AP EUROPEAN HISTORY 2015-2016
SOLON HIGH SCHOOL
ROB RIVERA
Most documents will be made available online. It is your responsibility to print off the documents for
each chapter prior to the beginning of the chapter. They should then be placed in your binder behind a
tab for that chapter or unit. This is vital to your success in this class as we move through the various
documents for each unit. Periodic checks of binders may be conducted.
ACADEMIC SCHEDULE UNITS 3 & 4
UNIT 3 (Ch. 13-14): England and France in the 17th Century and New Directions in Thought and
Culture in the 16th and 17th Centuries.
UNIT 4 (Ch. 15-16): Successful and Unsuccessful Paths to Power, Society and Economy Under the Old
Regime.
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Mon. Sept 28 – Unit 2 Exam - Homework for Wed. - Kagan 418 – 430, Create Stuart chart, Read &
HIPP - “True Laws of Monarchy”.
Tue. Sept. 29 – History through film: Elizabeth the Golden Age (Ch 12-19)
Wed. Sept. 30 – A Stuart on the throne to the Glorious Revolution – “Development of English
Constitutional Monarchy” – PPt Lecture/Discussion
Thu. Oct. 1 – Finish analysis of Cromwell through the Glorious Revolution - Homework – Read & HIPP
“An Assessment of Louis XIV” by Saint-Simon & Bossuet doc in reading Kagan 430-38.
Fri. Oct. 2 – Rise of Absolute Monarchy and Years of Louis XIV’s Rule, France – “French Absolutism”
PPt.
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Purchase Candide and bring to class on Friday, Nov. 6
Mon. Oct. 5 – Analyzing Versailles Homework – Kagan 438 – 445 & Chart Louis’ Wars (When? Who?
Why? Results?)
Tue. Oct. 6 – Analyzing Louis’ Foreign Policy. Post and analyze wars of Louis XIV
Wed. Oct. 7 – LEQ Day! Homework –Kagan 458 – 463, Read Locke/Hobbes packet, prepare for
debate
Thu. Oct. 8 – Prep day for debate. Homework – prepare for debate, individual typed arguments due
tomorrow
Fri. Oct. 9 – Locke vs Hobbes debate – relationship of people to government. Homework – Kagan 450457 - begin working on chart of thinkers
Mon. Oct. 12 – A Scientific Revolution: Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton: TimelineExplain Contribution-Explain Context
Tue. Oct. 13 –SAQ Day! Draw for individual – I’m the coolest person thus far in European history …
synthesize! Homework: Prepare for presentation!
NO CLASSES WED. OCT 14 – PSAT/ASPIRE TESTING
Thu. Oct. 15 – I’m the coolest person thus far in European history … Homework for Tuesday – Kagan
464-467
NO SCHOOL FRI. OCT. 16 – END OF FIRST QUARTER
Mon. Oct. 19 – Cosmos!
Tue. Oct. 20 – Bacon, Descarte, New Institutions, Women in the Scientific Revolution, Read/HIPP Swift and Cavendish Documents – Prep for debate. Homework – Kagan 468 – 478.
Wed. Oct 21 - New Science and Religious Faith, Continuing Superstition, Read/HIPP Galileo and Witch
Documents. Homework: Study for unit exam
Thu. Oct. 22 – Review for Unit 3 Exam (Ch 13 & 14). Homework – study- Framework Study Guide Due
Fri. Oct. 23 - Unit 3 Exam (Ch. 13 and 14): England and France in the 17th Century and New Directions in
Thought and Culture in the 16th and 17th Centuries.
Mon. Oct. 26 - Breaking down the DBQ Using Peasant Revolt - Homework – HIPP all the docs, draft
thesis/contextualization paragraph, draft 1 body paragraph & outline other body paragraphs: topic & bullet
points of docs and outside information you’d use as supporting evidence.
Tue. Oct. 27 – Breaking down our outlines and turning them into a coherent essay Take home DBQ on
Scientific Thinkers Due _________ - Homework – Kagan 482-494, Answer Key Questions on Maritme
Powers, Read/HIPP Hogarth Etchings & Montague Doc.
Wed. Oct.28 – Charting the + and – of each of the Maritime Powers: Netherlands, France, and England,
Read/HIPP - Montague Doc., Hogarth Etchings. Homework – Kagan 495 – 502 & complete your
assigned piece of chart on Central & Eastern Europe
Thu. Oct. 29 –. Central and Eastern Europe: Which Nations Are Ascending/Descending? (Sweden,
Ottoman Empire, Poland, Austria-Hungary, and Prussia), Read/HIPP Frederick William doc.
Homework – Kagan 503 – 509, Read/HIPP Letter to Alexi, Alexi’s reply
Fri. Oct. 30 – Peter the Great, the Rise of Russia, The Table of Ranks Doc., Letter to Alexei Doc
Homework –complete Questions on Old Regime, Kagan 514-528
Mon. Nov. 2 – SAQ - Roundtable WS Discussion on Louis XIV, the Old Regime: Aristocracy, Land
Tillers, Family Structure, Economy. Homework – Kagan 528-537, answer key questions
Tue. Nov. 3 - Agricultural and Industrial Revolution in the 18th Century: Plotting When Advances
Occurred and Impact on Industry/Agriculture/Daily Life. Homework – Kagan 537 – 547, answer key
questions, Read/HIPP Jewish Petition docs.
Wed. Nov. 4 – Growth of Cities, Jewish Population - Age of the Ghetto, Wakefield, Machinery, Jewish
Petition Docs. Homework –study for unit exam!
Thu. Nov. 5 – Review Day - Homework – Study & Framework Study Guide due tomorrow.
Fri. Nov. 6 –- Ch. 15 and 16 Test: Successful and Unsuccessful Paths to Power, Society and Economy
Under the Old Regime. Homework: Book Check Candide -complete questions by ________________