2010-1011+Assignments



May 3rd || This is your final reading in the McKay text! pp.1037-1045 ||  || April 29th || Go back to the "Post-war Social Transformations" on pp.999-1007 and there will be a timeline quiz. ||  || April 27th || No assignment for vacation. We'll do a DBQ when you return. || April 16th || __Voluntary__ review session for the A.P. exam. It will be held in the Flex Room from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. If you cannot attend, you can arrange to have someone pick up the materials for you. ||  || April 15th || Study for today's comprehensive test covering the period from 1945 to 1992. It will include both objective questions and essay questions. ||  || April 13th || Read 1030-1035 and make review sheets to prepare for Thursday's test on the Cold War. ||  || April 9th || Read 1019-1030 on "Decline of Communism in Eastern Europe and the Revolutions of 1989." ||  || April 7th || Quickly re-read 985-989 about Western Europe's recovery after WWII and 989-991 about the fate of Europe's old colonies. Then focus on pp.995-999 and 1008-1012 about the late Cold War. ||  || April 5th || Study for the substantial unit test that you will have on this day, covering the period from 1918 to 1948. This is primarily on Chapters 28 and 29. **Key topics:** Russian Revolution through Stalin's purges; Treaty of Versailles and its effects; cultural changes in science, art and architecture; the rise of totalitarian dictatorships; the Great Depression; World War II; the post-war recovery and origins of the Cold War (up through NATO and the Berlin Airlift on p.985). ||  || April 1st || Read pp.972-974 about WWII and pp.981-989 about the meeting at Yalta and the Marshall Plan. ||  || March 30th || Read pp.957-970 in ch.29 Be sure to take notes. (Refer to the questions linked to the unit page.) ||  || March 26th || Read pp. 945-957 in Ch. 29. This is on the rise totalitarianism, focusing on Stalin and Mussolini. ||  || March 24th || Read pp.928-939 on the Great Depression and Locarno Pact ||   || March 22nd || Read 913-926 on modern thought and artistic trends. (Chapter 28) ||  || March 18th || For today's class, you should read //The// //Annotated Mona Lisa//, pp.112-114, 116-117, 120-123, 126-128, 130, 134-138. I recommend that you first read the sections on Matisse, Picasso and Cubism (134-138). Then go back and try to figure out how the earlier artists contributed to the transition from realistic art to the more abstract styles pioneered by Picasso and Matisse. ||  || March 16th || Objective test on Chapter 27 (WWI, Russian History, Peace Treaty) plus a free response essay. ||  || March 12th || Read 901-908 on the Peace Treaty. Also bring printed copies of your notes and handouts for today's brief open note quiz on Russian history. Most of the questions will be from the period 1905 to 1919. ||  || March 10th || Read 895-901. There will __not__ be a quiz on WWI on 3/10. Instead, we will focus our discussion on the __three__ Russian revolutions between 1907 and November 1917. On Friday you will have an open note quiz on those Russian revolutions. ||  || March 8th || Read 891-895 ||   || March 4th || Start the new unit on World War I and the Russian Revolution. Read pp.879-890 and answer the questions that I have posted on the Unit Ten page. ||  || March 2nd || Study for a combination of Friday's postponed open note test and a free response essay from one of the topics in Unit VIII. This assessment will be done in class. Be sure to bring your bluebook and a blue or black pen to class. ||  || Feb. 26th || STORM DAY--NO SCHOOL Open note test on Unit VIII. This will include many questions about nationalism as well as imperialism. It will __not__ include art questions. ||  || Feb. 24th || Read about imperialism pp.847-870. Refer to the questions and page numbers on the home page for Unit VIII. ||  || Feb. 10th || Read pp. 837-842 (answer the reading questions) and study for another quiz on your timeline. There will not be any assignment over the February vacation. ||  || Feb. 8th || Read pp. 826-835 in Chapter 25 and answer the reading questions. ||  || Feb. 4th || Read pp.815-825 in Chapter 25 and do the reading questions. This jumps back to Unit VIII which picks up the theme of European nations from 1848-1914. ||  || Feb. 2nd || Read and take some notes about the key points on pp.83-85, 89-90 and 96-107 in //The Annotated Mona Lisa//. Because this covers the art trends from 1815-1860, it correlates well with what you have been reading about the impact of the industrial revolution and urbanization. Don't run out of gas before you get to the last ten pages. They explain Impressionism which is an important theme in this part of the course. ||  || Jan. 29th || Jump to Unit IX to find the Chapter 24 questions about urban industrial society in the late 19th century. Specifically, you should read pp.779-786 and 804-809. Be sure to answer the reading questions for these pages. For now you can ignore the other readings in the chapter because we combined them with your social history presentations several weeks ago. ||  || Jan. 27th || **Midyear exam**. This will cover all of the first semester units except European geography. ||  || Jan. 25th || 1st Semester review will be due. (This will be handed out in class on Thursday Jan. 21st.) ||  || Jan. 21st || This is the date for the ** Unit VII test ** on the period from 1815-1848. ||  || Jan. 19th || pp.767-774 are due. This will finish the readings in Chapter 23. ||  || Jan. 14th || Read pp.758-767 These readings refer to the Romantic movement in art, music, literature and cultural politics. During this class, there will be an **open note quiz** on pp.747-767. ||  || Jan. 12th || Read pp.753-758 plus handout on Marxism. ||  || Jan. 8th || Read McKay pp.747-753 (in chapter 23) to begin Unit VII. This is about the Congress of Vienna which established the terms of the peace treaty at the end of the Napoleonic Wars. ||  || Jan. 6th || Keynote presentations on European social history. (This is a group project to be announced after vacation.) Skim over pp. 653-663 about social history trends before the Industrial Revolution. ||  || Jan. 4th || No Assignment. Enjoy your vacation! ||  || Dec. 17th || Test and free response essay on the Industrial Revolution ||   || Dec. 15th || Document Based Essay will be completed in class. ||  ||
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 * Fri. Dec.10th || Read Ch.22 pp.734-741 and take notes. ||  ||
 * Wed. Dec 9th || Read Ch. 22 pp.727-734 on the social impact of the Industrial Revolution. There will also be an open note quiz on your Ch. 19 and Ch. 22 notes up through p.734. ||
 * Wed. Dec 9th || Read Ch. 22 pp.727-734 on the social impact of the Industrial Revolution. There will also be an open note quiz on your Ch. 19 and Ch. 22 notes up through p.734. ||
 * Wed. Dec 9th || Read Ch. 22 pp.727-734 on the social impact of the Industrial Revolution. There will also be an open note quiz on your Ch. 19 and Ch. 22 notes up through p.734. ||

Monday Dec. 7th
 * Read Ch.19 pp.634-637 on mercantilism; pp.647-648 on Adam Smith. Ch.22 pp.717-726 on England and the Industrial Revolution. ||

Thursday Dec.3rd Read Ch.19 pp.621-631 on the agricultural revolution and early states of the industrial revolution.

Tuesday Dec. 1st There is no reading assignment over the Thanksgiving holiday. In class on Tuesday, you will write a DBQ. You cannot study for this because you don't know what the topic will be. In addition, you __will__ be able to use the guidelines that I have given you about writing DBQ's.

Tuesday Nov.24 Ch. 21 pp.702-711 Napoleon (skip the parts on Haiti); read pp.64, 68-71 in //The Annotated Mona Lisa// on rococo and neo-classical art. OPEN NOTE QUIZ ON THE READING QUESTIONS FOR CH.21

Friday Nov.20th Read Ch. 21 pp.694-700 on the Reign of Terror

Wednesday Nov. 18th Read Ch. 21 pp.683-693 on the origins of the French Revolution

Monday Nov. 16th Test on Chapter 18.

Thursday Nov. 12th Read Chapter 18, pp.609-616 on Enlightened Monarchs and pp.64-65 on rococo art in //The Annotated Mona Lisa.//

Monday Nov. 9th Read Ch. 18 pp.598-608 plus pp.279-287 in the handout by Perry. Be sure to answer the reading questions for pp.598-608 in the McKay text. __Note that I have added reading questions for pp.604-608 that were not on the original list.__

Thursday Nov. 5th Read Ch. 18 pp. 589-598: Scientific Revolution Click the link on the Unit IV page to find the reading questions for these pages.

Tuesday Nov. 3 Timeline Quiz (whole thing, but with prompts); also read R.E.A. handout on scientific revolution.

Friday Oct 30th After Friday's geography quiz, we will begin the new unit on the Enlightenment/Age of Reason.

Wednesday Oct.28th Fill out the political and physical maps of Europe that I have given you in preparation for a brief geography quiz on Friday. Skip Part One of the geography handout which states that you need to make a hand-drawn map of Europe.

Monday Oct 26th Test on Unit III will focus on Baroque art, readings in Chapter 16 and 17 and class handouts on topics such as theories of government. The format of the test will include about 50 objective questions and a free response essay.

Thursday Oct 22nd Complete the sample tests about Chapters 16 and 17 that I will hand out in class on Tuesday the 22nd. Also review your notes about writing essays.

Tuesday Oct 20th Your annotation of a Baroque painting or sculpture must be printed before class, ready to be passed in.

Friday Oct 16th (changed to Tuesday) Read about Baroque Art in //The Annotated Mona Lisa// pp. 46-65. Be sure that you know five or six characteristics of Baroque art and at least six major Baroque artists and their works (especially from the Netherlands). Select one important example of Baroque art from those mentioned in the reading assignment. Find a color image of it and paste it into a document (carefully noting its source). Then analyze how many of the characteristics of Baroque art can be found in the work you've selected. Your analysis should take the form of comments annotated around the image and connected to it by arrows pointing out specific Baroque traits in the work. Don't forget your name, date, class and a title. Print this before class or you will lose 10 points.

Wednesday Oct 14th Take notes on pp. 572-580 which is on Russia through Peter Great. Try to come away from these readings about absolute monarchs with a sense of the pro's and con's of the leadership of Peter the Great, Catherine the Great and Frederick the Great.

Friday Oct 9th Most of you will be doing your Ocean Lab on Friday. To stay on your reading schedule, complete the following assignments in your McKay text by this Friday: pp. 559-572 Eastern European Serfdom, 30 Years War (skim/review this), Prussia and Austria. Pay attention to Maria Theresa's struggle with Frederick the Great. Don't put this off and try to read it all plus the additional assignment about Peter the Great next Tuesday night.

Wednesday Oct 7th Our class schedule this week will be disrupted or abbreviated by SAT's and the Biology field trips. Then because of the holiday weekend, we won''t meet again until next Wednesday October 14th. As a result, you will need to complete most of the Unit 3 readings prior to that date. Plan to come into class on Oct. 14th with all of the this unit's reading notes completed and well organized up through Peter the Great. By __this__ Wednesday (the 6th) you should have read McKay pp. 530-534 & 539-542 on Louis XIV and the Culture of Absolutism plus pp. 542-549 on England's Stuart kings and the English Civil War. The main point is to compare and contrast the two different systems of government that devleop in those two countries at the same time.

Monday Oct 5th Test on Unit 2. Objective questions in multiple choice format; no essays. Study the old exam that I've given you. Focus on New Monarchs, Mercantilism, the Thirty Years' War, commercial revolution, Tudors, Spanish Habsburgs, early Bourbons and European exploration of New World. Be sure to review your reading questions and class handouts. A few questions come from class notes that were put on the board and do not appear in the readings.

Thursday Oct 1st Read McKay text pp.549-553 on the Dutch Republic and 562-565 on the Thirty Years' War.

Tuesday 9/29 Plan to come to Tuesday's class as an expert on how mercantilism works. Read the McKay text pp.532-533 (stop at "Louis XIV's Wars"). You will also need to study the handout that I will give you in class and look on line to find additional information. Mars.wnec.edu, infoplease.com, and encarta.msn.com are all easier to understand than wikipedia for this topic. If you haven't finished McKay pp.534-539 from Friday, do it now!

Friday 9/25 Read McKay text, pp.508-513 on the "Columbian Exchange" and pp.534-539 on the decline of Spain's power. To locate the readings questions for this assignment, click on the Unit 2 link on the //Home// page. Since the test corrections for Unit I are due this Friday, you can put off pp.534-539 until the weekend. Be sure to read 508-513, however.

Wednesday 9/23 Read McKay text, pp.434-439 on the New Monarchs and 492-495 on the causes of European exploration of the New World. To locate the reading questions for this assignment, click on the Unit 2 link on the //Home// page.

Monday 9/21 Study for unit test on Renaissance and Reformation using the Online Study Center and the review sheet I have provided. The test will include multiple choice questions and a free response essay.