Essential Skills
| Skill |
Periodization |
| Description | Historical thinking involves the ability to describe, analyze, and evaluate different ways that historians divide history into discrete and definable periods. Historians construct and debate different, sometimes competing models of periodization; the choice of specific turning points or starting and ending dates might accord a higher value to one narrative, region, or group than to another. |
| Expectations | D5—Explain ways historical events and
processes can be organized into discrete, different, and definable
historical periods. D6—Evaluate whether a particular event or date could or could not be a turning point between different, definable historical periods, when considered in terms of particular historical evidence. D7—Analyze differentand/or competing models of periodization. |
| Where you prove that you can do this on the exam | Multiple Choice and Long Essay |
How we do this...
In class we learn this during AP World Unit Projects, Summer Reading, Simulations, Socratic Seminar, Lecture, and Practice Essays