AP* World Help Links
Writing Tips and Tricks

This is the PowerPoint from Saturday Class

How to the Nail the DBQ
This slideshare presentation by Scott Keatley is fantastic.  It provides a very strategic way to approach your essay and gives you tactics to succeed even if you don’t know much about world history.

DBQ Tips
Another great World History slideshare, this one by Kimberly McEachen.  Clearly explains with 40 slides many strategies for getting a perfect 9 on your dbq.  Includes some nice examples from actual essays.

 
Writing is the key focus of this class and that is OUR PRIMARY concern. The links below are tips that I have found that might help strengthen your writing.

The GST format in case you need a reminder

G: GENERAL STATEMENT about the topic

S: SPECIFIC STATEMENT about the topic

T: THESIS STATEMENT about the topic

You should be practicing this format during the break. Please look on the College Board website  for the past AP* essay questions. You can for practice from the old exam questions and try to use the same format to write intros for some topics.  Any ones that you do, feel free to bring them in and I will look at them.

Please use them to help write the essays for the analyze portion of the outlines.

Sample Essay Tips (AP* Style)

The Five Paragraph Essay

Guide to a Basic Essay

The Writing Center 

The OWL at Purdue University

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant


The sheet below if full of power words and transitional phrases that you will need to strengthen your writing. Writing is THE MOST IMPORTANT aspect of the AP* exam. In order to be a successful student, writing is the key.

Power Words and Transitional Phrases

Descriptive Verbs


The AP* essay is much more complex than regular essays. The sites above will help with the basics, but you must learn how to locate an argument, compare and contrast and analyze DBQ's.  These sites will help you do that.

What is an argument?

Compare and Contrast Thesis














These are a bunch of sites that you could find useful in your effort to improve your AP* scores. I will also provide a brief synopsis of what the site contains.

Below you will find tips, helpful links for essays and multiple choice, information on historical topics and
other things that will make this class a great experience.

I stumbled across some new sites with practice quizzes and exams. It is always good to prepare as often as possible. Thanks to http://www.appracticeexams.com/ap-world-history for the new information.

Practice Exams
Practice testing site for The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History textbook.  Approximately 30 questions for each of the 34 textbook chapters.  Excellent interactive exam.
 World History Test 1
Covers the first civilizations through 1492.  It’s a 100 question interactive test with a some very good review questions.

The World's History
Based on The World’s History textbook, this site offers an interactive pretest for each of the book’s 24 chapters.

Varsity Tutors Practice Tests
This is a brand new site to my resource page. It contains helpful practice exams for many state exams including AP* exams, SAT, ACT, GED and other exams.

The CollegeBoard
Your first and most important website is AP* Central at the Collegeboard. Please sign up on the link below and register. On this site you will find important information about the AP* Exam, links to old essays questions, examples from old tests and other hints to make the move into AP* easier.


World Study Quizzes
I know the above site only has questions with four choices, not the usual five choices, BUT since most of you need help answering questions they are a good tool to use to practice your question taking ability. There are THOUSANDS of questions.

Student's Friend
This site has a nice breakdown of information.  I put the site up with the permission of the man who created it Michael Maxwell.

Course Notes.org/world_history

This site contains so much information that will help you prepare for the AP* TEST. It has an AP* glossary, outlines, regional outlines, study questions and notes, notes and notes.

AB Longman Stearns: Students Resources

The AB Longman Stearns site offers students resources such as multiple choice questions, chapter outlines that summarize each chapter of an AP* textbook, and other helpful tools for you to study from

World History Archives 

This site offers documents to support the study of world history from a working-class and non-Eurocentric perspective. This site also has a search engine to help locate specific documents.

The World History Timeline 

This site offers the world history timeline in almost complete context. You should take a look at this site to get a better assessment of some events that occurred at the same time.

Online Course Companion 

The World Civilizations textbook is an AP* textbook that covers exactly what every AP* textbook covers. However, this book offers online supplements such as a glossary, multiple choice questions, true/false questions and many more helpful tools.

Mr. Harmon's AP* History Page 

A helpful page that contains a lot of hints and tips on the AP* exam.

Online Learning Center 

A textbook page that contains a lot of information on World History.

Comparative Essay Choices 

This site contains a number of the possible comparative essays that you might have to choose from. They are broken up into periods: foundations, 650-1450, 1450-1750, 1750-1914 and 1914 to the present.

Mr. Burnett's AP* World Page

Just another helpful site with AP* related material.

Time Elapse Maps 

This site contains notes, readings, questions and other things to help you prepare for the AP* exam.

AP* World History Course Links 

I think for this one the site name is self-explanatory.

AP* World Units of Study

This is a link that shows how the AP* test is broken down through the time periods.

Hyper History

This is a website that contains time lines of world history events, people and other things to help you memorize important dates.

Maps of War

This site contains maps of world wars throughout history.

AP* World Politics 

This is a helpful site that offers a look the classical civilizations of Rome, Greece, India, and China.

Houghton Mifflin Textbook: The Earth and its Peoples 

This site has some cool stuff like flashcards, interactive maps, a glossary of terms, primary sources and some other things that will add some depth to the topics we discuss in class. PLEASE DO NOT USE THE MULTIPLE CHOICE SECTION!!!! They are designed for the regents and offer four choices and not five, so they are not good for you to practice from.

The Internet History Sourcebook

This site offers primary sources in many topics and areas.

Traditional Encounters Textbook 

This NEW ADDITION is highly recommended because it is full of practice questions with the required five choices for every topic in AP* World. Its also got primary source links, study questions, essay quizzes, internet activities

www.studystack.com

This site is full of flash cards from all areas of world history. It can help build your AP* vocabulary!!!

www.course-notes.org/world_history/

This site has outlines for time periods, vocabulary, regional outlines, topic notes, unit notes, a glossary and study questions, all available to help better prepare!

Mr. Schuler's Page

This page is full of notes, ppt's and other resources that you should check out.

World History Notes

Here is a site containing notes from each area of world history.

PinkMonkey.com

This site has a silly name, but houses a lot of information. It breaks down world history into chapters and sub-chapters to make history more clear and concise. Its a great site for an overview of many topics.

The Virtual Library

This site contains a ton of information on numerous subjects that we will cover from pre-history to modern times.

Online History: Explanation of Themes 

This site breaks down the necessary skills needed for the AP* history exam.

Flashcard Exchange

This website is a link website that offers flashcards to so many topics throughout many AP* textbooks. PLEASE CHECK THIS OUT. You can create flash decks, print sheets for review and much more.

Chinese History Timeline

Self explanatory page!

Art Exhibitions

This site contains a number of art exhibits that will help put a visual aspect to some of the areas we cover in class. (Thank you Ms. Hannah Edwards)

E Museum at Minnesota 

This is an AMAZING site with exhibits that are available on three floors. Search through the floors and click on the interactive map to see not only summarizing major topics but also pictures, maps and other information that can help you understand many AP* topics.

History Haven
This site has a lot of review stuff from textbooks and a lot of helpful information.

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