Week of November 27th

Tuesday

• Reading: none
• Lecture: Tudor England
• Workshop:
• debrief FRQ essays
• FRQ scoring exercise

Thursday

• Reading: Merriman 214-226; James I
• Lecture: English Civil War
• Due: Timeline
• Map the following term ids onto a timeline of the English Civil War
• Rump Parliament
• Levellers
• Roundheads
• New Model Army
• Grand Remonstrance
• John Pym

Week of November 13

Monday

• Read: Merriman 145-161
• Lecture: Thirty Years' War
• Homework: FRQ outline
• collect information from your reading and organize into an outline
• this will help you write the essay due Wednesday
• you do not have to hand it in

Wednesday

• Read: Merriman 165-178
• Lecture: Atlantic Economy & Spain's Ascent
• Due: FRQ essay
Analyze various ways in which the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648) represented a
turning point in European history.

Friday

• Read: Merriman 179-198
• Lecture: Rise of Tudor England
• Due: Comparative chart
• compare England & Spain in the 16th century - use the consolidations of state power and economic expansion as analytic categories.

Week of November 6

Whew!! We made it through the first marking period. In several ways the transition from the Protestant Reformation to the Age of Religious Wars is pretty seamless. This week we will begin by filling in some gaps in the Reformation (namely events in France and Switzerland) and then talking about religious conflict in France, before moving on to the 30 Years' War next week.

Monday

• Read: Merriman 103-111, 126-129
• Lecture: Reformation in France, Switzerland; Intro to Religious Wars Period
• Due: none

Wednesday

• Read: Merriman 129-145
• Lecture: Religious Conflict in France
• Due: 3-part summary
1. identify 5 religious reformers from the Reformation period
2. compare them in a chart with 3 analytic categories
• personal lives
• doctrine
• political role
3. write a one-paragraph analysis of the transition from reform to religious warfare in France