Re: high school redistricting
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Date: March 11, 2008 05:41PM
dell Wrote:
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> Forum Reader,
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> Im sorry but I fail to see where you got that
> Pre-IB and Pre-AP WH are so vastly different when
> the Pre-AP description says nothing about the
> actual curriculum. Could you please explain more
> on how the material taight in class differs?
Fair question.
Virginia requires, inter alia, four years of social studies in high school. "Courses completed to satisfy this requirement shall include U.S. and Virginia History, U.S. and Virginia Government, and two courses in either world history or geography or both."
The AP path matches this perfectly:
9th: Pre-AP World History (the "first half" of world history and geography: ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, Greece, Rome; the beginnings and growth of the major religions of the world, up through medieval times to about 1500)
10th: AP World History (the "second half" of world history and geography: "Focused primarily on the past thousand years of the global experience, the course builds on an understanding of cultural, institutional, and technological precedents that, along with geography, set the human stage prior to 1000.")
11th: AP US History
12th: AP Government
The IB "honors" social studies path is different because the courses mandated by the International Baccalaureate Organization have, as Neen points out, more of a world view and far less emphasis on US History and government.
9th: Pre-IB World History and Geography
10th: Pre-IB Government
11th: IB I "History of the Americas"
12th: IB II "TOPICS IN 20TH CENTURY WORLD HISTORY"
Excerpts from the IB descriptions:
PRE-IB WORLD HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY This course is a chronologically organized study of world history and geography with an emphasis on the modern era. The first four to six weeks of this course are devoted to a review of the ancient world through the Middle Ages with the rest of the year devoted to the geography and history of Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America from 1500 to the present. Students examine the relationship among social, economic and geopolitical developments across time and place. ... This is the first of a four-year history and social science sequence for IB history. ....
PRE-IB COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT (244507)
Grades: 10 Credit: one
In this course, students study political philosophy, the structures and functions of local, state, and national governments. They also investigate the governments of the countries that they will study in their IB history courses. Important elements of the class include Congressional and judicial simulations as well as small and large group discussion and research on current political and economic issues. ...
IB HISTORY I: HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS (236009)
Grades: 11 Credit: one/weighted +.5
Prerequisite: Pre-IB World History and Geography and Pre-IB Comparative
Government or World History and Geography I and World History and Geography II
Students study political, social, economic and cultural history of the nations of the Western Hemisphere with an emphasis placed on the history of the United States and are introduced to history as a discipline, the nature and variety of historical sources, and the historian’s methods. The historical narrative begins with the fifteenth century encounter by Europeans with American cultures and concludes with the entrance of the United States upon the world stage in the early years of the twentieth century. Topics for study include encounter and exchange, colonial institutions, collapse of imperial regimes, evolution of nineteenth century institutions, and the Americas in the industrial age. ...
IB HISTORY II: TOPICS IN 20TH CENTURY WORLD SL/HL HISTORY (236109)
Grades: 12 Credit: one/weighted +.5 Prerequisite: IB History I: History of the Americas
This course offers students an opportunity to study selected twentieth century topics in World History in an international dimension. Case studies of the major events and issues of the twentieth century are studied. Topics are chosen from the following list: causes, practices and effects of war; nationalist and independence movements, decolonization and challenges facing new states; the rise and rule of single-party states; the establishment and work of international organizations; the Cold War; the state and its relationship with religion and the minorities. ...
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Interestingly, at Robinson the tenth grade "Pre-IB Government" course IS the AP course - which makes a lot of sense to me.
PRE-IB AP GOVERNMENT (244506)
Grades: 10 Credit: one/weighted +.5
In this course students study political philosophy, the structures and functions of local state, and national governments. They also investigate the governments of the countries they will study in their IB history courses. Important elements of the class include the simulations about Congress and the courts as well as small and large group discussion and research on current political and economic issues. ... Completion of this course fulfills the graduation requirement for one credit in Virginia and United States Government. Students are required to take the Advanced Placement Government exam. Required summer assignment