2021-2022 - AP European History Assignments
- Instructor
- Mr. Matthew Cole
- Term
- 2021-2022 School Year
- Department
- Social Studies
- Description
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Upcoming Assignments
No upcoming assignments.
Past Assignments
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Using Flipgrid or another platform, you will create a three to four minute podcast (approximately 350 - 500 words) focusing on the impact of a historical figure of your choosing from the list provided.Your final podcast will include:
- A general introduction that includes the time period, location and setting (context).
- A story about an individual experiencing the history related to your historical figure.
- A connection between the story of the individual and the time period in general.
- Sound effects and music to help dramatize the story you are sharing.
Review the attached Google Slides for detailed instructions and scoring guide.
- A general introduction that includes the time period, location and setting (context).
- A story about an individual experiencing the history related to your historical figure.
- A connection between the story of the individual and the time period in general.
- Sound effects and music to help dramatize the story you are sharing.
Review the attached Google Slides for detailed instructions and scoring guide.
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Review the attached slides and write your Podcast transcript in a Google Doc and submit it to Google Classroom.
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With your podcast, you will also be telling the story of individuals who are living through the historical experience you have described.
You will need to take time to brainstorm the type of character or characters you would like to include in your podcast and how they are involved in the history connected to you historical individual.
Complete the attached Introducing Your Characters worksheet , the guiding questions provided are to help you develop your character(s).
You will need to take time to brainstorm the type of character or characters you would like to include in your podcast and how they are involved in the history connected to you historical individual.
Complete the attached Introducing Your Characters worksheet , the guiding questions provided are to help you develop your character(s).
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Once you have selected a historical figure to focus your story on, it is time to collect and organize some details to include in your podcast script.
As you choose the details, think carefully about how you will tell the story.
Complete and submit the attached Mapping Your Story worksheet, the guiding questions provided to help you map your story.
As you choose the details, think carefully about how you will tell the story.
Complete and submit the attached Mapping Your Story worksheet, the guiding questions provided to help you map your story.
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Directions: Listen to the first 4 minutes of the sample podcast and take notes on what you hear in the attached worksheet.
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Read textbook pages 927-932. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focuas Questions: What reforms did Gorbachev institute in the Soviet Union, and what role did he play in the demise of the Soviet Union?
Focuas Questions: What reforms did Gorbachev institute in the Soviet Union, and what role did he play in the demise of the Soviet Union?
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Read textbook pages 914-924. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Question: What were the main events in the Cold War between 1965 and 1985, and how important was the role of detente in those events? What were the major social and cultural developments in the Western world between 1965 and 1985?
Focus Question: What were the main events in the Cold War between 1965 and 1985, and how important was the role of detente in those events? What were the major social and cultural developments in the Western world between 1965 and 1985?
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Read textbook pages 906-914. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Questions: What were the major political developments in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, and the United States between 1965 and 1985?
Focus Questions: What were the major political developments in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, and the United States between 1965 and 1985?
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Read textbook pages. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Questions: What were the goals of the revolt in sexual mores, the youth protests and student revolts, the feminist movement, and the antiwar protests? To what extent were their goals achieved?
Focus Questions: What were the goals of the revolt in sexual mores, the youth protests and student revolts, the feminist movement, and the antiwar protests? To what extent were their goals achieved?
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Directions: As you advance through the student paced Nearpod take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The lesson provides focus questions that provide purpose for your learning and understanding.
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Read textbook pages 891-899. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Questions: What major changes occurred in Western society and culture between 1945 and 1965?
Focus Questions: What major changes occurred in Western society and culture between 1945 and 1965?
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Read textbook pages 882-889. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Questions: What were the main developments in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and Western Europe between 1945 and 1965?
Focus Questions: What were the main developments in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and Western Europe between 1945 and 1965?
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Read textbook pages 876-881 . Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Questions: Why and how did the European colonies in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia gain independence between 1945 and 1965?
Focus Questions: Why and how did the European colonies in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia gain independence between 1945 and 1965?
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Read textbook pages 872-876. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Question: How and why did the Cold War become a global affair after 1949?
Focus Question: How and why did the Cold War become a global affair after 1949?
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Directions: As you advance through the student paced Nearpod take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The lesson provides focus questions that provide purpose for your learning and understanding.
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Read textbook pages 867-872. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Questions: Why were the United States and the Soviet Union suspicious of each other after World War II, and what events between 1945 and 1949 heightened the tensions between the two nations?
Focus Questions: Why were the United States and the Soviet Union suspicious of each other after World War II, and what events between 1945 and 1949 heightened the tensions between the two nations?
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Read and annotated the attached source The Myth of the Twentieth Century, by Alfred Rosenberg, 1930.
Complete the attached source analysis chart.
Then explain the historical situation, audience, purpose and point of view of the source using the boxes provided.
Read and annotated the attached source The Myth of the Twentieth Century, by Alfred Rosenberg, 1930.
Complete the attached source analysis chart.
Then explain the historical situation, audience, purpose and point of view of the source using the boxes provided.
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Read textbook pages 861-864. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Questions: What were the costs of World War II? How did the Allies’ visions of postwar Europe differ, and how did these differences contribute to the emergence of the Cold War?
Focus Questions: What were the costs of World War II? How did the Allies’ visions of postwar Europe differ, and how did these differences contribute to the emergence of the Cold War?
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Directions: Review your reading notes and attached slide show on the Home Front. Then using textbook pages 855-858, complete the following chart describing the impact of World War II on the lives of women in combatant nations from 1939-1945. Finally, create a thesis statement based on the prompt and two topic sentences.
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Read textbook pages 855-861. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Question: What were conditions like on the home front for Japan and the major Western nations involved in World War II?
Focus Question: What were conditions like on the home front for Japan and the major Western nations involved in World War II?
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Directions: First, review your reading notes and attached slide show on the Holocaust. Then, using the attached documents and your knowledge of European history, complete the chart evaluating how Nazi Germany escalated its persecution of European Jews throughout the 1930s until the end of the Second World War in 1945. Finally, create a thesis statement that uses the language of the prompt and provides a line of reasoning.
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Read textbook pages 848-855. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
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Read textbook pages 840-848. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Question: What were the major events of World War II in Europe and in Asia, and why were the allies ultimately victorious?
Focus Question: What were the major events of World War II in Europe and in Asia, and why were the allies ultimately victorious?
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Read textbook pages 832-840. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Questions: What were Hitler’s foreign policy goals, and what steps did he take to achieve them between 1933 and 1939? How did Japan’s policies lead to war in Asia?
Focus Questions: What were Hitler’s foreign policy goals, and what steps did he take to achieve them between 1933 and 1939? How did Japan’s policies lead to war in Asia?
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Reading Assignment - Expansion of Mass Culture and Leisure & Cultural and Intellectual Trends in the Interwar Years
Read textbook pages 822-829. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Questions: What new dimensions in mass culture and mass leisure emerged during the interwar years, and what role did these activities play in Italy, Germany, and Soviet Union? What were the main cultural and intellectual trends in the interwar years?
Focus Questions: What new dimensions in mass culture and mass leisure emerged during the interwar years, and what role did these activities play in Italy, Germany, and Soviet Union? What were the main cultural and intellectual trends in the interwar years?
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Historical Thinking Practice - Claims and Evidence in Sources - Contrast the Role of Women under Nazism and Communism
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Reading Assignment - The Soviet Union, Authoritarianism in Eastern Europe and Dictatorship in the Iberian Peninsula
Read textbook pages 815-822. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Questions: Why did many European states experience a retreat from democracy in the interwar years? What are the characteristics of so-called totalitarian states, and to what degree were these characteristics present in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia?
Focus Questions: Why did many European states experience a retreat from democracy in the interwar years? What are the characteristics of so-called totalitarian states, and to what degree were these characteristics present in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia?
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Read textbook pages805-815. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Questions: Why did many European states experience a retreat from democracy in the interwar years? What are the characteristics of so-called totalitarian states, and to what degree were these characteristics present in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia?
Focus Questions: Why did many European states experience a retreat from democracy in the interwar years? What are the characteristics of so-called totalitarian states, and to what degree were these characteristics present in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia?
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Read textbook pages 802-805. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Questions: How did France, Great Britain, and the United States respond to the various crises, including the Great Depression, that they faced in the interwar years? How did World War I affect Europe’s colonies in Asia and Africa?
Focus Questions: How did France, Great Britain, and the United States respond to the various crises, including the Great Depression, that they faced in the interwar years? How did World War I affect Europe’s colonies in Asia and Africa?
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Read textbook pages 796-802. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
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Read textbook pages 781-789. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Question: What were the causes of the Russian Revolution of 1917, and why did the Bolsheviks prevail in the civil war and gain control of Russia?
Focus Question: What were the causes of the Russian Revolution of 1917, and why did the Bolsheviks prevail in the civil war and gain control of Russia?
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Read textbook pages 765-781. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Questions: What did the belligerents expect at the beginning of World War I, and why did the course of the war turn out to be so different from their expectations? How did World War I affect the belligerents’ governmental and political institutions, economic affairs, and social life?
Focus Questions: What did the belligerents expect at the beginning of World War I, and why did the course of the war turn out to be so different from their expectations? How did World War I affect the belligerents’ governmental and political institutions, economic affairs, and social life?
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Prompt: Evaluate whether the new imperialism of the late 1800s and early 1900s was caused primarily by political motivations or by economic motivations.
Directions - Upload your essay as a Google Doc to Google Classroom.
Directions - Upload your essay as a Google Doc to Google Classroom.
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Read textbook pages 760-765. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Question: What were the long-range and immediate causes of World War I?
Focus Question: What were the long-range and immediate causes of World War I?
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Assignment Directions
Highlight historical context in green
Underline the thesis statement
Highlight topic sentences that identify the claim in blue
Highlight evidence using documents in yellow
Highlight explanation of how the content of the document supports the argument in pink/red
Highlight evidence beyond the documents in orange
Highlight any HAPP in purple
Highlight historical context in green
Underline the thesis statement
Highlight topic sentences that identify the claim in blue
Highlight evidence using documents in yellow
Highlight explanation of how the content of the document supports the argument in pink/red
Highlight evidence beyond the documents in orange
Highlight any HAPP in purple
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Read textbook pages 755-757. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Questions: What was the Bismarckian system of alliances, and how successful was it at keeping the peace? What issues lay behind the international crises that Europe faced in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?
Focus Questions: What was the Bismarckian system of alliances, and how successful was it at keeping the peace? What issues lay behind the international crises that Europe faced in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?
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Read textbook pages 750-755. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Question What effects did European imperialism have on Asia?
Focus Question What effects did European imperialism have on Asia?
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Read textbook pages 745-749. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Question: What were the causes of the new imperialism that took place after 1880? What effects did European imperialism have on Africa?
Focus Question: What were the causes of the new imperialism that took place after 1880? What effects did European imperialism have on Africa?
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Read textbook pages 739-744. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Question: What political problems did Great Britain, Italy, France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia face between 1894 and 1914, and how did they solve them?
Focus Question: What political problems did Great Britain, Italy, France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia face between 1894 and 1914, and how did they solve them?
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Read textbook pages 735-739. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Questions: What gains did women make in their movement for women’s rights? How did a new right-wing politics affect the Jews in different parts of Europe?
Focus Questions: What gains did women make in their movement for women’s rights? How did a new right-wing politics affect the Jews in different parts of Europe?
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Reading Assignment - Part 2 - Toward the Modern Consciousness: Intellectual and Cultural Developments
Read textbook pages729 - 735. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Question: What developments in science, intellectual affairs, and the arts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries “opened the way to a modern consciousness,” and how did this consciousness differ from earlier worldviews?
Focus Question: What developments in science, intellectual affairs, and the arts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries “opened the way to a modern consciousness,” and how did this consciousness differ from earlier worldviews?
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Reading Assignment - Part 1 - Toward the Modern Consciousness: Intellectual and Cultural Developments
Read textbook pages 723-729. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Question: What developments in science, intellectual affairs, and the arts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries “opened the way to a modern consciousness,” and how did this consciousness differ from earlier worldviews?
Focus Question: What developments in science, intellectual affairs, and the arts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries “opened the way to a modern consciousness,” and how did this consciousness differ from earlier worldviews?
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Read textbook pages 716-722. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Question: What general political trends were evident in the nations of western Europe in the last decades of the nineteenth century, and how did these trend differ from the policies pursued in Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia?
Focus Question: What general political trends were evident in the nations of western Europe in the last decades of the nineteenth century, and how did these trend differ from the policies pursued in Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia?
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Read textbook pages 706-716. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Questions: What role were women expected to play in society and family life in the latter half of the nineteenth century, and how closely did patterns of family life correspond to this ideal?
Focus Questions: What role were women expected to play in society and family life in the latter half of the nineteenth century, and how closely did patterns of family life correspond to this ideal?
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Read textbook pages 701-705. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Questions: What is a mass society, and what were its main characteristics?
Focus Questions: What is a mass society, and what were its main characteristics?
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Read textbook pages 696-701. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Questions: What was the Second Industrial Revolution, and what effects did it have on European economic and social life? What role did socialist parties and trade unions play in improving conditions for the working class?
Focus Questions: What was the Second Industrial Revolution, and what effects did it have on European economic and social life? What role did socialist parties and trade unions play in improving conditions for the working class?
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Read textbook pages 690-696. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Question: What was the Second Industrial Revolution, and what effects did it have on European economic and social life?
Focus Question: What was the Second Industrial Revolution, and what effects did it have on European economic and social life?
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Read textbook pages 680-688 . Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Question: How did the belief that the world should be viewed realistically manifest itself in science, art and literature in the second half of the nineteenth century?
Focus Question: How did the belief that the world should be viewed realistically manifest itself in science, art and literature in the second half of the nineteenth century?
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Read textbook pages 677-680. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Question: What were the main ideas of Karl Marx?
Focus Question: What were the main ideas of Karl Marx?
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Read textbook pages 669-676 . Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Question: What efforts for reform occurred in the Austrian Empire, Russia, and Great Britain between 1850 and 1870, and how successful were they in alleviating each nation’s problems?
Focus Question: What efforts for reform occurred in the Austrian Empire, Russia, and Great Britain between 1850 and 1870, and how successful were they in alleviating each nation’s problems?
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Read textbook pages 663-669. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking. Focus Question: What actions did Cavour and Bismarck take to bring about unification in Italy and Germany, respectively, and what role did the war play in their efforts?
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Read textbook pages 657-662. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Question: What were the characteristics of Napoleon III’s government, and how did his foreign policy contribute to the unification of Italy and Germany?
Focus Question: What were the characteristics of Napoleon III’s government, and how did his foreign policy contribute to the unification of Italy and Germany?
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Read textbook pages 649-655. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Question: What were the characteristics of Romanticism, and how were they reflected in literature, art, and music?
Focus Question: What were the characteristics of Romanticism, and how were they reflected in literature, art, and music?
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Read textbook pages 646649. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Question: How did European states respond to the increase in crime in the late 18th and early 19th centuries?
Focus Question: How did European states respond to the increase in crime in the late 18th and early 19th centuries?
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Using pages 638-646 complete the attached chart on 19th Century Revolts.
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Read textbook pages 638-646. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Questions: What forces for change were present in France, Great Britain, Belgium, Poland, and Italy between 1830 and 1848, and how did each nation respond? What were the causes of the revolutions of 1848, and why did the revolutions fail?
Focus Questions: What forces for change were present in France, Great Britain, Belgium, Poland, and Italy between 1830 and 1848, and how did each nation respond? What were the causes of the revolutions of 1848, and why did the revolutions fail?
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Read textbook pages 634-638. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Question: What were the main tenets of conservatism, liberalism, nationalism, and utopian socialism, and what role did each ideology play in Europe in the first half of the nineteenth century?
Focus Question: What were the main tenets of conservatism, liberalism, nationalism, and utopian socialism, and what role did each ideology play in Europe in the first half of the nineteenth century?
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Prompt: Evaluate the impact of the Industrial Revolution in nineteenth-century Great Britain.
Directions - Upload your essay as a Google Doc to Google Classroom and also submit it to Turnitin.com.
Class ID: 31462098
Class Enrollment Key: raiders
Directions - Upload your essay as a Google Doc to Google Classroom and also submit it to Turnitin.com.
Class ID: 31462098
Class Enrollment Key: raiders
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Read textbook pages 627-634. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Question: What were the goals of the Congress of Vienna and the Concert of Europe, and how successful were they in achieving those goals?
Focus Question: What were the goals of the Congress of Vienna and the Concert of Europe, and how successful were they in achieving those goals?
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Read textbook pages 624-627. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Question: What were the goals of the Congress of Vienna and the Concert of Europe, and how successful were they in achieving those goals?
Focus Question: What were the goals of the Congress of Vienna and the Concert of Europe, and how successful were they in achieving those goals?
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Working in groups discuss and analyze the primary source documents and decide which four sources are best suited to HAPP-Y.
Historical situation
Audience
Purpose
Point-of-View
Why does the historical situation audience, purpose, or point-of-view support your argument.
Historical situation
Audience
Purpose
Point-of-View
Why does the historical situation audience, purpose, or point-of-view support your argument.
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Critical read and annotate the attached primary sources documents on the industrial revolution.
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Read textbook pages 613-621. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Questions: What effects did the Industrial Revolution have on urban life, social classes, family life, and standards of living? What were working conditions like in the early decades of the Industrial Revolution, and what efforts were made to improve them?
Focus Questions: What effects did the Industrial Revolution have on urban life, social classes, family life, and standards of living? What were working conditions like in the early decades of the Industrial Revolution, and what efforts were made to improve them?
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Read textbook pages 609-613. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Questions: What effects did the Industrial Revolution have on urban life, social classes, family life, and standards of living? What were working conditions like in the early decades of the Industrial Revolution, and what efforts were made to improve them?
Focus Questions: What effects did the Industrial Revolution have on urban life, social classes, family life, and standards of living? What were working conditions like in the early decades of the Industrial Revolution, and what efforts were made to improve them?
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Read textbook pages 604-609. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Question: How did the Industrial Revolution spread from Great Britain to the Continent and the united States, and how did industrialization in those areas differ from British industrialization?
Focus Question: How did the Industrial Revolution spread from Great Britain to the Continent and the united States, and how did industrialization in those areas differ from British industrialization?
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Read textbook pages 596-603. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Questions: Why was Great Britain the first state to have an Industrial Revolution? Why did it happen in Britain when it did? What were the basic features of the new industrial system created by the Industrial Revolution?
Focus Questions: Why was Great Britain the first state to have an Industrial Revolution? Why did it happen in Britain when it did? What were the basic features of the new industrial system created by the Industrial Revolution?
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Your seating arrangement and your information chart is due Monday, January 17th.
Your group will present in class on Tuesday, January 18th.
Your group will present in class on Tuesday, January 18th.
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Read textbook pages 591-594. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Question: Which aspects of the French Revolution did Napoleon preserve, and which did he destroy?
Focus Question: Which aspects of the French Revolution did Napoleon preserve, and which did he destroy?
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Read textbook pages 586 -590. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Question: Which aspects of the French Revolution did Napoleon preserve, and which did he destroy?
Focus Question: Which aspects of the French Revolution did Napoleon preserve, and which did he destroy?
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Read textbook pages. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Question: What were the main events of the French Revolution between 1789 and 1799?
Focus Question: What were the main events of the French Revolution between 1789 and 1799?
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Prompt: Evaluate the changes in attitudes towards European women from the Reformation through the Enlightenment.
Directions - Upload your essay as a Google Doc to Google Classroom and also submit it to Turnitin.com.
Class ID: 31462098
Class Enrollment Key: raiders
Directions - Upload your essay as a Google Doc to Google Classroom and also submit it to Turnitin.com.
Class ID: 31462098
Class Enrollment Key: raiders
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Read textbook pages 577-585. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Question: What were the main events of the French Revolution between 1789 and 1799?
Focus Question: What were the main events of the French Revolution between 1789 and 1799?
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Read textbook pages 573-577. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
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Read textbook pages 570-573. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Questions: What were the main events of the French Revolution between 1789 and 1799? What role did each of the following play in the French Revolution: lawyers, peasants, women, the clergy, the Jacobins, the sans-culottes, the French revolutionary army, and the Committee of Public Safety?
Focus Questions: What were the main events of the French Revolution between 1789 and 1799? What role did each of the following play in the French Revolution: lawyers, peasants, women, the clergy, the Jacobins, the sans-culottes, the French revolutionary army, and the Committee of Public Safety?
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Read textbook pages 567-570 - Background to the French Revolution. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Question: What were the long-range and immediate causes of the French Revolution?
Focus Question: What were the long-range and immediate causes of the French Revolution?
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Read textbook pages 563-567 - The Beginning of the Revolutionary Era: The American Revolution. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Question: What were the causes and results of the American Revolution, and what impact did it have on Europe?
Focus Question: What were the causes and results of the American Revolution, and what impact did it have on Europe?
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Read textbook pages 554-561. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Question: Who were the main groups making up the European social order in the eighteenth century, and how did the conditions in which they lived differ both between groups and between different parts of Europe?
Focus Question: Who were the main groups making up the European social order in the eighteenth century, and how did the conditions in which they lived differ both between groups and between different parts of Europe?
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Read textbook pages 547-553. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Question: What changes occurred in agriculture, finance, industry, and trade during the eighteenth century?
Focus Question: What changes occurred in agriculture, finance, industry, and trade during the eighteenth century?
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Read textbook pages 543-547. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Question: How did the concepts of ‘‘balance of power’’ and ‘‘reason of state’’ influence international relations in the eighteenth century? What were the causes and results of the Seven Years’ War?
Focus Question: How did the concepts of ‘‘balance of power’’ and ‘‘reason of state’’ influence international relations in the eighteenth century? What were the causes and results of the Seven Years’ War?
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Read King Frederick the Great’s quote explaining services a monarch must provide for his people.
Hi-light examples of service an enlightened monarch would perform for the people.
Discuss your thinking with a partner.
Respond to the following question: How are these acts of service rather than acts of ruling?
Hi-light examples of service an enlightened monarch would perform for the people.
Discuss your thinking with a partner.
Respond to the following question: How are these acts of service rather than acts of ruling?
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Review the characteristics of the New Monarchs, the Absolute Monarchs and Enlightened Monarchs.
Review information in your textbook about the 18th century monarchs of central and eastern Europe and make note on the chart provided.
Write a thesis statement addressing the prompt including your line of reasoning based on the evidence.
Review information in your textbook about the 18th century monarchs of central and eastern Europe and make note on the chart provided.
Write a thesis statement addressing the prompt including your line of reasoning based on the evidence.
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Read textbook pages 531-543. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Question: What were the main developments in France, Great Britain, the Dutch Republic, the Mediterranean states, and the Scandinavian monarchies in the eighteenth century? What do historians mean by the term enlightened absolutism, and to what degree did eighteenth-century Prussia, Austria, and Russia exhibit its characteristics?
Focus Question: What were the main developments in France, Great Britain, the Dutch Republic, the Mediterranean states, and the Scandinavian monarchies in the eighteenth century? What do historians mean by the term enlightened absolutism, and to what degree did eighteenth-century Prussia, Austria, and Russia exhibit its characteristics?
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Read textbook 524-529 pages. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Question: How did popular religion differ from institutional religion in the eighteenth century?
Focus Question: How did popular religion differ from institutional religion in the eighteenth century?
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Read textbook pages 516-524. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus questions that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Questions: What innovations in art, music, and literature occurred in the eighteenth century? How did popular culture differ from high culture in the eighteenth century?
Focus Questions: What innovations in art, music, and literature occurred in the eighteenth century? How did popular culture differ from high culture in the eighteenth century?
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Read textbook pages 502-516. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus question that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Questions: What intellectual developments led to the emergence of the Enlightenment? Who were the leading figures of the Enlightenment, and what were their main contributions? In what type of social environment did the philosophes thrive, and what role did women play in that environment?
Focus Questions: What intellectual developments led to the emergence of the Enlightenment? Who were the leading figures of the Enlightenment, and what were their main contributions? In what type of social environment did the philosophes thrive, and what role did women play in that environment?
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Read textbook pages 493-494. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus question that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Question: Why is Descartes considered the “founder of modern rationalism”?
Focus Question: Why is Descartes considered the “founder of modern rationalism”?
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Read textbook pages 494-498. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus question that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Question: How were the ideas of the Scientific Revolution spread, and what impact did they have on society and religion?
Focus Question: How were the ideas of the Scientific Revolution spread, and what impact did they have on society and religion?
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Read textbook pages 488-494 . Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus question that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
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What did Paracelsus, Vesalius, and Harvey contribute to a scientific view of medicine?
What role did women play in the Scientific Revolution?
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What did Paracelsus, Vesalius, and Harvey contribute to a scientific view of medicine?
What role did women play in the Scientific Revolution?
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Read textbook pages 478-488. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus question that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Question: What did Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton contribute to a new vision of the universe, and how did it differ from the Ptolemaic conception of the universe?
Focus Question: What did Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton contribute to a new vision of the universe, and how did it differ from the Ptolemaic conception of the universe?
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Read textbook pages 476-478. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus question that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Question: What developments during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance contributed to the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century?
Focus Question: What developments during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance contributed to the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century?
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Prompt: Evaluate the similarities in the methods that Louis XIV and Peter the Great used to centralize and enhance their power during the 17th century.
Directions - Upload your essay as a Google Doc to Google Classroom and also submit it to Turnitin.com.
Class ID: 31462098
Class Enrollment Key: raiders
Directions - Upload your essay as a Google Doc to Google Classroom and also submit it to Turnitin.com.
Class ID: 31462098
Class Enrollment Key: raiders
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Read textbook pages 468-473. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus question that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
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Read textbook pages 459-467. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus question that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking
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Read textbook pages 451-459. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus question that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Question: What developments enabled Brandenburg-Prussia, Austria, and Russia to emerge as major powers in the seventeenth century?
Focus Question: What developments enabled Brandenburg-Prussia, Austria, and Russia to emerge as major powers in the seventeenth century?
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Read textbook pages 444-451. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus question that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Question: What was absolutism in theory, and how did actual practice in France reflect or differ from theory?
Focus Question: What was absolutism in theory, and how did actual practice in France reflect or differ from theory?
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Read textbook pages 437-444. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus question that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Question: What economic, social, and political crises did Europe experience in the first half of the seventeenth century?
Focus Question: What economic, social, and political crises did Europe experience in the first half of the seventeenth century?
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Read textbook pages 431-434. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus question that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
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What was mercantilism, and what was its relationship to colonial empires?
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What was mercantilism, and what was its relationship to colonial empires?
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Read textbook pages 427-431. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus question that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
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How did European expansion affect both the conquered and the conquerors?
Focus Question:
How did European expansion affect both the conquered and the conquerors?
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Read textbook pages 416-426. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus question that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
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How did the arrival of the Dutch, British, and French on the world scene in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries affect Africa, Southeast Asia, India, China, and Japan?
What were the main features of the African slave trade, and what effects did it have on Africa?
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How did the arrival of the Dutch, British, and French on the world scene in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries affect Africa, Southeast Asia, India, China, and Japan?
What were the main features of the African slave trade, and what effects did it have on Africa?
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Read textbook pages 407-416. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus question that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
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How did Portugal and Spain acquire their overseas empires, and how did their empires differ?
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How did Portugal and Spain acquire their overseas empires, and how did their empires differ?
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Read textbook 403-407 pages. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus question that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
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What did Europeans begin to embark on voyages of discovery and expansion at the end of the fifteenth century?
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What did Europeans begin to embark on voyages of discovery and expansion at the end of the fifteenth century?
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This online roundtable is practice and review for a Short-Answer Question to be given Thursday, September 24.
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Each Table Group should have ONE group member make ONE copy of the slides below and share the slides with all other Table Group members. Be sure to list the Table Group members at the top of the Guest List Information Sheet.
Work collaboratively on the assignment, but you can divide the work of the Guest List Information Sheet for efficiency.
All group members must work TOGETHER on the seating arrangements.
Be sure to discuss what each group member will present to the class on Friday.
PRACTICE your presentation. There will be a separate score for the presentation based on individual's presentation practices.
Work collaboratively on the assignment, but you can divide the work of the Guest List Information Sheet for efficiency.
All group members must work TOGETHER on the seating arrangements.
Be sure to discuss what each group member will present to the class on Friday.
PRACTICE your presentation. There will be a separate score for the presentation based on individual's presentation practices.
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Read textbook pages 393-400. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus question that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
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What role did politics, economic and social conditions, and religion play in the European wars of the sixteenth century?
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What role did politics, economic and social conditions, and religion play in the European wars of the sixteenth century?
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Read textbook pages 389-393. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus question that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
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Closely read the attached sources and then complete the following chart as modeled. After completing the chart craft a thesis statement using the sentence starters provided.
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Read textbook pages 387-389. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus question that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
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What impact did the Protestant Reformation have on society in the sixteenth century?
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What impact did the Protestant Reformation have on society in the sixteenth century?
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Prompt: Evaluate the extent to which the Northern Renaissance differed from the Italian Renaissance.
Directions - Upload the essay as a Google Doc to Google Classroom and also submit to Turnitin.com.
Class ID: 31462098
Class Enrollment Key: raiders
Directions - Upload the essay as a Google Doc to Google Classroom and also submit to Turnitin.com.
Class ID: 31462098
Class Enrollment Key: raiders
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Read textbook pages 380-387. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus question that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Questions:
What were the main tenets of Lutheranism, Zwinglianism, Anabaptism, and Calvinism, and how did they differ from each other and from Catholicism?
What impact did political, economic, and social conditions have on the development of these four reform movements?
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What were the main tenets of Lutheranism, Zwinglianism, Anabaptism, and Calvinism, and how did they differ from each other and from Catholicism?
What impact did political, economic, and social conditions have on the development of these four reform movements?
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Read textbook pages 371-379. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus question that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Question: What were Martin Luther’s main disagreements with the Roman Catholic Church, and what political, economic, and social conditions help explain why the movement he began spread so quickly across Europe?
Focus Question: What were Martin Luther’s main disagreements with the Roman Catholic Church, and what political, economic, and social conditions help explain why the movement he began spread so quickly across Europe?
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Read textbook pages 367-371. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus question that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
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What were the chief ideas of the Christian humanists, and how did they differ from the ideas of the Protestant reformers?
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What were the chief ideas of the Christian humanists, and how did they differ from the ideas of the Protestant reformers?
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Read textbook pages 357-361. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus question that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
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Why do historians sometimes refer to the monarchies of the late fifteenth century as ‘‘new monarchies’’ or ‘‘Renaissance states’’?
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Why do historians sometimes refer to the monarchies of the late fifteenth century as ‘‘new monarchies’’ or ‘‘Renaissance states’’?
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Assignment Directions
Working in assigned Groups, please review and discuss the Double Bubble Map comparing and contrasting characteristics of Italian and Northern Renaissance works of art.
Locate your assigned work of art in this slide deck. You will be typing group responses on the worksheet provided following the slide with you work of art on it. Be cautious and take care so that you are not typing over other groups’ work.
Complete the provided worksheet as a group and be prepared to present your learning to the class during our next class meeting. Every member of the group must have an assigned speaking part. Group presentations should not be longer than 3 minutes total.
Working in assigned Groups, please review and discuss the Double Bubble Map comparing and contrasting characteristics of Italian and Northern Renaissance works of art.
Locate your assigned work of art in this slide deck. You will be typing group responses on the worksheet provided following the slide with you work of art on it. Be cautious and take care so that you are not typing over other groups’ work.
Complete the provided worksheet as a group and be prepared to present your learning to the class during our next class meeting. Every member of the group must have an assigned speaking part. Group presentations should not be longer than 3 minutes total.
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Read textbook pages 350-357. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus question that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Questions:
What were the chief characteristics of Renaissance art, and how did it differ in Italy and northern Europe?
Focus Questions:
What were the chief characteristics of Renaissance art, and how did it differ in Italy and northern Europe?
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Read textbook pages 343-350. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus question that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Questions:
How did Machiavelli ideas reflect the secular values of the Renaissance?
What was humanism, and what effect did it have on philosophy, education, attitudes toward politics, and the writing of history?
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How did Machiavelli ideas reflect the secular values of the Renaissance?
What was humanism, and what effect did it have on philosophy, education, attitudes toward politics, and the writing of history?
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Directions for Inquiry Groups
Each student individually reads one document looking for a possible answer to our inquiry question. The student fills out the Document Inquiry Chart as they are reading.
Each student should be prepared to share their thinking based only on the document assigned to them in a whole group discussion.
Each students then take turns sharing out their information from the chart. Students should discuss how their sources support, build upon, or contest one another. Students discuss how each source answers the inquiry question.
Following your Table Group discussion, you will independently review the sample thesis statements (claims) provided by Mrs. Burch and Mr. Cole. Select the thesis statement that best supports your conclusion based on your inquiry - Was there a Renaissance for women.
Make a copy of the Google Doc titled Practice - Crafting a Line of Reasoning to Support a Claim and type your response using the thesis statement you selected and providing your own line of reasoning. Create a "because" statement addressing HOW or WHY you came to your conclusion. Be sure to use facts, and not make more claims.
Submit your completed Document Inquiry Chart and your completed copy of the Google Doc - Crafting a Line of Reasoning to Support a Claim.
Each student individually reads one document looking for a possible answer to our inquiry question. The student fills out the Document Inquiry Chart as they are reading.
Each student should be prepared to share their thinking based only on the document assigned to them in a whole group discussion.
Each students then take turns sharing out their information from the chart. Students should discuss how their sources support, build upon, or contest one another. Students discuss how each source answers the inquiry question.
Following your Table Group discussion, you will independently review the sample thesis statements (claims) provided by Mrs. Burch and Mr. Cole. Select the thesis statement that best supports your conclusion based on your inquiry - Was there a Renaissance for women.
Make a copy of the Google Doc titled Practice - Crafting a Line of Reasoning to Support a Claim and type your response using the thesis statement you selected and providing your own line of reasoning. Create a "because" statement addressing HOW or WHY you came to your conclusion. Be sure to use facts, and not make more claims.
Submit your completed Document Inquiry Chart and your completed copy of the Google Doc - Crafting a Line of Reasoning to Support a Claim.
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Read textbook pages 334-340. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills. The textbook provides focus question that provide purpose for your reading and note-taking.
Focus Questions:
What economic changes helped Italy prosper during the 15th century?
What major social changes occurred during the Renaissance?
Focus Questions:
What economic changes helped Italy prosper during the 15th century?
What major social changes occurred during the Renaissance?
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Read the attached excerpt by the historian Jacob Burckhardt and then discuss the document with your table group and answer the short-answer style questions.
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Read textbook pages 332-333. The textbook provides focus question that provide purpose for your reading and note taking. Take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your notebook skills and incorporating one of the strategies I covered in class today. Take a photo of your notes and upload them to Google Classroom.
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At the end of the Nearpod you will be directed to create a Google and address a prompt. Submit you written work here on Google Classroom. Title you response impact of the Black Death.