Advanced Placement European History

Course Outline

First Semester

 

Date

Topics

Assignments

Wednesday

Aug 15

  • Introduction to course
  • Writing: What were the consequences of the Black Death on European psychology, society, culture, and economy?
  • Study skills and strategies
  • Due reading notes Ch 12 and 31 (summer)
  • Due biographies (summer)
  • Read Ch 13 in McKay (notes due Block)

Thursday

Aug 16

  • Review rubric for FRQ
  • Discuss Ch 12, review for Quiz

Friday

Aug 17

  • Quiz Ch 12
  • Essay and thesis writing

 

Monday

Aug 20

  • Quick write
  • Pre-Renaissance Europe
  • Due index cards Ch 12 and 31 Identifications (IDs)

Tuesday

Aug 21

  • Bell: Why did the Renaissance start in Italy?
  • Lecture: The Renaissance
  • Video: The Medici
  • Readings:  Petrarch, “Father of Humanism” and Bruni “Study of Greek Literature and Humanist,” due block

Block

Aug 22

  • Finish video – The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
  • Discuss readings
  • Define humanism
  • Lecture: Hallmarks of the Renaissance
  • Group project
  • Group Project (due next block); how do the characteristics of humanism and the Renaissance manifest itself in Art, Music, and Literature?
  • Bookmark: www.artchive.com
  • Due Chapter 13 notes

Friday

Aug 24

  • Reading: Machiavelli, The Prince and Palmer: “Erasmus of Rotterdam”
  • Outline reading: compare and contrast
  • Readings: Burckhardt and Burke, due Monday

Monday

Aug 27

  • Bell: Burckhardt and Burke, point of view (POV)
  • Lecture: Northern Renaissance
  • Due Ch 13 index cards (IDs)
  • Due Burckhardt and Burke readings

Tuesday

Aug 28

  • Lecture: Renaissance Thought
  • Analyzing point of view (POV)

 

Block

Aug 29

  • Presentations: Renaissance groups
  • Document-based questions (DBQ)
  • Due presentations
  • DBQ #1: Analysis, POV, thesis; due Friday

Friday

Aug 31

  • Lecture: finish Renaissance and New Monarchs
  • Due DBQ assignment
  • Read Ch 14 McKay, notes due Block Sept 6

Monday

Sept 3

  • Holiday
  • Holiday

Tuesday

Sept 4

  • Group essay assignment
  • Lecture: Reformation
  • Essay assignment and outline due Monday

Wednesday

Sept 5

(Restructured)

  • Essay: Compare and contrast the Italian Renaissance and the Northern Renaissance

 

Block

Sept 6

  • Discussion: The Reformation
  • Compare and Contrast: Catholic vs. Protestant
  • Video: Martin Luther
  • Due Ch 14 reading notes
  • Worksheet: Luther vs. Calvin, due Tuesday

Monday

Sept 10

  • Present group essays/outlines
  • Lecture: Reformation and Counter-reformation
  • Due index card Ch 14 IDs
  • Due group essay

Tuesday

Sept 11

  • Lecture: Finish Reformation
  • Geographic questions
  • Due Luther vs. Calvin worksheet

Block

Sept 12

  • Quiz review
  • Worksheet: Peace of Westphalia
  • DBQ #2: analysis and thesis
  • Read Ch 15 McKay, due Monday Sept 24

Friday

Sept 14

  • Quiz: Ch 13 and Ch 14

 

Monday

Sept 17

  • Essay quiz: Renaissance and Reformation

 

Tuesday

Sept 18

  • Lecture: Religious Wars
  • Readings: Jacob Fugger to Charles V, etc.

Block

Sept 19

  • Quick write: readings
  • Lecture: Religious Wars and Economic Renewal
  • Video: Queen Margo (20 min)
  • Assign presentations
  • Group presentations: Palmer sections 11, 12, 13, due next Block

Friday

Sept 21

  • Lecture: 30-year War
  • War Summary Chart : 30-year  war

 

Monday

Sept 24

  • Activity: Heinz’ Dilemma
  • Read: Montaigne’s “On Cannibals,” explain cultural relativism
  • Due Ch 15 reading notes

Tuesday

Sept 25

  • Group work: Palmer text
  • Due Ch 15 index cards (IDs)

Block

Sept 26

  • Presentations: Palmer sections
  • Discuss essays
  • Review for quiz

 

  • Due group presentations
  • Read Ch 16 McKay, due Monday Oct  8

Friday

Sept 28

  • Quiz: Ch 15
  • Review and discuss quiz

 

Monday

Oct 1

  • Essay quiz
  • Readings: Absolutism and the English Revolution

Tuesday

Oct 2

  • Lecture: The beginnings of English constitutionalism

 

Wednesday

Oct 3

(Restructured)

  • Discuss readings
  • Quiz: On readings

 

Block

Oct 4

  • Lecture: England and political change
  • Compare and contrast Thomas Hobbes and John Locke and their theory of government

 

Monday

Oct 8

  • Lecture: English Restoration and Absolutism
  • Worksheet: Louis XIV letters, due block
  • Due Ch 16 reading notes and ID cards

Tuesday

Oct 9

  • Review: Chief causes of English Civil War
  • Read pgs 562-563 in McKay, answer questions, due block

Block

Oct 10

  • Lecture: “When Louis XIV sneezed, all Europe caught a cold.”
  • Activity: With partner – What factors accounted for the rise and fall of Spain? (outside texts)
  • Due Louis XIV worksheet
  • Due McKay questions (pgs 562-563)
  • Read Ch 17 McKay, due Oct 23
  • Fall of Spain Activity due Monday

Friday

Oct 12

  • Lecture: The End of Spanish Absolutism

 

Monday

Oct 15

  • Define and identify baroque art and architecture (library research)
  • Due fall of Spain activity
  • Research due block

Tuesday

Oct 16

  • Lecture: The Dutch Republic in the 17th Century

 

Block

Oct 17

  • Discuss quick write topics
  • Present Baroque art and arch.
  • Lecture: Eastern European Absolutism
  • DBQ #4
  • Prep for quick write Friday
  • Due Baroque art and architecture

Friday

Oct 19

  • Quick write
  • Essay topics for next week
  • Prep for essays

Monday

Oct 22

  • Discuss absolutism and different approaches to government
  • Lecture: Eastern Europe

 

Tuesday

Oct 23

  • Review for quiz
  • Due Ch 17 reading notes

Block

Oct 24

  • Quiz Ch 16 and 17
  • Essay write
  • Due Ch 17 ID index cards
  • Read Ch 18 McKay, due Nov 5

Friday

Oct 26

  • Study guide: In pairs answer one question and present
  • Read Scientific Revolution readings, prepare for Tuesday

Monday