positive effect on your first six weeks average. If you do not successfully complete this assignment, it will have a negative impact on your first six weeks average.

Summer Assignment for AP World History

Part I: Send Me an Email
To be completed before the end of June
Please give me your name, your email address and a parent/guardian name and email address as well as your cell phone number and a parent/guardian contact number. Please use the subject line: AP World History 2011-2012. You will email this information to me using the following email address: David.wolf@birdvilleschools.net
This information will be helpful for us to communicate during the summer if you have questions regarding the summer assignment and will give me a way to get in touch with you and your parents to send information and grade reports.

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