AP World History Habits of Mind

 Four habits of mind are in the first category: (Specific to All History's)

             •     Constructing and evaluating arguments: using evidence to make plausible arguments

             •     Using documents and other primary data: developing the skills necessary to analyze point

                    of view, context, and bias, and to understand and interpret information.

             •     Assessing issues of change and continuity over time, including the capacity to deal with  

                   change as a process and with questions of causation .

             •     Understanding diversity of interpretations through analysis of context, point of view, and

                   frame of reference

Three habits of mind are in the second category: (Specific to AP World History)

             •     Seeing global patterns and processes over time and space while also connecting local

                   developments to global ones and moving through levels of generalizations from the

                   global to the particular.

             •     Comparing within and among societies, including comparing societies' reactions to

                   global processes

             •     Being aware of human commonalities and differences while assessing claims of

                   universal standards, and understanding culturally diverse ideas and values in

                   historical context

        (ACORN AP World 2006)