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00:00 Introduction and Overview and Reflection on AP Summer Institute

03:18 Building a Strong Foundation: The Importance of Unit Zero

05:45 How Adam has approached Unit Zero

• Robert Strayer Ways of the World

07:56 The Challenges of Teaching Unit One and Two

0:7:57 Unorthodox Method we used to previously teaching Unit Zero

08:47 Analysis of Units 1 and 2 and the 14 “topics”

• APWH Modern Course at a Glance Two Pager

13:07 The “Low Hanging Fruit” of the Mongol Empire

15:58 Verification and relief from other experienced APWH teachers at AP Summer Institute

• Essay outlining and framing for Freshmen and APWH - 
  • APWH DBQ Outline and TS, Thesis and Paragraph Framing
  • Freshmen DBQ Outline and TS, Thesis and Paragraph Framing
  • APWH - LEQ - CCOT Outline and TS, Thesis and Paragraph Framing
  • Freshmen LEQ - CCOT Outline and TS, Thesis and Paragraph Framing
  • APWH - LEQ - C/C Outline and TS, Thesis and Paragraph Framing
  • Freshmen LEQ - C/C Outline and TS, Thesis and Paragraph Framing

16:48 Essay Writing Tips and APWH terminology

• “A well structured essay will cover up a number of sins” - Feedback from Exam readers

19:22 Personal Progress Check from the  APWH Modern Course at a Glance Two Pager

20:30 Summer Homework

22:15 Strayer number of chapters analysis 20 vs.14 chapters throughout the year

• Robert Strayer Ways of the World
• Peter Stearns World Civilizations: The Global Experience - The one mentioned in the interview was a previous edition.  We can not comment on the lexile level of the edition posted here.

26:37 History of the World in 6 Glasses as a Summer Assignment

• Map and other assignment….no test

27:34 Easiest and hardest information to grasp and originally suffering with Asia

• Unit Zero Document Packet Coming Soon - Hopefully updated by Mid November

32:55 Setting High Expectations for the school year and Providing Support/Buy In

• Number of exams in lower performing schools

36:52 Grading as you teach 75 or more students and student motivation

41:35 All Star Activities for the Unit

• Postcards through trade routes - Coming Soon - Hopefully updated by Mid November
• Speed Dating - Coming Soon, but versions available in APWH Group - Hopefully updated by Mid November
• Mongols Lecture

• Mongols Debate 
  • The DBQ Project
    
• Afro Eurasian Exchange Networks Trade Simulation
  • Hopefully versions are still available in APWH Group, search for the quotation below:
  • “How did people in France get the silk they need from China? And how the Chinese get their olives from Greece. The map breaks down two of the major exchange systems or trade routes during the 13th and 14th centuries. It divides them into eight regional exchange systems and gives some idea of how they interacted where the circles touch.“

• Harappan Indian Archeology Analysis  - Possible Versions available in APWH Group
  • Powerpoint and archeology Coming Very Soon - Hopefully by Mid November

51:20 All Star DBQs, SAQs, LEQs that “punch above their weight” for this time frame

• SAQ 2021 #3 - CCOT China
• SAQ 2022 #1 - Mongols
• SAQ 2018 #3 - Nomadic. Sedentary Afro-Eurasia
• LEQ 2019 #2 - Technology and Trade
• LEQ 2014 #3 - Compare Contrast Religion/Politics - Afro-Eurasia
• SAQ 2023 
• SAQ Matrix Sheet
• SAQ - 2023 - Primary - Buddhism in Korea
• SAQ - Primary Indian Ocean
• SAQ - Primary Confucianism
• LEQ 2021 - Trade Networks
• LEQ 2023 Set 1 #1 - 
• LEQ 2015 Compare Contrast - Trade Networks
• Buddhism in China - adapted to 7 documents- originally based upon 2004 DBQ - click below

01:02:39 Preparing Freshmen for APWH

• Patterns of Interaction by Roger B. Beck (Editor), Linda Black (Editor) Freshmen World History 
  • There are more updated versions available
• Summative Assessment Cornell Notes 
  
• The DBQ Project
  • The Mongols

01:07:55 Activities for Teaching Ninth-Grade World History

• History Alive TCI - The activity below was from a previous version from around 2003 from History Alive/TCI.  We recommend that you call them and/or order their current resources or samples.
  • Golden Age of Islam 
• Ibn Battuta vs. Marco Polo Debate
  
  • National Geographic Articles are listed on the Debate Document Above
• Mongol Lecture Grade 9 
• Islamic Caliphates numerals and the Zero
• Autopsy of an Empire
  • Hopefully versions are still available in APWH Group via a simple search.

01:12:35 APEuro and AP US History01:13:27 All Star Movies, Documentaries, Podcasts, Books

• Mulan by Disney
• Kingdom of Heaven
• In the Footsteps of Marco Polo
• CNN Millennium - Official Site - Wikipedia Description of Episodes - Can be found on youtube
  • Century of the Stirrup
• Genghis Khan and the Making of the Mongol World by Jack Weatherford
• China's Examination Hell: The Civil Service Examinations of Imperial China by Ichisada Miyazaki
• This Is Islam: From Muhammad and the community of believers to Islam in the global community by Jamal Elias
• Dan Carlin - Wrath of the Khans - Podcast
• Southernization by Lynda Shaffer from the Journal of World History, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Spring, 1994), pp. 1-21, University of Hawai'i Press

01:24:40 Our travels or dream trips or time travel involving the 1200–1450 World

01:29 51 Tips for a First Year teacher for 1200-1450 CE

01:34:28 Ending with Positive Stories