Textbook : Hunt, Lynn, Thomas R. Martin, Barbara H. Rosenwein, et. al. The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures 2 nd
Edition, 2005.
Supplemental Readers :
Kishlansky, Mark. Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization . 6 th Ed. Vol. 1 and 2. 2006.
Lualdi, Katharine J. Sources of The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures . 2 nd Ed. Vol. 1 and 2. 2005.
Overfield, Andrea. The Human Record: Sources of Global History . 5 th Ed. Vol. 1 and 2. 2005.
Excerpts from: Merriman, John. A History of Modern Europe . 2 nd Ed.
Preferred Review Text:
Viault, Birdsall. Modern European History . ISBN: 0070674531
Summer Reading: Gaarder, Jostein. Sophie’s World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy . ISBN: 0-425-15225-1
Web Resources : To take practice tests, study with online flash cards, examine maps from each chapter, review correct pronunciation, etc. look at: http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/hunt/default.asp?s=&n=&i=&v=&o=&ns=0&uid=0&rau=0
Course Goals*
Students will gain a basic knowledge of the narrative events of European history in addition to gaining the following skills: a. an understanding of some of the principal themes in modern European history b. an ability to analyze historical evidence and historical interpretation c. an ability to express historical understanding in writing
*Taken from apcentral.collegeboard.com
Historical Themes*
Advanced Placement World History highlights six overarching themes that form the cornerstone of the teaching and learning experience. The teaching plans for each of the units will utilize the six themes detailed below. These six themes will be stressed daily as well as reviewed collectively at the end of each unit.
1. Intellectual and Cultural History
2. Political and Diplomatic History
3. Social and Economic History
*Taken from apcentral.collegeboard.com
Course Requirements:
Prepare to take the AP Exam in early May.
Form a study group for tests and other large assignments!
Actively participate in class and complete all assignments thoroughly and promptly.
Attend class daily, arriving on time. The course moves quickly. Missing class is very detrimental to your progress.
Make up work when absent—contact me and send assignments due electronically if possible; make prior arrangements for planned absences; two days allotted for each day absent to turn in work. If you miss a quiz, you must set up a time to make it up outside of class. Daily missed assignments should be checked on the note cards placed each day on the ―While You Were Out‖ board. Any handouts can be picked up in the folders next to the assignment calendar. You can also access the online classroom at the school’s website and find your work listed under the ―Assignments‖ section.
Keep a well-organized and complete notebook for the entire year; bring to class every day. Use the charts, lecture and reading notes in your notebook to study for tests. Keep up with the notebook all year!
Ask instructor for help if needed—I am very committed to supporting your efforts!
Challenge yourself to work hard and maintain high standards . I will do so as well.
Take advantage of opportunities to redo work for mastery of the content and skills of the course.

Grading:
Grades will be based on points that are added up and averaged with total points possible. Because this is a senior level
AP course, I will model university grading scales as much as possible, taking into account mainly summative assessments (tests, quizzes, projects, and papers) with a small portion of your grade coming from class participation and discussion. Grades are available daily through Infinite Campus at home. Final grades will be computed in
December and again in May.
Assessments:
Quizzes: On readings from each chapter in the text book (usually as formative assessment)
Homework: Assigned readings, Essay writing practice, primary source activities
Tests: Following the completion of each Unit of study (usually by chapter)
Essays: Assigned in class and out of class writing in preparation for the AP exam essays. Students will have a choice of which essay to revise and submit as a portfolio piece during the first semester.
Notebook: I expect each student to keep a binder containing in chapter by chapter format all notes, assignments, handouts, etc. This notebook may be subject to periodic checks for a grade.
Character Presentation: Each student will choose one person from a given list whom they will represent to the class through an oral presentation followed by a class Q&A session. This project will be worth 100 points during the quarter in which it is presented. All students presenting in the alternate semester will receive a 100 point grade based on the quality of attention paid during presentations and the questions they create as homework.
Midterm and Final Exams: The midterm will be comprehensive through the current chapter of study.
Students will take a AP Released Exam in preparation for the AP European History exam as their final. This may be split over several days.
Assignments Calendar:
You will always be given an assignment calendar which lists daily topics covered in class and all homework, quizzes, and tests for which you need to prepare. The calendar is subject to change, however, I will keep changes to a minimum and will inform you in class of any updates, so that you can change your calendar. USE YOUR CALENDAR!
General Thoughts on Upper-level AP:
I am aware that most of you have multiple AP classes to deal with in addition to the Seniors applications to colleges and scholarships. I will work with you to stay on track and can make allowances for extensions for those with schedule conflicts when I am visited personally well beforehand.
As upper-level students, I expect that you will be mature, responsible for your own work and behavior, and accountable to both yourself and me in terms of your effort in this class. Preparing for an AP exam is a serious undertaking and you will only do as well as the effort and study hours you put in allow. I will work extremely hard to prepare you for the exam in May and, if you will reciprocate, together we will work toward your success.

Focus Questions: What does it mean to be ―modern?‖ In what ways was the modern conception of Europe developing and in what ways did it remain pre-modern?
Week One – Introduction to the Course, AP Themes, AP Writing, Challenges to the Medieval World
Readings: Summer Reading Assignment
Hunt, Ch. 13
Sources of the Making of the West, Marsilius of Padua, ―Defender of the Peace‖
―Twelve Conclusions of the Lollards‖
Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctum
Lorenzo Valla, Donation of Constantine
Major Activities and Assessments:
Summer Reading Fishbowl
Primary Source Analysis
Map and Geography Terms
Art of the Medieval Period power point
Lecture: Challenges to the Medieval Synthesis
Character Presentation Library Research
Week Two & Three: The Renaissance
Readings: Hunt, Chapter 14
Merriman, 46-58; 81-84
Sources of The Making of the West , Mirandola, ―Oration on the Dignity of Man‖
Leonardo Bruni, History of His Own Times in Italy
Machiavelli, ―The Prince‖ excerpts
Lorenzo de Medici,
Major Activities and Assessments:
Letter to His Son
Excerpts from Jack Turner, Spice: The History of a Temptation
Art: Comparisons of Italian & Northern Renaissance & Renaissance & Medieval
Character Presentations: Albrecht Durer & Machiavelli
Fishbowl: The Prince
Lectures: Renaissance Origins, Humanism, Early Modern European Politics
Practice AP European History FRQ: The Renaissance
Ch. 13-14 Test Multiple Choice Test
Focus Questions: Was the Reformation a political, economic, or religious event? How was Europe changed politically, socially, and intellectually by religious conflict?
Week Four & Five: The Reformation
Readings: Hunt, Ch. 15
Merriman, 110-119; 183-191
Sources of the West , ―The Twelve Articles‖
Martin Luther, ―Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes of Peasants‖
Sources of the West, Ignatius of Loyola, ―A New Kind of Catholicism‖
Suriano, An Estimate of Philip II
Major Activities and Assessments:
Luther: Protestant Reformer or Devout Catholic?
Debate: Peasants Revolt – Justified Working Men or Raging Hordes or Murdering Thieves?
Character Presentations: Henry VIII, Ignatius of Loyola
Spanish Golden Age Art: Mannerism Analysis
Essay: Protestant Reformation FRQ

Week Six – Wars of Religion
Readings: Hunt, Ch. 16
Sources of The Making of the West, Henry IV, ―Edict of Nantes‖
Sources of the West, Grimmelshausen, ―Simplicissimus‖
Wolsey, ―Account of his Service to Henry VIII‖
Act of Supremacy, 1534
Treaty of Westphalia excerpts
Queen Elizabeth I, ―Speech Before the Spanish Armada‖
Major Activities and Assessments:
Simon Schama History of Britain DVD episode: ―The Body of the Queen‖
Character Presentation: Gustavus Adolphus
Baroque Art Analysis
Spanish Armada: Act-it-Out
Treaty of Westphalia Analysis: winners and losers
Practice AP European History FRQ: The Reformation
Ch. 15-16 Test Multiple Choice Test
Focus Questions: In what ways were monarchs successful in their efforts to consolidate power? By what conditions were monarchs still limited? How did Europe engage in world affairs during this period? To what extent was Europe still ―an island unto itself?‖ What role did forced labor play in the making of the modern world? What changes did the
Enlightenment bring to Europe?
Week Seven & Eight – Absolutism
Readings: Hunt, Ch. 17
Merriman, 261-271; 243-260
Pasqualigo, ―Description of Henry VIII‖
Sources of the West, Duc de Saint Simon, ―Memoirs‖
Sources of the West, Thomas Hobbes, ―Leviathan‖ excerpts
Sources of the West, King James I of England, ―True Law of a Free Monarchcy‖
An Account of the Execution of Charles I‖
English Bill of Rights
Major Activities and Assessments:
Absolutism Primary Source Analysis: Palaces of Monarchs (college board created lesson)
Debate: Roundheads v. Cavaliers
Simon Schama History of Britain DVD episode: ―Revolutions‖
Power of Art DVD Episode: Rembrandt
Analysis of Dutch Golden Age through Art (college board created lesson)
Lecture: Scientific Revolution
Student Presentations: Scientific Thinkers: Galileo, Kepler, Copernicus, Newton, Harvey, Vesalius
Practice AP European History FRQ 2009: Scientific Revolution
Week Nine – The Atlantic System
Readings: Hunt, Ch. 18
Daniel Pool, What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew , excerpts
Sources of the Making of the West, ―Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano‖
Pietro Pasqualigo, Ventian Amabassador in Portugal, ―To his Brothers in Venice,‖From Paesi nouamente retrouati
Andrea, The Human Record,” Compendium and Description of the West Indies‖
Sources of the West , Thomas Mun ―England’s Treasure by Foreign Trade‖
Major Activities and Assessments:
Social Analysis: Hogarth’s Beer Alley and Gin Lane
Baroque Art Critiques
Analysis of France’s finances using
Fishbowl: A Woman’s ―Place‖
Famous Letters from History
Spanish colonial holdings social pyramid act-it-out
: Louis XIV to Colbert

Week Ten & Eleven – The Enlightenment
Readings: Hunt, Ch. 19
Reviews of Summer Reading notes from
A History of the World in 6 Glasses: Coffee
Sophie’s World excerpt
Merriman 352-354, 358-361
Sources of the West,
Sources of the West,
Rousseau, ―The Social Contract‖
Montesquieu, ―The Spirit of the Laws‖
Sources of the West,
Major Activities and Assessments:
Beccaria, ―On Crimes and Punishment‖
Sources of the Making of the West, Frederick II, ―Political Testament‖
Character Presentation: Voltaire
Enlightenment Salon Simulation
Enlightened Despots: Student Presentations
Neoclassical Art Analysis
Practice AP European History FRQ: The Enlightenment
Ch. 17-19 Test
Focus Questions: In what ways had France changed by 1815? In what ways did they remain unaltered? Why did the
French Revolution spark ardent admirers as well as vitriolic opponents? Were the revolutions of this period a natural outgrowth of the Enlightenment, or of their own making?
Week Twelve & Thirteen – The Cataclysm of Revolution (1789-1800)
Readings: Hunt, Ch. 20
Sources of the West , Abbe Sieyes, ―What is the Third Estate?‖
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Declaration of the Rights of Women
Sources of the West , Edmund Burke, ―Reflections on the Revolution in France‖
Major Activities and Assessments:
Power of Art DVD: David
Character Presentation: King Stanislaw of Poland
Character Presentation: Robespierre
French Revolution: Cartoon Analysis
Moderate Revolution vs. Radical Revolution Chart
Week Fourteen & Fifteen – Napoleon & the Revolutionary Legacy: Restoration and Further Unrest
Readings: Hunt, Ch. 21
Merriman 598-614, 661-668
Sources of the Making of the West, Robert Owen, Constitution for New Harmony
Sources of the Making of the West, Adam Smith, ―On the Wealth of Nations‖
Sources of the West , Sir Edwin Chadwick, ―Inquiry into the Condition of the Poor‖
Major Activities and Assessments:
Napoleon Analysis & Debate: Force for Good or Despot?
Character Presentation: von Metternich
Character Presentation: Napoleon Bonaparte
Analysis of Letters from History : Napoleon to the Future Louis XVIII
Power of Art DVD: Turner
Discussion: Why did the Revolutions of the 1820s-30s fail?
Romantic Art Presentations
British Reform Acts Chart
Midterm Comprehensive Exam

Focus Questions: How did the Industrial Revolution alter life for all classes of European society? What long-festering issues were brought to bear by 1848? How did ―Realpolitik‖ work in the ―Real World?‖
Week One, Two & Three – Industrial Revolution, Urbanization, and Revolution (1830-1850)
Readings: Hunt, Ch. 22
Merriman 567-573, 579-589,624-631, 690-701
A History of the World in 6 Glasses: Tea
Major Activities and Assessments:
Industrial Life Changes charts
Fishbowl: British Life & the Impact of Tea
―Isms‖ Group Posters
Revolutions of 1848 Charts
Successes and Failures Debates
Week Four – Politics and Culture of the Nation State (1850-1870)
Readings: Hunt, Ch. 23
Sources of the West
Sources of the West,
, Bismarck, ―Speech to the Reichstag‖
Sources of the West, Pope Leo XIII, ―Rerum Novarum‖
Alexander II, ―Emancipation of the Serfs‖
Sources of the Making of the West, Kropotkin, ―Memoirs of a Revolutionist‖
Sources of the West, Darwin, ―The Descent of Man‖
Major Activities and Assessments:
Character Presentation: Otto von Bismarck
Character Presentation: Charles Darwin
Realism Art Seminar
State Unification charts
Practice AP European History FRQ: Nation-state Unification
Ch. 22-23 Test
Focus Questions: What were the push and pull factors resulting in the age of hyper-imperialism after 1870? How did competition over resources and lands reach a fever pitch that lead to WWI? How did the concept of nationalism gain a world stage by 1914?
Week Five & Six – Industry, Empire, and Everyday Life (1870-1890)
Readings: Hunt, Ch. 24
Jules Ferry, ―Speech before the French National Assembly‖
J. A. Hobson, ―Imperialism‖
Kipling, ―White Man’s Burden‖
―Brown Man’s Burden‖
Major Activities and Assessments:
Industrial changes chart
Imperialism Learning Stations
Imperialism Mind Maps
Compare and Contrast Discussion: East v. West
Impressionism small group presentations
Week Seven & Eight – Modernity and the Road to War (1890-1914)
Readings: Hunt, Ch. 25
Letters from History, Emile Zola, ―J’Accuse‖
Friedrich Nietzsche, ―Beyond Good and Evil‖
Emmeline Pankhurst, ―Speech from the Dock‖
Major Activities and Assessments:
Debating Women: Views for and Against Women’s Suffrage
Ideas Breakdown Chart: Modern views on Humanity, Government, and Society
Art Nouveau Seminar – create your own and give it meaning
Lecture: Anti-Semitism before WWII
Flow Chart: Road to the 1917 Revolution in Russia

Week Nine – The Great War and Reconstruction
Readings: Hunt, Ch. 26
The Human Record , ―Popular and Poster Art from Germany, England, and Australia‖
The Human Record, ―Comments of the German Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference on the
Conditions of Peace, 1919‖
Wilfred Owen, ―Dulce Et Decorum Est‖
Woodrow Wilson, ―14 Points‖
DBQ: WWI
Major Activities and Assessments:
Arts Analysis: War and Human Expression
Russian Revolution Group Perspectives: student presentations
World War I Learning Stations
Ch. 24-26 Test
Focus Questions: How did the events of the 1920s and 1930s create a ―perfect storm‖ from which WWII emerged?
What kinds of new political ideologies and forms were made possible by modern technology? Why did Eastern Europe and Western Europe follow different paths during this era? What new challenges have arisen in the wake of the Cold
War?
Week Ten & Eleven – An Age of Catastrophes (1929-1945)
Readings: Hunt, Ch. 27
Merriman, 1041-1055
Merriman 1093-1103
Sources of the West, Keynes, ―The Economic Consequences of the Peace‖
Mussolini, Fascist Doctrine
Adolph Hitler, Mein Kamph excerpts
Winston Churchill, Speeches
Major Activities and Assessments:
Activehistory.co.uk – Weimar Germany – You’re the Boss!, Online game
Great Depression Group Learning Stations
Soviet Art as Propaganda Analysis
Character Presentation: Joseph Stalin
Cubism and the Ramp Up to War: Guernica Analysis
WWII Through Photos and News Stories: Group Presentations
Week Twelve & Thirteen – Remaking Europe in the Shadow of Cold War (1945-1965)
Readings: Hunt, Ch. 28
Winston Churchill, The Iron Curtain and Stalin’s response
Nikita Khrushchev, Report to the Communist Party Congress
United Nation’s Declaration of Human Rights
Major Activities and Assessments:
Atomic Bomb power simulation
United Nations Group simulation
Character Presentation: Konrad Adenauer
Berlin Wall: Encyclomedia video
AP Essay Practice: Cold War DBQ
Week Fourteen – Postindustrial Society and the End of the Cold War (1965-1989)
Readings: Hunt, Ch. 29
Maastricht Treaty excerpts
Solzhenitsyn, excerpts from Gulag Archipelago
Mikhail Gorbachev, Perestroika
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
Major Activities and Assessments:
1968: Student Presentations
Post-War Society Learning Stations

Advertising in the Modern World: Consumerism as Art & Culture
AP Essay Practice: Soviet Russia’s Breakup
Week Fifteen – The New Globalism: Opportunities and Dilemmas
Readings: Hunt, Ch. 30
Merriman, 1343-1356
Sources of the West, ―Report of the 9/11 Commission‖
Major Activities and Assessments:
Post-Soviet Europe: Student Group Work
Art Analysis: Post-Modernism
Modern Issues: Fishbowl Discussion
Review Fishbowls, charts, presentations
Podcast Group Review Postings
Final Exam: Full AP European History Practice Exam