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Advanced
Placement World History Summer Assignment:
AP World History Summer Assignment
Stuyvesant High School For Fall 2010
As
you prepare to take AP World History next fall, it is important for you to
review what you learned this year in your Global History classes. In doing
so, you need to start thinking beyond dates, people and events, and think
more about historical themes and trends, the “big ideas” that
have shaped world history.
This
summer you will read The History
of the World in Six Glasses by
Tom
Standage. The book takes an
innovative approach to the study of world history. Six Glasses looks at
the development of world civilizations through the prism of the beverages
that people drank in various time periods: beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea
and coca-cola. This book can be purchased at local bookstores as well as at
on-line sites such as amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com
Your
first assignment for AP World History will be an essay in which you will
discuss the role these beverages played as a “catalyst for advancing
culture.” The beverages are arranged in chronological order in the
book.
Your
Assignment: If you were to
arrange these beverages in terms of their importance in shaping world
history, how would you do it? In a two-page
typed paper, explain the rationale for your ranking of these beverages
in terms of their role as a “catalyst for advancing culture.”
You will need to bring this paper with you on the first day of classes in
the fall. Additionally, you must submit an electronic copy of your paper to
turnitin.com. Instructions are below:
The
use of this book as a summer reading assignment in no way represents any
endorsement
by the Stuyvesant High School Social Studies Department of the use or
misuse of any of these beverages, alcoholic, caffeinated or otherwise.
Turnitin.com Student Registration
Stuyvesant High School
Follow these steps in order to add your name to your
class and be able to attach your assignments.
Step One: Go
to the turnitin.com homepage and click on “create a user
profile” (top right corner)
Step Two: Indicate
you are a student and click “next”
Step Three: Enter
the class ID number (see below) and the class enrollment password, which is
stuy2006
Step Four: Create
your own profile by following the prompts. You will have to enter your email
address and select a password.
Continue through the prompts until you have a profile.
Step Five: To
submit your assignment, click on the class you are in.
Step Six: Click
on the submit icon next to the assignment you want to turn in.
Step Seven: Enter
the title of your essay and attach the file as you would an email
attachment.
Step Eight: Confirm
your assignment was attached and keep the email confirmation.
Class ID Number: 3328497
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