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In 2012, the head of AP Grading, Trevor Packer, stated that the reason for the low percentages of 5s is that "AP World History is a college-level course, & many sophomores aren't yet writing at that level." 10.44 percent of all seniors who took the exam in 2012 received a 5, while just 6.62 percent of sophomores received a 5.
This course is based on improving skills in written Spanish and critical reading of advanced Spanish and Latin American literature. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is typically taught as a Spanish V or VI course. The AP Spanish Literature course is designed to be comparable to a third-year college/university introductory Hispanic literature course.
This course is primarily a comprehensive review of all previous knowledge pertaining to the Spanish language. This class builds upon the skills developed within introductory and intermediate Spanish classes by applying each skill to a specific, contemporary context; common themes include health, education, careers, literature, history, family, relationships, and the environment.
Advanced Placement (AP) United States History (also known as AP U.S. History,APUSH, or AP U.S. (/ ˈ eɪ p ʊ ʃ /)) is a college-level course and examination offered by College Board as part of the Advanced Placement Program.
The Spanish achievement of the sixteenth century was essentially the work of Castile, but so also was the Spanish disaster of the seventeenth; and it was Ortega y Gasset who expressed the paradox most clearly when he wrote what may serve as an epitaph on the Spain of the House of Austria: ‘Castile has made Spain, and Castile has destroyed it.’
Unit 6 - Cities and Urban Land Use Patterns and Processes Topic Number Topic Description 6.1 The Origin and Influences of Urbanization 6.2 Cities Across the World 6.3 Cities and Globalization 6.4 The Size and Distribution of Cities 6.5 The Internal Structure of Cities 6.6 Density and Land Use 6.7 Infrastructure 6.8 Urban Sustainability 6.9
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As the Spanish need for silver increased, new innovations for more efficient extraction of silver were developed, such as the amalgamation method of using mercury to extract silver from ore. [6] In the two centuries that followed the discovery of Potosí in 1545, the Spanish silver mines in the Americas produced 40,000 tons of silver. [7]