This course focuses on global history from 1200 to the present. It encompasses multiple themes which weave through all of the course content, including:
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This course focuses on the overall study of psychology, both historically and in the modern day. It covers multiple themes, including:
The course is meant to simulate a single semester college class. In May, students take the AP Test to determine their level of expertise in terms of skills and content and are scored on a 1 - 5 scale.
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This is the curriculum that I have designed over the course of the last several years. I wrote the standards focusing on the concepts that I believed would be most helpful to a high school student with plans to potentially take the class in college. Over the last three years I have designed and organized the curriculum in an effort to develop my students' knowledge of theory and practice through the use of in - class discussions, research projects, and case studies.
In the first semester the course covers the four major fields:
Students conduct research individually and in small groups in order to better define concepts as we learn them through various means including:
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