2021-22 1st Period - AP European History-Period 1 Assignments

The responses to the film questions are due at the end of your class period on Tuesday, May 24th.

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 on Google Classroom, the guiding questions provided to help you map your story. (Worksheet - Mapping Your Story)
Due, May 17th - end of the class period

Listen to the example podcast and respond the to guiding questions on the attached worksheet.
The list of historical figures is posted for your reference. Sign ups will take place on Monday in class.

The Google Doc with film questions is to be reviewed while you are watching the film in class. Some questions can be addressed while watching the film, but some you will need to watch the whole film before you can respond.

Lesson Four Society and Culture in the Western World
Textbook pages 918 - 924
Focus Question: What were the major social and cultural developments in the Western world between 1965 and 1985?

Lesson Three The Cold War: The Move to Détente
Textbook pages 914 - 918
Focus Question: What were the main events in the Cold War between 1965 and 1985, and how important was the role of détente in those events?

Lesson Two A Divided Western World
Textbook pages 906 - 914
Focus Questions: What were the major political developments in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, and the United States between 1965 and 1985?

Lesson One A Culture of Protest
Textbook pages 901 - 906
Focus Questions:

What were the goals of the revolt in sexual mores, the you protests and student revolts, the feminist movement, and the anti war protests?
To what extent were their goals achieved?

Lesson Four Postwar Society and Culture in the Western World
Textbook pages 891-899 
Focus Question: What major changes occurred in Western society and culture between 1945 and 1965?

Lesson Three Recovery and Renewal in Europe
Textbook pages 882-889
Focus Questions: What were the main developments in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and Western Europe between 1945 and 1965?

Lesson Two Europe and the World: Decolonization
Textbook pages 876-881
Focus Questions:
Why and how did the European colonies in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia gain independence between 1945 and 1965?

Lesson One - Part 2 Development of the Cold War
Textbook pages 872-876
Focus Question: How and why did the Cold War become a global affair after 1949?

Based on the source provided, complete the Source Analysis Chart and the writing frames provided. You only have to complete ONE writing frame for each type of sourcing.

Lesson One - Part 1 Development of the Cold War
Textbook pages 867- 872
Focus Questions:

Why were the United States and the Soviet Union suspicious of each other after World War II?
What events between 1945 and 1949 heightened the tensions between the two nations?

Lesson Five Aftermath of the War
Textbook pages 861 - 864
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?

Lesson Four The Home Front
Textbook pages 855 - 861
Focus Question: What were conditions like on the home front for Japan and the major Western nations involved in World War II?

Lesson Three The New Order
Textbook pages 848 - 855
Focus Questions:

How was the Nazi empire organized?
What was the Holocaust, and what was the relationship between Hitler’s worldview, his foreign policy, and the Holocaust?

Lesson Two
The Course of World War II
Textbook pages 840 - 848
Focus Questions:

What were the major events of World War II in Europe and in Asia?
Why were the allies ultimately victorious?

Lesson One Prelude to War (1933 - 1939)
Textbook pages 832 - 840
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?

Lesson Four The Expansion of Mass Culture and Mass Leisure
Textbook pages 822-825
Focus Questions:
What new dimensions in mass culture and mass leisure emerged during the interwar years?
What role did these activities play in Italy, Germany, and Soviet Union?

Lesson Five Cultural and Intellectual Trends in the Interwar Years
Textbook pages 825-830
Focus Questions: What were the main cultural and intellectual trends in the interwar years?

Complete the chart in preparation for a practice DBQ on Stalin.
The DBQ will be timed and completed in class on Wednesday, April 13th.

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Lesson Three Part 2
The Soviet Union, Authoritarianism in Eastern Europe and Dictatorship in the Iberian Peninsula
Textbook pages 815 - 822

Lesson Three  Part 1
Fascist Italy and Hitler and Nazi Germany
Textbook pages 805 - 815

Lesson Two The Democratic States in the West
Textbook pages 802 - 805
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?

Lesson One An Uncertain Peace
Textbook pages 796 - 802
Focus Question: What was the impact of World War I, and what problems did European countries face in the 1920s?

Lesson Four The Peace Settlement
Textbook pages 789 - 794
Focus Question: What were the objectives of the chief participants at the Paris Peace conference of 1919, and how closely did the final settlement reflect these objectives?

Lesson Three War and Revolution
Textbook pages 781 - 789
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?

Lesson Two The War
Textbook pages 765 - 781
Focus Questions:
What did the belligerents expect at the beginning of World War I?
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?

Please notes.... The DBQ assignment you are completing today is based on only FIVE documents instead of SEVEN.
The rubric posted addresses this.


Today's assignment is to write your thesis statement and historical context - The first paragraph of your DBQ essay

Lesson One The Road to World War I
Textbook pages 760 - 765
Focus Question: What were the long-range or MAIN and immediate causes of World War I?

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The link to the slides on the Google Form may not work. Use this ink to slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NxOUh5vTDqA_CqQ6FgXWU7LDZkXCP6w8kCPGQ71S3Mw/edit?usp=sharing

Lesson Four International Rivalry and the Coming of War
Textbook page 755 - 757
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?

Lesson Three Part 2 The New Imperialism
Textbook page 750 - 755
Focus Question: 
What effects did European imperialism have on Asia?

Lesson Three Part 1 The New Imperialism
Textbook page 745 - 749
Focus Question: 
What were the causes of the new imperialism that took place after 1880?
What effects did European imperialism have on Africa

Lesson Two Part 2 Politics: New Directions and New Uncertainties
Textbook page 739 - 744
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?

Lesson Two Part 1 Politics: New Directions and New Uncertainties
Textbook page 735 - 739
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?

What development in 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?

Lesson One Part 2 Toward the Modern Consciousness: Intellectual and Cultural Developments
Textbook page 729 - 735Focus Question: What developments in 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?

Lesson One Part 1 Toward the Modern Consciousness: Intellectual and Cultural Developments
Textbook page 723-729Focus 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?

Lesson Two Part 2 The Emergence of Mass Society
Textbook pages 706- 716
Focus Questions:
What role were women expected to play in society and family life in the latter half of the nineteenth century? How closely did patterns of family life correspond to this ideal?


Slides for the topics covered in this reading are peer created - You will find them in a previously posted assignment

Lesson Three The National State
Textbook pages 716-722
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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Lesson Two The Emergence of Mass Society (Part 1)
Textbook pages 701- 705
Focus Questions: What is a mass society, and what were its main characteristics?

Lesson One - Part 2
The Growth of Industrial Prosperity
Textbook pages 696 - 701Focus Question - 

What role did socialist parties and trade unions play in improving conditions for the working class?

Lesson One - Part 1 The Growth of Industrial Prosperity
Textbook pages 690-696
Focus Questions:

What was the Second Industrial Revolution, and what effects did it have on European economic and social life?

Lesson Five
Science and Culture in an Age of Realism
Textbook pages 680-688
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?

We will not be discussing this content until Thursday in class.
Lesson Four Industrialization and the Marxist Response
Textbook pages 677-680
Focus Question: What were the main ideas of Karl Marx?

Lesson Three
Nation Building and Reform: The National State in Midcentury
Textbook pages 669-676
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?

Attached you will find a visual source and a chart to help you analyze the source's Historical situation, audience, point of view and purpose. Following your analysis, you will be given a writing frame to help you write a summary of what you learned from the analysis.

Lesson Two National Unification: Italy and Germany
Textbook pages 663 -669
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?

Lesson One The France of Napoleon III
Textbook pages 657-662
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?

Lesson Five Culture in an Age of Reaction and Revolution: The Mood of Romanticism
Textbook pages 649-655
Focus Question:
What were the characteristics of Romanticism?
How were they reflected in literature, art, and music?

In class tomorrow we will be going back to part of a previous reading, textbook pages 639 - 641, tomorrow - Reform in Great Britain
We will also continue with tonight's reading assignment...
Lesson Four The Emergence of an Ordered Society
Textbook pages 646-649
Focus Question: How did European states respond to the increase in crime in the late 18th and early 19th centuries?

Lesson Three Revolution and Reform
Textbook pages 638-646
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?

Lesson Two - The Ideologies of Change
Textbook pages 634-638
Focus Question:
What were the main tenets of conservatism, liberalism, nationalism, and utopian socialism?
What role did each ideology play in Europe in the first half of the nineteenth century?

Lesson One Part 2 - The Conservative Order (1815-1830)
Textbook pages 627-634

Lesson One, Part 1 - The Conservative Order (1815-1830)
Textbook pages 624-627

We will be working through the analysis of the documents supporting this DBQ as a class.
For Tuesday night's homework, please critically read and make notes on the seven sources. I encourage you to print the documents and practice marking them as you read if you have access to a printer.
Wednesday, in class, students will work in groups to analyze the sources and decide to decide which three sources are best suited to HAPP - Y.
Each group member is responsible for practicing HAPP -Y on at least one of the seven documents for the DBQ.
Share your work with your group members and be sure to submit your work here in Google Classroom.

The expectation is that you will complete a significant portion of this reading assignment in preparation for class discussion Friday, January 21st.(Part 1 - textbook pages 609 - 613) I will not stamp your notes until Monday, January 24th to give you time to complete all of the reading. (Part 2 - textbook pages 613 - 621)
Lesson Three
The Social Impact of the Industrial Revolution
Textbook pages 609-621
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?

Lesson Two
The Spread of Industrialization
Textbook pages 604-609
Focus Questions:
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?

Your seating arrangement and your information chart is due Monday, January 17th.

Your group will present in class on Tuesday, January 18th.

Lesson One - The Industrial Revolution in Great Britain
Textbook pages 597-603
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?

If you are not in class today, please do not open this assignment.

I am trusting your integrity.
You will need to complete this assignment in person with me, timed, when you return.

Lesson Four - The Age of Napoleon
Part Two - The Fall of Napoleon
Textbook pages 591 - 594

Lesson Four - The Age of Napoleon
Part One - The Rise of Napoleon
Textbook pages 586 - 590

Lesson Three - The French Revolution
Part 4 - Textbook pages 585 - 586
Reaction and the Directory

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Lesson Three - The French Revolution
Part 3 - Textbook pages 577 - 585
The Radical Revolution

Lesson Three - The French Revolution
Part 2 - Textbook pages 573 - 577
Destruction of the Old Regime

Your reading assignment is Part 1 of Lesson Three, textbook pages 570 - 573, From Estates-General to a National Assembly

Lesson Two - Background to the French Revolution
Textbook pages 567 - 570
Focus Question: What were the long-range and immediate causes of the French Revolution?

Lesson One - The Beginning of the Revolutionary Era: The American Revolution
Textbook pages 564 - 567
Focus Question: What were the causes and results of the American Revolution, and what impact did it have on Europe?

Lesson Four The Social Order of the Eighteenth Century
Textbook pages 554 - 561
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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Lesson Three Economic Expansion and Social Change
Textbook pages 547 - 553
Focus Question: What changes occurred in agriculture, finance, industry, and trade during the eighteenth century?

Lesson Two Wars and Diplomacy
Textbook pages 543 - 547
Focus Questions: 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?

Enlightened Servant of the State Discussion

Read King Frederick the Great’s quote explaining services a monarch must provide for his people. It is posted in Google Classroom
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?

Lesson One The European States
Textbook pages 531- 543
Focus Questions:
What were the main developments in France, Great Britain, the Dutch Republic, the Mediterranean states, and the Scandinavian monarchies in the 18th century?
What do historians mean by the term enlightened absolutism, and to what degree did 18th century Prussia, Austria, and Russia exhibit its characteristics?

You will type your paragraph practice on a Google Doc and submit it here in Google Classroom.

Lesson Three
Religion and the Churches
Textbook pages 524 - 527
Focus Question - How did popular religion differ from institutional religion in the eighteenth century?

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Lesson Two Culture and Society in the Enlightenment
Textbook pages 516 - 524
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?

I will cover this section in two class period. Please have the first 1/2 of the reading done for class Wednesday.
Lesson One
The Enlightenment
Textbook pages 502 - 516
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?

Lesson Five - Toward a New Earth: Descartes, Rationalism, and a New View of Humankind
Textbook pages 493-494
Focus Question: Why is Descartes considered the “founder of modern rationalism”?
and
Lesson Six - The Scientific Method and the Spread of Scientific Knowledge
Textbook pages 494-498
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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Reading Assignment
Textbook pages 488-490, Advances in Medicine and Chemistry
Textbook 490-492, Women in the Origins of Modern Science

Lesson Two Toward a New Heaven: A Revolution in Astronomy
Textbook pages 478-488
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?

Lesson One Background to the Scientific Revolution
Textbook pages 477-478
Focus Question: What developments during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance contributed to the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century?

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The Flourishing of European Culture
Textbook pages 468 - 473

Lesson Four
Limited Monarchy and Republics
Textbook pages 459-467
Focus Question: What were the main issues in the struggle between king and Parliament in 17th century England, and how were they resolved?Be sure to title and date your active reading notes in your spiral notebook.

Use the chart provided below to record methods Louis XIV and Peter the Great used to centralize and enhance their power.
(Geo-SPRITE)

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Lesson Three
Absolutism in Central, Eastern, and Northern Europe
Textbook pages 451-459
Focus Question: What developments enabled Brandenburg-Prussia, Austria, and Russia to emerge as major powers in the seventeenth century?Be sure to title and date your active reading notes in your spiral notebook.

Lesson Two
The Practice of Absolutism: Western Europe
Textbook pages 444-451
Focus Question: What was absolutism in theory, and how did its actual practice in France reflect or differ from the theory?Be sure to title and date your active reading notes in your spiral notebook.

Primary Source: Why More Women than Men are Witches, Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger
Practice sourcing and the micro-skill point of view.
Closely read the source, complete the analysis chart including identifying and explaining the source’s point of view.
The only way to improve your skills is to authenticity practice. 
If you are struggling, which is expected if you are challenging yourself, ask questions during class so that we can all grow together.

Be sure to title and date your active reading notes in your spiral notebook.
Lesson One-A
Social Crises - The Witchcraft Craze
Textbook pages 436-439
Lesson One-B
War and Rebellions (The Thirty Years War)
Textbook pages 439-444

Be sure to title and date your active reading notes in your spiral notebook.
Lesson Five Toward a World Economy
Textbook pages 431-433
Focus Question: What was mercantilism, and what was its relationship to colonial empires?

Be sure to title and date your active reading notes in your spiral notebook.
Lesson Four The Impact of European Expansion
Textbook pages 427-431
Focus Question: How did European expansion affect both the conquered and the conquerors?

Lesson Three - title and date your active reading notes in your spiral notebook.
New Rivals on the World Stage
Textbook pages 416-426
Focus Questions:
How did the arrival of the Dutch, British, and French on the world scene in the 17th and 18th 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?

Based on your textbook reading and support from the class discussion complete a graphic organizer in your spiral notebook. 
See model attached.
You DO NOT need to attach an image of your work in your spiral notebook here in Google Classroom.

Lesson Two
New Horizons: The Portuguese and Spanish Empires
Textbook pages 407 - 416
Focus Question: How did Portugal and Spain acquire their overseas empires, and how did their empires differ?

Section One
On the Brink of a New World
Textbook pages 403 - 407
Focus Question: Why did Europeans begin to embark on voyages of discovery and expansion at the end of the fifteenth century?

This is practice and review for your SAQ assessment to be given Thursday, September 24th.

Students will be scored on presentation practices discussed in class.
- attention to peers while presenting
- evidence of presentation practice

We will be discussing the following reading assignment on Friday, September 17th
Politics and the Wars of Religion in the Sixteenth Century
Textbook pages 393-400
Focus Question: What role did politics, economic and social conditions, and religion play in the European wars of the sixteenth century?

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.

We will be discussing the readings in class on Tuesday, September 14th


The Social Impact of the Protestant Reformation
Textbook pages 387-389
Focus Question: What impact did the Protestant Reformation have on society in the 16th century?


The Catholic Reformation
Textbook pages 389-393
Focus Question: What measures did the Roman Catholic Church take to reform itself and to combat Protestantism in the 16th century?

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The Spread of the Protestant Reformation
Textbook pages 380-387
Focus Questions: What were the main principles or beliefs of Lutheranism, Zwinglianism, Anabaptism, and Calvinism?
 How did the different Protestant groups differ from each other and from Catholicism?
What impact did political, economic and social conditions have on the development of these four reform movements?

Martin Luther and the Reformation in Germany
Textbook pages 371-379
Focus Questions: What were Martin Luther’s main disagreements with the Roman Catholic Church? What political, economic and social conditions help explain why the movement Luther began spread so quickly across Europe?

Document Analysis Practice - Desiderius Erasmus, excerpts from In Praise of Folly
Closely read and annotate the document
Answer the close reading questions
Submit your work on Google Classroom

Textbook reading assignment to be discussed Thursday, September 2nd
Focus Questions: What were the chief ideas of the Christian humanists? How did the ideas of the Christian humanists differ from the ideas of the Protestant Reformers?

Textbook reading assignment to be discussed Tuesday, August 31st.
Pages 357 - 361
Focus Question: Why do historians sometimes refer to the monarchies of the late fifteenth century as “new monarchies” or “Renaissance states”?

Textbook reading assignments - to be discussed Thursday, August 26th
Pages 350 - 357
Focus Questions: What were the chief characteristics of Renaissance art? How did Renaissance art differ in Italy and northern Europe?

Practice analyzing the primary source and responding to SAQ questions. 
Follow the directions on the Student SAQ Practice response sheet.

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. This discussion will take place Monday.

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. This step will happen in class on Monday
Following your Table Group discussion on Monday, you will independently review the sample thesis statements (claims) provided by Mrs. Burch. 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.

Textbook reading assignments - to be discussed Tuesday, August 24th 
Pages 343 - 344 The Birth of Modern Diplomacy and Machiavelli
Focus Question: How did Machiavelli's ideas reflect the secular ideas of the Renaissance?
and..
Pages 344 - 350, The Intellectual Renaissance in Italy
Focus Questions: What was humanism. What effect did humanism have on philosophy, education, attitudes toward politics, and the writing of history?

Review your notes from class today. Edit or make additions to your reading notes based on what you learned during class.


Complete the newly assigned reading textbook pages and take active reading notes in your spiral notebook.
Be sure to title and date your notes.


Focus Questions:
What economic changes helped Italy prosper during the 15th century?
What major social changes occurred during the Renaissance?

Please read the attached class syllabus and share it with your parents or guardians. The attached Google Form is to be completed by Tuesday, August 17th.
If you have an clarifying questions or concern, I am happy to discuss them with you in class before August 17th.

Read the unit introduction and Meaning and Characteristics of the Italian Renaissance
Take notes in your spiral notebook.
Be sure to title and date your notes.
The focus of your notes is to become familiar with the context of the Renaissance and the characteristics of the Renaissance.

Complete the tasks as directed on the attached Google Doc below. Submit your completed work here in Google Classroom

At the end of the Nearpod, you will be directed to create a Google Doc and address a prompt. Title your response Impact of the Plague or the Black Death
Submit your typed response here on Google Classroom.

Fill out the attached chart and submit here on Google Classroom before the end of the class period.