Tuesday
- Read: Merriman 98-103, 111-117
- Homework: detailed outline of DBQ essay
- In-class: reading quiz
- Read: Merriman 121-122, 124-125; handouts
- Due: DBQ essay
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
Tuesday
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
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
- Topic: Decline of Italian Ren. & Northern Ren.
- Read: Merriman 73-85
- Due: 3-part summary
- create a comparative chart for the Italian & Northern Renaissances
- identify the following:
- Filippo Brunelleschi
- 3 paintings that illustrate important principles of the Renaissance
- 1453
- Niccolo Machiavelli
- Pope Leo X
- Albrecht Durer
- Desiderius Erasmus
- In what ways does the Northern Renaissance represent a bridge between the Italian Renaissance and the Protestant Reformation?
- 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
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
- Reading: Merriman, 44-62
- Due: 3-part summary (see below)
- create a 3-column chart that illustrates the economic, social and political structures common to the Italian city-states
- write term ids for the following:
- merchant capitalism
- populo grasso, mediocri, minuto
- Medici
- Sforza
- Scholasticism
- Humanism
- 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?
Week of October 2nd
We'll be concluding our introductory unit on twentieth-century European history this week. We have discussed a number of very complex issues that are deeply rooted in several centuries of European history that we have not yet worked our way through. Good job with that! I'm looking forward to going back to the Renaissance next week and then working our way to the present in a linear fashion.
Tuesday, Oct.4
Tuesday, Oct.11
Tuesday, Oct.4
- Read: Merriman 1160-1175
- Lecture: Decolonization
- Due: 3-part summary
- timeline/outline of major developments discussed in reading
- brief biographical sketch of 4 important figures from the period
- reading question: Give three primary reasons that European powers lost control of their colonial holdings in the decades following WWII.
- Read: none
- Homework: review sheet
- In class: exam review
Tuesday, Oct.11
- In class: Exam 1
Week of September 25
Cold War Week!!
I read your 3-part summaries over the weekend and was pretty pleased with how they turned out. I think these will be an excellent way to help you build a body of knowledge for your AP review in the spring. Let's do another one for this week's reading on the Cold War. Please turn it in as one assignment on Friday, but make it cover both days' reading. This time the three parts should include:
Tuesday Sept. 27
I read your 3-part summaries over the weekend and was pretty pleased with how they turned out. I think these will be an excellent way to help you build a body of knowledge for your AP review in the spring. Let's do another one for this week's reading on the Cold War. Please turn it in as one assignment on Friday, but make it cover both days' reading. This time the three parts should include:
- Separate timelines for the Fall of Soviet Union and Cold War periods (be sure to emphasize major trends rather than details)
- Examples of leaders from each major period in Soviet history (do 7 total - at least 3 should be from outside Soviet Union - be sure to make explicit the trends they represent)
- In one substantial paragraph, answer the following questions: How were the seeds of the Soviet Union's decline sown during the height of the Cold War? To what extent did it result from poor leadership within Soviet Russia, and to what extent were challenges from other nationalities to blame?
Tuesday Sept. 27
- 1188-1196; 1213-1218
- 1147-1160
Week of Sept. 18
We will only meet one time this week due to the senior class trip Wednesday through Friday. On Monday I will hand out our first DBQ exercise, we will discuss strategy as a class, and you will then submit it the following Tuesday.
Monday Sept. 19
Monday Sept. 19
- Read: Merriman 1176-1186
- DUE: 3-part summary, see below
- create a simple timeline of the political trends that swept Western and Southern Europe from 1968 to present (separate timelines for each region)
- choose the one political leader for each of the following countries that you think is most important, and briefly state how they fit into the trends outlined above: Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain & Portugal
- briefly compare the two regions, noting at least one similarity and one difference
Week 1 - Welcome & Introduction
Welcome to Modern European History. In the first week of school we will introduce the course and discuss its various elements, one of which is this blog. Please know that homework and reading assignments are posted here weekly. For this week they are:
- Thursday Sept. 15th
- Read: Merriman, 1219-1226
- DUE: Summer reading assignment
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