The West in the World, AP* Edition (Sherman), 5th Edition

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• Connect History, a web-based assignment and assessment platform, combines a fully integrated eBook* with a number of powerful tools that make managing assignments easier for instructors, learning more engaging, and studying more efficient for students. Pre- and post-chapter quizzing ensures that students understand content, while engaging interactivities involving maps and primary sources help them sharpen their analytical skills and think like historians. Critical Missions provide an immersive experience that puts students in a time and place and asks them to make a decision about an event based on an analysis of background information and various sources. (*Fully integrated eBook included in Connect Plus History.)


• ONBoard™ for AP* European History is a series of self-paced, online, interactive modules that help students master the skills and content necessary to be successful in upcoming AP European History coursework and ultimately on the AP Exam. Research-based and developed with teaching experts, ONBoard™ features animations and interactive activities. Students begin with an Introduction to AP European History: The Story so far . . ., which provides an overview of relevant ancient and medieval history. The other submodules use historical information to teach students the art of Gathering and Organizing Information; Analyzing Primary Sources including the crucial element of point-of-view analysis; and working through Interpretive and Advanced Skills such as cause and effect and continuity and change over time. Students self-check to ensure comprehension while the pre-test and comprehensive final assessment helps teachers identify skill and knowledge gaps.


• New "Thinking about Science & Technology" essays examine a significant scientific or technological advance. Each essay introduces a development in these arenas and traces how it influenced contemporary and subsequent history. "Connecting Science and Society" questions at the end of each selection ask students to think critically about the implications of inventions for societies past and present.


• A revised series of "Thinking About" features with accompanying questions focused on primary source documents, maps, biographies, and works of art, provides a stronger emphasis on critical thinking and active learning, as students read about, analyze and connect the events and themes of Western civilization to build an understanding of the past and an appreciation of history's influence on the present.


• Medium-length format is long enough to present a comprehensive, rich narrative, but concise enough to be manageable for students and to give instructors the flexibility to use other sources and books as supplements, if desired.


• Global Connections boxes throughout the text focus on important connections between the West and the non-Western world, while "The World and the West" essays prompt students to step back and take a broader view of the West and its place in the world. These essays, each covering a major era explore what historians have considered the "West" at different periods and how the West related to the rest of the world. Each essay includes critical thinking questions and a map with analysis questions.


• Extensive pedagogical support, including chapter overviews and vignettes, critical thinking questions in theme boxes, illustration captions, margin notes, timelines and key dates, end-of-chapter summaries, key terms lists and review and analysis questions, reinforces student understanding and mastery of text content.