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The Western Heritage with MyHistoryLab eBook
Syllabus:
Week 1
Course Introduction
Excerpts from Daniel Boorstin's
Hidden History
Become familiar with D2L and VHS learning
Become familiar with rigor of AP and expectations
Week 2
The Late Middle Ages: Crisis and Disintegration in the Fourteenth Century
Hack the AP Exam: Categorize documents in Black Death DBQ and write the essay
Hundred Years War: Compare first and second-hand accounts about Joan of Arc to identify point-of-view and perspective
Excerpts from William Manchester’s
A World Lit Only by Fire:The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance
Week 3
Renaissance
"Breaking the Medieval Matrix: The Renaissance”
Heaven's Historians: Role play introduction of Renaissance figure at banquet
Renaissance Art : A change in perspective- Tag evidence of themes in Renaissance Art
Week 4
Reformation
Using logic to prove God exists with Saint Anselm of Canterbury and Thomas Aquinas
Reformation and Counter Reformation.
Religious Summit: Role play simulation of Reformation/Counter Reformation
Pilgrimage of Grace: DBQ planning, writing, and guided peer review
Week 5
The Commercial Revolution, Exploration and the Struggles of New Monarchs
What are the most effective ingredients of a successful absolute monarch?
Rhetoric and Argument: support and reject absolutism with primary documents
Henry IV: Selfish or Saintly? What is the proper role of religion in power? How has it changed over time? How are the Politiques like Postmodern thinkers?
The Age of Discovery: Progress of Europe- Create world map of explorer's discoveries
Week 6
Thirty Years War
Mock Trial: Role play lawyers and witnesses in lawsuit brought against Alex Trebek and producers of the game show Jeopardy who ruled against contestant who responded to the clue "Religious Wars of the 17th Century" with "What was the Thirty Years War?"
Week 7
English Civil War
Create and compare multiple-tier timelines for the Petition of Right and the English Bill of Rights
The Rise and Fall of the Stuart Kings
Monarchy Redefined: The Glorious Revolution of 1688
Week 8
The Sun King, Louis XIV
I am the State: The foundations of the Absolutism of Louis XIV
Eyewitness accounts of life in the court of the “Sun King”
The Power of Place: Virtual Tour of Versailles and Peter the Great's "Window on the West", Petersburg
Week 9
Scientific Revolution
The Changing Life of the People: Daily Life in the 18th Century
The Scientific Revolution: From Medieval Cosmology to Harbingers of New Science- Create annotated timeline and concept map of significant discoveries and understandings of the natural world
Galileo and the Inevitability of Ideas: Review Galileo's trial before the Inquisition
Week 10
The Enlightenment
Locke v Hobbes
Enlightened Thinker - Self Appointed Therapists for a New Society
The Free Response Essay
Week 11
Wars of the 18th Century
Mercantilism and the Bubbles: Create comparison chart of East India Companies, the real estate market and Enron to explore Dutch tulips, the South Sea Trading Company and the Mississippi Bubble
Wars of the Mid-18th Century - Seven Years war and the Struggle for Empire
Week 12
French Revolution
Analysis of the Cahier of the Third Estate
Cause of the French Revolution
Pendulum of Power: Stages of the French Revolutionary Governments from Liberal to Radical to Napoleon
Week 13
Napoleon
Character study of Napoleon's personal ambition
Depicting Napoleon as dictator or enlightened despot through analysis of Napoleonic Code
Napoleon Bonaparte and Historiography
Week 14
Congress of Vienna
Mock Congress of Vienna: Role play Congress of Vienna characters including diplomats, reporters and speechwriters
Week 15
Industrial Revolution
From Steam Engines To Microchips
The Literary Response to the Industrial Revolution: Charles Dickens (Hard Times), William Blake (Preface to Milton), Thomas Carlyle (Signs of the Times: The Mechanical Age)
Daily Life of Industrial Workers
Week 16
The Flood of Social Change
Somewhere over the Rainbow: Social Utopians confront the dark underbelly of the Industrial Revolution
ISM Schism: Organize beliefs and opinions from different time periods on chart of the political spectrum
Excerpts from Frank Manuel’s "A Requiem for Karl Marx"
Week 17
Reaction and Revolution
Action and Reaction in Concert Europe: Role-play and reenactment of the Congresses of Troppau, Laibach and Verona
The Iron Chancellor's Socialist Buyout: Bismarck and Social Insurance Laws
Interactive map of Europe in 1848
NSC Briefing: Role play intelligence officials of Prince Clemens von Metternich preparing briefing for the Hapsburg "National Security Council"
Week 18
Nationalism and the Unifications of Italy and Germany
The Future of the Nation State
Excerpts from Benjamin Barber’s Jihad vs. McWorld
Realism and Unification: The Case of Italy
Blood and Iron: The Unification of Germany
Week 19
Second Industrial Revolution & Second Scientific Revolution
Explain the impact of the Second Industrial Revolution
Science Confronts Civilization and goes Ape: Darwin, Spencer and Huxley
"Inner Space and Outer Space" Freud and Einstein and Anxiety
Week 20
The Belle Époque
Triumph of European Civilization
Supporting a thesis with evidence: Political, social, and cultural developments of the times that prove that the closing decades of the nineteenth century were one of the best times to live
Week 21
Imperialism in Africa and Asia
Excerpts from Adam Hochschild’s King Leopold's Ghost
The War for Drugs: Opium.
Imperialism: Taking up the White Man's Burden? Map European occupation of Africa and Asia and assess the views of Rudyard Kipling, J.A. Hobson and Benjamin Disraeli of Imperialism
Week 22
Origins of The Great War
Can you stop the Great War? Role play one of the five major powers to propose a resolution to the July Crisis
Some Damn Foolish thing in the Balkans: From Assassination to War
Week 23
War at Home and on the Front
Propaganda and US intervention in the war
The Role of Women, investigating the role of British women in the war effort
Better made for war? Investigation of the relative ability of governmental systems to wage war
Week 24
Treaty of Versailles
The Court at Versailles.
Week 25
Life in Russia under the Tsars & The Russian Revolution
Serfs Up! -The Tsar Liberator: The role of the Crimean War, the Russo-Japanese War and Cold War in Russian reform
The stages of The Russian Revolution from Constitutional to Communist
The Lenin of History
Week 26
Russia Under Stalin
Stalin: Hero of Industrialization or Villain of Totalitarianism?
The Cult of Stalin: excerpts from Soviet feature films of the 1930s and 1940s
Week 27
The Rise of Fascism and the time between the wars
Benito Mussolini and the invitation of Abyssinia
The Rise of Nazism and Hitler
Week 28
From Appeasement to War
Peace at any Price: The Failure of Appeasement:
Week 29
World War II Home and Abroad
Military and diplomatic strategy of World War II, the role of the US and the Second Front
The Power of Posters: Compare five nation’s propaganda
Week 30
The Holocaust
Excerpts from Daniel Goldhagen’s Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
Holocaust and Resistance
Week 31
The Origins of the Cold War
Iron Curtain Interactive
Who caused the Cold War?
Week 32
The Height of the Cold War
Action and Reaction: Major events of the Cold War and creation of annotated timeline and concept map
Week 33
The Collapse of The Soviet Union
Ethnic Cleansing: exploration of the EU reaction to the breakup of Yugoslavia
The European Economic Union and the Eclipse of the Nation State
Week 34
Wrap Up and Prepare for the AP Exam
Course Objectives:
1. This course will be designed to successfully prepare students for the College Board’s AP European History Exam.
2. This class will provide an understanding of past concepts related to present ones.
3. This course allows students to develop academic skills required for success in college and post-secondary education.
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