2022-2023 - AP European History Assignments

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.

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.

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.

Your transcript will have three sections:
SECTION ONE - This section sets the time period and the setting, the weather and other sensory details to set the scene related to your historical character.
SECTION TWO - This section tells the story of the characters you have developed. Discuss their experience within the time period of your historical character.
SECTION THREE - This section ties the story of the characters you have developed back with the history of your historical figure. You need to connect the characters to the greater history and impact of your historical figure.

Your transcript will have three sections:
SECTION ONE - This section sets the time period and the setting, the weather and other sensory details to set the scene related to your historical character.
SECTION TWO - This section tells the story of the characters you have developed. Discuss their experience within the time period of your historical character.
SECTION THREE - This section ties the story of the characters you have developed back with the history of your historical figure. You need to connect the characters to the greater history and impact of your historical figure.

Your transcript will have three sections:
SECTION ONE - This section sets the time period and the setting, the weather and other sensory details to set the scene related to your historical character.
SECTION TWO - This section tells the story of the characters you have developed. Discuss their experience within the time period of your historical character.
SECTION THREE - This section ties the story of the characters you have developed back with the history of your historical figure. You need to connect the characters to the greater history and impact of your historical figure.

Directions: Listen to the first 4 minutes of the sample podcast and take notes on what you hear in the attached worksheet.

Directions: Listen to the first 4 minutes of the sample podcast and take notes on what you hear in the attached worksheet.

Directions: Listen to the first 4 minutes of the sample podcast and take notes on what you hear in the attached worksheet.

Read textbook pages 814-818. 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 events in the Cold War between 1965 and 1985, and how important was the role of detente in those events?

Read textbook pages 814-818. 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 events in the Cold War between 1965 and 1985, and how important was the role of detente in those events?

Read textbook pages 818-824. 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 major social and cultural developments in the Western world between 1965 and 1985?

Read textbook pages 818-824. 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 major social and cultural developments in the Western world between 1965 and 1985?

Read textbook pages 906-914. 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 major political developments in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, and the United States between 1965 and 1985?

Read textbook pages 906-914. 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 major political developments in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, and the United States between 1965 and 1985?

Read textbook pages 901-906. 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 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?

Read textbook pages 901-906. 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 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?

Read textbook pages 882-889. 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 developments in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and Western Europe between 1945 and 1965?

Read textbook pages 876-881. 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: Why and how did the European colonies in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia gain independence between 1945 and 1965?

Read textbook pages 876-881. 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: Why and how did the European colonies in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia gain independence between 1945 and 1965?

Read textbook pages 872-876. 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 and why did the Cold War become a global affair after 1949?

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.

Read textbook pages 867-872. 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: 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?

Read textbook pages 855-861. 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 conditions like on the home front for Japan and the major Western nations involved in World War II?

Read textbook pages 855-861. 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 conditions like on the home front for Japan and the major Western nations involved in World War II?

Read textbook pages 848-855. 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 was the Nazi empire organized? What was the Holocaust? What was the relationship between Hitler’s worldview, his foreign policy, and the Holocaust?

Read textbook pages 840-848. 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 major events of World War II in Europe and in Asia? Why were the allies ultimately victorious?

Read textbook pages 832-840. 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 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?

Prompt: Evaluate the impact of Stalin’s policies on the Soviet Union from the late 1920s to the early 1950s.

Prompt: Evaluate the impact of Stalin’s policies on the Soviet Union from the late 1920s to the early 1950s.

Read textbook pages 825-830. 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 cultural and intellectual trends in the interwar years?

Read textbook pages 825-830. 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 cultural and intellectual trends in the interwar years?

Read textbook pages 822-825. 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 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?

Read textbook pages 822-825. 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 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?

Directions: In AP Classroom, complete the practice multiple-choice and free-response questions (2 Short-Answer Questions and 1 Document-Based Question). Make sure to score your own FRQ responses using the AP scoring guidelines.
MCQ = 2 Points
FRQ Part A = 2 Points
FRQ Part B = 2 Points

Read textbook pages 815-822. 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: Why did many European states experience a retreat from democracy in the interwar years? What are the characteristics of so-called totalitarian states? To what degree were these characteristics present in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia?

Read textbook pages 815-822. 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: Why did many European states experience a retreat from democracy in the interwar years? What are the characteristics of so-called totalitarian states? To what degree were these characteristics present in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia?

Read textbook pages 805-815. 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: Why did many European states experience a retreat from democracy in the interwar years? What are the characteristics of so-called totalitarian states?

Read textbook pages 802-805. 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 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?

Read textbook pages 802-805. 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 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?

Read textbook pages 796-802. 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 was the impact of World War I? What problems did European countries face in the 1920s?

Read textbook pages 796-802. 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 was the impact of World War I? What problems did European countries face in the 1920s?

Read textbook pages 789-794. 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 objectives of the chief participants at the Paris Peace conference of 1919, and how closely did the final settlement reflect these objectives?

Read textbook pages 789-794. 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 objectives of the chief participants at the Paris Peace conference of 1919, and how closely did the final settlement reflect these objectives?

Prompt: Evaluate the two most significant causes that led to the outbreak of the First World War.

Read through the document and craft a thesis statement based on the prompt.
List two pieces of historical context you will use to introduce your thesis statement in the introduction.
Describe one additional piece of specific historical evidence (beyond that found in the documents) relevant to an argument about the prompt.
Describe one additional piece of specific historical evidence (beyond that found in the documents) relevant to an argument about the prompt.
List the three documents that you plan to HAPP and which part of HAPP you will analyze for each document.

Prompt: Evaluate the two most significant causes that led to the outbreak of the First World War.

Read through the document and craft a thesis statement based on the prompt.
List two pieces of historical context you will use to introduce your thesis statement in the introduction.
Describe one additional piece of specific historical evidence (beyond that found in the documents) relevant to an argument about the prompt.
Describe one additional piece of specific historical evidence (beyond that found in the documents) relevant to an argument about the prompt.
List the three documents that you plan to HAPP and which part of HAPP you will analyze for each document.

Read textbook pages 784-789. 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 causes and effects of the Bolshevik Revolution? Why did the Bolsheviks prevail in the civil war and gain control of Russia?

Read textbook pages 781-784. 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 causes and impact of the March Revolution?

Read textbook pages 781-784. 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 causes and impact of the March Revolution?

Read textbook pages 765-781. 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 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?

Read textbook pages 765-781. 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 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?

Prompt: Evaluate whether the new imperialism of the late 1800s and early 1900s was caused primarily by political motivations or by economic motivations.

Directions - After completing your essay, use the key below to highlight and underline the essential elements in your document-based essay, before uploading it to Google Classroom.
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

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

Read textbook pages 760-765. 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 long-range and immediate causes of World War I?

Read textbook pages 729-735. 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 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?

Read textbook pages 755-757. 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 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?

Read textbook pages 745-749. 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 effects did European imperialism have on Asia?

Read textbook pages 745-749. 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 causes of the new imperialism that took place after 1880? What effects did European imperialism have on Africa?

Read textbook pages 735-744. 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 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 political problems did Great Britain, Italy, France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia face between 1894 and 1914, and how did they solve them?

Directions: In AP Classroom, complete the practice multiple-choice and free-response questions (2 Short-Answer Questions, Document-Based Question, and Long-Essay Question). Make sure to score your own FRQ responses using the AP scoring guidelines.
MCQ = 2 Points
FRQ Part A = 2 Points
FRQ Part B = 2 Points
FRQ Part C = 2 Points

Read textbook pages 723-729. 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 developments in science, intellectual affairs in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries “opened the way to a modern consciousness,” and how did this consciousness differ from earlier worldviews?

Read textbook pages 716-722. 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 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?

Read textbook pages 706-716. 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 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?

Read textbook pages 701-706. 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 is a mass society, and what were its main characteristics?

Read textbook pages 696-701 . 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 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?

Read textbook pages 690-696. 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 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?

Read textbook pages 680-680. 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 the belief that the world should be viewed realistically manifest itself in science, art and literature in the second half of the nineteenth century?

Read textbook pages 669-676. 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 ideas of Karl Marx?

Read textbook pages 669-676. 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 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?

Directions: In AP Classroom, complete the practice multiple-choice and free-response questions (2 Short-Answer Questions and 1 Document-Based Question). Make sure to score your own FRQ responses using the AP scoring guidelines.
MCQ = 2 Points
FRQ Part A = 2 Points
FRQ Part B = 2 Points

Read textbook pages 663-669. 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 actions did Cavour and Bismarck take to bring about unification in Italy and Germany, respectively, and what role did the Crimean War play in their efforts?

Read textbook pages 657-662. 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 characteristics of Napoleon III’s  government and how did his foreign policy contribute to the unification of Italy and Germany?

Read textbook pages 649-655. 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 characteristics of Romanticism, and how were they reflected in literature, art, and music?

Read textbook pages 646-649. 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 European states respond to the increase in crime in the late 18th and early 19th centuries?

Using pages 638-646 complete the attached chart on 19th Century Revolts.

Read textbook pages 638-646. 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 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?

Prompt: Evaluate the impact of the Industrial Revolution in nineteenth-century Great Britain.

Read textbook pages 634-638. 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 conservatism, liberalism, nationalism, and utopian socialism, and what role did each ideology play in Europe in the first half of the nineteenth century?

Read textbook pages 627-634. 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 goals of the Congress of Vienna and the Concert of Europe, and how successful were they in achieving those goals?

Read textbook pages 624-627. 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 goals of the Congress of Vienna and the Concert of Europe, and how successful were they in achieving those goals?

Prompt: Evaluate the impact of the Industrial Revolution in nineteenth-century Great Britain.

Prompt: Evaluate the impact of the Industrial Revolution in nineteenth-century Great Britain.
Close read and annotate the attached primary sources documents on the industrial revolution.

Read textbook pages 613-621. 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 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?

Read textbook pages 609-613. 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 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?

Read textbook pages 604-609. 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 the Industrial Revolution spread from Great Britain to the Continent and the United States.How did industrialization in those areas differ from British industrialization?

Read textbook pages 599-603. 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: Why was Great Britain the first state to have an Industrial Revolution? Why did it happen in Britain when it did?

Read textbook pages 597-599. 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: Why was Great Britain the first state to have an Industrial Revolution? Why did it happen in Britain when it did?

Read textbook pages 591-594. 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: Which aspects of the French Revolution did Napoleon preserve, and which aspects did he destroy?

Read textbook pages 586-590. 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: Which aspects of the French Revolution did Napoleon preserve, and which aspects did he destroy?

Prompt - Evaluate the extent attitudes towards European women changed between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment (1500-1789).

Read textbook pages 585-586. 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 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?

Read textbook pages 577-585. 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 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?

Read textbook pages 573-577. 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 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?

Read textbook pages 570-573. 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 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?

Read textbook pages 567-570. 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 the long-range and immediate causes of the French Revolution?

Read textbook pages 564-567. 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 the causes and results of the American Revolution, and what impact did it have on Europe?

Directions: In AP Classroom, complete the practice multiple-choice and free-response questions (2 Short-Answer Questions and 1 Long-Essay Question). Make sure to score your own FRQ responses using the AP scoring guidelines.
MCQ = 2 Points
FRQ Part A = 2 Points
FRQ Part B = 2 Points

Read textbook pages 554-561. 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: 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?

Read textbook pages 547-543. 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 changes occurred in agriculture, finance, industry, and trade during the eighteenth century?

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.
Respond to the following question: How are these acts of service rather than acts of ruling?

Read textbook pages 543-547. 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 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?

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.

Read textbook pages 531-543. 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 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 the practice multiple-choice and free-response questions (2 Short-Answer Questions and 1 Long-Essay Question). Make sure to score your own FRQ responses using the AP scoring guidelines.
MCQ = 2 Points
FRQ Part A = 2 Points
FRQ Part B = 2 Points

Read textbook pages 524-527. 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 did popular religion differ from institutional religion in the eighteenth century?

Directions: In AP Classroom, complete the practice multiple-choice and free-response questions (2 Short-Answer Questions and 1 Long-Essay Question). Make sure to score your own FRQ responses using the AP scoring guidelines.
MCQ = 2 Points
FRQ Part A = 2 Points
FRQ Part B = 2 Points

Read textbook pages 516-524. 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 innovations in art, music, and literature occurred in the eighteenth century? How did popular culture differ from high culture in the eighteenth century?

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?

Prompt: Evaluate the attitudes towards the participation of women in the sciences during the 17th and 18th centuries.

Read textbook pages 493-498. 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: Why is Descartes considered the “founder of modern rationalism”?
Focus Question: How were the ideas of the Scientific Revolution spread, and what impact did they have on society and religion?

Read textbook pages 488-490. 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 Paracelsus, Vesalius, and Harvey contribute to a scientific view of medicine?

Read textbook pages 488-490. 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 role did women play in the Scientific Revolution?

Prompt: Evaluate the most significant social impact of European exploration and colonization of the Americas.
Directions: Upload the essay as a Google Doc to Google Classroom. 
Format: 12 point font (TImes New Roman or Arial), 1 inch margins, and doubled spaced).

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 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?

Directions - As you advance through the Nearpod lesson remember to take quality notes in your spiral notebook practicing your note-taking skills.

Read textbook pages 468-473 The Practice of Absolutism: Western Europe. 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:
Focus Question: How did the artistic and literary achievements of this era reflect the political and economic developments of the period?

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?

Directions: In AP Classroom, complete the practice multiple-choice and free-response questions (2 Short-Answer Questions and 1 Long-Essay Question). Make sure to score your own FRQ responses using the AP scoring guidelines.
MCQ = 2 Points
FRQ Part A = 2 Points
FRQ Part B = 2 Points

Read textbook pages 459-467 Limited Monarchy and Republics. 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 developments enabled Brandenburg-Prussia, Austria, and Russia to emerge as major powers in the seventeenth century?

Read textbook pages 451-459 The Practice of Absolutism: Western Europe. 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 developments enabled Brandenburg-Prussia, Austria, and Russia to emerge as major powers in the seventeenth century?

Read textbook pages 444-451 The Practice of Absolutism: Western Europe. 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 was absolutism in theory, and how did its actual practice in France reflect or differ from the theory?

Read textbook pages 439-444 Lesson Two: War and Rebellions - The Thirty Years’ War. 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 causes and effects of the Thirty Years’ War?

Read textbook pages 436-439 Lesson One: Social Crises - The Witchcraft Craze. 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 causes and effects of the witchcraft craze, starting in the 16th century?

Read textbook pages 431-433. 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 was mercantilism, and what was its relationship to colonial empires?

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.

Focus Questions:
 How did European expansion affect both the conquered and the conquerors?

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.

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?

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.

Focus Questions:
How did Portugal and Spain acquire their overseas empires, and how did their empires differ?

Read textbook pages 404-407. 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:
Why did Europeans begin to embark on voyages of discovery and expansion at the end of the fifteenth century?

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.

Focus Questions:
What role did politics, economic and social conditions, and religion play in the European wars of the sixteenth century?

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.

Focus Questions:
What measures did the Roman Catholic Church take to reform itself and to combat Protestantism in the 16th century?

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.

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.

Focus Questions:
What impact did the Protestant Reformation have on society in the 16th century?

Directions - Complete your Long-Essay Practice in a Google Doc and then submit it to Google Classroom.

Prompt: Evaluate the extent to which the Northern Renaissance differed from the Italian Renaissance.

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)

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 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?

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 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?

Watch the attached Crash Course videos and be prepared to discuss the similarities and differences between the Italian and Northern Renaissance.

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.

Focus Questions:
What were the chief ideas of the Christian humanists, and how did they differ from the ideas of the Protestant Reformers?

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.

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.

Focus Questions:
Why do historians sometimes refer to the monarchies of the late fifteenth century as “new monarchies” or “Renaissance states”?

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?

Read textbook pages 347-350. 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 humanism impact education?
Was there a Renaissance for women?
What was the impact of the printing press?

Read textbook pages 336 - Baldassare Castiglione and 343-344 - Niccolo Machiavelli. 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 the key ideas of Baldassare Castiglione and Niccolo Machiavelli

Read textbook pages 346-347. 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 effect did humanism have on philosophy?
What is Renaissance Hermeticism?

Read textbook pages 344 - 346. 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 was humanism?

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

Directions:
Review the characteristics of a historical thesis.
Using a Google Doc, practice writing a thesis statement with a line of reasoning based on your conclusion and submit it to Google Classroom.

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.

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?

Read the attached excerpt by the historian Jacob Burckhardt and answer the short-answer style questions. Be prepared to discuss the reading and your answer tomorrow in class.

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.

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.

Click the link provided to go to Padlet.On Padlet please label your response with your period #. No name is necessary.
Please respond to one or both of following questions.

What can Mr. Cole do to support your learning this year in AP European History?
What strategies or activities do you enjoy when learning history?