AP Euro
Unit 6
Chapter 16: Toward a New Worldview, 1540 to 1789
■ 10/21 to 11/4
 Read pgs. 502-539
● The Scientific Revolution
● The Enlightenment
● Enlightened Absolutism
10/23 Fri
Assign – Chapter16 Outline, Learning Targets answered, extra questions answered due 11/4
Assign reading – p. 502 – 508 – due 10/23
10/26 Mon
Go over Age of Absolutism Test
Assign - The Impact of Galileo on the World – video – due 10/27
Video is called -The Medici - Godfathers of the Ren. 4/4 – start at 30 min
Assign – Sci Rev Doc Packet #2 – Cite eight examples total from the
documents that show a change of mindset from earlier times.
10/27 Tues
10/28 Wed
Science
Learning Targets/Objectives
1. What revolutionary discoveries were made in the sixteenth an seventeenth centuries?
2. What intellectual and social changes occurred as a result of the Scientific Revolution?
Pwpt and Primary docs
Assign – p. 508 – 515 – due 10/27
Assign – Galileo doc – Was the Church justified in doing what they did to Galileo?
Science
Learning Targets/Objectives
1. What revolutionary discoveries were made in the sixteenth an seventeenth centuries?
2. What intellectual and social changes occurred as a result of the Scientific Revolution?
Pwpt and Primary docs – Galileo Doc
Assign – video-Tycho Brahe, the scandalous astronomer video- Dan Wenkel
10/29 Thurs
Assign – Women and Science for discussion Thursday
- Explain 8 examples/ideas regarding women’s feelings and ideas
- in the Sci Rev.
Women and Science – Discussion
Learning Targets/Objectives
1. What revolutionary discoveries were made in the sixteenth an seventeenth centuries?
2. What intellectual and social changes occurred as a result of the Scientific Revolution?
Discussion point – Evaluate the validity of the following statement: The revolution accomplished from
Copernicus to Newton was the great spiritual adjustment that modern civilization had to make.
Assign – p. 516 – 529 – due 10/29
Assign – Video on the Enlightenment due 10/29
Assign – Rococo Art analysis – due 11/3
Assign – Document Enlightenment Packet #1 – Group of 3 – divide and conquer – pick two
10/30 Fri
Enlightenment and Rococo Art
Learning Targets
1. What new ideas about society and human relations emerged in the Enlightenment, and what
new practices and institutions enabled these ideas to take hold?
2. What impact did new ways of thinking have on political developments and monarchical
absolutism?
Outline, learning targets, and questions due.
Pwpt and Primary docs
11/2 Mon
11/3 Tues
11/4 Wed
11/5
Assign – p. 529 – 537
Assign – Document Packet #2 – What is the social contract. Why? What does Reason do for us?
Group of 3 – divide and conquer – pick two
Enlightenment and Enlightened Despots
1. What new ideas about society and human relations emerged in the Enlightenment, and what
new practices and institutions enabled these ideas to take hold?
2. What impact did new ways of thinking have on political developments and monarchical
absolutism?
Pwpt and Primary docs – Salon debate – Students divided into people to discuss how their person
would react to Louis XV
Assign – Assign Document Packet #3 – Group of 4 – divide and conquer – pick two – evaluate
what an absolute monarch stands for. The good, the bad, and the ugly.
DBQ Day – Start class by handing out DBQ – Renaissance and the Sci Rev’s impact on the
Enlightenment
Enlightenment Wrap-up
Learning Targets
1. What new ideas about society and human relations emerged in the Enlightenment, and what
new practices and institutions enabled these ideas to take hold?
2. What impact did new ways of thinking have on political developments and monarchical
absolutism?
Look at Tom Richey – Enlightened Absolutism, AP Euro Live Hangout (Scientific Revolution and
the Enlightenment)
Test day
It is disgusting to note the increase in
the quantity of coffee used by my
subjects and the amount of money
that goes out of the country in
consequence. Everybody is using
coffee. If possible, this must be
prevented. My people must drink
beer. Fred the G.