Period 1 AP European History Assignments

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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.

Complete and submit on Google Classroom, the guiding questions provided to help you develop your character(s). (Worksheet - Introducing Your Characters)

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.

Complete and submit on Google Classroom, the guiding questions provided to help you develop your character(s). (Worksheet - Introducing Your Characters)

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.

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.

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.

https://art19.com/shows/tides-of-history/episodes/36150051-4c17-4d7c-9768-65b4f4de3684

https://art19.com/shows/tides-of-history/episodes/36150051-4c17-4d7c-9768-65b4f4de3684

Lesson Three The Cold War: The Move to Detente
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 detente in those events?

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 Two A Divided Western World
Textbook pages 906 - 914
Focus Question:
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 norms, the youth protests and student revolts, the feminist movement, and the antiwar protests?
To what extent were their goals achieved?

Lesson Three Recovery and Renewal in Europe
Textbook pages 882-889
Focus Question:
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 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 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?

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 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 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 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 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?
What was the relationship between Hitler’s worldview, his foreign policy, and the Holocaust?

Lesson Three The New Order
Textbook pages 848 - 855
Focus Questions:
How was the Nazi empire organized?
What was the Holocaust?
What was the relationship between Hitler’s worldview, his foreign policy, and the Holocaust?

Lesson Three The New Order
Textbook pages 848 - 855
Focus Questions:
How was the Nazi empire organized?
What was the Holocaust?
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 Question:
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 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 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 Five Cultural and Intellectual Trends in the Interwar Years
Textbook pages 825-830
Focus Question:
What were the main cultural and intellectual trends in the interwar years?

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

Open a Google Document to write your DBQ on Stalin's Policies. Submit your work before the end of the people here in Google Classroom.

Open a Google Document to write your DBQ on Stalin's Policies. Submit your work before the end of the people here in Google Classroom.

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

Open a Google Document to write your DBQ on Stalin's Policies. Submit your work before the end of the people here in Google Classroom.

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

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

Directions: In AP Classroom, complete Progress Check #6 which includes a practice multiple-choice and free-response questions (1 Short-Answer Questions and 1 Long-Essay Question).
Make sure to score your own FRQ responses using the AP scoring guidelines.
Your score for this assignment will be...
MCQ = 2 Points
FRQ Part A = 2 Points (*You must score your own FRQs in order to receive 2 pts)
FRQ Part B = 2 Points

Directions: In AP Classroom, complete Progress Check #6 which includes a practice multiple-choice and free-response questions (1 Short-Answer Questions and 1 Long-Essay Question).
Make sure to score your own FRQ responses using the AP scoring guidelines.
Your score for this assignment will be...
MCQ = 2 Points
FRQ Part A = 2 Points (*You must score your own FRQs in order to receive 2 pts)
FRQ Part B = 2 Points

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

Directions: In AP Classroom, complete Progress Check #6 which includes a practice multiple-choice and free-response questions (1 Short-Answer Questions and 1 Long-Essay Question).
Make sure to score your own FRQ responses using the AP scoring guidelines.
Your score for this assignment will be...
MCQ = 2 Points
FRQ Part A = 2 Points (*You must score your own FRQs in order to receive 2 pts)
FRQ Part B = 2 Points

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

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 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 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 Questions: 
What was the impact of World War I?
What problems did European countries face in the 1920s?

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

Lesson One An Uncertain Peace
Textbook pages 796 - 802
Focus Questions: 
What was the impact of World War I?
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?
How closely did the final settlement reflect these objectives?

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?
How closely did the final settlement reflect these objectives?

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?
How closely did the final settlement reflect these objectives?

Lesson Three War and Revolution
Textbook pages 781 - 789
Focus Questions: 
What were the causes of the Russian Revolution of 1917?
Why did the Bolsheviks prevail in the civil war and gain control of Russia?

Lesson Three War and Revolution
Textbook pages 781 - 789
Focus Questions: 
What were the causes of the Russian Revolution of 1917?
Why did the Bolsheviks prevail in the civil war and gain control of Russia?

Lesson Three War and Revolution
Textbook pages 781 - 789
Focus Questions: 
What were the causes of the Russian Revolution of 1917?
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, 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?

Lesson Two The War
Textbook pages 765 - 781
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?

Lesson Two The War
Textbook pages 765 - 781
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?

Post your final draft of your DBQ on New Imperialism
Be sure to mark your work as described on the slide below.

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

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?

Directions: In AP Classroom, complete Progress Check #5 which includes a practice multiple-choice and free-response questions (1 Short-Answer Questions,1 Long-Essay Question and 1 DBQ Question).
Make sure to score your own FRQ responses using the AP scoring guidelines.
Your score for this assignment will be...
MCQ = 2 Points
FRQ Part A = 2 Points (*You must score your own FRQs in order to receive 2 pts)
FRQ Part B = 2 Points

FRQ Part C = 2 Points

Lesson One Part 2
Toward the Modern Consciousness: Intellectual and Cultural Developments
Textbook page 729 - 735 Focus 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 Questions: 
What developments in science, and intellectual affairs in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries “opened the way to a modern consciousness?”
How did this consciousness differ from earlier worldviews?

Lesson Three The National State
Textbook pages 716-722
Focus Questions:
What general political trends were evident in the nations of western Europe in the last decades of the nineteenth century?
How did these trend differ from the policies pursued in Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia?

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 society’s ideal vision?

Lesson Two Part 1 The Emergence of Mass Society
Textbook pages 701- 706
Focus Questions: What is a mass society, and what were its main characteristics?

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

What was the Second Industrial Revolution
What effects did the Second Industrial Revolution 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?

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 Questions:

What efforts for reform occurred in the Austrian Empire, Russia, and Great Britain between 1850 and 1870?
How successful was the Austrian Empire, Russia, and Great Britain  at alleviating their nation’s problems?

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

What actions did Cavour and Bismarck take to bring about unification in Italy and Germany, respectively?
What role did the Crimean 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?

Directions: In AP Classroom, complete Progress Check #6 which includes a practice multiple-choice and free-response questions (1 Short-Answer Questions and 1 Long-Essay Question).
Make sure to score your own FRQ responses using the AP scoring guidelines.
Your score for this assignment will be...
MCQ = 2 Points
FRQ Part A = 2 Points (*You must score your own FRQs in order to receive 2 pts)
FRQ Part B = 2 Points

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?

Open a new Google Document and write your essay. Submit it here in Google Classrom.
You are encourage to use the DBQ resources posted under Student Tool Kit to support your writing.

Lesson One Part II - The Conservative Order (1815-1830)
Textbook pages 627-634
Focus Question: How successful was the Congress of Vienna and the Concert of Europe in achieve their goals?

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

Work collaboratively with your table group to complete the DBQ Practice Chart addressing the the prompt, Evaluate the impact of the Industrial Revolution in nineteenth-century Great Britain with the sources provided for home last night.

Lesson Three Part II - The Social Impact of the Industrial Revolution
Textbook pages 613 - 621

Focus Question: What were working conditions like in the early decades of the Industrial Revolution, and what efforts were made to improve them?

Lesson Three Part I - The Social Impact of the Industrial Revolution
Textbook pages 609 - 613
Focus Questions:
What effects did the Industrial Revolution have on urban life, social classes, family life, and standards of living?

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.
How did industrialization in those areas differ from British industrialization?

Lesson One Part II The Industrial Revolution in Great Britain
Textbook pages 599-603
Focus Question: 
What were the basic features of the new industrial system created by the Industrial Revolution?

Lesson One Part I The Industrial Revolution in Great Britain
Textbook pages 597-599


Focus Questions:
Why was Great Britain the first state to have an Industrial Revolution?
Why did it happen in Britain when it did?

Lesson Four - The Age of Napoleon Part Two - The Fall of Napoleon
Textbook pages 591 - 594
Focus Question: Which aspects of the French Revolution did Napoleon preserve, and which aspects did he destroy?

Lesson Four - The Age of Napoleon
Textbook pages 586 - 591
Focus Question: Which aspects of the French Revolution did Napoleon preserve, and which aspects did he destroy?

Directions: In AP Classroom, complete Progress Check #4 which includes a practice multiple-choice and free-response questions (1 Short-Answer Questions and 1 Long-Essay Question).
Make sure to score your own FRQ responses using the AP scoring guidelines.
Your score for this assignment will be...
MCQ = 2 Points
FRQ Part A = 2 Points (*You must score your own FRQs in order to receive 2 pts)
FRQ Part B = 2 Points

Open a Google Doc to type your LEQ and submit here on Google Classroom.
You have 40 minutes to write your essay.

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

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

Lesson Three - The French Revolution
Part 1 - 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?

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?

Directions:
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.

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?

Directions: In AP Classroom, complete Progress Check #3 which includes a practice multiple-choice and free-response questions (1 Short-Answer Questions and 1 Long-Essay Question).
Make sure to score your own FRQ responses using the AP scoring guidelines.
Your score for this assignment will be...
MCQ = 2 Points
FRQ Part A = 2 Points (*You must score your own FRQs in order to receive 2 pts)
FRQ Part B = 2 Points

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

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?

Directions: In AP Classroom, complete Progress Check #2 which includes a practice multiple-choice and free-response questions (1 Short-Answer Questions and 1 Long-Essay Question).
Make sure to score your own FRQ responses using the AP scoring guidelines.
Your score for this assignment will be...
MCQ = 2 Points
FRQ Part A = 2 Points (*You must score your own FRQs in order to receive 2 pts)
FRQ Part B = 2 Points

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”?

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?

Lesson Three Advances in Medicine and Chemistry
Textbook pages 488-490
Focus Question: What did Paracelsus, Vesalius, and Harvey contribute to a scientific view of medicine?


Lesson Four Women in the Origins of Modern Science
Textbook pages 490-492
Focus Question: What role did women play in the Scientific Revolution?

Prompt: Evaluate the most significant social impact of European exploration and colonization of the Americas.


Type your LEQ in Google docs. and upload the document here in Google classroom.

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?

You are expected to complete this Nearpod lesson during class today.
You may use your own earbuds in class while watching the embedded videos in the Nearpod.

Lesson Five The Flourishing of European Culture
Textbook pages 468-473

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?

Directions: In AP Classroom, complete Progress Check #1 which includes a practice multiple-choice and free-response questions (1 Short-Answer Questions and 1 Long-Essay Question).
Make sure to score your own FRQ responses using the AP scoring guidelines.
Your score for this assignment will be...
MCQ = 2 Points
FRQ Part A = 2 Points (*You must score your own FRQs in order to receive 2 pts)
FRQ Part B = 2 Points

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?

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?

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?

Lesson One-B - War and Rebellions (The Thirty Years War)
Textbook pages 439-444
Guiding Question: What is the significance of each phase of the Thirty Years War?

Lesson One-A - Social Crises - The Witchcraft Craze
Textbook pages 436-439Guiding Question: What were the causes and effects of the witchcraft craze starting in the 16th century?

Lesson Five Toward a World Economy
Textbook pages 431-433
Focus Question: What was mercantilism, and what was its relationship to colonial empires?

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 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?

Lesson Two New Horizons: The Portuguese and Spanish Empires
Textbook pages 407 - 416
Focus Questions: 

How did Portugal and Spain acquire their overseas empires?
How did Portugal and Spain's empires differ?

Lesson 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?

Section Six - 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?

Section Five - 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?

Section Four 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?

Assignment Design:
Introduction Paragraph

Historical Context
Thesis Statement with your line of reasoning (2)
Body Paragraph #1

Topic Sentence (based on one reason from your line of reasoning in your thesis statement)
Bullet evidence (1-2 pieces of evidence)
Body Paragraph #2

Topic Sentence (based on one reason from your line of reasoning in your thesis statement)
Bullet evidence (1-2 pieces of evidence)

Section Three 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, 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?

Sections Two
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?

Compare and contrast the characteristics of the Italian Renaissance and Northern Renaissance

Watch the two linked Crash Course videos. While you watch the videos you are encouraged to contrast the characteristics of each Renaissance. (Perhaps, create a double-bubble map)

Section One
Introduction and Prelude to Revolution
Textbook pages 367-371
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?

The European State in the Renaissance
Reading Assignment - Textbook pages 357 - 361FOCUS QUESTION: Why do historians sometimes refer to the monarchies of the late fifteenth century as “new monarchies” or “Renaissance states”?

The Artistic Renaissance
 Reading Assignment - Textbook pages 350 - 357
FOCUS QUESTION: What were the chief characteristics of Renaissance art, and how did it differ in Italy and northern Europe?

The Intellectual Renaissance in Italy Part 3
Reading Assignment - Textbook pages 347 - 350FOCUS QUESTIONS:

What effect did humanism have on education, and the writing of history?
What was the impact of the printing press?

The Birth of Modern Diplomacy and Machiavelli
 Reading Assignment - Textbook pages 343 - 344
FOCUS QUESTION: How did Machiavelli ideas reflect the secular values of the Renaissance?
Historical Context: A medieval theorists believed that a prince would make decisions based on their Christian moral obligation to their people. Royalty was believed to be selected to rule by God. As a result, royalty would rule appropriately and justly.

FOCUS QUESTIONS:
What effect did humanism have on philosophy?
What is Renaissance Hermeticism?

Focus Questions:
What was humanism?
What effect did humanism have on philosophy, education, attitudes toward politics and the writing of history?

Following your Table Group discussion on Monday, craft a thesis statement addressing the prompt with a line of reasoning and submit it as Google Doc.

Prompt: Evaluate the extent to which there was a Renaissance for women?

Friday you will read and complete the chart for ONE of the assigned documents.
In class Monday, you will share and EXPLAIN your information with your table group members. You will complete the rest of the chart as your table group members share out.
The purpose is to come to a conclusion, supported by evidence, addressing the inquiry question.

I apologize for posting this late. Hopefully you made note of the assignment when it was posted in class yesterday.

RENAISSANCE AND THE MAKING OF RENAISSANCE SOCIETY
Reading Assignment - Textbook pages 334 -340

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

Chapter Introduction - Pages 332-333
Read to identify the characteristics of the Renaissance.
While you are reading, compare these characteristics with the characteristics of the Middle Ages. (Continuity and Change)
After reading think about the following prompt;
Evaluate the extent to which the Renaissance transformed European culture in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Please read the attached class syllabus (Classroom Standards and Expectations) and share it with your parents or guardians. The attached Google Form is to be completed and submitted here on Google Classroom by Tuesday, August 16th, before you come to class.
If you have a clarifying question or concern, I am happy to discuss them with you in class before August 16th.

Click the link provided to go to Padlet.
On Padlet please label your response with your period #. No name is required.
Please respond to one or both of following questions using complete sentences. You do not need to rewrite the question.
What can Mrs. Burch do to support your learning this year in honors World history?
What strategies or activities do you enjoy when learning history?

Attached you will find model responses to the SAQ prompt we completed this week.
Use your hi-lighting tool to identify TEA.
Feel free to discuss and work with your table group.