Tuesday
- Read: none
- Lecture: none
- Workshop: in-class DBQ
- White Elephant gift exchange
Week of December 16th
Happy Holidays!
Tuesday
Tuesday
Week of December 9th
Monday
- Exam 3
- Read: Palmer 155-162
- Lecture: English Civil War
- Workshop: DBQ
- Read: Palmer 162-169
- Lecture: English Civil War
- Workshop: DBQ
- Tuesday
- in-class DBQ
- holiday celebration
Week of December 2nd
Tuesday, Dec. 4
- Read: Absolutist political theory handouts
- Lecture: Absolutism
- Workshop: Discuss Reading
- Due: Three-part summary on Rise of Absolutism
- identify the following people:
- Don Juan
- William the Silent
- Henry of Navarre
- Cardinal Richelieu
- Albrecht von Wallenstein
- Gustavus Adolphus
- prepare parallel timelines for:
- Revolt of the Netherlands
- Religious Wars in France
- 30 Years' War
- answer the following question in a 1-2 paragraph response
- How did religious warfare lead to the rise of Absolutism in 16th-17th century Europe?
- Read: none
- Lecture: Clean-Up
- Workshop: exam review
Week of November 25th
Welcome back from Thanksgiving Break. I hope you all had a wonderful time with friends and family. We have two more weeks of study to complete this unit on the rise of Modern states (England, France, Spain, Holland & Germany).
*Our next exam is tentatively scheduled for Monday, December 10th.*
Monday
*Our next exam is tentatively scheduled for Monday, December 10th.*
Monday
- Read: none
- Lecture: War of Three Henrys
- Workshop: TBA
- Read: Palmer 130-141 (& map on 142-3)
- Lecture: Thirty Years' War
- Workshop: Mapping the 30 Years' War
- Read: Palmer 170-181
- Lecture: Absolutism & Louis XIV
- Workshop: Absolutist Political Philosophy
Week of November 11
Reading for the week:
- Palmer: 121-130
- Ginzburg: complete
- Lecture: Rise of England & the Dutch Republic
- Workshop: Essay Planning
- Lecture: finish rise of Atlantic states
- Workshop: notebooks
- Due: Ginzburg essay - respond to one of the prompts below
- be sure to include a strong, arguable thesis
- Analyze various ways that Ginzburg uses the combination of oral culture and printed works represented in Menocchio's trial to challenge the assumptions of conventional top-down intellectual historiography.
- Analyze various ways that the humanist values of the Renaissance and Reformation influenced Menocchio's religious worldview.
- Analyze various ways that Menocchio's trial reflects the interaction of Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter Reformation projects.
Week of November 4th
Tuesday, Nov 6
- Read: Palmer 106-114; Ginzburg 80-95
- Lecture: Rise of Spain & the Atlantic Economy
- Workshop: Discuss Ginzburg
- Read: Palmer 121-130; Ginzburg 95-110
- Lecture: Rise of England & the Dutch Republic
- Workshop: Essay Planning
- Analyze various ways that Ginzburg uses the combination of oral culture and printed works represented in Menocchio's trial to challenge the assumptions of conventional top-down intellectual historiography.
- Analyze various ways that the humanist values of the Renaissance and Reformation influenced Menocchio's religious worldview.
- Analyze various ways that Menocchio's trial reflects the interaction of Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter Reformation projects.
Week of October 28
*Post-Sandy Update*
Please be advised that in spite of the school closure on Tuesday, we will proceed with our scheduled exam on Thursday.
Tuesday CANCELLED
Please be advised that in spite of the school closure on Tuesday, we will proceed with our scheduled exam on Thursday.
Tuesday CANCELLED
- Read: Ginzburg to page 80
- Lecture: Exam review
- Workshop: Discuss Ginzburg
- Exam 2
Week of October 21
Monday, Oct 22
- Read: Palmer 93-98; Ginzburg 1-17
- Lecture: Catholic Counter-Reformation
- Workshop: Discuss Ginzburg
- Read: Ginzburg 18-58
- Lecture: Ginzburg Discussion
- Workshop: Building a body of knowledge
- Read: Ginzburg 58-100
- Lecture: Ginzburg Discussion
- Workshop: Exam prep
- Due: FRQ essay *optional - 2 page max*
- TBA
Week of October 14
Great job to everyone on the first unit. I was very pleased with the
exam scores, and especially the amount of preparation everyone displayed
through their notebooks. Hopefully you now have a sense of the rhythm
of the course and what it takes to be successful. As we move into the
next unit we are making a dramatic turn back to the origins of the Modern Period. At the same time, we will be adjusting to some very different textual materials and historiographical trends. Please ask lots of questions in class as you gain your footing on this unfamiliar ground.
Tuesday
Tuesday
- Read: Palmer 77-92
- Lecture: The Protestant Reformation
- Workshop: Building a Body of Knowledge
- Read: Palmer 93-98; Ginzburg xi-xxvi (both prefaces)
- Lecture: Catholic Counter-Reformation
- Workshop: Understanding New Cultural History
Week of October 7
If you have not already done so, please order Carlo Ginzburg's The Cheese and the Worms ASAP. We will begin reading that book next week.
**no school Monday**
Wednesday
**no school Monday**
Wednesday
- Read: Palmer 49-55
- Lecture: The Catholic Church & The Plague
- Workshop: exam recap & MC strategy
- Read: Palmer 56-69
- Lecture: Italian Renaissance
- Workshop: intro to New Cultural History
- Due: correct the MC questions you missed - include for each:
- one bullet point paraphrasing what the question is asking
- one bullet point for each distracter explaining why it is wrong
- one bullet point for the correct answer, explaining why it is the best answer
Week of September 30
This will be a substantially abbreviated week. We'll have our first exam on Monday, covering the headscarf controversy and related topics of the late-twentieth century. Beginning next week we will return to the Renaissance and begin working our way forward through the Modern Period.
Monday
Monday
- Exam 1
- no class - depart for class trip
- no class - return from class trip
Week of September 23
We will wrap up our study of the headscarf controversy this week by hosting Mr. Leclerq for a discussion on Monday. This week will also close out our first unit of study, and we will begin to prepare for an exam, scheduled for Monday, October 1st.
Monday
Monday
- Read: Palmer 1010-1021 (optional)
- Lecture: Europe & the Global Economy
- Discussion: Mr. Leclerq visit
- Due: DBQ essay
- Read: Palmer 946-950, 959-961, 966-969
- Lecture: Decolonization in French Africa
- Workshop: Exam Prep
- Due: complete review sheet
Week of September 16
Great first week of class! I especially enjoyed our discussion on Thursday, which I found very stimulating. I am quite impressed with the level of discourse and am glad to see so many of you participating in such a constructive dialogue. I think the current events in the Middle East tie in so nicely with our opening unit that we would be foolish to ignore them. In order to incorporate those more fully into our plans we will forego the Palmer text for this coming week. Here's the plan:
Tuesday, Sept 18
Tuesday, Sept 18
- Read: NY Times article
- Lecture: Europe, the Middle East and Modernity
- Homework: follow the news on protests in the Middle East over the weekend, and...
- Discuss: Joan Scott - Individualism
- Read: photocopied packet distributed in class
- Lecture: Social Movement Theory
- Discuss: Joan Scott - Sexuality
- Homework: read the documents in the DBQ on immigration and identify:
- the basic meaning of each
- the perspective of the author
- three docs for POV analysis
- three proposed groups
First two weeks of school (Sept. 5 - Sept. 14)
Here is an outline of what you can expect in Modern European History during the first two weeks of class.
*Please note that things are due to be completed on the day they are listed. For example, you are expected to complete the reading "Palmer 1099-1114" before class on Tuesday, Sept. 11.
Wednesday, Sept 5
*Please note that things are due to be completed on the day they are listed. For example, you are expected to complete the reading "Palmer 1099-1114" before class on Tuesday, Sept. 11.
Wednesday, Sept 5
- In-class: welcome, introductions & distribution of course materials
- this will be a shortened class (30-35 minutes)
- Read: NY Times Article
- Lecture: Anatomy of a Controversy
- Discussion: Joan Scott's argument
- Read: Palmer 1099-1114
- Lecture: Europe in the 21st Century
- Discussion: Joan Scott, cont.
- Due: reading notes
- Read: Palmer 1085-1099
- Lecture: Social Change and Social Movements
- Discussion: Headscarf Roundtable
- Due: summer reading essay
Getting Ready for School
Hi Everybody:
Just a couple of quick things as we're all getting ready to head back to school next week.
Mr. Stegeman
Just a couple of quick things as we're all getting ready to head back to school next week.
- Supplies - Organization is an important skill in any class, but especially one that studies 500 years of history. In order to keep our materials organized, I recommend that you keep notes, homework and handouts in one large (3" or so) three-ring binder with multiple dividers. Because that may become cumbersome to carry back and forth to class every day, it might also help to have a smaller binder or folder (with pockets) for the current unit so you can leave the big one at home. There will be periodic assessments of your notebook. I will distribute a rubric the first week of class.
- Summer Reading - We will begin discussing the summer reading assignment the first week of class, and the essay will be due the second week. Those assignments are posted on Sharepoint, which is accessible through the MPH Intranet Portal, or through this link directly: Summer Reading Assignments
Mr. Stegeman
Summer 2012
Wow! I can't believe it's over already. Thanks to everyone for a great year. I hope you enjoyed the class. Have a great summer and best of luck in all your future endeavors.
-Stegeman
-Stegeman
Week of May 13
Well, well, well... we finally made it. AP exam on Friday - I hope you all had a relaxing and enjoyable weekend. This week is historical film viewing in Modern European History. No homework - just show up!
Week of May 6
Monday
- DBQ planning exercise
- full practice MC exam
- Homework: review World War Era
- FRQ planning exercise
- last-minute prep
- Due: 2-3 page review of 20th century
- AP Exam - afternoon session
Week of April 29
Tuesday
**For the short essays on Exam 8, you may choose one of the two questions I wrote, and one of the three we wrote together in class on Tuesday. Those are listed below:
- Read: Merriman 1109-1119, 1127-1129
- Lecture: Postwar Europe
- Workshop: exam review
- Due: 2-3 page review of Long 19th Century
- Exam 8
**For the short essays on Exam 8, you may choose one of the two questions I wrote, and one of the three we wrote together in class on Tuesday. Those are listed below:
o
Explain the origins of the policy of appeasement and
how it charted the course of WWII.
o
How did the conclusion of WWII divide Europe into
two armed camps and lead to the Cold War?
o
How and why did the United Nations differ from the
League of Nations? What shortcomings were rectified? Which persisted?
Week of April 22
Remember that you should be working on AP review regularly for the next few weeks. To support that I will be checking your review on three occasions, when you should plan to submit at least 2-3 pages of review for each major section of the course. Also, we will have brief MC quizzes in class each day, which will include questions on the assigned reading as well as review topics identified as "homework" below.
Monday
Monday
- Read: Merriman 1049-1064
- Lecture: WWII
- Homework: review Renaissance & Reformation
- Read: Merriman 1065-1086
- Lecture: WWII
- Homework: review Rise of Spain & England, Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment
- Due: 2-3 page review of Early Modern Period
- Read: Merriman 1086-1103
- Lecture: Postwar Europe
- Homework: review French Revolution & Napoleonic Era
Week of April 15
Welcome back from Spring Break. We will hit the ground running this week by discussing our review plans for the upcoming AP exam. Only 26 days remaining...
Tuesday
Tuesday
- Read: none
- Lecture: Rise of Fascism and Authoritarianism
- Workshop: AP exam review planning
- Discuss: political violence
- Read: Merriman 1000-1012; 1035-1042
- *also* Joachim Fest - reading packet
- Lecture: Interwar Germany
- Workshop: MC questions practice & strategy session
Week of April 1
Tuesday
- Exam 7
- Read: Feitlowitz on Argentine Dirty War
- In-class: activity on political violence
Week of March 25
Please remember to bring permission slips with you on Monday. We will meet in the breezeway at 1:00. I will bring packed lunches, and we will return by 3:00-3:15.
Monday
exam 7 review sheet
part 1 - Feitlowitz
part 2 - Feitlowitz pt 2
Monday
- Read: first 20 pages of Feitlowitz pt 1 - link below
- if you have time you can read more, but try to at least read the introduction
- Class: trip to SU
- Lecture on Political Violence
- Read: Merriman 928-945
- Lecture: Russian Revolution
- Read: Merriman 949-954, 968-977, 989-992
- Lecture: Post-War problems of the 1920s
- Workshop: exam prep
- Homework: Read the introduction in Feitlowitz in part 1 link below. Answer the following questions:
- How is a "dirty war" different from other forms of political violence?
- Can we extend the concept to interwar Europe? How about earlier colonial encounters?
exam 7 review sheet
part 1 - Feitlowitz
part 2 - Feitlowitz pt 2
Week of March 18
This week we begin our discussion of the first half of the twentieth century. The reading load is fairly intense this week; and class sessions will be lecture-heavy. Once we wrap our heads around the complex events of this period we can look forward to more enrichment-type activities next week.
Tuesday
Tuesday
- Read: Merriman 863-888
- Lecture: Intro to WWI
- Read: Merriman 888-899, 914-926
- Lecture: Conclusion of WWI
- Due: 3-part summary
- identify the following terms
- a trois
- pan-Slav nationalism
- Young Turks
- Moroccan Crises
- Gavrilo Princip
- The Schlieffen Plan
- Trench Warfare
- Lusitania
- Zimmermann Telegram
- Western Front
- The 14 Points
- create a graphic organizer that portrays the system of alliances that led to WWI
- in a 1-2 paragraph response, answer the following question(s) [either, or, or both]
- Was it more significant to the end of WWI that the U.S. became involved, or that Russia left the conflict?
- Were the diplomatic decisions made by Germany responsible for the outbreak of WWI, or is the entire structure of strategic alliances to blame? (in other words, was it inevitable)
Week of March 11
Wednesday March 14
- Exam 6
- modified format - 8 ids & 2 long essays
- In-class DBQ
- review DBQ guidelines and rubric to study
- no outside information needed
Week of March 4
Tuesday, 3/6
Thursday, 3/8
- Read: Merriman 852-859; handout
- Lecture: Mechanisms of Imperial Rule
- Workshop: discuss Heart of Darkness
- Due: 3-part summary
- Identify the following terms:
- Fashoda Affair
- Boer War
- Opium Wars
- Boxer Rebellion
- Indian Mutiny
- Social Darwinism
- White Man’s Burden
- Orientalism
- Create a 2-column chart that lists the goals of European imperialism on one side, and the strategies use to attain them on the other
- In no less than a two-paragraph response, identify at least two inherent tensions between the rationale for imperialism and the practice of it. Be sure to address these issues from the perspective of the colonizers and the colonized.
Thursday, 3/8
- modified exam on Age of Imperialism
Week of February 26
Welcome back from winter break. Buckle your seatbelts, we've got a lot of work to do.
Monday
Monday
- Read: none
- Video: Leopold II, part 2
- Review: Merriman 819-835
- Lecture: Scramble for Africa
- Workshop: map exercise
- Read: Merriman 835-852: handout
- Lecture: The British in Asia
- Workshop: discuss Burmese Days
- Read: Merriman 852-859; handout
- Lecture: Mechanisms of Imperial Rule
- Workshop: discuss Heart of Darkness
- Due: 3-part summary
- Identify the following terms:
- Fashoda Affair
- Boer War
- Opium Wars
- Boxer Rebellion
- Indian Mutiny
- Social Darwinism
- White Man’s Burden
- Orientalism
- Create a 2-column chart that lists the goals of European imperialism on one side, and the strategies use to attain them on the other
- In no less than a two-paragraph response, identify at least two inherent tensions between the rationale for imperialism and the practice of it. Be sure to address these issues from the perspective of the colonizers and the colonized.
- modified exam on Age of Imperialism
Week of February 12
Tuesday
- Exam 5
- Read: Merriman 819-835
- Lecture: Scramble for Africa
- Workshop: Leopold II in the Congo
Week of February 5
Monday
- Read: "Readers Respond to Rousseau" in Cat Massacre, 215-253
- Watch: "How Facebook Changed the World: The Arab Spring" parts 2-4 on YouTube
- Homework: work on essay for Wednesday
- Read: Merriman 649-660
- Lecture: Italian Unification
- Due: FRQ essay
- Read: Merriman 660-673
- Lecture: German Unification
- Workshop: Exam 5 review session
- Homework: bring substantially completed review sheet to class
Week of January 29
Tuesday
- Read: Merriman 569-576; 593-598; 605-612
- Lecture: Restoration Europe
- Homework: score sample FRQ - be prepared to explain score in class
- Read: Merriman 613-626; 638-643
- Lecture: Revolutions of 1848
- Homework: begin preparing notes and outline for FRQ essay (due next Wednesday)
- In
the late nineteenth century, millions of workers and intellectuals proclaimed
Week of January 22
Monday 1/23
- Read: Merriman 513-527
- Lecture: Intro to Industrial Revolution
- Workshop: Textile Industry film
- Read: Merriman 547-563
- Lecture: Industrialization & Social Change
- Workshop: field trip to Mrs. Salter's room
- Due: 1-2 paragraph reading response
- Why did the Industrial Revolution happen in Europe? Why did it happen in Britain?
- Read: 563-568; Communist Manifesto excerpt
- Lecture: Marx's in Theory, History and Politics
- Workshop: discuss Marx
- Assign: first quarterly essay
Week of January 15
Tuesday
- Read: Merriman 479-482, 491-494, 510-512
- read the rest of the chapter "effectively"
- in particular, the sections you need to prepare for exam
- Lecture: Napoleon
- Workshop: exam review
- exam 4
Week of January 8
Tuesday
- Read: Darnton, "The Great Cat Massacre" (p 75-104)
- Lecture: 18th c. France
- Workshop: discuss Cat Massacre
- Read: Merriman 435-456
- Lecture: French Revolution
- Workshop: periodizing the French Revo
- Due: DBQ
Week of January 1
Happy New Year! I trust you all had a restful vacation. Now it's time to get back into the swing of things. We will need to be very productive for the next three weeks. Remember that the second quarter ends January 20. In order to kill Napoleon by that time we will move rapidly through the 18th century this week and next. We will have a DBQ essay due next week and an exam the following week. Buckle your seat belts...
Wednesday, Jan.4
Wednesday, Jan.4
- Reading: none
- Lecture: Science & Enlightenment
- Workshop: DBQ
- Reading: Merriman 360-375; intro to Cat Massacre 3-7
- Lecture: 18th century social change
- Workshop: intro Cat Massacre
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