SUMMER READING PROJECT FOR AP EURO STUDENTS

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Students taking Advanced Placement European History must obtain the following book:

A World Lit Only By Fire: The Medieval Mind and theRenaissance (1992)

by William Manchester. [ISBN 0316545562]

  • This book was a best seller. I hope that you find it an interesting read as well as an informative one.
  • Answer ALLquestions.

PART1: EssayUsing only pages 3-28, write an essay that starts with the following thesis: “The Medieval Mind was ______, ______, and ______.” The intro paragraph needs only the thesis.

(25%)Support each adjective you choose with specific examples from the book.

Cite page numbers. (essay should be at least 1 page in length)

PART 2: EssayUsing only pages 31-68, write an essay that starts with the following thesis: : “Life during the Medieval period was ______, ______, and ______.”The intro paragraph needs only the thesis.

(25%)Support each adjective you choose with specific examples from the book.

Cite page numbers. (essay should be at least 1 page in length)

PART 3: QuotesFor Sections Two, “The Shattering,” and Three, “One Man Alone,” explain the

(50%) following quotations from the book in your own words and then summarize the evidence that Manchester supplies to support his generalizations. That evidence may precede or follow the quotation. The page numbers correspond to the paperback edition.

For each, type the quote and respond with (at least) half-page explanations.

Be sure to cite page numbers when you quote or paraphrase the book.

p. 112 “Humanism...led to the greatest threat the Church had ever faced.”

p. 143 “He [Luther] had broken the dam of medieval discipline.”

p. 176 “Thus Protestantism was divided at its birth.”

p. 206 “In the popular imagination, Henry VIII and Martin Luther have been yoked as leaders of the reformation...in fact they do not belong together.”

p. 228 “Its clarifying event was the shattering of the medieval world…”

p. 288 “In the long lists of history it is difficult to find another figure whose heroism matches Magellan’s.” Why does Manchester say so and do you agree?

All parts of the summer assignment must be typed.

Each part should start on a new page.

Typing Requirements:

Double Spaced

Times New Roman

12 Point Font

Black ink

1 inch margins (default is usually 1.25” Change it)

Cover page (Simple. See example to the right)

Clearly label each part of the assignment.

Your term grades for the course are calculated as follows:HW = 20%

Tests = 42%

Writing (DBQ’s,essays, etc.) = 28%

Participation = 10%

Thisassignment will count as the first grade in thefirst term’sWritingcategory and is the equivalent to three DBQs.

THE ASSIGNMENT IS DUE THE FIRST DAY OF CLASS.

ANY LATE PAPERS WILL BE PENALIZED AT A RATE OF 10% PER DAY.