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Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim
Be patient and tough; some day this pain will be useful to you.
Pioneer High School
2009-10 Edition
AP European History
Major Assignments and Unit Readings
Introduction
First: I’d like to congratulate you at reaching this point, only the most dedicated students even attempt to take an AP class. Hopefully this class will be intellectually rewarding, interesting, and at times even fun.
Second: Don’t panic! This booklet is designed to cover the whole year. If you were given most of your assignments for any class, it might seem overwhelming. I’ve created this booklet so that you can get ahead, but more importantly so you can plan your time well. I know that you will have other classes and activities; this is my attempt to give you a way to manage your time effectively.
Third For those of you who apply for the ACE program for the spring semester, you will have one additional assignment- we will have a series of review sessions at lunch that you will be required to attend prior to the AP Exam during the 4th quarter.
Fourth: You can write in this book, it’s yours. You can underline important passages, make corrections as needed and make notes in the margins. For the readings, because they are primary sources, spelling was left as it was originally written, but that doesn’t mean everything is perfect.
Last: Don’t get over confident. This is not “everything” that you will be doing this year. You will also be reading, completing some small assignments, taking notes, reviewing your material, and just plain studying for quizzes and exams.
Assignments / Assessments / Page
Course Unit Topics / 5
General Assignments
Cornell PERSIA Note taking System / 8
DBQ Rubric / 12
FRQ Rubric / 14
Student Led Discussion s / 15
Student Group Review / 18
Semester Research Assignment / 19
Online Class Components / 24
Extra Credit Assignments
Art Assignment
Book Review / 25
Movie Critique / 27
You Are There Newscast / 28
Unit Assignments and Readings
Take It APPARTS Assignment / 32
Art Analysis Assignment / 38
Summer Assignment / 40
Multiple Choice Quiz
Unit I Introduction: Late Middle Ages: Social and Political Breakdown / 46
Plague DBQ Practice
Black Death Discussion
Multiple Choice Exam
Unit II Renaissance and Discovery, Reformation / 52
Renaissance Practice FRQ
Machiavelli’s Italy- Virtual Discussion
Reforming Sermons / 54
Functions of Festivals Discussion / 68
Multiple Choice from Text, DBQ Exam
Unit III Age of Religious Wars and European State Consolidation / 71
Parliament vs. Stewart Kings Debate and Paper / 73
Multiple Choice from Text, FRQ Exam
Unit IV New Directions in Thought and Culture and the Old Regime / 82
Scientific Philosophy Fair / 83
Science vs. Religion Discussion
Multiple Choice and DBQ Exam
Unit V The Transatlantic Economy, Trade Wars, and Colonial Rebellion and The Age of Enlightenment / 93
Enlightened Facebook Activity / 95
POV- Salons
Philosophes and Politics Discussion
Columbian Exchange Virtual Discussion / 108
FRQ (Two Questions) Exam
Unit VI- - The French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon / 110
The Trial of Robespierre Debate and Paper / 112
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity Virtual Discussion / 113
Multiple Choice Exam
Unit VII The Conservative Order, Economic Advance and Social Unrest / 121
Industrial Revolution DBQ Essay
British Textile Virtual Discussion / 132
Multiple Choice and DBQ Exam
Winter Assignment / 136
Unit VIII - - The Age of Nation States / 138
National Unification Puppet Show / 140
Bismarck and German Unification Virtual Discussion / 146
Multiple Choice Exam
Unit IX European Society to WWI, The Birth of Modern Thought / 149
Ideologies on Stage / 151
Rationalism, Racism, Nationalism Discussion
Multiple Choice from Text, FRQ (Two Question) Exam
Unit X - Imperialism, WWI, Russian Revolution / 162
WWI Limericks / 164
WWI DBQ
Settlement at Paris Discussion
Multiple Choice Exam
Unit XI- Political Experiments of the 1920s Europe and the Great Depression / 171
The Great Depression in Germany- The Nazi's Discussion
You Are There Project / 173
Multiple Choice from Text, (Two Question) FRQ Exam
Unit XII – WWII / 184
POV – Kristallnacht
Racism and the Holocaust Discussion
Multiple Choice Exam
Unit XIII - Changing Europe Cold War / 190
Post WWII FRQ
The collapse of European communism Discussion
The rise of radical political Islam Virtual Discussion
Exam Multiple Choice
Unit XIV - AP Review and Test Prep / 202
The Golden Years / AP EXAM
Art Index
Course Unit Topics
Summer AssignmentUnit 1 Introduction: Late Middle Ages: Social and Political Breakdown / The Black Death
The 100 years War
Ecclesiastical Breakdown
The Great Schism and Impact
Medieval Russia
Unit 2 Renaissance and Discovery, Reformation / The French Invasions
Major Figures of Italian Ren Politics- Medici/ Machiavelli
The Northern Renaissance
Images of Renaissance Life & Thought
Society and Religion
Reformation and Counter-Reformation
Societal Change/English Reformation
Unit 3 Age of Religious Wars and European State Consolidation / Imperial Spain and Philip II
Religious Wars
30 years war
Parliament vs. Stuart Kings
The Age of Absolutism
Absolute Monarchy in France
The Romanov’s
The Ottoman’s
Unit 4 New Directions in Thought and Culture and the Old Regime / The Scientific Revolution
Philosophy vs. Science
New Scientific Institutions
Women in Science
Witch-Hunting
Science vs. Religion
The Old Regime
Unit 5 The Transatlantic Economy, Trade Wars, and Colonial Rebellion, The Age of Enlightenment / The Agricultural Revolution
18th Century Industrial Revolution
Impact of Industrial Revolution on Women, Children, and Urbanization
Overseas Empires
The Spanish Colonial System
Black Slavery, the Plantation
The Colombian Exchange
Mid-18th Century Wars
The American Revolution
The Enlightenment
The Philosophes and Religion
Enlightenment Society
Women in the Enlightenment
Philosophes and Politics
Enlightenment on Art and Architecture
Enlightened Absolutism- Frederick II
Enlightened Absolute Monarchs
Unit 6- The French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon / The French Revolution
Crisis of the French Monarchy
Reconstruction of France
Reconstruction of France
Women and the Church End of the Monarchy
Reign of Terror
The End of the Monarchy, Europe at War
Reign of Terror
The Thermidorian Reaction
Rise of Napoleon
The Consulate in France
Napoleon's Empire
European Response to Empire
Congress of Vienna
Romanticism
Religion in the Romantic Period
Romantic Literature and Art
Religion and Nationalism in the Romantic Age-
Unit 7- The Conservative Order, Economic Advance and Social Unrest / Nationalism and Liberalism
Emergence and Ideals of Nationalism and Liberalism Conservatives
Wars of Independence in Latin America
Conservative Failure
Conservatives Internationally
Unit 8 - The Age of Nation States / Toward an Industrial Society
Family Structures and the Industrial Revolution
Industrial Revolution
Crime and Order
Family Life and Child Labor
Women in the Industrial Revolution
Revolutions of 1848
The Crimean War
The Abolishment of Slavery
Italian Unification
The Habsburgs and Russian Emancipation
German Unification
The Third Republic
Unit 9- - European Society to WWI, The Birth of Modern Thought / The Second Industrial Revolution
The Middle Classes in Ascendancy
Late 19th Century Urban Life
Varieties of Late 19th Century Women's Experiences Jewish Emancipation
Labor, Socialism and Politics to WWI
The New Reading Public,
Science in Mid-century- Darwinism, Science and Ethics
Christianity and the ChurchUnder Siege
Toward a 20th Century Frame of Mind - Science: The Revolution in Physics
The Coming of Modern Art
Nietzsche and Freud
Anti-Semitism
Unit 10 - Imperialism, WWI, Russian Revolution / African Imperialism
Emerging Alliance Systems
World War I
Russian Revolution
Settlement at Paris
Political and Economic Factors after the Paris Peace settlement
Unit 11 Political Experiments of the 1920s
Europe and the Great Depression / The Soviet Experiment Begins
The Fascist Experiment in Italy
Women in a Totalitarian Government
Joyless Victors- Great Britain
Trials of the Successor states in Eastern Europe
The Weimar Republic
Toward Great Depression
Causes of the Great Depression
The Great Depression in Great Britain, France, Germany
Comparison of Soviet vs. Nazi Police States
Nazi Economic Policy
Women under the Nazi government
The Great Depression in Italy
The Great Depression in the Soviet Union
Unit 12 - WWII / Again the Road to War
The Spanish Civil War,
The Anschluss,
Munich
WWII
The Nazi Assault on the Jews of Poland
The Fall of Nazi Germany
Racism and the Holocaust
Explanations of the Holocaust
The Domestic Fronts
Unit 13 - Changing Europe Cold War / The Emergence of the Cold War
The creation of Israel and the Korean War
Soviet Domination of Eastern Europe
The Khrushchev Era and Brezhnev Era
French Decolonization
The collapse of European communism
The collapse of the Soviet Union
The Yeltsin Decade
The 20th Century movement of people
New Patterns in Work and Expectations of Women
The rise of radical political Islam
Toward a Welfare State Society
Transformations in Knowledge and Culture
The challenges of the EU
The Christian Heritage
The arrival of the computer
Unit 14 - AP Review and Test Prep
AP Europe Exam
The Cornell P.E.R.S.I.A. Note-taking System
For most note taking, the typical Cornell note system follows this format:
1. Record: During the lecture, use the note taking column to record the lecture using telegraphic sentences.
2. Questions: As soon after class as possible, formulate questions based on the notes in the right-hand column. Writing questions helps to clarify meanings, reveal relationships, establish continuity, and strengthen memory. Also, the writing of questions sets up a perfect stage for exam-studying later.
3. Recite: Cover the note taking column with a sheet of paper. Then, looking at the questions or cue-words in the question and cue column only, say aloud, in your own words, the answers to the questions, facts, or ideas indicated by the cue-words.
4. Reflect: Reflect on the material by asking yourself questions, for example: “What’s the significance of these facts? What principle are they based on? How can I apply them? How do they fit in with what I already know? What’s beyond them?
5. Review: Spend at least ten minutes every week reviewing all your previous notes. If you do, you’ll retain a great deal for current use, as well as, for the exam.
When students are asked to study a time period in history, they sometimes have difficulty organizing all the seemingly unconnected facts about different people, dates, events, and issues related to that time period. The PERSIA approach is one way to organize how the people lived in a society at a certain time in history, and thus helps students to understand their culture. The PERSIA graphic organizer is an acronym for the six themes that people have had throughout history. These concerns are expressed in six general areas and by six questions
Political: Who shall be in charge?
Economic: How shall we make a living?
Religious: What shall we believe?
Social: How shall we relate to each other?
Intellectual: How shall we learn?
Artistic: How shall we express ourselves?
The answers to these six questions – in different times and places – have created different kinds of political, economic, religious, social, intellectual, and artistic institutions. All these institutions form the cultural components of a people at a particular time and place. The following provides additional questions and more details on each aspect of a culture:
Political => Who shall be in change?
· Who was in charge?
· How did the leader(s) get their power? (for example, hereditary, military power, by elections)
· Was government based on power or a social contract?
· How was the government of the society structured?
· What kinds of freedoms were given to the people?
Economic => How shall we make a living?
· How did most people make a living? (agriculture, commerce, manufacturing, services, trades and professions, etc.)
· What were the main agricultural products? The main industries? The main services?
· Did this society depend on imports? What were the main imports?
· Did other societies depend on their exports? What were the main exports?
Religious => What shall we believe?
· What were the main religious groups in the society?
· Where did we come from? (origins)
· What happens when we die? (destination after death)
· How shall we spend our lives? (purpose of life)
· Was there religious freedom in the society?
· Was religion part of the government?
· What general beliefs did the society have?
Social => How shall we relate to each other?
· How was society organized?
· • Authoritarian society based on servitude and/or slavery.
· • Deference society based on rank in society.
· • Egalitarian society based on equal rights under the law.
· Did the society have different social classes? If so, what were they?
· What were the main ethnic groups?
· What were the main languages spoken in the society?
· Construct a social pyramid that indicates the different social classes.
Intellectual => How shall we learn?
· Was learning based on what others told you (authority), what you found out for yourself (self-discovery), or a combination of both?
· Did free public education exist?
· Did all members of this society have access to education? If not, who did not and why not?
· Did centers of higher education exist? If so, for whom? If not, why not?
· What educational opportunities existed for women and minority groups?
· What information sources were available for different groups in the population?
Artistic => How shall we express ourselves?
· How did the society express itself artistically? (emotions, thoughts, ideas)
· What was its music and dance like?
· What were the major contributions of literature and writings?
· What were the major contributions in architecture and painting?
· What was the clothing like?
· What major discoveries or ideas were contributed by the society?
· What were the most popular sports and forms of entertainment?
For the question area of your notes, you should indicate as you review your notes, which themes did the particular topic, person, or event address? You could streamline your note-taking with symbols, numbers or letters indicating which part or parts relates to the PERSIA acronym. This will help with your overall review of your notes.