A.P. European History
Disclosure Document
Course Description: This course is a college level course! This does not mean that it will be impossibly
difficult but you should understand up front that there will be a larger work load for this course than a
regular high school course. The content is the history of Europe from around 1450 to the present day. In
our class we will engage in detailed analysis of documents, trends, and concepts, have many class
discussions and interact in a few debates. Success in this class is very much dependent on the amount of
work you put into it. I will serve as a guide for you, but if you do not keep up with readings and work it
will be very difficult for you to stay with the class or pass the AP exam.
Readings in the course:
1. Jackson J. Spielvogel, Western Civilization. Boston, MA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 7th
edition. (Primary Textbook)
2. Primary Source Readings including: Boccaccio, Dante, Jean Froissart, Pope Boniface VIII,
Alessandra Strozzi, Machiavelli, Erasmus, Laura Cereta, Martin Luther, Marburg Colloquy,
Loyola, Cortes, Bartolome De Las Casas, Qianlong, Lois XIV, Peter and the Streltsy, Bill of Rights,
Shakespeare and many others. Many of these readings are excerpts not longer than a few pages
but some others are more substantial. For a full list you may refer to the syllabus bellow on the
right hand side. In class we will also take a look at and discuss many famous works of art and
maps to help add a visual clarification to our learning.
Course Goals:
1. This class will provide students with a challenging and intellectually stimulating environment
where they can improve crucial academic skills.
2. Students will demonstrate mastery of the content of this course through objective exams,
free response and DBQ (document based questions) essays, oral presentations, and
particular class discussions.
3. Students will develop the analytical skills to perform the tasks of a historian. (analysis,
evaluation, synthesis, and understanding of the past)
4. Students will demonstrate growth in intrapersonal and interpersonal intelligence by working
effectively alone, as a member of a small group, and as a member of a large group.
Required supplies:
1. Writing utensils (black/blue pens or pencils will do)
2. 1 spiral notebook for the class as a writing journal for quizzes and other assignments.
 The teacher is not responsible for providing the above materials. Do not come to
class unprepared!
Grading Scale:
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Policies and Procedures:
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The first 5 minutes of class will be used for short bell quizzes. If you miss these
because of an unexcused absence you will receive a 0. In the case of excused
absences these quizzes will need to be made up with teacher approval at a
designated time.
Make up work is up to the discretion of the teacher. Cases vary from student to
student. Missed assignments are due back the day after the absence.
LATE WORK: I understand that students are busy with a variety of outside activities
but I expect them to be responsible for their assignments. If a student knows ahead
of time that they will be busy a particular day they may come to me 24 hours in
advance of a due date and request an extension on their assignment which will be
granted. If however, a student shows up the day an assignment is due without it
being completed and has not notified me beforehand it will be deducted 50% per
day it is late. Once mid-term grades are posted, students will no longer be allowed
to make up assignments prior to mid-term.
It is expected that students will take care of necessities BEFORE class begins. An
abuse of the Hall Pass will result in forfeiture of the Hall Pass privilege.
Students coming to class more than 20 minutes late will be marked absent. A
student must check in at the office prior to attending class late.
Profanity, ethnic slurs, and vulgar language will not be tolerated in the classroom.
Any students engaging in this type of behavior may be sent to the office, and/or a
phone call may be made to the parents. It may affect your citizenship grade.
All electronic devices will not be permitted in the classroom. These include Ipods
and CELL PHONES. If I spot you using one of these devices in class without my
permission they will be confiscated and given to the office.
The school conduct code will be followed in the classroom.
If the class has a substitute teacher and a student behaves badly, the parents may
be contacted, and the student’s citizenship grade will be reduced to an N or U.
All other school policies (dress code, plagiarism etc.) will be enforced in my
classroom. Be aware of those policies; refer to the student handbook if you have
any questions.
I have read the above Disclosure Statement and understand the policies of the above mentioned class.
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Dear Parent/Guardian:
With your consent, I will have students in our class correct some of the assignments and quizzes of other
students. By doing this, the students are able to review and learn from others. I would also like to post
outstanding work occasionally and have students engage in peer collaboration with your permission.
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Signature: ____________________________________ Date ________________________
Syllabus
Date
Reading
Lecture Topics
1
None
Disclosure Docs.
Class overview
Introductions
2
Spielvogel
303-334
Black Death-War and
Political Instability-The
Decline of the Church- The
Cultural world of the
Fourteenth CenturySociety in an age of
Adversity
Essay Writing Techniques
Review for Test
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4
5
Chpt. 11 Quiz
(multiple choice and
essay)
Assignments Due
Focus Questions 1-5 on p. 303
Boccaccio, Decameron p. 306, q. 1
The Hundred Year’s War p. 313, q. 1
Vocabulary Flashcards for Chp. 11
Essay Outline
Spielvogel
337-355
Meaning and
Characteristics of Italian
Renaissance. The
intellectual renaissance in
Italy
Focus Questions 1-4 on p. 337
Strozzi, Marriage Negotiations p. 344 q.1
Machiavelli, Better to be Loved/Feared? p.
350 q. 1
Spielvogel
355-370
The Artistic RenaissanceEuropean State and
Church in the Renaissance
Focus Questions 5-7 on p. 337
Cereta, A Woman’s Defense of Learning, p.
354 q. 1
7
Review for Test and Test
strategies
Vocabulary Flashcards for Chp. 12
8
Chpt. 12 Test
(multiple choice and
essay)
Prelude to the
Reformation- Martin
Luther and Germany- The
Protestant Reformation
The Social Impact of the
Protestant Reformation,
Catholic Reformation,
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Spielvogel
373-392
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Spielvogel
392-408
Essay Outline
Focus Questions 1-3 on p. 373
Map Exercise: 13.1 q. 1, 13. 2 q. 1, 13.3 q. 1
Erasmus, Praise of Folly, p. 376 q. 1
Luther, 95 Theses p. 379 q. 1
Focus Questions 4-6 on p. 373
Luther and Zwingli, A Reformation Debate:
The Marburg Colloquy p. 388, q. 1
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Spielvogel
410-421
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Spielvogel
421-441
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Spielvogel
443-459
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Spielvogel
459-480
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Spielvogel
483-508
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End of First
Quarter!
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Politics and Wars of
Religion of the 16th
Century
Review for Exam and
Introduction of DBQs
Chpt. 13 Test (multiple
choice and essay)
On the Brink of the New
World-The Spanish and
Portuguese empires.
New Rivals on the world
stage- A world economyThe impact of European
expansion
Review for Exam writing
techniques
Chpt. 14 Test (multiple
choice and free response)
Social crisis, War, and
Rebellion-The practice of
absolutism in Western
Europe
Absolutism in Central,
Northern, and Eastern
Europe- Limited monarchy
and republics- The
flourishing of European
culture
-Art History (Baroque slide
lecture)
Review for Exam
Chpt. 15 Test (multiple
choice and essay)
Background to scientific
revolution-women in the
origins of modern scienceDescartes-scientific
method
Review for Exam
Chpt. 16 Test (multiple
Loyola, Our Holy Mother, the Hierarchical
Church, p. 397, q. 1
Vocabulary Flashcards for Chpt. 13
Essay Outline due
Focus Questions 1-2 p. 410
Map Exercise: 14.1, 14.2, 14.3 w/ questions
Cortes, The Spanish Conquistador p. 419 q.1
Las Casas, The Spanish Treatment of American
Natives p. 422 q.1
Focus Questions 3-5 p. 410
The Atlantic Slave Trade p. 424 q. 1
Qianlong, An Imperial Edict to the King of
England p. 430 q. 1
Vocabulary Flashcards for Chpt. 14
Focus Questions: 1-2 p. 443
Map Exercise: 15.1, 15.2, 15.3 w/ questions
Witchcraft Trial in France p. 445 q.1
Louis XIV’s Kingly Advice p. 453 q. 1
Focus Questions: 3-5 p. 443
Peter the Great Deals with Rebellion p. 462 q.1
English Bill of Rights p. 474 q.1
Vocabulary Flashcards for Chpt. 15
Focus Question 1-6 p. 483
DBQ essay on Literacy and Education 16th-19th
Century
Kepler, The Emerging Scientific Community p.
490 q. 1
Newton, Rules of Reasoning p. 494 q. 1
Descartes, The Father of Modern Rationalism
p. 501 q. 1
Vocabulary Flashcards for Chpt. 16
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Spielvogel
509-522
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Spielvogel
522-536
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Spielvogel
538-553
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Spielvogel
554-569
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Spielvogel
571-592
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Spielvogel
592-601
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Spielvogel
604-618
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Spielvogel
618-630
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choice and DBQ essay)
The Enlightenment!!
Culture and society in the
enlightenment-Religion
and the church
Review for Exam
Chpt. 17 Test (multiple
choice and free response)
The European states and
diplomacy
Economic expansion and
social change-social order
in 18th century.
Review for Exam
Chpt. 18 Test (multiple
choice and essay)
The beginning of the
revolutionary eraAmerican and French
revolution
The age of Napoleon
In class debate
Review for Exam
Chpt. 19 Test (multiple
choice and DBQ essay)
The industrial revolution
in Great Britain-the spread
of industrialization
The social impact of the
industrial revolution
Review for Exam
Chpt. 20 Test (multiple
choice and free response)
Focus Question 1 on page 509
Art Exercise: Compare Rococco, Baroque, and
Renaissance art and architecture (In class
activity)
Focus Question 2-3 on page 509
Infomercial: Create convincing advertisement
to convince the public of on eof the
philosophies of one of the intellectuals in the
18th century. (Locke, Montesquieu, Erasmus,
Newton, etc. )
Vocabulary Flashcards for Chpt. 17
Focus Questions: 1-2 p. 538
Frederick the Great and his Father p. 546 q. 1
The Childhood of Catherine the Great p. 547
q.1
Focus Questions: 3-4 on p. 538
Clive, British Victory in Europe 554 q. 1
Sheridan, Maritial Arrangements, p. 555 q. 1
Vocabulary Flashcards for Chpt. 18
Focus Questions: 1-3 on p. 571
Locke, The Argument for Independence, 574 q.
1
The Fall of the Bastille, p. 579 q. 1
Focus Question 4 on p. 571
Timeline of the French Revolution
Robespierre, Speech on Revolutionary
Government, p. 589 q. 1
Debate materials typed up
Vocabulary Flashcards for Chpt. 19
Focus Questions: 1-2 on page 604
Discipline in the New Factories p. 611, q. 1
Child Labor: Discipline in the Textile Mills p.
626 q. 1
Child Labor: The Mines p. 627 q. 1
DBQ essay on Industrial Revolution in Great
Britain
Vocabulary Flashcards for Chpt. 20
Choose topic for research paper
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Spielvogel
632-646
Spielvogel
646-663
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End of 2 Quarter
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Spielvogel
665-684
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Spielvogel
685-696
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The conservative order
and ideologies for change
Revolution and reformthe emergence of an
ordered society- culture in
an age of reaction and
revolution- Romanticism
Artistic developments
Essay writing
Review for Exam
Chpt. 21 Test (multiple
choice and essay)
France with Napoleon IIInational unification in Italy
and Germany-Nation
building and reform
Industrialization and the
Marxist response-realism
and science
Review for Exam
Focus Question: 1-2 on page 632
Metternich, Memoirs p. 635 q. 1
Focus Questions: 3-5
Mills, On Liberty, p. 643
Voice of Italian Nationalism p. 653 q. 1
In class: In what ways were the intellectual
and artistic development related to the
political and social forces of the age?
Vocabulary Flashcards for Chpt. 21
Focus Questions: 1-3 on page 665
Louis Napoleon Appeals to the People, p. 667
q. 1
Bismarck Goading France into war, p. 677, q. 1
Focus Questions: 4-5 p. 665
Emancipation: Serfs and Slaves, p. 681 q. 1
Marx and Engels on the Classless Society p.
688, q. 1
Darwin, The Descent of Man p. 690 q. 1
Essay: 3 page paper on the ideas of Karl Marx
with reference to the Communist Manifesto,
detailing the degree to which key elements of
his thought have either failed to or continued
to influence current political systems.
Vocabulary Flashcards for chpt. 22
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Spielvogel
698-708
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Spielvogel
708-728
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Spielvogel
731-752
Spielvogel
752-765
Chpt. 22 Test (multiple
choice and DBQ essay)
The growth of industrial
prosperity
The emergence of a mass
society- The nation state
Review for Exam
Chpt. 23 Test (multiple
choice and free response)
Toward modern
consciousness- intellectual
and cultural developments
– Politics: new directions
and uncertainties
New imperialisminternational rivalry and
coming war
Focus Question 1 on page 698
Map Exercise 23.1, 23.2 with questions
Bernstein on Evolutionary Socialism p. 707 q. 1
Focus Questions 2-3 on page 698
Advice to women 2 views p. 716-17 q. 1
Vocabulary flashcards for chpt. 23
Focus Questions 1-2 on page 731
Herzl, The Jewish State p. 747
Focus Questions 3-4 on page 731
DBQ: Essay on Imperialism
Kipling and Morel, The white/black man’s
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Spielvogel
768-789
Spielvogel
789-801
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Spielvogel
803-816
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Spielvogel
816-828
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Spielvogel
828-836
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End of 3 quarter
Spielvogel
839-855
Spielvogel
856-872
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Review for Exam
Chpt. 24 Test (multiple
choice and essay)
Road to WWI –the war
War and revolution- the
peace settlement
Review for Exam
Chpt 25 Test (multiple
choice and DBQ essay)
An uncertain peace- the
democratic states- retreat
from democracy
Hitler’s rise to power
Mass culture/leisureintellectual trends during
war
Class debate on the 1920’s
Review for Exam
Chpt. 26 Test (multiple
choice and free response)
Prelude to war- the course
of WWII
The new order- the home
front- aftermath of the
war
WWII
Review for Exam
Chpt. 27 Test (multiple
choice and essay)
Development of the Cold
War- Europe and
decolonization- Recovery
and renewal in Europe-
burden p. 754-755 q. 1
Vocabulary flashcards for chpt. 24
Focus Questions 1-2 p. 768
The Excitement of War p. 774 q. 1
Focus Questions 3-4 on page 768
War and Family, p. 788
Vocabulary flashcards for chpt. 25
Focus Questions 1-2 on page 803
Struggles of Democracy in Great Britain p. 809
Mussolini on Fascism p. 816 q. 1
Focus Questions 3-4 on page 803
Hitler’s hatred of the Jews p. 818 q. 1
Hitler on the Propaganda in Nazi Germany p.
821, q. 1
Focus Question 5 on page 803
Debate material typed up for the 1920’s
Vocabulary flashcards for chpt. 26
Focus Questions: 1-2 on page 839
Munich Conference p. 845 q. 1
Focus Questions: 3-5 on page 839
The Holocaust p. 862, q. 1
Emergence of the Cold War: Churchill and
Stalin, p. 872, q. 1
Vocabulary flashcards for chpt. 27
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Spielvogel
875-897
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Spielvogel
898-920
US and Canada- Postwar
culture in the WestCulture of protest-
Focus Question: 5 on page 875
Women’s Liberation Movement, p. 903, q. 1
Spielvogel
920-925,
The move of DétenteChina and the Cold War-
Focus Questions: 1-3 on page 935
Gorbachev, Perestroika, p. 938, q. 1
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Focus Questions: 1-2 on page 875
Map Exercise: 28. 1, 28.2, 28.3, 28.4
The Truman Doctrine, p. 878, q. 1
Khrushchev on the Cuban Missile Crisis, p. 884,
q. 1
Khrushchev denouncing Stalin, p. 891, q. 1
936-949
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Spielvogel
926-932,
949-964
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at noon!!!
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End of Class
End of the Soviet UnionReunification in Europe
Review for Exam
Cold War Test (multiple
choice and DBQ essay)
Current EventsGlobalization and the war
on terror
Debate on Globalization
Wrap up Current Events
Globalization/Terrorism
Quiz
Practice Exam 1(multiple
choice and DBQ section)
Review exam 1 results
Practice Exam 2 (multiple
choice and FRQ section)
Review exam 2 results
Research paper review
and writing techniques
TBA
Final Exam
TBA
Evaluation of the school
year and research paper
presentations
Vocabulary flashcards for chpt. 28-30 part 1
Globalization Debate materials
Vocabulary flashcards for chpt. 28-30 part 2
FRQ response due for practice exam 1
DBQ section due for practice exam 2
Research Papers are due!