Teaching
World History
This Semester course is designed for students willing to commit to a class that will challenge their analytical thinking and writing skills. The purpose of World History is to develop a greater understanding of how geography along with cultural institutions and beliefs shape the evolution of human societies. The course covers world history from the development of civilization from the Neolithic Revolution to the modern age with an emphasis on civilizations rise and decline. There is a large amount of reading and writing required in this course. It is imperative that students understand that he/she will be responsible for all reading and writing assignments throughout the semester. Assignments for each unit include historiography reviews, primary source reviews, document-based essay, and either a compare/contrast essay or a change-over-time essay. In addition, students complete chapter outline assignments and short answer analysis questions on readings. This course fulfills the North Carolina World History requirement.
American History 1
This required course traces the history of the United States from the arrival of the first Americans through the end of the 19th Century. It introduces the themes of balance between unity and diversity, the shaping of democracy, the search for opportunity, and the influence of geographical factors. It also examines European, Native American, and African interaction in Colonial America, the Revolution, the New Nation, the Constitution, the War of 1812, the development of democracy, the West, slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction.The course examines the assumptions, theories, and concepts that have shaped and continue to influence American policies domestically and in the international arena. Students approach their study of world affairs by the use of contemporary analytic methods and investigative techniques of the social sciences and the historical, cultural, and philosophical contexts in which events have occurred. This course also includes the component that satisfies the North Carolina American History state requirement. Skills development is enhanced with a concentration on critical thinking, writing, and developing the ability to reason and experiment with solutions to issues that challenge citizens in a democratic society. U.S. History is offered at three levels of difficulty with AP, Honors, and General curriculum.
American History 2
This course is a survey of the social, political, economic, cultural, and intellectual history of the United States from the Civil War/Reconstruction era to the present day. We will examine immigration, world wars, the Great Depression, Cold War and post-Cold War eras. Included in the course is an overview and political analysis of America’s continual search for its appropriate role in the world. The course examines the assumptions, theories, and concepts that have shaped and continue to influence American policies domestically and in the international arena. Students approach their study of world affairs by the use of contemporary analytic methods and investigative techniques of the social sciences and the historical, cultural, and philosophical contexts in which events have occurred. This course also includes the component that satisfies the North Carolina American History state requirement. Skills development is enhanced with a concentration on critical thinking, writing, and developing the ability to reason and experiment with solutions to issues that challenge citizens in a democratic society. U.S. History is offered at three levels of difficulty with AP, Honors, and General curriculum.
APUSH
The AP U.S. History course focuses on the development of disciplinary practices and reasoning skills and an understanding of content organized around seven themes:
American and National Identity
Politics and Power
Work, Exchange, and Technology
Culture and Society
Migration and Settlement
Geography and the Environment
America in the World
AP EURO
AP European History is designed to be the equivalent of a two-semester introductory college or university European history course. In AP European History students investigate signi cant events, individuals, developments, and processes in four historical periods from approximately 1450 to the present. Students develop and use the same skills, practices, and methods employed by historians: analyzing primary and secondary sources; developing historical arguments; making historical comparisons; and utilizing reasoning about contextualization, causation, and continuity
and change over time.The course also provides six themes
that students explore throughout the course in order to make connections among historical developments in different times and places: interaction of Europe and the world; poverty and prosperity; objective knowledge and subjective visions; states and other institutions of power; individual and society; and national and European identity.