2. CCOT  This essay deals specifically with analysis of continuities and changes over time covering at least one of the periods in the course outline.  It addresses, for example, technology, trade, culture, migrations, or environment.  The CCOT questions require analysis of process and explanation of causation with specific examples

3. Example CCOT Essay The time allotted for this essay is 40 minutes, 5 of which should be spent planning and/or outlining your answer. Directions: You are to answer the following question. You should spend 5 minutes organizing or outlining you essay. Write an essay that:  Has a relevant thesis and supports that thesis with appropriate historical evidence

4.  Address all parts of the question.  Uses world historical context to show continuities and changes over time.  Analyzes the process of continuity and change over time.

5.  Pick one of the following regions and analyze the continuities and changes in the region’s connections to the world trading systems from 1450-2000. Be sure to explain how alterations in the framework of international trade interacted with regional factors to produce continuities and changes throughout the period.  China  Latin America  Sub-Saharan Africa  Middle East

6. Another Ex.  Analyze major changes and continuities in the formation of national identities in ONE of the regions listed below from 1914-present. Be sure to include evidence from specific countries in the region selected.  Middle East  Southeast Asia  Sub-Saharan Africa

7. From the Princeton Review  Tend to deal with global issues  Trade, technology, culture, migrations, biological developments  You need to talk about how things were prior to the change and them make it clear why things changed  You must cover historical development

8.  Process the question  Answer all parts of the question  Build framework  Baseline, impact, change, and continuity

9. Comparative Essay  This essay focuses on developments in at least two societies or regions.  It relates to major themes in the course, such as social and gender structures, interactions between or among societies, political organization, or economic systems.  Comparative questions always require analysis of reasons for the similarities and differences identified.  Students may have the opportunity to choose different cases for comparisons

10. From the Princeton Review  Compare how 2 societies responded to a major event  Usually the easiest, but students score the lowest (fatigue)  Include BOTH similarities and differences  Address all parts of the question

11. Comparative Essay Ex.  The time allotted for this essay is 40 minutes, 5 minutes of which should be spent planning and/or outlining the answer.  Directions: you are to answer the following question. You should spend 5 minutes organizing or outlining your essay. Write an essay that:

12.  Has a relevant thesis and supports that thesis with appropriate historical evidence  Addresses all parts of the question.  Makes direct, relevant comparisons.  Analyzes relevant reasons for similarities and differences.

13. Unfree labor systems were widely used for agricultural production in the period 1450- 1750. Analyze the major similarities and differences between TWO of the following systems:  Caribbean Slavery  North American Slavery  West African Slavery  Russian Serfdom

14. Another Ex.  Within the period from 1450 to 1800, compare the processes (e.g., political, social, and economic) of empire building in the Spanish Empire with the empire-building processes in ONE of the following.  The Ottoman Empire OR  The Russian Empire

15.  They tend to deal with global issues  Technology  Trade  Culture  Migrations  Biological development

16.  You need to talk about how things were prior to the change and then make it clear why things changed  Must cover historical development  Answer all parts of the questions

17. What do they want from you?  Your soul (kidding)  Make connections  In any given period of time/history, can you explain what’s going on?  What was the affect on the rest of the world?  What changed about this society during this time period?

18.  How did people interact with their environment?  What new ideas, thoughts, and styles came into existence?  How did different societies get along (or not) within a time period?  How did economic systems develop and what did they depend on in terms of agriculture, trade, labor, industrialization, and demands of consumers?

19.  Who had power and who did not within a given culture and why?  Use transitional words  Write neatly  Try for correct spelling  Use simple and compound sentences

20.  Watch your time  Ask to have it posted  Think before you write  You won’t need to know much about American History  Understand how Enlightenment had impact  What inspired revolutions?  Influence?  Type of gov’t created?

21. Multiple Choice Questions  70 questions  55 minutes  Questions jump around  4 answer choices  Read question and put it in your own words  Answer in your own words  Process of elimination

22.  Use best guess  You are assessed only on the total number of correct questions  Sometimes, it will be a picture, graph, political cartoon, painting, or map  It could also be a quotation for interpretation  Who said it?

23.  Period 1: Technological and Environmental Transformations 8000 BCE-600 BCE= 5%  Period 2: Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies 6000 BCE-600 CE= 15%  Period 3: Regional and Transregional Interactions= 600 CE-1450= 20%  Period 4: Global Interactions 1450-1750= 20%  Period 5: Industrialization and Global Interaction 1750-1900= 20%

24.  Period 6: Accelerating Global Change and Realignments 1900- Present= 20%