AP European History Assignments
- Instructor
- Danielle Aucoin
- Term
- Fall 2019
- Department
- Social Studies Department
- Description
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AP European History covers the study of Europe circa 1450-present day. Students will examine 9 Units divided into 4 Periods as prescribed by College Board:Fall semester includes:Period 1: 1450-1648 (Renaissance, Exploration, and Reformation - 2 Units)Period 2: 1648-1815 (Absolutism & Constitutionalism, Scientific Revolution & Enlightenment, the late 18th Century and the French Revolution and Napoleon - 3 Units)Spring semester includes:Period 3: 1815-1914 (Industrialization and the Concert of Europe, the 19th Century - 2 Units)Period 4: 1914-present (20th-Century Global Conflicts, the Cold War, Contemporary Europe - 2 Units)This survey course covers political, economic, religious, social, intellectual, geographic, and art history over that time period.Use the links below for further resources throughout the year.
Upcoming Assignments
No upcoming assignments.
Past Assignments
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French Revolution Speed Dating
Winter Break assignment - Art History next section, Euro Themes (posted on Schoology)
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Final Exam MC (Period 2 1648-1815)
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The Congress of Vienna
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Periods 2 (1648-1815) SAQ
RQ, part 2
Napoleon the Conqueror
Napoleon's Fall - Napoleon's Hundred Days and Legacy
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Period 2 (1648-1815) SAQ
RQ, part 2
Conservative Phase and Rise of Napoleon
Napoleon's rise to power and Domestic Reforms
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PDD
Speed Dating Profiles DUE
Finish the Radical Phase
Conservative Phase under the Directory
the Brumaire Coup
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DBQ - period 2 (1648-1815)
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Robespierre's Republic of Virtue
Thermidorian Reaction
HW: Complete Boxes #7-10, Crane Britton
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Periods 1 (1450-1648) SAQ
The Radical Phase - the National Convention
The Reign of Terror
Robespierre
HW: Complete Boxes #4-6 Crane Britton
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RQ - Ch. 19, Part I
The Legislative Assembly
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The French Revolution
Crane Britton: The Course of Revolution
The Fall of the Bastille
The Great Fear
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
October Days
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1. Read and annotate, The Civil Constitution of the Clergy and watch video, TR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49Fhd5iUfOo
2. Read and annotate, Rights of Woman and Female Citizen and watch video, TR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG3Zg12YcUQ&list=PLfzs_X6OQBOwDhTlP9P__DSDQCVNpS1zj&index=3
2. Complete Boxes #2-3 of Crane Britton
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Ch. 19 RG DUE
RESOURCES DUE (last 20-week)
Ch. 19: The French Revolution
What Caused the French Revolution?
What was Revolutionary about the French Revolution?
The French Revolution: the Early Phase, 1789-1791
Intro to Crane Britton's Anatomy of a Revolution (due TBD)
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DBQ - Period 2
French Revolution Speed Dating Assignments (due 12/9)
Ch. 19 RG due Monday 12/2
RESOURCES (due 12/2):
HHH: Ch. 19A The Beginning of the French Revolution (37 min.)
HHH: Ch. 19B The French Revolution (55 min.)
HHH: Ch. 19C Napoleon (37 min.)
Tom Richey:
1. The French Revolution Parts I-III, V, VI
Part 1-The Old Regime 8 min.
Part 2-The Estates-General 11 min.
Part 3-The National Assembly 12 min.
Part 6-Radicalization of the French Revolution 20 min.
Part 7-Reign of Terror, Part 1 14 min.
Part 8-Reign of Terror, Part 2 17 min.
2. Women of the French Revolution Series
Part I: Intro (8 min.)
Part 2: Marie Antoinette (11 min.)
Part 4: Mary Wollstonecraft vs Burke (6 min.)
Part 5: Charlotte Corday (12 min.)
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Exam: Sci Rev, Enlightenment, 18th Century MC + SAQ
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The Proto-Industrial Revolution and the Agricultural Revolution
Economics in an Age of Enlightenment
Marriage and Family Life in the 18th Century
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PDD
Ch. 18 RG DUE
Ch. 17-18 RQ
Enlightened Monarchs
Resources due (Enlightened Absolutism and British Agricultural Revolution)
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Grand Tour, Barista Projects Due
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Final Exam MC (Period 2 1648-1815)
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High and Popular Culture in the 18th Century
Ch. 18: European States, Wars, and Social Change
Grand Tour Assignments (due Monday with Barista Project)
Social Class Diary Assignments (due with Reading Guide on Tuesday)
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Enlightenment Society
Enlightenment Politics and Wars: Despotism
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TR: Enlightened Absolutism
TR: British Agricultural Revolution and Enclosure Movement (13 min.)
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Culture and Society in the 18th Century
High vs. Popular Culture
The Grand Tour (due 11/18)
Art: Rococo to Neoclassicism
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Ch. 17 RG DUE
Spread of the Enlightenment
Women in the Enlightenment
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Art Website Deadline #3 (Neoclassicism)
The Philosophes
Barista-Sci Rev Project (due 11/15)
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Ch. 16 RG DUE
Ch. 17: The Enlightenment
Origins (Context) and Characteristics
Barista Project (due 11/15)
RESOURCES (for 20-week, due Tuesday 11/12):
TR - The Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment Compared
TR - Voltaire on Religion
TR - Enlightened Absolutism
PS - What was the Enlightenment
PS - Who was Voltaire?
PS - Who was Rousseau?
HHH - Ch. 18 The Enlightenment, Part II
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Work day: Art History (deadline Friday 11/8) and Ch. 16 RG (due 11/7)
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15-Week Resources DUE
Anatomy
Women in Science
Impact on Society
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The Scientific Revolution
Origins and Causes
Astronomy + Anatomy
HW: Ch. 16 RG (due Thursday 11/7)
15-week Resources (due Tues 11/5):
Hank's History Hour: Ch. 18, Part I: The Scientific Revolution - 25 min.
TR: Cogito Ergo Sum: Renes Descartes (9 min.)
TR: Deductive and Inductive Reasoning (Bacon vs Aristotle) (8 min.)
TR: Copernicus and Galileo: A Scientific Revolution (20 min.)
TR: Copernicus and Galileo: A Scientific Revolution (20 min.)
TR: Newton and Locke (6 min.)
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Present Absolutists
15-week Resources (due Tues 11/5):
Hank's History Hour: Ch. 18, Part I: The Scientific Revolution - 25 min.
TR: Cogito Ergo Sum: Renes Descartes (9 min.)
TR: Deductive and Inductive Reasoning (Bacon vs Aristotle) (8 min.)
TR: Copernicus and Galileo: A Scientific Revolution (20 min.)
TR: Copernicus and Galileo: A Scientific Revolution (20 min.)
TR: Newton and Locke (6 min.)
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Absolutist Project
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The Glorious Revolution
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PDD
RESOURCES DUE
RQ - Ch. 15
17th Century England
The English Civil War
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Constitutionalism in Western Europe
Dutch Golden Age
Tulip Mania
Art: The Dutch Style
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Absolute Show Down - Larger than Life Monarchs
RESOURCES (due Tuesday 10/29):
TR: Dutch Golden Age Painting (18 min.)
TR: The Stuarts (4 parts)
James I (19 min.)
Charles II (23 min.)
Charles II and the Restoration (16 min.)
James II and the Glorious Rev (28 min.)
Hobbes vs. Locke (16 min)
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Absolute Show Down - Larger than Life Monarchs.
Absolutism vs Constitutionalism
The Dutch Republic
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Emerging Empires - Russia: Romanovs under Peter the Great
Absolutism chart - complete your assigned absolutist
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Resources DUE
Eastern Absolutism - Emerging Empires:
Prussia - Hohenzollerns
Russia - Romanovs
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Eastern European Absolutism - Aging Empires (HOP)
Emerging Empires - Austrian Habsburgs
RESOURCES:
Tom Richey, Peter the Great (26 min.)
RESOURCES: Land of the Tsars Episodes 6-10 (about 10 minutes each)
**Episode 6 Peter the Great - link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ggZzZWVXzw
Episode 7 Streltsy Revolt - link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfhe4BTp2-g
**Episode 8 Great Western Tour - link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k0O-zsJgrc&t=37s
**Episode 9 Great Northern War - link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD_I2nBB5RE&t=29s
Episode 10 End of Peter's Reign - link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL3B9NCD_vk&t=171s
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Ch. 15 RG DUE
Eastern vs Western Absolutism
Absolutism in Eastern Europe
Aging Empires (HOP)
Emerging Empires (RAP)
Austrian Habsburgs (emerging)
RESOURCES (due Tuesday 10/22):
Tom Richey, Peter the Great (26 min.)
RESOURCES: Land of the Tsars Episodes 6-10 (about 10 minutes each)
**Episode 6 Peter the Great - link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ggZzZWVXzw
Episode 7 Streltsy Revolt - link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfhe4BTp2-g
**Episode 8 Great Western Tour - link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k0O-zsJgrc&t=37s
**Episode 9 Great Northern War - link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD_I2nBB5RE&t=29s
Episode 10 End of Peter's Reign - link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL3B9NCD_vk&t=171s
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Wars of Louis XIV
Resources DUE
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PSAT
Religious and Cultural Policies of Louis XIV
Website Part 2 due today
Reminder: Resources Due Thursday
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PDD
Versailles Webquest DUE
Period 2 (1648-1815), Ch. 15, Part II - Absolutism and Constitutionalism
Louis XIV + Baroque Arts
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SAQ (period 1 comprehensive)
DBQ Workshop Part 2 - document usage and analysis
RESOURCES (due Thursday):
Tom Richey - Louis XIV (15 min.) AND Mercantilism (18 min)
TR: Divine Right of Kings (13 min.)
TR: Wars of Louis XIV (11 min.) and War of Spanish Succession (8 min.)
TR: Prussian Absolutism (14 min)
HHH: Ch. 16, Part I - Absolutism in Western Europe (37 min.)
HHH: Ch. 17 Eastern Europe (34 min)
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Period 1 MIDTERM
Exam part II - SAQ (postponed due to fires until Monday)
DBQ Workshop: Context and Thesis practice
TR How to Write the DBQ Videos, Part I (watch Parts II and III over the weekend and take notes on the back of the DBQ rubric).
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Versailles Webquest due 10/15
Art History Deadline #2 (Baroque) due 10/16
Start Ch. 15 part 2 + RG (due 10/18)
RESOURCES (due Thursday):
Tom Richey - Louis XIV (15 min.) AND Mercantilism (18 min)
TR: Divine Right of Kings (13 min.)
TR: Wars of Louis XIV (11 min.) and War of Spanish Succession (8 min.)
TR: Prussian Absolutism (14 min)
HHH: Ch. 16, Part I - Absolutism in Western Europe (37 min.)
HHH: Ch. 17 Eastern Europe (34 min)
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Period 1 (1450-1648) MIDTERM
55 SBMC
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PDD
Results of the 30 Years' War
The Military Revolution
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30 Years' War HW Due
All Resources DUE (10 Week)
Notes: 30 Years' War
Sources: 30 Years' War
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English Civil War
HW: 30 Years' War Activity (Schoology) due Monday
RESOURCES: (DUE MONDAY FOR 10-WEEK)
1. Tides of History: Military Revolution (Minisode 19 min.)
2. Tides of History: Beer, Brewsters, and Women's Work (45 min.)
3. Tides of History: Heresy, Witch Hunts, and Inquisition (47 min.)
4. HHH: Ch. 15 Part I - The Religious Wars (War of the 3 Henries, the Dutch Revolt, the 30 Years War 38 min.)
5. TR: The Thirty Years' War (16 min.)
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Ch. 15 RG DUE
Phillip II of Spain
The Dutch Revolt
The Spanish Armada
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Habsburg - Valois Wars
French Wars of Religion
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SAQs (Renaissance and Reformation)
RQ - Ch. 13
Malleus Mallefaricum
Ch. 15 - Religious Wars
Wars of Religion 1559-1648
French Wars of Religion
HW: Work on RG (due Thursday)
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Finish notes on Catholic vs Protestant women
Work on AP Classroom - Unit 2 MC is unlocked
Work on Art History Websites (Baroque - due 10/16)
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RQ Ch. 13 on Tuesday + SAQs (Renaissance and Reformation)
Start Ch. 15 - Wars of Religion
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Resources DUE
Protestant and Catholic Women
Baroque Art and Music
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The Catholic-Counter Reformation - Pope Paul III and the Council of Trent
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PDD
The English Reformation
Resources (due Thursday):
Tides - The Reformation, Live from Boston (44 min.)
TR: The Causes of the Reformation (10 min.)
TR: Martin Luther and His Reformation (18 min.)
TR: Martin Luther's Doctrines (15 min.)
TR: Introduction to Calvinism (14 min.)
TR: The English Reformation Parts I (10 min.) & II (11 min.)
TR: The Six Wives of Henry VIII (12 min.)
TR: The Catholic Counter Reformation (14 min.)
TR: Baroque Art, Part I: Painting (12 min.)
TR: Baroque Art, Part II: Sculpture and Architecture (13 min.)
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Ch. 13 RG DUE
The 2nd Reformation: Calvinism, Zwingli, Anabaptism
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The Spread of Protestantism
Geography of the Reformation
HW: continue to work on RG (due Monday)
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Utopian Societies
Erasmus - In Praise of Folly
Luther's Reformation
Resources (due Thursday):
Tides - The Reformation, Live from Boston (44 min.)
TR: The Causes of the Reformation (10 min.)
TR: Martin Luther and His Reformation (18 min.)
TR: Martin Luther's Doctrines (15 min.)
TR: Introduction to Calvinism (14 min.)
TR: The English Reformation Parts I (10 min.) & II (11 min.)
TR: The Six Wives of Henry VIII (12 min.)
TR: The Catholic Counter Reformation (14 min.)
TR: Baroque Art, Part I: Painting (12 min.)
TR: Baroque Art, Part II: Sculpture and Architecture (13 min.)
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Ch. 13: The Reformation
Geography - Reformation Europe
Prelude to the Reformation
Christian Humanism - Erasmus
Utopia - Sir Thomas More
HW: Work on RG (due Monday)
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PDD
Resources DUE
Social and Economic Changes
The Commercial Revolution
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Practice SAQ (Exploration)
Read Ch. 13 - work on IDs and RG
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Spain and Columbus
Art History Links due
Reminder: Resources due 9/17
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Ch. 14 RG DUE
RQ
Portugal
Treaty of Tordesillas
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First deadline for Art History website due Monday
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The Age of Exploration
The Atlantic Five - Activity
HW: work on RG + IDs and EC Resources (due Friday)
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Exam: The Renaissance (SBMC) + SAQ
Ch. 14: The Age of Exploration
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Start Ch. 14: Europe and the World, New Encounters (1500-1800)
The Age of Exploration Activity
RG + IDs due Friday, 9/13
RESOURCES (due Tuesday 9/17):
TR: The Age of Exploration (9 min.)
HHH: Chapter 15, Part II – The Age of Exploration (35 minutes)
PS: #19 What Motivated the Age of Exploration? (5 min.)
Tides: 1492 - A Guided Tour of Europe of the Brink (54 min.)
Tides: Heresy, Witch Hunts, and Inquisition (47 min.)
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5-week Resources Due (include the cover sheet on Schoology)
Rise of New Monarchies
Skills: ACE the SAQ
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Art History Website development day
CH. 12 READING QUIZ
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Northern Renaissance Art and Mannerism
RESOURCES (due Tuesday 9/10):
TR: The Italian Renaissance (18 min.)
TR: Renaissance Art (16 min.)
TR: The Northern Renaissance (12 min.)
Tides: Civil Servants, State Finance, and the Rising State (53 min.)
Tides: Queen Isabella and the End of the Reconquista (56 min.)
Tides: The Spanish Inquisition, Expulsion of the Jews, and the Rise of Spain (52 min.)
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Art in the Renaissance: Italian - the Venetian School
Northern Renaissance
Mannerism
Skills: Comparison - Italian and Northern Renaissance
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Women in the Renaissance
Paper Dolls DUE
Italian Renaissance Art
RESOURCES (due Monday 9/9):
TR: The Italian Renaissance (18 min.)
TR: Renaissance Art (16 min.)
TR: The Northern Renaissance (12 min.)
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EC DUE
Italian City-States
Medici Notes - comparison skill
Humanism
Machiavelli (School of Life)
HW: Paper Dolls due tomorrow
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Min. Day
Complex Split Thesis Due
Art History Group Assignments Due
Renaissance Paper Dolls (due Wed 9/4)
EC Resources (due Tuesday 9/3):
Tom Richey (TR): Machiavelli - The Prince
Tides of History (Podcast): The Rise and Fall of the Medici Bank
Crash Course WH#22: The Renaissance: Was it a Thing?
Hank's History Hour (HHH) #13: The Renaissance
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Ch. 12 RG + IDs + Tides EC DUE
Ch. 12: The Renaissance: Was it a Thing?
Doc Analysis: Interpretations of the Renaissance (Burckhardt vs Burke)
Complex Split Thesis writing - Burckhardt v Burke (skills + content)
Notes
HW: Finish complex split thesis
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PDD
Ch. 12: The Renaissance: Was it a Thing?
Doc Analysis: Interpretations of the Renaissance
Notes
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Maps DUE
Geography QUIZ (1500 only)
Finish: The Calamitous 14th Century
Period 1 (1450-1648): Ch. 12 - The Renaissance
Projects: Renaissance Paper Dolls
HW: Work on RG + IDs (DUE WEDNESDAY)
Extra credit: due Wednesday, 8/28
Tides of History -
1. Classic Tides: Life in Renaissance Florence (54 min.)
2. Machiavelli's Laboratory: The Politics of Renaissance Italy (57 min.)
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Period 1 - 1450-1648, Unit 1 The Renaissance
Ch. 12: The Renaissance
CW: How to write an ID and complete Reading Guides
Extra credit: due Wednesday, 8/28
Tides of History -
1. Episodes 19 Printing Press
2. Episode 29 Effects of Hundred Years' War
3. Classic Tides: Life in Renaissance Florence (54 min.)
4. Machiavelli's Laboratory: The Politics of Renaissance Italy (57 min.)
HW:
Work on The Calamitous 14th Century handout (read and annotate)
Read Ch. 12 (The Renaissance - ALL) and work on RG + IDs (instructions on Schoology) - DUE WEDNESDAY 8/28
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Medici Video Notes and signed Syllabus DUE
Art History Website Project
finish Middle Ages review and Four Horsemen
How does it work?
Reading Guides + IDs
Extra Credit
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Syllabus; Remind; Schoology
Contextualizing the Renaissance
Middle Ages in Review (in 3 min.)
Discussion:
City of Ladies - Pizan
The Four Horsemen - Durer
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AP Euro Intro
Middle Ages Review: Classwork - Christine de Pizan, Advice to the Wives of Artisans and Durer's Four Horsemen (can work in groups of 2-3, no larger)
Syllabus (DUE Thursday)