Advanced Placement^® Edition

World History: Modern (1200–Present)

Make college level content accessible to all students without sacrificing the rigor required for success

100% aligned to the most current AP^® World History: Modern College Board^® CED.
Concise and focused content.
Scaffolded skill development.
AP-style assessment practice.

A brief Prologue builds historical context with developments prior to 1200 C.E., including the Classical Era and Postclassical Civilizations.

Each topic includes:

The Essential Question.
A narrative aligned to the course framework.
A reflection/review of the Essential Question.
A set of multiple-choice questions, all based on stimulus material, and two sets of short-answer questions, one based on stimulus material.

Extensive AP exam preparation includes hundreds of AP-style multiple-choice questions, unit reviews with long essay questions and document-based questions, and three full-length practice tests, one in the student edition and two in the teacher resources.

All test items have been meticulously constructed to model the format and quality of those on the exam.
Each question is tied to a specific learning objective from the course framework, allowing teachers to quickly diagnose individual and class performance.

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What impressed me the most about the preparation manual for AP World History from AMSCO was its attention to the format of the AP exam. Other guides hit the topics in the College Board provided curriculum framework well but what sets this book apart is how those topics are directed at the skills necessary to succeed on the AP exam. This moves beyond the assessments which are similar in difficulty and style to the items on released tests. This prep manual builds on this critical feature by employing the skills necessary for the exam within the passages to show students how historical arguments are made using various types of evidence.

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Social Studies Instructional Coach
Houston, Texas

College Board Course Audit Approval Support

Perfection Learning also supports your College Board course audit by pairing the AMSCO edition of AP World History: Modern with a College Board pre-approved open-source digital text.

List the College Board-approved AP World History: Modern by the OER Project resource with the AMSCO World History: Modern coursebook on your course audit. The paired text is:

Available at no additional charge.
Listed on the College Board example textbook list as “World History: Modern by the OER Project.”
Pre-approved for course audit submission.

The AP World History: Modern by the OER Project resource has been aligned with the AMSCO coursebook including:

A day-by-day pacing guide showing how the AMSCO and OER Project resources work together for instruction.
Page references to the exact locations in the OER Project resource where you can find additional instructional content to enhance and deepen the AMSCO instruction.
Point-of-use links in the AMSCO eBook and interactive editions to the OER Project aligned content.

Think as a Historian

Topic activities focus on practicing historical thinking skills—historical developments and processes, sourcing and situation, claims and evidence, context, connections, and argument.

Write as a Historian

Unit activities build writing skills for the long essay and Document-Based Questions.

Historical Perspectives

Unit activities develop and practice three critical historical reasoning processes—comparison, causation, and continuity and change over time.

Making college-level content accessible to high school students is of the utmost importance in ensuring success. The AP World History: Modern coursebook is carefully written and designed to ensure all students:

Comprehend key ideas.
Learn and use concept vocabulary.
Build their analytical and writing skills.

Advanced Placement World History Readability page example

The AP World History: Modern coursebook is built to meet the specific thematic learning objectives as well as the Key Concepts and Historical Developments for each unit. As a result, the depth and breadth of content coverage aligns precisely with the AP World History: Modern framework and exam.

AMSCO curriculum builds capacity, without sacrificing rigor, and supports students to develop the content knowledge and skills they need to be successful.

Initial inquiry and essay tasks are designed to be narrow in scope, allowing students to master smaller skills first.
Instruction and tasks to develop disciplinary practices and reasoning skills move from simple to complex as students gain competence.

Digital editions, with built-in Immersive Reader support, enable students to use a wealth of personalized tools to comprehend course content.

Translate and listen to the text in over 120 languages.
Customize readability by changing font type, size, and background color.

Immersive Reader translation example

Help students move from skimming and scanning to extracting key concepts, identifying events and developments, and formulating questions for further study. All highlights and notes are captured automatically in a running notebook—perfect for study and exam preparation.

Advanced Placement World History Streamlined Notetaking example

Develop College Readiness Skills

Students gain the critical “thinking” and “doing” skills required in rigorous college courses through extended practice in:

Evaluating authors’ perspectives.
Analyzing primary and secondary sources.
Citing textual evidence to support arguments.
Developing cohesive written arguments.

Engage students through collaboration.

Participate in dynamic, inclusive small group discussions.
Share ideas and perspectives based on meaningful, text-based questions.

Think as a Historian activities build students’ skills in reasoning processes and historical thinking skills—historical developments and processes, sourcing and situation, claims and evidence, context, connections, and argument. These skills, which are precisely aligned to the appropriate CED topic(s), are critical for success on longer writing tasks.

Advanced Placement World History Think as a Historian page example

Success on the AP exam requires strong writing skills. The AP World History: Modern coursebook features Write as a Historian activities to help students identify and organize evidence, structure arguments, and achieve successful outcomes on the exam.

Advanced Placement World History Write as a Historian page example

The Historical Perspectives feature introduces conflicting interpretations about significant historical issues addressing the College Board's emphasis on how historians have interpreted events in various ways.

Advanced Placement World History Historical Perspectives page example

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Because the content in the AMSCO books is more accessible, concise, and focused just on what they need to know, students are actually reading the text. As a result, I’ve seen test scores go up.

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Mark G.
Social Studies Department Chair
AP U.S. History, AP World History: Modern, and AP Psychology Teacher
Bradenton, Florida

Advanced Placement World History Teacher Resources

Extensive Teacher Support

Teacher materials include:

A Teacher Resource with Answer Key. Best-choice answers are identified for each multiple-choice question. Rubrics and suggested good responses are provided for all free-response questions.
Customizable PowerPoint slides.
A day-by-day pacing guide.
Two full-length practice tests with rationales.

A correlation of each question to the College Board framework.
OER resources by topic.

“

AMSCO has been a godsend to my students. It has made difficult information to learn much more accessible and digestible…my students were able to gain college credit at a high rate. I absolutely recommend textbooks by AMSCO as a valuable tool in the AP classroom.

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Paula W.
CCSD/Advanced Technologies Academy
Las Vegas, Nevada