AP European History Mr. Angle
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Week 7
District In-service (Columbus Day)
Tuesday (10/14)
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Homework: Unit 2 Free Response Exam (Short Answer)
Exam : Unit 2 Free Response Exam (MC and ID)
Unit 3: The Age of Absolutism and Constitutionalism
Homework : Read each assignment and complete the appropriate task
 McKay: Chapter 15: “Absolutism and Constitutionalism” Pages 469-475
Lecture Questions :
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What factors led to the rise of the French absolutist state under Louis XIV?
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What is mercantilism?
Activating Strategy : Create a diagram of French monarchs and advisors
Teaching Strategy : Lecture: Absolutism in France
Summarization : Create a list of actions Louis made to centralize power.
Homework : Read each assignment and complete the appropriate task
 McKay: Chapter 15: “Absolutism and Constitutionalism” Pages 475-478
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Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet: Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy
Scripture
Lecture Questions :
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How did the French military change?
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What are the results Louis XIV wars?
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What is the result of the War of Spanish Succession?
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Why did absolutist Spain experience decline in the same period?
Activating Strategy : List the arguments made for an absolute monarch by JB
Bossuet
Teaching Strategy : Lecture: Louis XIV, his wars, War of Spanish Succession
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Summarization : Complete and discuss McKay (pg 477)
Lecture Questions :
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What questions or concerns exist from the Unit 2 Exam?
Activating Strategy : Return the test
Teaching Strategy : Review: Unit 2 Exam
Summarization : Discuss areas in which we need to improve.
Monday (10/20)
Week 8
Homework :
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Weisner: Chapter 2 (Just read the packet and examine the pictures)
Lecture Questions :
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How does the entire French society become focused around the idea of the absolute monarch?
Activating Strategy : Describe ways in which companies or a government might extend its role into multiple areas of society.
Teaching Strategy
: Lecture: “I am the State”
Summarization : Create a list of ways in which Louis built the image of the perfect monarch and compare it modern examples.
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AP European History
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Mr. Angle
Homework : Read each assignment and complete the appropriate task
 McKay: Chapter 15: “Absolutism and Constitutionalism” Pages 478-482
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McKay: Chapter 16: “Toward a New Worldview” Pages 529-536
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McKay (pg 532): Analyze map and answer the questions.
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Frederick the Great: Essay on the Forms of Government (B/St.M)
Lecture Questions :
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How did absolutism develop and shape Prussia?
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How did absolutism develop and shape Austria?
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What is an enlightened despot?
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In what ways did enlightened despotism shape Prussia and Austria?
Activating Strategy : Locate Prussia and Austria on the map of Europe
Teaching Strategy : Lecture: Absolutism in Austria and Prussia
Summarization : Ticket out the door: List 2 ways these nations are similar to
France and 2 ways they are unique
Homework : Read each assignment and complete the appropriate task
 McKay: Chapter 15: “Absolutism and Constitutionalism” Pages 482-489
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McKay: A German Account of Russian Life
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Peter the Great: Edict and Decrees (B/St.M)
Lecture Questions :
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How did the Russia state emerge as a nation?
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What reforms did Peter the Great institute in Russia?
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What is the basic structure of the Ottoman Empire?
Activating Strategy : Locate and discuss the strategic importance of Russia and the Ottoman Empire.
Teaching Strategy : Lecture: The Development of Russia and the Ottoman Empire
Summarization : List ways in which these two nations are not “European”
Homework : Read the assignment and complete the appropriate task
 McKay: Chapter 15: “Absolutism and Constitutionalism” Pages 496-497
Lecture Questions :
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What is Baroque Art?
Activating Strategy : Compare and contrast a Baroque painting to a Renaissance
Painting
Teaching Strategy : Lecture: Baroque Art and Identification of a wide variety of artists (using knowledge of history and religion)
Summarization : Activity: Art identification
Homework : Read each assignment and complete the appropriate task
 McKay: Chapter 15: “Absolutism and Constitutionalism” Pages 489-496
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McKay: Diary of an English Villager
Lecture Questions :
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What efforts were made for absolute monarchy in England?
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What is the English Civil War and its outcomes?
Activating Strategy : List the core ideas of absolutism
Teaching Strategy : Lecture: The English Civil War
Summarization : List the ways in which England is different than the standard absolutist nation?
Monday (10/27)
Week 9
Homework : Read each assignment and complete the appropriate task
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Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Mr. Angle
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Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan (B/St.M)
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James I: True Law of Free Monarchies and A Speech to Parliament (Kishlansky)
Lecture Questions :
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Who is Oliver Cromwell?
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What impact does the English Civil War have upon the people of England?
Activating Strategy : Discuss the viewpoint on human nature held by T. Hobbes.
Teaching Strategy : Lecture: The Glorious Revolution
Summarization : List the ways in which Charles II and James II failed under the
British system of monarchy
Homework : Read each assignment and complete the appropriate task
 McKay: Chapter 15: “Absolutism and Constitutionalism” Pages 496-497
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Bill of Rights (B/St.M)
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John Locke: Second Treaties of Civil Government… (B/St.M)
Lecture Questions :
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What role did Protestantism and Catholicism play in England during the
17c?
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What is the Glorious Revolution?
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In what ways was the Dutch Republic unique?
Activating Strategy : List the ways in which Charles II and James II failed under the
British system of monarchy
Teaching Strategy : Lecture: The Glorious Revolution (cont.) and Dutch Republic
Summarization : Create a list of ways in which the Dutch Republic is unique.
Homework : MC Review Set I
Activating Strategy: Begin the review process
Teaching Strategy : Activity: Review for Exam on Units 1-3
Summarization : Continue the review process
Homework : Complete practice MC test
Activating Strategy: Begin the review process
Teaching Strategy : Activity: Review free response question themes for exam
Summarization : Continue the review process
Activating Strategy: Discuss the definition of a DBQ
Teaching Strategy : Activity: Introduction to the Document-based Question (DBQ) writing
Summarization : Discuss the homework and review the practice examples from the lesson
Monday (11/3)
Tuesday
Wednesday
End of 1 st
Quarter
Thursday
Friday
Week 10
Teaching Strategy : Exam: Units 1-3: (MC and ID)
Teaching Strategy : Exam: Units 1-3: (Free Response Question)
Homework : DBQ practice exam
Activating Strategy: Review the DBQ rubric and discuss the key points
Activity : Peer Review of the DBQ
Summarization : Discuss the challenges of a DBQ
Homework : DBQ practice exam
Activating Strategy: Review the DBQ rubric and discuss the key points
Activity : Peer Review of the DBQ
Summarization : Discuss the challenges of a DBQ
Teaching Strategy : Exam: DBQ
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