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
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