Week of October 30th

We will take our second quarterly exam on Wednesday of this week. You will have a chance to ask questions about any items you are unsure of during our review session on Monday, but we will also have other things to accomplish during that block. Please complete your review sheet as best you can and bring it to class. This will make the review session run much more smoothly, and I will check your review in class for a homework credit.

Monday

• Read: Merriman 118-123; Erasmus & Luther handout
• In-class: 
• student-led culture mini-lectures
• Erasmus & Luther discussion
• Exam review
• Due: completed exam review sheet

Wednesday

• Exam 2

Week of October 23rd

We've been making good progress through the Renaissance and Reformation periods. This week we will conclude our reading and lecture material on this unit, and get ready for an exam.

Tuesday

• Read: Merriman 98-103, 111-117
• Homework: detailed outline of DBQ essay
• In-class: reading quiz

Thursday

• Read: Merriman 121-122, 124-125; handouts
• Due: DBQ essay

*our next regular exam will be held November 2nd*

Week of October 16th

Good job on the exams last week. I am pleased that you are all working hard and am reassured that everybody has what it takes to be successful in course. I think a few of you will need to adjust your efforts to my expectations, but I think the exam identified for you where and how that needs to take place. If you have questions or concerns about this please speak to me this week. For those of you who will submit exam corrections, let's get those in by Friday at the latest.

This week's topics are outlined below. Note that you only have one 3-part summary due this week, but that it covers Monday's & Wednesday's reading. Please plan accordingly. Also, looking ahead, I will assign our next AP essay this week. Let's discuss in class if you would prefer to tackle another DBQ or switch it up with an FRQ.

Monday

• Topic: Renaissance art
• Read: Merriman 62-72

Wednesday

• Topic: Decline of Italian Ren. & Northern Ren.
• Read: Merriman 73-85
• Due: 3-part summary
1. create a comparative chart for the Italian & Northern Renaissances
2. identify the following: 
• Filippo Brunelleschi
• 3 paintings that illustrate important principles of the Renaissance
• 1453
• Niccolo Machiavelli
• Pope Leo X
• Albrecht Durer
• Desiderius Erasmus
3. In what ways does the Northern Renaissance represent a bridge between the Italian Renaissance and the Protestant Reformation?

Friday

• Topic: Intro to Protestant Reformation
• Read: Merriman 85-98
• Due: exam corrections

Week of October 9th

We are completing our introductory unit on post-WWII Europe this week with an exam on Tuesday. Please be sure to plan out your essays in as much detail as possible. Based on our review session last week I am confident that you are well-prepared for this exercise.

Looking ahead, now is the point in the course where we return to a more traditional chronological approach. Our next unit will include the Renaissance and Protestant Reformation. This will involve shifting gears a bit, but I am very pleased with our progress thus far, and think you have all demonstrated the skills needed to be successful in the class. I'm excited to go back into the deeper recesses of Europe's past and show you (for example) how a 21st-century controversy over secularism is rooted in the violence associated with the Reformation period.

Tuesday

• In-class: exam

Thursday

• Reading: Merriman, 44-62
• Due: 3-part summary (see below)

3-part Summary:

1. create a 3-column chart that illustrates the economic, social and political structures common to the Italian city-states
2. write term ids for the following:
• merchant capitalism
• populo grasso, mediocri, minuto
• Medici
• Sforza
• Scholasticism
• Humanism
3. 1-paragraph response to reading question: Describe how the economic, political and social environment of the Italian city-states led to the rediscovery of classical knowledge?