AP European History
Fall 2015
First Grading Period (9 weeks)
Week 1: August 24-28
M
8/24
Syllabus; Course Expectations; Why Study European History?
HW: Read “Western Civilization: Antiquity to 1300” Summary (website)
T
8/25
Class: What is the Western Heritage lecture/Power Point
HW: Read “Western Civilization: Antiquity to 1300” Summary (website)
W/Th 8/26-27
Class: Black Death and Hundred Years’ War lecture/Power Point
F
8/28 (PR)
Class: Quiz: Antiquity to 1300; Great Schism lecture/Power Point
HW: Read “The Middle Ages and the Modern World” (website)
Week 2: August 31 - September 4
M
8/31
Class: Renaissance Humanism lecture; Analysis of Mirandola’s Oration on the
Dignity of Man
HW: Read Spielvogel Chapter 12
T
9/1
Class: Italian City-States and Balance of Power lecture
HW: Read Spielvogel Chapter 12
W/Th 9/2-3
Class: Renaissance Papacy lecture; Analysis of Machiavelli’s The Prince
HW: Read Spielvogel Chapter 12
F
9/4
Class: Chapter 12 Quiz; Analysis of Renaissance Art and Architecture Power Point
HW: Read and summarize Renaissance Sources (website)
Week 3: September 7-11
M
9/7
Student Holiday
T
9/8
Class: Renaissance Sources Due; New Monarchies; Italian vs. Northern Renaissance
W/Th 9/9-10
Class: Test: Chapters 11, 12 (multiple-choice, short-answer)
HW: Read “History of Christianity” Summary (website)
F
9/11 (PR)
Class: Medieval Origins of Protestant Reformation lecture
HW: Read Spielvogel Chapter 13; Read Luther’s “Justification by Faith” (website)
Week 4: September 14-18
M
9/14
Class: Luther and Zwingli lecture
HW: Read Spielvogel Chapter 13; Read Calvin’s “Institutes of the Christian Religion”
T
9/15
Class: Calvinism and Anabaptism lecture
HW: Read Spielvogel Chapter 13
W/Th 9/16-17
Class: Quiz: Reformation Tribunal; English Reformation lecture
HW: Read Spielvogel Chapter 13
F
9/18 (PR)
Class: Chapter 13 Quiz; Catholic Counter-Reformation lecture/Power Point
HW: Read and summarize Reformation Sources
Week 5: September 21-25
M
9/21
Class: Reformation Sources Due; Wars of Religion lecture/Power Point
HW: Read Spielvogel Chapter 14
T
9/22
Class: Wars of Religion lecture/Power Point
HW: Read Spielvogel Chapter 14; Read and summarize Zinn “Columbus” excerpt
W/Th 9/23-24
Class: How to DBQ
HW: Read Spielvogel Chapter 14; Read and summarize Locke “Property” excerpt
F
9/25
Class: How to DBQ
HW: Read and summarize Nash’s “Red, White, and Black”
Week 6: September 28 - October 2
M
9/28
Class: Exploration Sources Due; Overseas Exploration and Mercantilism lecture
T
9/29
Class: Analysis of Mannerist and Baroque Art Power Point
W/Th 9/30 – 10/1
Class: Test: Chapters 13, 14; DBQ Essay Test
HW: Read Spielvogel Chapter 15
F
10/2 (PR)
Week 7: October 5-9
M
10/5
T
10/6
W/Th 10/7-8
F
10/9
Class: Thirty Years’ War lecture/Power Point
HW: Read and summarize Thirty Years’ War Sources
Class: Thirty Years’ War Sources Due; Louis XIV lecture/Power Point
HW: Read Spielvogel Chapter 15
Class: Rise of Absolutism lecture
HW: Read Spielvogel Chapter 15
Class: Analysis of Hobbes’s Leviathan and Locke’s Second Treatise
HW: Read Spielvogel Chapter 15
Class: Chapter 15 Quiz; English Civil War lecture
Week 8: October 12-16
M
10/12
STUDENT HOLIDAY
T
10/13
Class: Glorious Revolution lecture
W/Th 10/14-15
Class: Test: Chapter 15 (multiple-choice, short-answer)
HW: Read Spielvogel Chapter 16
F
10/16
Class: Copernicus to Newton lecture; Mechanical Worldview
HW: Read Spielvogel Chapter 16
Week 9: October 19-23
M
10/19
Class: Science and Religion lecture; Analysis of Galileo’s “Letter to the Grand
Duchess Christina”
HW: Read Spielvogel Chapter 16
T
10/20
Class: Science and Women
HW: Read Spielvogel Chapter 16
W/Th 10/21-22
Class: Science and Philosophy; Analysis of Descartes’ Discourse on Method and
Pascal’s Wager
HW: Read Spielvogel Chapter 16
F
10/23 (PR)
Class: Quiz: Chapter 16; Analysis of Kant’s “What is Enlightenment”
HW: Read Spielvogel Chapter 17