Assignments

= = || May 2nd || Study for today's triple header: a timeline quiz, an art quiz and a free response essay. The essay topic will be your choice from 3 or 4 options that I will select from various time periods. ||  || April 28th || //This is your final reading in the McKay text.// The assignment due today is about 1030-1041 about Yugoslavia, Yeltsin and the Maastricht Treaty ||   || April 26th || No assignment for vacation. We'll do a DBQ when you return. || April 15th || 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 should arrange to have someone pick up the materials for you. ||  || April 6th || Today's readings focus on the Cold War: pp.995-1006 about the late Cold War. As you read, answer the questions I have given you about the material on pp.995-999. (That's what you need to cover for Friday's test.) Then read the attachments in that handout which summarize the key ideas from 999-1006 on the women's movement and youth rebellions in the 1960's. Those two topics will be covered on next week's test. ||  || pp.879-890 and answer the questions that I have posted on the Unit Ten page. Reading Questions for pp804 to 809 ||  || Jan. 7th || Quiz today on all the art styles you have studied this year up through romanticism. By the end of class the social history powerpoints ("Keynotes") should be complete. ||  || Jan. 5th || By now you should have read pp.64-69 and 72-80 in //The Annotated Mona Lisa// on the following styles of art: rococo, neoclassicism, romanticism. Without using notes, you will be asked to identify various works of art in terms of the styles they represent. Bring both textbooks to class. You will work on your group Powerpoints/Keynotes about social history topics. ||  || Jan. 3rd || No Assignment. Enjoy your vacation! In class today we will first review the basic characteristics of European styles of art from 1300 to 1815. After that you will work in groups to research social history issues related to the Industrial Union. Bring your textbooks to class this week! ||  || Dec. 20th || Test today on the Industrial Revolution. ||  ||
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 * **Thursday** June 16th || Final assessment! The focus will be on architectural terms and styles. Be prepared to label the style of a variety of architectural examples and identify numerous architectural terms. You will also finish presenting the "European Tour" slide show if your group did not present on Friday the 10th. ||
 * **Friday** June 10th || Your presentations should be complete. ||
 * **Wednesday** June 8th || Work on your group presentations. ||  ||
 * **Monday** June 6th || Read the handout (#1 and #4) about life in China during the Cultural Revolution. Keep in mind that you are exactly the age of most of the Red Guards who are featured in the articles. Also read carefully the description of European Tour and consider which members of the class you want to work with on this. Come to class with a list of four or five European locations that fulfill the requirements of the product descriptor. ||  ||
 * **Thursday** June 2nd || Test today about Chinese history and geography. ||  ||
 * **Tuesday** May 31st || No class because of //Schindler's List// movie, but be sure you have finished reading both handouts on architecture. ||  ||
 * **Thursday** May 26th || Read the handout on architectural styles, paying special attention to the styles I have noted in class. ||  ||
 * **Tuesday** May 24th || This is the last reading about Chinese history. It covers the emergence of modern China under Communist leadership: P&N pp.775-783. ||  ||
 * **Friday** May 20th || The assignments due today bring Chinese history into the 20th century with the fall of the last dynasty. Read P&N 453-463 and 697-700. ||  ||
 * **Wednesday** May 18th || These readings in P&N are on pp.275-283 about the Sui, Tang and Mongol (Yuan) dynasties. ||  ||
 * **Monday** May 16th || The assignment for today is pp.79-87 in //People and Nations//. This covers the earliest significant dynasties and cultural advances. ||  ||
 * **Thursday** May 12th || For today, you should have read //People and Nations// pp.69-78 about ancient China. ||  ||
 * **Tuesday** May 10th || No assignment because of the A.P. exam. ||  ||
 * == Friday May 6th == || = Your A.P. Exam is today. Be sure to get lots of sleep the night before and remember to eat during First Lunch. = ||  ||
 * **Wednesday** May 4th || Complete the objective questions from the A.P. practice test I handed out on Monday. In class today you will take the objective part of another old AP exam. This will be graded. ||  ||
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 * **Friday** May 20th || The assignments due today bring Chinese history into the 20th century with the fall of the last dynasty. Read P&N 453-463 and 697-700. ||  ||
 * **Wednesday** May 18th || These readings in P&N are on pp.275-283 about the Sui, Tang and Mongol (Yuan) dynasties. ||  ||
 * **Monday** May 16th || The assignment for today is pp.79-87 in //People and Nations//. This covers the earliest significant dynasties and cultural advances. ||  ||
 * **Thursday** May 12th || For today, you should have read //People and Nations// pp.69-78 about ancient China. ||  ||
 * **Tuesday** May 10th || No assignment because of the A.P. exam. ||  ||
 * == Friday May 6th == || = Your A.P. Exam is today. Be sure to get lots of sleep the night before and remember to eat during First Lunch. = ||  ||
 * **Wednesday** May 4th || Complete the objective questions from the A.P. practice test I handed out on Monday. In class today you will take the objective part of another old AP exam. This will be graded. ||  ||
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 * **Tuesday** May 10th || No assignment because of the A.P. exam. ||  ||
 * == Friday May 6th == || = Your A.P. Exam is today. Be sure to get lots of sleep the night before and remember to eat during First Lunch. = ||  ||
 * **Wednesday** May 4th || Complete the objective questions from the A.P. practice test I handed out on Monday. In class today you will take the objective part of another old AP exam. This will be graded. ||  ||
 * **Monday**
 * **Wednesday** May 4th || Complete the objective questions from the A.P. practice test I handed out on Monday. In class today you will take the objective part of another old AP exam. This will be graded. ||  ||
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 * Saturday April 29th || 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 should arrange to have someone pick up the materials for you. ||  ||
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 * **Thursday** April 14th || Study for today's comprehensive but open note test covering the Cold War period from 1945 to 1992. It will include both objective questions and essay questions. The questions will be based on material from Chapters 30 and 31 (up through p.1030). ||  ||
 * **Tuesday** April 12th || For today you should have read pp.1008-1012 and pp.1019-1030 on "Decline of Communism in Eastern Europe and the Revolutions of 1989." ||  ||
 * **Friday** April 8th || 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 27, 28, 29 and the first half of Ch.30. The actual page numbers **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 the Brezhnev Doctrine and re-Stalinization on p.999). ||  ||
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 * **Friday** April 8th || 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 27, 28, 29 and the first half of Ch.30. The actual page numbers **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 the Brezhnev Doctrine and re-Stalinization on p.999). ||  ||
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 * **Monday** April 4th || The readings due today are about World War II ( pp.972-974) and pp.981-992 about Yalta and the Marshall Plan ||  ||
 * **Tuesday** March 29th || Open note quiz today on parts of Ch.28 (pp.928-935) and Ch.29 (pp.946-965). ||  ||
 * **Friday** March 25th || The assignment for today is pp. 945-957 in Ch. 29. This is about the rise totalitarianism, focusing on Stalin and Mussolini. ||  ||
 * **Wednesday** March 23rd || By today you should have read pp.928-939 about the Great Depression and Weimar Germany in the 1930's. ||  ||
 * **Monday** March 21st || The readings due today are pp.913-926 in Ch. 28 about Modern Culture. ||  ||
 * **Wednesday** March 16th || Test on Chapter 27. ||  ||
 * **Monday** March 14th || Today's readings include the Russian Revolution pp.895-900 and the Peace Settlement pp.901-908. ||  ||
 * **Thursday** March 10th || Read 891-895 about the "Home Front" in WWI for today. ||  ||
 * **Tuesday** March 8th || Start the new unit on World War I and the Russian Revolution by reading
 * **Monday** March 21st || The readings due today are pp.913-926 in Ch. 28 about Modern Culture. ||  ||
 * **Wednesday** March 16th || Test on Chapter 27. ||  ||
 * **Monday** March 14th || Today's readings include the Russian Revolution pp.895-900 and the Peace Settlement pp.901-908. ||  ||
 * **Thursday** March 10th || Read 891-895 about the "Home Front" in WWI for today. ||  ||
 * **Tuesday** March 8th || Start the new unit on World War I and the Russian Revolution by reading
 * **Thursday** March 10th || Read 891-895 about the "Home Front" in WWI for today. ||  ||
 * **Tuesday** March 8th || Start the new unit on World War I and the Russian Revolution by reading
 * **Tuesday** March 8th || Start the new unit on World War I and the Russian Revolution by reading
 * **Tuesday** March 8th || Start the new unit on World War I and the Russian Revolution by reading
 * **Thursday** March 3rd || Timeline quiz from memory today (no prompts). Also read pp.804-809 about social science and realism in literature. Be sure to read the little section about Freud in the left column on page 804. (Refer to the Ch. 24 reading questions about this. ||  ||
 * **Tuesday** March 1st || No assignment over vacation. ||  ||
 * **Feb. vacation** || No assignment. ||  ||
 * **Thursday** Feb.17th || Unit Test today including an essay and objective questions from Ch.25 and 26. ||  ||
 * **Tuesday** Feb. 15th || The readings due today are on Imperialism pp.859-872 ||  ||
 * **Thurs.** Feb. 10th || By today you should have read pp.836-842 to finish Ch. 25 and pp.847-857 in Ch.26. (Marxism, Zionism, and World Migrations) ||  ||
 * **Tues.** Feb. 8th || By now you should have completed the readings in Ch. 25 pp.826-835 on Turkey, Russia, England, Germany and France in the late 19th century. ||  ||
 * **Thursday** Feb. 3rd || McKay Ch. 26 pp.818-821 (Italy) and pp.821-825 (Germany). Be sure to answer the reading questions posted on the Wiki for this McKay assignment. Notice how the unifications of Italy and Germany each depends upon the diplomatic misfortunes of the French king, Louis Napoleon. ||  ||
 * **Tuesday** Feb. 1st || Readings due today: //Annotated Mona Lisa// pp.83-85; 89-90; 96-107 on realism and Impressionism. Also read pp.815-818 in McKay to find out what was happening in French history during those years. Be sure to answer the reading questions posted on the Wiki for the McKay assignment. ||  ||
 * **Friday** Jan. 28th || Midyear exam today. Be sure to have studied the old exam, the review sheets, etc. ||  ||
 * **Wednesday** Jan. 26th || The assignment for today is to review for the midterm and complete the 1999 AP multiple choice questions. ||  ||
 * **Monday** Jan. 24th || Unit test today on Unit VII. ||  ||
 * **Thursday** Jan. 20 || Readings due today are pp.767-774. ||  ||
 * **Tuesday** Jan. 18th || The reading assignment due today is from Unit VII pp.758-767. ||  ||
 * **Thursday** Jan. 13th || The reading assignment due today is from Unit VII pp.747-758. ||  ||
 * **Tuesday** Jan. 11th || Annotations are due on the "Chapter 24 Outline" that I handed out on Friday. Your Keynote presentations on European social history should be complete and ready to show by the end of today's class. ||  ||
 * **Friday**
 * **Tuesday** Feb. 1st || Readings due today: //Annotated Mona Lisa// pp.83-85; 89-90; 96-107 on realism and Impressionism. Also read pp.815-818 in McKay to find out what was happening in French history during those years. Be sure to answer the reading questions posted on the Wiki for the McKay assignment. ||  ||
 * **Friday** Jan. 28th || Midyear exam today. Be sure to have studied the old exam, the review sheets, etc. ||  ||
 * **Wednesday** Jan. 26th || The assignment for today is to review for the midterm and complete the 1999 AP multiple choice questions. ||  ||
 * **Monday** Jan. 24th || Unit test today on Unit VII. ||  ||
 * **Thursday** Jan. 20 || Readings due today are pp.767-774. ||  ||
 * **Tuesday** Jan. 18th || The reading assignment due today is from Unit VII pp.758-767. ||  ||
 * **Thursday** Jan. 13th || The reading assignment due today is from Unit VII pp.747-758. ||  ||
 * **Tuesday** Jan. 11th || Annotations are due on the "Chapter 24 Outline" that I handed out on Friday. Your Keynote presentations on European social history should be complete and ready to show by the end of today's class. ||  ||
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 * **Tuesday** Jan. 18th || The reading assignment due today is from Unit VII pp.758-767. ||  ||
 * **Thursday** Jan. 13th || The reading assignment due today is from Unit VII pp.747-758. ||  ||
 * **Tuesday** Jan. 11th || Annotations are due on the "Chapter 24 Outline" that I handed out on Friday. Your Keynote presentations on European social history should be complete and ready to show by the end of today's class. ||  ||
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 * **Tuesday** Jan. 11th || Annotations are due on the "Chapter 24 Outline" that I handed out on Friday. Your Keynote presentations on European social history should be complete and ready to show by the end of today's class. ||  ||
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 * **Thursday** Dec. 16th || Document Based Essay will be completed in class. ||  ||
 * **Tuesday** Dec. 14th || For today you should have read Ch.22 pp.734-741 and taken notes. ||
 * **Tuesday** Dec. 14th || For today you should have read Ch.22 pp.734-741 and taken notes. ||
 * **Tuesday** Dec. 14th || For today you should have read Ch.22 pp.734-741 and taken notes. ||

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.
 * Friday Dec. 10th**

By now you should have read pp.634-637 (mercantilism), 647-648 (Adam Smith), and 717-726 on the Industrial Revolution in England.
 * Wednesday Dec. 8th**

Read pp.621-631 in Ch.19 on the agricultural revolution and early states of the industrial revolution.
 * Monday Dec. 6th**

For this class you should have (1) completed your document analysis ("spreadsheet") for the Festivals DBQ; (2) written a thesis for that DBQ; (3) written the complete 2nd paragraph including documents and POV's. Use a blue or black ballpoint pen to practice the handwriting skills you will need for the actual AP exam. During today's class you will write a complete DBQ from start to finish. 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.
 * Thursday Dec. 2nd**

There is no reading assignment over the Thanksgiving holiday. In class on Tuesday, you will learn how to write a DBQ.
 * Tuesday November 30th**

Ch. 21 pp.703-711 Napoleon (skip the parts on Haiti); read pp.64, 68-71 in //The Annotated Mona Lisa// on rococo and neo-classical art.
 * Tuesday Nov.23**

Open note quiz on Ch. 21 pp.683-703.
 * Friday Nov. 19th**

For today, the assignment focuses on the radical phase of the French Revolution. Read pages 694-703.
 * Wednesday. Nov. 17th**

By now you should have read pp.683-693 in ch.21 on the origins of the French Revolution and pp.64-65 on rococo art in //The Annotated Mona Lisa.//
 * Monday Nov. 15th**

Test on the Sci. Revolution and Enlightenment will be in two parts. It will include a closed note section on famous people/books of the Sci Rev/Enlightenment. There will also be an open note test based on your reading notes from Chapter 18. The following link takes you to those questions and vocabulary words: Questions to Guide your Reading
 * Tuesday Nov. 9th**

Complete the reading questions in Chapter 18 up through pp. 598-616.
 * Friday Nov. 5th**

The assignment due today is first to catch up on the reading questions up through p.598. Questions to Guide your Reading Also read the Perry handout on the scientific revolution and Enlightenment.
 * Wednesday Nov. 3rd**

Another quiz on the whole time line. It will involve the whole thing, but with prompts. Timeline You should also have read pp.589-598 about the Scientific Revolution.
 * Monday Nov. 1st**

Today's geography quiz is based on the materials that you completed for Tuesday's class about European geography. Also read the the "R.E.A." handout on the Scientific Revolution to introduce the next unit on the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment. (It's short.)
 * Thursday Oct. 28th**

By now you should have completed the test corrections for the test on 1550-1650. Your major assignment for today is described on the geography handout that I gave you in class on Friday. It has three parts: 1. make a free hand map of Europe; 2. label the political map (the side without the mountains and rivers); and 3. label the physical side of the map. Hints: Don't spend too much time on the freehand map. In fact, you should do it __after__ you've located the political and physical items. Do not worry if you can't locate every item. We'll go over them in class to prepare you for Thursday's geography quiz.
 * Tuesday Oct. 26th**

There will be a test on the absolute monarchs from Louis XIV to Peter the Great, plus Baroque art and English history (Tudors and Stuarts). This will be followed by a free response essay on one of those topics.
 * Friday Oct. 22nd**

Complete the following assignments in your McKay text 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.
 * Wednesday Oct. 20th**

Complete the following assignments in your McKay text 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.
 * Monday Oct. 18th**

There will be brief quiz, mostly on England's effort to create a constitutional government. (See below on Oct. 12th for the page numbers.)
 * Thursday Oct. 14th**

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__ Thursday (the 14th) you should have read McKay pp.539-542 on Louis XIV and the Culture of Absolutism plus //Annotated Mona Lisa// on Baroque art pp.46-54; 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 develop in those two countries at the same time.
 * Tuesday Oct 12th**

You will take a test on Unit 2. It will feature objective questions in multiple choice format with a free response essay. 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 will be derived from class notes which do not appear in the readings.
 * Assignment for Thursday Oct 7th**

For this class you need to prepare a review sheet on all the readings you've done so far in Unit 2. Include the vocabulary list that I handed out for Unit 2, plus the class notes and reading questions. Also read pp.528-534 on Louis XIV. You will find that part of these readings have already been covered in an earlier assignment.
 * Assignment for Tuesday Oct 5th**

Plan to come to this 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 mercantilism handout that I will give you and perhaps look on line to find additional information. Here are some web sites with good information about mercantilism: Mars.wnec.edu, infoplease.com, and encarta.msn.com. They're all easier to understand than wikipedia for this topic. Because of the missed class, you also need to read McKay text pp.549-553 on the Dutch Republic and 562-565 on the Thirty Years' War. Keep up with your reading because you'll have a test on Unit 2 next Thursday.
 * Assignment for Friday Oct 1st**

If the weather cooperates, some of you will be on the biology field trip. The assignment due on Wednesday will be a quiz on the whole timeline. Those of you on the bio trip can easily make it up later in the week.
 * Assignment for Wednesday 9/29**

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.
 * Assignment for Monday 9/27**

You should have read the McKay text, pp.434-439 on the New Monarchs, on Witchcraft 475-477 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.
 * Assignment for Thursday 9/23**

You will take the Unit 1 test on Renaissance and Reformation. The test will include many multiple choice questions from old AP exams and A.P. review books. It will __not__ include an essay. || For this class, you should have read the //Annotated Mona Lisa// pp.44-45 and created a one page review sheet on the Renaissance (including art) and another one page review sheet on the Reformation. There will be a big test on Unit 1 on Tuesday 9/21. It will include multiple choice questions and an essay. || You should have read pp.457-472 in McKay and answered the reading questions about those pages. || The time line quiz part II will be at the beginning of this class (items #18 through the end of the time line). In addition you should have read pp.445-457 in McKay and answered the reading questions. || There will be a quiz today about the Renaissance, the //Annotated Mona Lisa// art readings and your summer reading. (Don't forget the 2nd part of the time line will be on Monday.) ||
 * **Assignment for Tuesday 9/21**
 * **Assignment due on Friday 9/17**
 * **Assignment due on Friday 9/17**
 * **Assignment due on Wednesday 9/15**
 * **Assignment due on Wednesday 9/15**
 * **Assignment due on Monday 9/13**
 * **Assignment due on Monday 9/13**
 * **Assignment due on Thursday 9/9**
 * **Assignment due on Thursday 9/9**

First you will take the time line quiz on items #1–#17. In addition, you need to have read the McKay text, pp.415-421 and //The Annotated Mona Lisa//, pp.40-43 on the Northern Renaissance. Your second time line quiz will be on Monday 9/13. ||
 * **Assignment due on Tuesday 9/7**

You should have read the McKay text pp.407-415 (stop before the section on political thought). Also complete pp.32-39 in //The Annotated Mona Lisa//. It is about High Renaissance art and architecture. Start studying the first 17 items of the time line for next week's quiz.
 * Assignment for Thursday 9/2**