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Mon. 8/24/15
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- European Geography game
- European flags game
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Tues. 8/25/15
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- Unit #1: The Renaissance
- Opening relationship building activity:
- In class discussion: What was the Renaissance a "rebirth" from? - Part I: The Black Death
- View and discuss the Short Film: The Plague Doctor
- In-class reading and analysis - what a legal contract can tell us about the time and place in which it was written: The Contract of a Plague Doctor
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Wed. 8/26/15
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- Unit #1: The Renaissance
- Opening relationship building activity:
- Review PowerPoint on Medieval Art & Architecture
- Examine Dante's Inferno: excerpt & illustration
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Thurs. 8/27/15
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- Unit #1: The Renaissance
- Opening relationship building activity:
- In class discussion: What was the Renaissance a "rebirth" from? - Part II: The Hundred Years War
- In class document analysis: Hundred Years War DBQ
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Fri. 8/28/15
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- Unit #1: The Renaissance
- Complete social contract
- Handout course syllabus
- Review documents from Hundred Years War DBQ
- Assign textbooks
- Give out Quia registration instructions
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Mon. 8/31/15
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- Unit #1: The Renaissance
- Opening relationship building activity: "Like Me"
- Review Introduction to the Renaissance PowerPoint and discussion
- In-class reading and discussion: Renaissance: Challenging Traditional Periodization. For each of the 5 documents, answer the following: 1. How does each author define the Renaissance? 2. What are the positive and negative changes each author identifies as being part of the Renaissance?
- Handout: Why Did the Renaissance Start in Italy?
- Tonight's Reading: pp. 320 - top of 330
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Tues. 9/1/15
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- Unit #1: The Renaissance
- Review PowerPoint (Italian portion): Renaissance Art
- Need a laugh? Try Epic Rap Battle: Artists v TMNT (Warning: some mild language)
- Tonight's Reading: pp. top of 330 - top of 337
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Wed. 9/2/15
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- Unit #1: The Renaissance
- Mr. Phillips was out sick!
- Read the article about historians' differing theories on why witch hunts were so common in Renaissance Europe
- Read and sort the documents from the DBQ on Witchcraft
- Tonight's Reading: pp. top of 337 - 343
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Thurs. 9/3/15
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- Unit #1: The Renaissance
- Mr. Phillips was still out sick!
- Go through Chapter 12 in the textbook, identifying key historical figures, topics, and events. Sort these items into the six historical themes for our course (social, economic, political, diplomatic, cultural, and intellectual history)
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- Summary (written and audio) of The Renaissance
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Fri. 9/4/15
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- Unit #1: The Renaissance
- Review PowerPoint (Northern Europe portion): Renaissance Art
- Tonight's Reading: pp. 346 - 356
- Assessment: Test #1 (The Renaissance) open in Quia! DUE BY MONDAY 9/14
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Tues. 9/8/15
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- Unit #2: The Protestant Reformation
- Begin Protestant Reformation PowerPoint
- Document Analysis: Reformation documents and Luther's view of Germany's Jews
- Khan Academy lesson on Introduction to the Protestant Reformation
- Khan Academy lesson on Martin Luther
- Tonight's Reading: pp. 357 - bottom of 363
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Wed. 9/9/15 |
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- Lecture on the Catholic concept of Purgatory
- Lecture on Transubstantiation
- Lecture on Calvinism
- Protestant Reformation Review
- Past LEQ: Contrast Renaissance Florence with Reformation Geneva with respect to religion, government, and everyday life.
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Thurs. 9/10/15 |
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Fri. 9/11/15 |
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- Lecture on the English Reformation (Part I)
- Lecture on the English Reformation (Part II)
- Sample DBQ on Queen Elizabeth I
- Sample DBQ on The Pilgrimage of Grace
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Mon. 9/14/15 |
- Unit #2: The Protestant Reformation
- Review of Judeo-Christian reform movements and schisms
- Review of European religious demographics and geographic dispersion by 1600
- English Reformation DBQ
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Tues. 9/15/15 |
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- Summary (written and audio) on The Reformation
- Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition!
- Spanish Inquisition music video
- Khan Academy lesson on the Catholic Reformation
- Past LEQ to consider: Analyze the impacts of the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Reformation (Counter Reformation) on the social order of sixteenth-century Europe.
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Wed. 9/16/15 |
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- Slide lecture on Age of Exploration
- Lecture on the Age of Exploration
- Crash Course World History: The Columbian Exchange and The Slave Trade
- Outline overview of the New Monarchies and Age of Exploration
- Past LEQ: Analyze the factors that contributed to the increasing centralization of Spain and the factors that contributed to the continuing fragmentation of Italy in the period 1450–1550.
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Thur. 9/17/18 |
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Fri. 9/18/15 |
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Mon. 9/21/15 |
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Tues. 9/22/15 |
- Unit #4: Absolutism
- Revisit the Witch DBQ: work on picking your documents and writing your thesis
- Continue discussion of the Russia PowerPoint
- Tonight's Reading: pp. 417 - top of 425
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- Biography video on Ivan the Terrible
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Thur. 9/24/15 |
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- Yale Open Courses lecture on Europe in 1648
- Past LEQ: Analyze various ways in which the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648) represented a turning point in European history.
- Past LEQ: Analyze the reasons for the decline of the Holy Roman Empire as a force in European politics in the period 1517 to 1648.
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Fri. 9/25/18 |
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Mon. 9/28/15
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- Unit #4: Absolutism
- Review the Dutch Revolt PowerPoint
- Review the Commercial Revolution PowerPoint
- Writing the DBQ: How to approach Point-of-View
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Tues. 9/29/15 |
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Wed. 9/30/15 |
- Review the Rise of Absolutism PowerPoint (Spain, France, Austria)
- GREAT handout on all of the Absolutist monarchs
- Video lecture on Absolutism
- Tonight's Reading: pp. top of 425 - bottom of 432
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Thur. 10/1/15 |
- Unit #4: Absolutism
- Video clip on Construction of Versailles
- Documentary on Life at Versailles
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- Take a virtual tour of the Palace at Versailles (the website is in French, but the mouse controls are simple)
- Tour the interior and gardens of Versailles using the Versailles PowerPoint
- Video: Engineering an Empire: Napoleon Steel Monster (Louis XIV section only)
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Fri. 10/2/15 |
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Mon. 10/5/15 |
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Tues. 10/6/15
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- Sister Wendy art history video on Passion & Ecstasy
- Performance of Moliere's Tartuffe
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Wed. 10/7/15
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- Unit #5: The Scientific Revolution
- Review the short PowerPoint and complete the guided notes on The Scientific Revolution
- Tonight's Reading: pp. top of 459 - 464
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Thur. 10/8/15 |
- Unit #5: The Scientific Revolution
- Final assembly of the Witch DBQ: Put all the components we have worked on together into a coherent essay. FINAL DRAFT OF DBQ IS DUE MON. 10/12
- Tonight's Reading: pp. 465 - 470
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- Sample DBQ on the Scientific Revolution
- Sample LEQ: Analyze how Galileo, Descartes, and Newton altered traditional interpretations of nature and challenged traditional sources of knowledge.
- Sample LEQ: Analyze the impact of TWO cultural and/or technological developments on European education in the period 1450 to 1650.
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Fri. 10/9/15 |
- Unit #5: The Scientific Revolution
- Each student will receive 4 different historical figures (out of 40) associated with the Scientific Revolution or Enlightenment and 4 of the biography worksheets. Students may use any resources available to them (books in room, internet, computers, cell phones, etc.) to gather biographical data about their 4 figures. After all students have finished creating their mini-biographies, the class will come together and create a timeline of the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment by putting all 40 historical figures in chronological order and combining them into a packet.
- Tonight's Reading: pp. 473 - 485
- Test #5 (Scientific Revolution) open in Quia
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Mon. 10/12/15 |
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- Yale Open Courses lecture on the Enlightenment
- Outline overview of The Enlightenment (and the Scientific Revolution)
- Sample DBQ on children in early modern Europe
- Sample LEQ: Compare and contrast the political ideas of Hobbes and Locke.
- Lecture on Hobbes & Locke
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Tues. 10/13/15 |
- Unit #6: The Enlightenment
- Video: What Does Hobbes Say? (Warning: Painful)
- Finish Enlightenment PowerPoint
- Lecture on Deism
- Tonight's Reading: pp. bottom of 494 - 498
- Test #6 (The Enlightenment) open in Quia DUE BY MON. 10/19
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- Madame Geoffrin's Salon seminar
- Summary Review (written and audio) on The Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment, and Enlightened Despotism
- Sample LEQ: Analyze the various Protestant views of the relationship between church and state in the period circa 1500–1700.
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Wed. 10/14/15 |
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- Sample DBQ on Early Modern European poverty
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Thur. 10/15/15 |
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Fri. 10/16/15 |
- Unit #7: The 18th Century
- A Quick History of Russia PowerPoint
- Lecture on Enlightened Absolutism
- Lecture on the Partition of Poland
- Tonight's Reading: pp. top of 514 - bottom of 517
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- Sample LEQ: Describe the challenges to royal authority in eastern Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and evaluate the effectiveness of those challenges.
- Sample LEQ: Analyze the extent to which Frederick the Great of Prussia and Joseph II of Austria advanced and did not advance Enlightenment ideals during their reigns.
- Sample LEQ: Analyze the methods and degrees of success of Russian political and social reform from the period of Peter the Great (1689–1725) through Catherine the Great (1762–1796).
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Mon. 10/19/15 |
- Unit #7: The 18th Century
- Review PowerPoint on Agricultural Revolution & Proto-Industrialization
- Video clip: weaving on a loom
- Video clip: weaving with a flying shuttle
- Tonight's Reading: pp. bottom of 517 - 530
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- Lecture on the Enclosure Movement
- Outline overview of 18th Century Economy & Society
- Sample LEQ: Describe and analyze the changes that led to Europe’s rapid population growth in the eighteenth century.
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Tues. 10/20/15 |
- Unit #7: The 18th Century
- Review PowerPoint on 18th Century Life
- Tonight's Reading: pp. 532 - middle of 538
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- Sample LEQ: Analyze the impact of the major developments of the Commercial Revolution on Europe’s economy and society in the period 1650 to 1789.
- FRQ: Analyze the ways in which European monarchs used both the arts and the sciences to enhance state power in the period circa 1500–1800.
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Wed. 10/21/15 |
- Unit #7: The 18th Century
- Review PowerPoint on 18th Century Macroeconomics & Wars
- Test #7 (The 18th Century) open in Quia DUE BY MON. 11/2
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Thur. 10/22/15 |
- Unit #8: The French Revolution
- Full version: French Revolution PowerPoint
- Tonight's Reading: pp. middle of 538 - bottom of 544
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- Short Version: French Revolution PowerPoint
- Video lecture on the Causes of the French Revolution
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Fri. 10/23/15 |
- LAST DAY OF THE QUARTER! ALL WORK DUE!
- Unit #8: The French Revolution
- The History Channel's Documentary: The French Revolution
- Tonight's Reading: pp. bottom of 544 - middle of 552
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- Summary Review (written and audio) on Expansion of Europe
- Summary Review (written and audio) on the Changing Life of the People
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Tue. 10/27/15 |
- Unit #8: The French Revolution
- Full version: French Revolution PowerPoint
- Sample DBQ on French Nobility
- Tonight's Reading: pp. middle of 552 - 559
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Wed. 10/28/15 |
- Unit #8: The French Revolution
- Full version: French Revolution PowerPoint
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- Video lecture on the National Assembly
- Video lecture on the Civil Constitution of the Clergy
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Thur. 10/29/15 |
- Unit #8: The French Revolution
- Full version: French Revolution PowerPoint
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- Yale Open Courses lecture on French Revolution
- DBQ on the French Calendar
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Fri. 10/30/15 |
- Unit #8: The French Revolution
- Full version: French Revolution PowerPoint
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- Sample LEQ: Analyze how the political and economic problems of the English and French monarchies led to the English Civil War and the French Revolution.
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Mon. 11/2/15 |
- Unit #8: The French Revolution
- Review the PowerPoint and complete notes for Napoleonic France
- PowerPoint on artist Jacques-Louis David
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- Outline overview of Napoleonic Era
- Trial of Napoleon seminar
- Sample LEQ: Analyze various ways in which government policies during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic era contributed to a greater sense of French national identity in the period 1789 to 1815.
- Summary Review (written and audio) on The French Revolution & Napoleon
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Tues. 11/3/15 |
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- Yale Open Courses lecture on Napoleon
- Video - Engineering an Empire: Napoleon
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Wed. 11/4/15 |
- Unit #10 (yes, 10): Industrial Revolution
- Review PowerPoint and complete notes on The Rise of Industry
- DBQ documents on Industrialization in Manchester
- Tonight's Reading: pp. bottom of 570 - 587
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Thur. 11/5/15 |
- Unit #10 (yes, 10): Industrial Revolution
- Review the PowerPoint and complete notes on Industrial Age Challenges
- Tonight's Reading: pp. 589 - bottom of 598
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Fri. 11/6/15 |
- No Unit - DBQ Practice
- Practicing Point of View: The Football DBQ
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Mon. 11/9/15 |
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- Sample LEQ: Describe and analyze the impact of the rise of Russia on international relations in Europe in the period from 1685 to 1815.
- Sample LEQ: Analyze the ways in which the events of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic period (1789–1815) led people to challenge Enlightenment views of society, politics, and human nature.
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Tue. 11/10/15 |
- Unit #9: Early 19th Century
- Finish PowerPoint on Post-Napoleonic Europe
- A Quick History of Russia PowerPoint (Aleksandr I and Nikolai I)
- Assign Napoleon LEQ: Was Napoleon a "Child of the Enlightenment" who furthered the ideals of the French Revolution or did he, in fact, restore despotism and betray everything the Revolution stood for? (use the Comparison LEQ rubric) DUE BY MON 11/30
- Tonight's Reading: pp. 603 - bottom of 617
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Thur. 11/12/15 |
- Unit #9: Early 19th Century
- Romanticism PowerPoint
- Sister Wendy's The Story of Painting: Revolution
- Tonight's Reading: pp. bottom of 610 - 617
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- Romanticism background PowerPoint
- Lecture on Romanticism
- Lecture on Romantic Art
- Sample LEQ: Compare and contrast Enlightenment and Romantic views of nature, with reference to
specific individuals and their works.
- Summary Review (written and audio) on Post-Napoleonic Europe and Romanticism
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Fri. 11/13/15 |
- Unit #9: Early 19th Century
- Introduce "-isms" project
- Tonight's Reading: pp. 620 - top of 625
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Mon. 11/16/15 |
- Unit #9: Early 19th Century
- Continue with "-isms" project
- Video clip: 60 Minutes - The Paris Atacks
- PowerPoint on Europe: 1815 - 1848
- Tonight's Reading: pp. top of 625 - 631
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Tues. 11/17/15
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- Unit #9: Early 19th Century
- Continue PowerPoint on Europe: 1815 - 1848
- Documentary: Timewatch - Young Victoria
- Test #9 (Early 19th Century) open in Quia DUE BY MON 11/23
- Tonight's Reading: pp. bottom of 631 - middle of 638
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- Lecture on John Stuart Mill
- Yale Open Courses lecture: Why No Revolts in Britain in 1848?
- Yale Open Courses lecture on Popular Uprisings
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Wed. 11/18/15 |
- Unit #9: Early 19th Century
- Continue PowerPoint on Europe: 1815 - 1848
- PowerPoint on Realpolitik
- Document: The Charge of the Light Brigade
- Tonight's Reading: pp. middle of 638 - 649
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- Short Answer practice: Alexis de Tocqueville
- Sample LEQ: Analyze the extent to which conservatives in continental Europe were successful in achieving their goals in the years between 1815 and 1851. Draw your examples from at least two states.
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Thur. 11/19/15 |
- Unit #11: Late 19th Century
- Continue PowerPoint on Realpolitik
- Outline overview of "Realpolitik"
- Tonight's Reading: pp. 651 - bottom of 660
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- Brief German & Italian Unification PowerPoint
- Eastern Europe PowerPoint
- Sample LEQ: Analyze the similarities and differences in the methods used by Cavour and Bismarck to bring about the unification of Italy and of Germany, respectively.
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Fri. 11/20/15 |
- Unit #11: Late 19th Century
- Continue PowerPoint on Realpolitik
- Tonight's Reading: pp. bottom of 660 - top of 673
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- Summary Review (written and audio) on The Age of Nationalism
- Yale Open Courses lecture on Nationalism
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Mon. 11/23/15 |
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- Video - Engineering an Empire: Britain
- Yale Open Courses lecture on Industrial Revolution
- Sample LEQ: Analyze the ways in which the rise of the middle class affected family structure and gender roles in Europe in the 1800s.
- Sample LEQ: European women’s lives changed in the course of the nineteenth century politically, economically, and socially. Identify and explain the reasons for those changes.
- Summary Review (written and audio) on Emerging Urban Life
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Tues. 11/24/15 |
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Mon. 11/30/15 |
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- Sample DBQ on 19th Century Economic Systems
- Sample LEQ: In the late nineteenth century, millions of workers and intellectuals proclaimed themselves socialists, yet few worked toward the violent revolution predicted by Karl Marx. Analyze the major factors that account for this phenomenon.
- Yale Open Courses lecture on Radicalism
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Tues. 12/1/15
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- Sample LEQ: Analyze the major factors responsible for the rise of anti-Semitism in nineteenth century Europe.
- Sample LEQ: Analyze the ways in which TWO of the following groups challenged British liberalism
between 1880 and 1914: Feminists, Irish nationalists, Socialists
- Sample LEQ: Analyze the impact of science and technology on European society in the period from 1800 to 1900.
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Wed. 12/2/15
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- Sample LEQ: Compare and contrast how TWO of the following states attempted to hold together
their empires in the period circa 1850 to 1914: Austria-Hungary, Russia, Ottoman Empire
- Sample LEQ: Analyze how industrialization and imperialism contributed to the development of consumer culture in the period 1850–1914.
- Sample DBQ on New Imperialism
- PowerPoint and complete the guided notes on New Imperialism and the Scramble for Africa
- PowerPoint and complete the guided notes on Western Imperialism in Asia & the Pacific
- Yale Open Courses lecture on Imperialism
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Thur. 12/3/15 |
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- Yale Open Courses lecture on the Coming of WWI
- Sample LEQ: Analyze the effects of nationalism on the Austrian Empire in the period 1815 to 1914.
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Fri. 12/4/15 |
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Mon. 12/7/15 |
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- Sample LEQ: Compare and contrast the crises in state authority that precipitated the French Revolution in 1789 and the February and October Revolutions in Russia in 1917.
- Summary review (written and audio) on WWI and The Russian Revolution
- Yale Open Courses lecture on Russian Revolutions
- Overview PowerPoint and notes on Russian Revolutions
- Video: Biography on Lenin
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Tues. 12/8/15 |
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- Early 20th Century Science PowerPoint
- Summary Review (written and audio) on The Age of Anxiety
- Sample DBQ on European Sports
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Wed. 12/9/15 |
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Thur. 12/10/15 |
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Fri. 12/11/15 |
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- Yale Open Courses lecture on post-WWI Eastern Europe
- Yale Open Courses lecture on Stalinism
- Yale Open Courses lecture on Fascism
- Sample LEQ: Analyze the ways in which the policies of Joseph Stalin transformed the policies of Vladimir Lenin.
- Lecture on Totalitarianism
- Lenin to Stalin PowerPoint
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Mon. 12/14/15 |
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- Sample LEQ: Considering the period 1918 to 1948, analyze the political and diplomatic problems
faced by TWO of the following newly created Eastern European states: Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland
- Sample LEQ: Analyze various ways in which ideology shaped the foreign policy of Nazi Germany in the period 1933 through 1945.
- Sample DBQ on Vichy France
- Summary Review (written and audio) on WWII
- WWII packet
- Yale Open Courses lecture on
- Crash Course World History - WWII
- Video clip: The White Rose Society
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Tues. 12/15/15 |
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Wed. 12/16/15 |
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Thur. 12/17/15 |
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Fri. 12/18/15 |
- Unit #16: Cold War & Modern Europe
- Test #16 (Cold War & Modern Europe) open in Quia
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- Summary Review (written and audio) on Modern Europe
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