Absent Log
Third Term
AP European History
Dates / What we Did / What you Need to DoWednesday, August 23 or Thursday, August 24 / 1. Orange All About You Paper
2. Georgia Tech Clip
3. Ms. Bass artifacts
4. String introductions
5. Mine Field Exercise and discussion on how it relates to class
6. Plato’s Allegory of the Cave clip and connections to learning / A. Get the orange “All About You” paper from Ms. Bass—complete—submit
B. See Ms. Bass about introducing yourself to the class
C. Watch this clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69F7GhASOdM and write what you think the allegory means and how it relates to learning.
D. Get an orange course disclosure from Ms. Bass—read it, and write three questions that you have about the class (bring this with you on Friday or Monday).
Friday, August 25 or Monday, August 28 / 1. Log #1 Reasons that we should study history
2. Watch this clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ3pagHPrMY
3. Ask your questions about the class and watch advice from last year’s students
4. Contributions that Europeans gave us (marker toss) + images and Ms. Bass
5. What you know about European History chart and roam the room
6. Human timeline of events in European History / 1. Make up Log #1
2. Watch the clip for #2 in the middle column
3. Ask Ms. Bass any questions that you have about the class
4. Get the What you know about European History chart from Ms. Bass and complete it
5. Study the list of countries and map that you will need to get from Ms. Bass—there is a quiz on this next time.
Tuesday, August 29 or Wednesday, August 30 / 1. Log #2 Where do you think the name “Europe” came from?
2. Role Play story of Europa
3. Find your partner—interesting facts about European geography
4. Build a map with your bods!
5. Map COL
6. Critical thinking geography questions + musical ball exercise
7. Writing Essays (funnies, the order, who’s who, and brainstorm) / A. Make up Log #2
B. Make up the map COL by Friday, September 1
C. See Bass about the brainstorm for your essay
D. Get a purple John Green video handout from Ms. Bass—the link for the video is on the calendar (class website)—watch and complete the handout for class next time.
Thursday, August 31 or Friday, September 1 / 1. Essay Body Building Murder Mystery exercise
2. Talk write your first body paragraph
3. Debate Yes or No should the Middle Ages have that moniker (John Green notes as guide) / A. Turn in your purple John Green video handout on the Middle Ages
B. Arrange a time to learn how to write the body paragraphs for this class with Ms. Bass—this needs to be done by Friday, September 8.
C. Write all three body paragraphs for your personal essay
Tuesday, September 5 or Wednesday, September 6 / 1. Write everything you think of related to the Middle Ages on a white board
2. Pink t-chart and debate materials on whether the Middle Ages were dark.
3. Watch this clip and add to your t-chart on whether the Middle Ages were dark: https://www.prageru.com/courses/history/how-dark-were-dark-ages
4. What to do and not do in the conclusion
5. Write your conclusion / A. Turn in all three body paragraphs for your personal essay
B. Get all debate materials and the pink t-chart from Ms. Bass
C. Ask Ms. Bass what to do with the debate materials
D. Ask Ms. Bass about the conclusion and write it
E. Your typed essay is due next time (see the class calendar and we site for the specifications)
Thursday, September 7 or Friday, September 8 / 1. Highlights on your personal essay
2. Role of the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages: video clip, should church and state be separate—take a side! Prepare for your presentation on the Great Schism, et. Al. / A. See the calendar for the video that you are supposed to watch for next time + get the orange Middle Ages packet to take notes in from Ms. Bass
B. Watch this video clip and write things that you learn under the Catholic Church section in the orange Middle Ages packet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra2t3S8jp8w
C. Talk to Ms. Bass about ways to make up the Great Schism presentation
D. Turn in your personal history essay—underlines your thesis with a marker, circles your examples, and put boxes around your “so whats.”
Monday, September 11 or Tuesday, September 12 / 1. Purple document on the role of the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages.
2. Finish Presentations on the Babylonian Captivity, et. Al.
3. Index card recommendations to improve the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages.
4. Feudalism diagrams on white boards and discuss the costs + benefits of this system
5. Textbook scavenger hunt / A. Get a purple Catholic Church paper from Ms. Bass and she will tell you what to do.
B. Get the notes that you missed on the Papal Schism, etc. (orange Middle Ages packet) from a classmate. Write an index card with advice for the Catholic Church to improve during the Middle Ages.
C. Turn in your orange Middle Ages packet with the information about feudalism that you were asked to watch in a video for homework.
D. Make a diagram representing how feudalism works, and turn it in—include the costs and benefits of this economic system.
E. See the calendar on the class website for the pages that you need to read for next time. Get green graphic organizers from Ms. Bass to complete as you read.
Wednesday, September 13 or Thursday, September 14 / 1. Image and what you can determine about the Middle Ages
2. Monty Python Clip on Peasants in the Middle Ages
3. Notes on peasant revolts in green graphic organizer for 5th and 6th or in pink Middle Ages packet for 2nd period--why would peasants revolt in the 14th century?
4. Black Death--truth or fiction piles
5. Black Death role play
6. Black Death images and power point
7. Black Death gold documents (2nd and 6th) / A. E-mail Ms. Bass to request the image
That we looked at--e-mail her what you
can tell about the Middle Ages from the
Image
B. Make a power point about the Black
Death with images, causes, cures that
were used, and results for Europe.
C. Get the notes that you missed on the
peasant revolts from a classmate.
E. Turn in your reading notes that were
due today and look at the calendar for
the reading notes that are due next time.
Friday, September 15 or Monday, September 16 / 1. Purple Humanism Is/Is Not chart for the COR along with the comparison of education during the Renaissance and education today (on the back of the Is/Not chart)
2. Northern Renaissance art presentations and pink chart with notes from the presentations
3. Green DBQ on education during the Renaissance
4. Blue Crash Course handout and Crash Course on the Renaissance / AA. Get a blue Crash Course handout on the
Renaissance from Ms. Bass.The link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vufba_ZcoR0
B. Get the purple Humanism and Renaissance education paper from Ms. Bass and ask her how to complete it.
C. Get the green Renaissance education DBQ from Ms. Bass and ask her what to do.
D. Turn in the reading notes that were due today.
E. See the class calendar for the reading that is due next time.
Tuesday, September 17 or Wednesday, September 18 / 1. Notes on Marriage and Work in the Middle Ages (2nd in orange packet, 5th and 6th on their own paper).
2. Short Answer on the Middle Ages
3. Video on the Black Death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySClB6-OH-Q
4. Renaissance time frame columns and post its on the board—notes in yellow Renaissance packets
5. 6th Log #3 What are the characteristics of an ideal human? Compare that with the ideal Renaissance person.
6. Watch clip in 6th: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6lmKTAlrh4
7. White board review on the Middle Ages
8. The meaning of the term “Renaissance” and the Greek + Roman gold contribution checklist / A. Get the notes from #1 from a classmate
B. E-mail Ms. Bass for the prompt for the short answer and take 13 minutes to write your response.
C. Watch the video from #3
D. See Bass about #’s 4, 5, and 8
Thursday, September 21 or Friday, September 22 / · Blue COL on the two humanism videos
· Students teach Bass about humanism—notes on Civic vs. Christian humanism
· Present humanists (what they believed, wrote, and whether they were Civic or Christian) + make a Jingle about the person
· Take notes on index cards for each humanist as he is presented / · Make up the Blue COL by Friday, September 29
· Turn in your humanism notes from the two videos
· See the calendar for the reading that is due next time.
· Get seven index cards from Bass and the notes on the humanists for each card from a classmate
· See Bass about your own humanist presentation
Monday, September 25 or Tuesday, September 26 / · Vetruvian Man and connections with Humanism
· Finish Humanism presentations with jingles + index card notes
· Orange More vs. Machiavelli reading and chart notes on the last page of the reading
· Visit from Da Vinci + questions for moo-lah
· Notes in yellow packet on innovations in Renaissance art / · See Bass about the Vetruvian Man exercise
· Get the index card notes on the humanists that you missed from a classmate or get the list of humanists from Bass and research them yourself
· Get the notes that you missed on innovations in Renaissance art from a classmate (yellow Renaissance packet)
· Turn in your reading notes that were due today (see calendar for page #s)
· See the calendar for the homework that is due next time
Wedneday, September 27 or Thursday, September 28 / · Map comparisons of Europe during the Renaissance vs. now (white boards)
· Reasons why the Renaissance began in Italy (yellow Renaissance note packet)
· Comparisons of the Northern and Italian Renaissance (Note packet)
· Comparisons of Northern and Italian Renaissance art (yellow note packet and art history books)
· Present Northern Renaissance art work that you were assigned (notes on Northern Renaissance pink art chart)
· Finish presenting Italian art / · Make a power point with three Italian Renaissance art works and information about them their artists and three Northern Renaissance works.
· Get the notes that you missed in your yellow Renaissance packet from a classmate.
· Get the two Renaissance maps from Ms. Bass and she will tell you what to do.
· Turn in your assignment that was due today (see the calendar)
· See the calendar for the homework that is due next time
Friday, September 29 or Monday,October 2 / · Two minutes to compare answers on the gold Renaissance take home COL
· Watch this Mannerism video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6TvfyL9vHc&t=189s and take notes in your yellow Renaissance packet (last page)
· Blue handout (students did not keep these) Ducksters Italian city states (white board race game with questions)
· Design a flag for your assigned city state and present to the class
· Costs and Benefits of a divided Italy during the Renaissance
· Reasons why the city states declined
· Savanorola clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3zSTYrNX2E
· Yellow Machiavelli packet and start the video / · Turn in your gold take home COL on the Renaissance
· See the calendar for your homework due next time
· Watch the two videos in the middle column, take notes, and show them to Bass
· See Bass about the make up for the city states
· Get the yellow Machiavelli packet from Bass and see her about making up the first half of the video
Tuesday, October 3 or Wednesday,October 4 / · Purple “Did Women Have a Renaissance” chart—compare the two opinions on female rulers on the back of the paper
· Race Game with information about women in the Renaissance (notes in yellow Renaissance packet)
· Share your information about race, social class, and gender from the assigned reading with team mates (green graphic organizer notes) and hot potato comparisons between racism and gender roles in the Renaissance with today
· Finish Machiavelli clip and notes in Machiavelli yellow packet
· Fish Bowl on Machiavelli questions + purple reading / · Get the white essay outline papers from Bass and see her about the essay outlines that are due next time
· Get the purple Women in the Renaissance paper from Bass and ask her what to do
· Get the notes that you missed on women in the Renaissance (yellow Renaissance packet) from a classmate.
· See Bass about the Machiavelli make up.
· Turn in your “List of ten things that you learned about the Renaissance teaching assignment
Thursday, October 5 or Friday,
October 6 / · Answer the multiple choice questions in the yellow Machiavelli packet
· Talk about Cesare Borgia
· Read the Erasmus segment in the Machiavelli packet and compare with Machiavelli
· Characteristics of the New Monarchs (in the Renaissance note packet)
· Prepare for the Most Machiavellian New Monarch competition / · Turn in your three essay outlines (Renaissance)
· See the calendar for the homework that is due next time.
· Research Cesare Borgia and write a paragraph explaining why Machiavelli might have considered him a hero