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AP EUROPEAN HISTORY
QUARTER 1 CALENDAR 2014-15
Unit I: Late Middle Ages
Week 1
Sep 2 Course Introduction/Overview of AP EURO Exam & Textbook distribution:
Homework: Book Review Assignment
Reading and Outlining: pp. 258-62
Sep 3 Introduction to the Middle Ages: Were The Dark Ages Really Dark?
Discussion: Manchester and the Medieval Mindset
Homework: Book Review Assignment
R&O: pp. 258-62
Sep 4 Lecture & Discussion “The Black Death”
Homework: Book Review Assignment
R&O: pp. 262-67
Sep 5 Essay Writing and DBQ Workshop #1
Discussion: Black Plague DBQ
Readings: Decameron & Encountering the Past (pp. 261)
Homework: Book Review Assignment
Week 2
Sept 8 In Class DBQ- The Plague
Homework: Book Review Assignment
DUE: Plague DBQ
Homework: Book Review Assignment
Readings: pp.267-74
Sept 9 Lecture & Discussion Hundred Years War
Homework: Book Review Assignment
Readings: pp. 267-72
Sept 10 Lecture & Discussion Hundred Years War Pt II and Late Medieval Church Pt I
DUE: Outline pp 258-72
R&O: pp 272-78
Homework: Book Review Assignment
Sept 11 Lecture & Discussion Late Medieval Church Pt II & Schism
R&O: pp 278-79
Homework: Book Review Assignment
Sept 12 L&D Schism Pt II & Medieval Russia
R&O: pp 284-87
Homework: Book Review Assignment
Week 3
Unit II: The Renaissance
Sept 15 The Renaissance in Italy & Document Analysis Workshop
Readings: selections from Petrarch, Pico della Mirandola, Erasmus
R&O: pp 287-91; 297-98
Homework: Book Review Assignment
Sept 16 L& D: Medieval to Renaissance Art PPT
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DUE: Outline pp 273-79; 287-91
R&O: pp 299-302
Homework: Book Review Assignment (Due Tommrow)
Sept 17 L&D: Borgia, Machiavelli, French Invasions
DUE: Book Review of Manchester
Readings: Manchester and The Prince
Homework: Machiavelli Documents Analysis
R&O: pp 299-302
Sept 18 Free Response Workshop & Monarchy in No. Europe
Homework: Review for Exam 1
Sept 19 EXAM on Renaissance, Black Death, & Hundred Years War (pp. 258-302)
DUE: Outline pp 297-302
Homework: R&O 303-04
Week 4
Sept 22 L& D The Northern Renaissance (Art PPT)
Homework: R&O: pp. 305-09
Unit III: Exploration and the Reformation
Sept 23 L&D The Age of Exploration pt I
Readings: Howard Zinn on Columbus & Manchester Pt III --Magellan
R&O: pp. 309-313
Sept 24 L&D The Age of Exploration pt II
DUE: Outline pp 303-313
Readings: Montaigne and Bartolome De las Casas
Homework: Doc Analysis on Montaigne & Casas
R&O 318-20
Sept 25 L& D Background to the Reformation
DUE: Doc Analysis on Montaigne & Casas
Readings: Review Manchester Pt II—Luther
Homework: R&O 320-323
Sept 26 L& D Martin Luther and the Ref. to 1525
Readings: Justification by Faith Alone
Homework: Luther Document Analysis
R&O 324-28
Week 5
Sept 29 L&D Charles V & Spread of Reformation
DUE: Luther Doc Analysis
Homework: R&O 328-31
Sept 30 In-Class DBQ “The German Peasants Revolt”
DUE: Outline 320-32
Homework: Finish DBQ
Oct 1 Film: Luther
DUE: Peasants Revolt DBQ
Homework: R&O 332-334
Oct 2 L& D The Reformation Elsewhere
Readings: John Calvin Rules for Geneva & Zwingli
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Homework: R&O 334-36
Oct 3 L&D The English Reformation
Homework: pp.336-37
Week 6
Oct 6 L& D Counter Reformation
Homework: R&O pp 338-40
DUE: Outline 333-40 (stop at Reformation& Edu section)
Homework: R&O pp 351-55
Oct 7 L&D The French Wars of Religion
Homework: Mini DBQ Essay Henry IV & R&O 355-57
Oct 8 Discuss Mini DBQ & Wrap up French Wars of Religion
DUE: Mini DBQ pp. 377
Homework: 358-63
Unit IV: Early Modern Europe
Oct 9 L& D Imperial Spain and Philip II – Spanish School Art Discussion
Homework: R&O pp 363-68
Oct 10 L&D Elizabethan England and Spain
Homework: R&O 369-74
Week 7
Oct 14 Film “Elizabeth”
Homework: R&O 369-74
Oct 15 FRQ WORKSHTOP -In-Class Free Response Essay Renn & Reformation
Homework: R&O 369-74
Oct 16 L&D Thirty Years War
Homework: Review for Exam
Oct 17 EXAM: Northern Renn, Exploration, Reformation, & Wars of Religion (pp. 303-375)
DUE: Outline 351-75
Homework: R&O 380-82
Week 8
Oct 20 Reading: Tuilip Mania & L&D Netherlands Golden Age
Homework: R&O 380-82
Oct 21 In-Class Dutch DBQ
Readings: Dutch Paintings & DBQ Docs
Homework: Finish DBQ
Unit V: The Age of Absolutism
Oct 22 L& D James I and Charles I
DUE: Dutch DBQ
Homework: R&O 386-89
Readings: Charles I “Speech on the Scaffold”
Oct 23 L&D Cromwell, Civil War, and Restoration
Homework: R&O 386-89
Oct 24 L& D Glorious Revolution, Walpole
Homework: R&O 389-92
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Week 9
Oct 27 L&D World of Louis XIV
Homework: 393-96
Readings: Louix XIV Repudiation of the Edict of Nantes
Oct 28 L&D Louis XIV w/ PPT France of Louis XIV
Due: Outline 379-96
Homework: R&O 396-400
Oct 29 L&D Wars of Louis XIV / Mini DBQ on Louis XIV
Readings/Documents: In-class FRQ “Escorial vs. Versailles”
Homeowork: Finish FRQ and R&O 400-05
Oct 30 Small Group Organizer on Poland, Habsburgs, and Prussia
DUE: FRQ on Versailles
Homework: 405-09
Oct 31 Russia, Romanovs and Peter the Great
Readings: The Table of Ranks
Homework: R&O 409
Week 10
Nov 3 Review and Film Clip “Peter the Great”
Homework: Study for Exam
Nov 4 EXAM on Unit V Multiple Choice ONLY (pp. 379-409)
DUE: Outline pp. 396-409 (Stop at Ottoman Empire Section)
Homework: R&O 446-49
Unit VI: Society and Economy between the Old Regime to the Industrial Revolution
Nov 5 Small Group Organizer/ Major Features of the Old Regime
Homework: R&O 449-55
Nov 6 In-Class DBQ- French Nobility 1580-1780 (DUE MON)
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AP EUROPEAN HISTORY
QUARTER 2 CALENDAR 2014-15
Week 11
Unit VI: Society and Economy between the Old Regime to the Industrial Revolution
Nov10 L&D Peasants and Serfs and the Family Economy
Due: Nobility DBQ
Homework: R&O 455-60
Nov 12 L &D Revolution in Agriculture
Homework: R&O 460-64
Nov 14 Small Group Document Study: Industrial Revolution/ Distribute History Fair Essay
Homework: R&O 465-71
Week 12
Nov 17 L&D Urbanization and wrap up Industrial Revolution
Homework: Compare and connect pp. 458 & Encountering the Past pp. 468
R&O pp. 477-79
Nov 18 L&D Mercantilism and Overseas Empires
Homework: R&O pp. 479-81
Nov 19 L&D Spanish Colonial System & African Slavery
Readings: “The Atlantic Passage” 488-89
Homework: R&O 492-95
Nov 20 L&D Mid Eighteenth Century Wars
Homework: Read 495-500 No Outlining
Study For Exam
Nov 21 EXAM on Unit VI (pp. 445-95)
DUE: Outline pp. 476-95
Homework: Make Sure you have a copy of Candide
R&O : 418-22
Week 13
Unit VII: The Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution
Nov 24 L&D PPT Scientific Revolution
Readings: Doc analysis of Copernicus “On Heavily Spheres”
Homework: R&O 422-28
Nov 25 L&D Philosophy responds to Science
Readings: In-Class document analysis of Locke &Hobbes
Homework: R&O 428-35
Week 14
Dec 1 L&D Women in the Scientific Revolution
Due: Locke and Hobbes Doc Analysis
Readings: DBQ on women (No Essay)
Dec 2 PPT Lecture on Baroque Art
DUE: Outline pp. 417-35
Dec 3 Begin Reading Candide –Intro- Chapter 1
R&O 509-11
Dec 4 L& D Enlightenment cont.
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Homework: Read Candide CH 2-6
R&O pp. 511-15 (Stop at “Radical Enlightenment Criticism”)
Dec 4 L&D Enlightenment cont.
Homework: Read Candide CH 7-12
R&O 520-25 (Stop at “Enlightened Critics”)
Dec 5 L&D Montesquieu and Rousseau
Readings: Rousseau
Homework: Read Candide CH 13-17
R&O 527-30 (Stop at Rococo& Neo Art)
Week 15
Dec 8 PPT discussion on Rococo/ Neo Classic Art
Homework: Read Candide CH 18-22
Dec 9 L&D Enlightened Absolutism
Readings: Catherine the Great of Russia
Film Clip: Amadeus
Maps of Partition of Poland
Homework: Finish Candide & Book Review
Dec 10 EXAM on Unit VII pp. 417-440 & 508-543
DUE: Outline pp. 508-43
Homework: Candide Essay
R&O 548-57
Dec 11 Assign History Fair Essay & In-class Graded Discussion of Candide
DUE: Candide Essay
Unit VIII: The French Revolution and Napoleonic Era
Dec 12 L&D Crisis of the French Monarchy – Film “History Channel: The F.R.”
Readings: Excerpt of Tale of Two Cities
Homework: R&O 557-63
Week 16
Dec 15 L&D The Revolution of 1789
Readings: Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citz.
Homework: R&O 563-66
Dec 16 L&D The Reconstruction of France
Homework: R&O 567-72
Dec 17 L&D The End of the Monarchy
Dec 18 L&D The Reign of Terror
Readings: Robespierre “The Republic of Virtue”
Homework: 573-76
Dec 19 L&D Thermidorian Reaction
Readings: Napoleon on the Directory
DUE: Outline: pp. 547-76
Homework: R&O 582-85
R&O Napoleon Packet (on website)
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Winter Break
Homework: Write H.F. ESSAY DUE Jan 21st
Week 17
Jan 5 L&D The Rise of Napoleon
Readings: Napoleonic Code/Concordat Primary Source
DUE: Napoleon Packet Outline
Jan 6 L&D The Congress of Vienna & Review
Homework: Study for Final
Jan 7 FRENCH REVOLUTION EXAM
Homework: R&O 616-617
Unit IX: The Conservative Order and Rise of European Liberalism
Jan 8 PPT The Romantic Art Mvt.
Film Clip: Sister Wendy
Homework: R&O pp. 616-22
Jan 9 Small Group Organizer: The Challenges of Nationalism and Liberalism
Homework: R&O 620-24 (Stop at “Post war Repression in GBR)
DUE: Outline Due w/ Organizer 616-24
Week 18
Jan 12 L&D Conservative Governments
Homework: R&O 629-36
Readings: Metternich Document
Jan 13 Small Group Organizer- Wars of Indp. in Latin America
Readings: Simon Bolivar Document
Homework: R&O 636-42
Jan 14 L&D Decembrist Revolt of 1825 & French Revolution of 1830
Readings: Decembrist Revolt
Homework: Study for exam
Jan 15 Unit IX Exam pp. 615-42 Plus Romanticism
DUE: Outline 616-42
Homework: pp. 646-650
Jan 16 Finals Review & Clip from “Les Miserables”
DUE: History Fair Essay
Week 19
Unit X: Marxism and the Revolutions of 1848
Jan 20 Sm Group Organizer on “Toward an Industrial Society”
Homework: 654-58 (Stop at Crime section)
Homework: R&O 662-63
Jan 21 L&D Economic Models of 19th Century
Readings: Malthus on Population
Homework: R&O 664-69
Jan 22 PPT Discussion on Marxism and Socialism
Readings: Communist Manifesto- Karl Marx
Homework: R&O 669-76
Jan 23 In Class Document Analysis- Marx and the Industrial Revolution
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Homework: Finish Doc analysis and Outlines
Week 20
Jan 26 L&D Revolutions of 1848
Homework: Study for exam
Jan 27 : Finals Odds
DUE: Outline pp. 647-76
Homework: pp. 688-92
Jan 28: Finals Evens
Homework: R&O 647-51
Jan 29 Film
END OF Q2 SEM 1
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AP EUROPEAN HISTORY
QUARTER 3 CALENDAR 2014-15
Week 1
Unit XI: Nationalism and the Age of Nation States
Feb 2 L&D Crimean War
Readings: Poem “Charge of the Light Brigade” & pp. 689 “A Closer Look”
Homework: R&O 692-96
Feb 3 L&D Italy Unification
Homework: R&O 696-700
Feb 4 L&D Bismarck & German Unification
Readings: Bismarck Documents
Feb 5 Wrap up Bismarck & In-class Document Analysis
Homework: Finish Bismarck Analysis
R&O 700-706
Feb 6 L&D France & the Third Republic
Readings: Dreyfus Article & “J’Accuse” excerpt
Homework: R&O 706-710
Week 2
Feb 9 L&D Dual Monarchy
Homework: finish outlines pp.710-12
Feb 10 Russia: Emancipation and Revolutionary Stirrings
Readings: Doc on Peoples Will and To the People MVTs in Russia
Film Clip: Russia Land of the Tsars
Feb 11 Germany Pre 1848 DBQ (In-Class)
Homework: Finish DBQ
Feb 12 Review for exam
Feb 13 EXAM Unit X (pp. 687-715)
DUE: Outline pp. 688-713
DBQ Assignment
Homework: R&O pp. 717-20
Week 3
Unit XII: Building of European Supremacy: Society and Politics to World War I
Feb 17 Art Lecture- Impressionism and Art Nouveau
Homework: 717-23
Feb 18 PPT The Second Industrial Revolution
Homework: 723-26
Feb 19 PPT Middle Class in ascendency
Readings : Excerpt from “Tour De France” C.S. Thompson & pp. 721 Enc. The Past
Homework: R&O pp 726-35
Feb 20 Women and Jewish Emancipation
Readings: Women in 19th Century Packet
Homework: R&O 736-40
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Week 4
Feb 23 L&D Trade Unionism & Polt. Parties
Homework: pp. 744 Compare & Connect answers ; R&O 741-44
Feb 24 L&D Marx, Britain, France, and Germany
Homework: R&O 744-46
Feb 25 L&D Lenin and Bolsheviks
Readings: Lenin “What is to be Done”
Film Clip: Russia Land of the Tsars
Homework: Study for Exam
Feb 26 Review for Exam
Feb 27 EXAM Unit XII pp 716-48
DUE: Outline 716-46
Homework: R&O pp 756-60
Week 5
Unit XIII: Modern European Intellectual Thought & Age of Imperialism
Mar 2 PPT Social Darwinism
Homework: Finish Doc Analysis
R&O 760-62
Mar 3 Finish PPT and the Church Under Siege
Homework: 763-66
Mar 4 Art Lecture: Modernism
Homework: 770-774
Mar 5 PPT Nietzsche, Freud, and Zionism
Readings: Nietzsche “Parable of the Madman”
Hertzel “Origins of Zionism”
Homework: Document Analysis on Hertzle/Nietzsche
Mar 6 L&D Women and Modern Thought/Feminism & Review
Homework: 791-95
Begin reading “THE LONG FUSE” pp. 1-110
Week 7
Mar 9 New Imperialism PPT
Homework: R&O 798-806
Mar 10 Scramble or Africa DBQ (In-Class)
Homework:
Unit XIV: Russian Revolution and World War I
Mar 11 L&D Bismarck Alliance System
DUE: Outline pp. 756-62; 770-79
Scramble for Africa DBQ DUE
Mar 12 MOCK EXAM Rm 0014
Homework: 831-35
Mar 13 Mock Exam Activity
Homework: Lafore 111-200
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Week 8
Mar 16 L&D The Road to War, WWI Balkan Crisis
Readings: Assassination of the Archduke
Homework: 836-43
Homework: 840-43 “Serbian Response Doc Analysis”
Mar 17 L&D Schlieffen Plan & Ultimatum
Homework: 844-49
Mar 18 Stalemate L&D
Film Clip: “Paths of Glory”
DUE: Outlines 831-49
Mar 19 L&D Russian Revolution
Readings: Lenin “April Theses”
Film Clip: “REDS”
Homework: Read Lafore 187-224
Mar 20 L&D The End of World War I
Homework: 856-63
Homework: Finish Lafore “Long Fuse”
Week 9
Mar 23 Wrap-up the Settlement at Paris & Lafore Discussion
DUE: Lafore Essay 2-3 pp.
Homework: Study for Exam
Mar 24 Exam Unit XIV pp. 791-820 & 830-62
DUE: Outline pp. 850-63
Homework: R&O pp. 868-72
Mar 25 Film: Paths of Glory
Unit XV: The World Between the Wars
Mar 26 PPT Toward the Great Depression & Versailles Revisions
Homework: 873-77
Mar 27 L&D Stalin vs Trotsky (Rise of Stalin PPT)
Homework: R&O 878-81
Week 10
Mar 30 Readings on Stalin, Lenin, & Trotsky
Homework: R&O 882-89
Mar 31 L&D Fascism in Italy
Film Clip: “Mussolini” Biography
Homework: R&O 890-95
Apr 1 PPT German Democracy & Dictatorship
Homework: R&O 902-06
Apr 2 PPT Wrap up Hitler Consolidation of Power
Homework: 906-12
DUE: Outline PPT Notes and Stalin Book Notes / Mussolini Film Notes
END OF Q3 & Spring BREAK!!
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Week 11
Unit XVI: World War II
Apr 13 L&D Hitler’s Goals & Spanish Civil War
Readings: Excerpt of Mein Kampf , Art of WWII Guernica Mini Essay
Homework: Guernica Mini Essay
R&O pp. 914-22
Apr 14 WWII Timeline and Battles Organizer-- Munich, Nazi- Soviet Pact, Battle of Britain
Readings: Polt. Cartoons of WWII; Maps
Homework: R&O pp. 923-35
Apr 15 L&D Holocaust, Preparations for Peace & Domestic Fronts
Homework: Study for Exam
R&O 941-50
Apr 17 EXAM: Multiple Choice Unit XIV and Unit XV
DUE: Outline pp. 902-35
Week 12
Unit XVII: The Cold War Era, Decolonization, and the New Europe
Apr 20 L&D The Emergence of Cold War
Homework: R&O 951-60
Apr 21 PSAE Day 1
Apr 22 ACT Day 2
Apr 23 Cold War Packet PT I: Khrushchev, Cuba, & Brezhnev
Homework: R&O 964-74
Apr 24 Cold War Packet PT II & Cold War T.L./ Decolonization & Collapse of the Soviet Union
Readings: Gorbachev “On Glasnost”
Film Clip: The Cold War
Homework: 975-79; 1002-1006
Week 13
Apr 27 L&D Post Cold War Culture & Society
Homework: 1011-1016
Apr 28 Post World War II “Pop” Art and Post Modernism Art Lecture
Film: Sister Wendy
Homework: finish Outlines
Apr 29 PPT Wrap-up discussion – European Union
Readings: Current Events Article about Euro-zone Debt Crisis 2011-2013
DUE: Outline 941-60; 964-74; 1002-1006; & 1011-16
Apr 30 Review for AP Exam
Homework: Study Outlines & Review Books
May 1 Review for AP Exam
Homework: Study Outlines & Review Books
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Week 14
May 4 Review for AP Exam
May 5 Review for AP Exam
May 6 Review for AP Exam
May 7 Review for AP Exam
May 8 Review for AP Exam
Week 15
May 11 Review for AP Exam
May 12 Review for AP Exam
May 13 Review for AP Exam
May 14 AP EXAM DAY- Freshmen Gym 12:20-4 pm
May 15 In-class AP Reflection & Discussion
Week 16
May 18 Current Events Essay Assigned “ To What Extent has the current financial crisis in
Europe jeopardized the future strength and vitality of the European Union? How successful has
Europe been in stabilizing the European economy since the summer of 2011?”
May 19 In-Class EU Packet and readings
May 20 Lab day #1
May 21 Lab day #2
May 22 Film: Dr. Strangelove
Homework: Assign Dr. Strangelove Essay
Week 17
May 26 Dr. Strangelove cont.
May 27 Finish Dr. Strangelove
May 28 Lab day #3
DUE: Dr. Strangelove Essay
May 29 (Senior Finals)—In-class Graded Discussion of EU Crisis
DUE: Euro Crisis Project w/ article
Week 18
Jun 1 Film – Casablanca
Jun 2 Casablanca cont.
June 3 Casablanca cont.
June 4 Film 13 Days
June 5 Film 13 Days
Week 19
Jun 8 letter to next year’s class
Jun 9 Film 13 Days
Jun 10 Current Events Articles
June 11 Current Events Articles
June 12 Film TBD
END of SEMESTER 2
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