This page is intended to list, briefly, what happened in class on a given day. And, if you were absent, what needs to be done/made up. It is done in simple list form, with the most recent day's class up top. The date that appears on the left side is the day that the class occured.
Unit #7: Industrial Revolution
2/17: Watch Oliver Twist
Unit #6: The French Revolution & Napoleon
2/16: Unit #6 test - French Rev., Napoleon, and Romantic poetry
2/15: Vocab test & silent reading; review
2/14: "Ode on a Grecian Urn"; Congress of Vienna simulation
2/13: "Ode to Napoleon" (or some other Byron) or FLEX TIME; Napoleon video
2/10: "Kubla Khan"; Napoleon from Trafalgar lecture (or just quickly supplement book notes); discuss the good and bad of Napoleon
2/9: watch LOTF movie; work on Trafalgar reading and comics;
2/8: vocab quiz & silent reading; "I wandered lonely as a cloud"; Trafalgar reading and comic strips
2/7: French Revolution quiz; intro Napoleon lecture; How to explicate a poem; practice explicating a song
2/6: Devolution project due - share time; Discuss Declaration of the Rights of Woman; The French Revolution did or did not change French society; "Ozymandias"
2/3: Aspects of Romanticism research; Justification for the use of terror - do you agree? - what do historians think?;
2/2: finish Blame game; Devolution project work time
2/1: Vocab. and LOTF quiz; LOTF and the fall of man; start Blame game
1/31: French Revolution video; Declaration of the Rights of Man; intro devolution project - devolution work time
1/30: Go over vocab; civilized vs. primitive - Montaigne; Chief Seattle speech; civilized-primitive-savage chart; trace your image in LOTF; French Revolution video; Bastille primary source account - what is the mood?
1/27: French Rev intro lecture; start French Rev video
Unit #6 student guide; Timeline of French Rev & Napoleonic Era
Unit #5: The Enlightenment
1/25: Exam - study guide
1/23: exam review - study guide
1/16-1/20: no school, snow
1/13: exam review - mind mapping the semester - study guide
1/12: Scientific revolution lecture; "What is Scientific Authority?" discussion; the Enlightenment today - mini project - if time
1/11: vocab quiz; silent reading; The Rights of Man & Women's Rights and the Enlightenment discussion
1/10: go over vocab; Fire blame game; Plato's Allegory of the Cave
1/9: Reading quiz; Candide; Enlightenment board talk; Fire blame game; Plato's Allegory of the Cave;
1/6: Voltaire on Prejudice; Rousseau & Montesquieu - connect to LOTF; LOTF postcards home
1/5: Satire and parody review questions - LOTF style; Perceptions of the beast quiz; debrief A Modest Proposal;
1/4: vocab quiz; silent reading; finish your modest proposals
1/3: New seats; discuss grades and turnitin.com; go over unit guide and political systems spectrum; beginning of the Enlightenment lecture; read A Modest Proposal and answer questions
Enlightenment Unit Guide; political systems spectrum
Unit #4: Religious Conflict & Absolutism
12/16: Absolutism test - study guide; finish Macbeth the movie
12/15: LOTF ch. 4 quiz; finish connections mind map; Absolutism review - tie together absolute monarchs, freedom and protection; hard and soft power, Macbeth, and The Prince - finish power chart; Jeopardy (if time)
12/14: silent reading; discuss journal #2; work on connections mind maps
12/13: LOTF and psychology - do LOTF style; Discuss LOTF journal #1; finish Absolutism in central Europe lecture - Hapsburgs and Fred. the Great; Enlightened Despotism reading and discussion; add to power chart
12/12: Macbeth paper due; LOTF ch. 2 & 3 quiz; finish Louis XIV; start Absolutism in central Europe lecture - Hapsburgs and Fred. the Great; work on facebook project
12/9: LOTF ch. 1 quiz; Peter the Great video; Absolute Monarchs facebook project - facebook template; directions
12/8: Absolutism mid unit quiz - then draw absolute monarch from hat; Macbeth rough draft peer edit; work on Louis XIV
12/7: Grammar: How to use a dash; peer edit outlines; LOTF and the a-bomb talk;
12/6: Macbeth paper work time; finish Ivan the Terrbile; begin Louis XIV
12/5: Image project due (with gallery walk); Go over Macbeth theses; Finish 30 Years War; Absolutism in Spain - decline and the Dutch Empire; Dutch Empire reading; Intro Russia and start Ivan the Terrbile
12/2: Macbeth paper work time; Image project work time; 30 years war work time
12/1: Macbeth paper brainstorm; From Cromwell to the Battle of the Boyne Lecture; Anglo-American Bill of Rights comparison; Intro 30 years war talk and reading; 30 years war posters and gallery walk;
11/30: Macbeth tizz (III-V, culminating grade); return papers
11/29: The curse of Macbeth; review Macbeth; Image project work time; mind map work time??
11/28: Hobbes and Locke silent debate; Discuss Macbeth and paradoxes; Trace your image time - begin group image project
11/24-25: no school
11/23: Macbeth and Hell - 1, 2; work on timelines
11/22: What is the UK video; ; Read the Petition to the King; finish lecture then English Civil War timeline
11/21: Finish Macbeth; Intro Absolutism and Divine Right review; The Gunpowder Plot; start English Civil War lecture
Absolutism student guide; European Wars 1648-1789
Unit #3: The Reformation
11/18: Reformation Test - study guide; finish watching Macbeth through Act IV; Macbeth Act V
11/17: Is Macbeth English or Scottish article; review & tie it all together - Macbeth, women, Machiavelli; the Renaissance and Reformation; Great Chain of Being, witches, King James, Gunpowder Plot; Tudors, etc.; start watching Macbeth through Act IV
11/16: Macbeth vocab test; finish Elizabeth; Elizabethan England
11/15: Go over Macbeth images; Cuius Regio?; Religion turns violent: Militant Catholicism and Protestantism - Spanish and the Dutch; review Tudors; watch Elizabeth - alternate assignment
11/14: finish Burning Convictions;; Macbeth Act IV.2 and journals; trace image time
11/11: no school
11/10: finish Historical Macbeth; Tudor England lecture; watch Burning Convictions;
11/9: go over posters; vocab quiz; silent reading; chart tracing: Historical Macbeth - Great Chain of Being and witches and murder, etc.
11/8: Reformation on the continent quiz (10/24-11/4) - study guide; finish posters; watch Macbeth through Act III
11/7: finish Act III; Macbeth Act IV.1; Maggie and Balthy and Ref. life readings - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 -and posters;
11/4: Find commonalities in Ref countries (group research and theses)
11/3: Paper due - turn in all parts; Finish Ref on continent lecture; Macbeth Act III scenes 1-4
11/2: vocab quiz; silent reading; Reformation past Luther lecture
11/1: Luther on Jews, women, and the peasants revolt discussion; start Macbeth Act III scene 1
10/31: Rough draft due; peer edit; Witches!!! (& Macbeth); work time
10/28: Macbeth Acts I & II tizz (culminating grade); Luther book work time; go over intros and conclusions
10/27: peer edit outlines again; review for Macbeth tizz; finish Luther video
10/26: Grammar Day!; Macbeth Act II scenes 3 & 4 ; work on II.3-4 journals
10/25: Luther video; finish read and historically trace Duncan's murder; work on HW if time
10/24: Finish watching Polanski's Macbeth; Outline and thesis due - peer edit and check off; Pre Reformation problems with the church
Unit #3 student guide; Reformation terms to know; problems w/ the church; Tudor & Stuart family tree
Unit #2: The Renaissance
10/21: Unit #2 Tizz; Macbeth Act II scene 2; watch first part of Polanski's Macbeth
10/20: Renaissance thesis paper time in library; finish The Horrors of Conquest; write theses; How to outline; discuss end of the Renaissance; Ren. review;
10/19: Vocabulary quiz; silent reading; Age of Exploration review; The Horrors of Conquest
10/18: Northern Renaissance Art in the lab w/ discussion; go over Holinshed and history chart; Macbeth Act II scene 1;
10/17: Renaissance thesis paper library time; Historical Macbeth - part I; England & Scotland; begin history chart
10/14: Play and discuss Die Hanse
10/13: Northern Renaissance lecture; discuss Rise of Printing; The Macbeth's relationship article; Lady Macbeth speech analysis
10/12: PSAT - no class
10/11: Church in the MA/Renaissance background; Praise of Folly; Medici video and the church; Prince disucssion; Macbeth Act I scenes 6&7;
10/10: More Renaissance life - create your own Renaissance peasant; Macbeth Act I scene V; image tracing when done
10/7: Ren. vs. M.A. Life comparison; Women and the Renaissance; Macbeth Act I scene 4; historical Macbeth background
10/6: Lorenzo in Medici video; Renaissance Art lecture; Golden Mean; begin Macbeth image/motif chart
10/5: vocab quiz; silent readings; character foils; Macbeth Act I scene 3
10/4: Humanism primary source analysis; vocab animals; Discuss Macbeth journals from last night; Macbeth Act I Scene 2 and maybe 3
10/3: Get Macbeth books; Macbeth Act I scene 1; Discuss Renaissance article and the rise of Florence; Italian Renaissance intro lecture; Macbeth journals if time
9/30: Medici video part #1; Shakespeare lecture; Shakespeare and the Globe; Intro Macbeth questions
The Renaissance student guide; map of Renaissance Italy
Unit #1: Europe through the Middle Ages
9/29: Unit #1 test - study guide; Old Jeopardy PowerPoints to review - 1, 2; Dante notes
9/28: vocabulary quiz; silent reading; review
9/27: Dante project due - directions; Canto assignments; Cantos for Project: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; rubric; Final Cantos; review
9/26: 100 years war and black plague (map) reading lectures & primary source analysis; why are the middle ages falling apart?; Dante project work time
9/23: Magna Carta rewrite and explanation of nobles' ideas; create your own hell; work time
9/22: Dante project work time 3rd period in the library; finish politics in the Middle Ages lecture
9/21: History quiz; silent reading; start politics in the Middle Ages lecture
9/20: Dante project work time (3rd period); Crusades and war in the name of religion chalk talk;
9/19: Finish Allegory in Canto #1; Read Canto #3; Dante project intro; Church and the state
9/16: Commercial Revolution flow chart; Peasants in the Middle Ages - design your own peasant
9/15: Map quiz - countries to know; blank map to practice; peer edit 1066 essays; Dante lecture & go over intro reading (from textbook); Finish Canto #1; Allegory in Canto #1
9/14: vocab quiz; silent reading; finish 1066
9/13: discuss "Lay of Werewolf"; intro 1066 and video and essay; begin Canto #1
9/12: High Medieval society lecture; Medieval poetry intro and "The Lay of the Were-wolf"
9/9: vocab warm-up; tie in Song of Roland and the Franks discussion; Viking Day!!; begin writing goals letter
9/8: practice reading quiz; go over Charlemagne DVD questions; Charlemagne critical read; epic, legend and other early European lit lecture; work on Roland
9/7: vocab quiz; silent reading; close read Song of Roland
9/6: reading quiz; answer vocab questions; go over Clovis; close read Song of Roland
9/5: no school, Labor Day
9/2: Clovis reading & questions; Charlemagne DVD; Read and take notes on Song of Roland; read pp 698-700 summarizing the cantos in your own words with pictures (may be done in groups)
9/1: vocab warm-up; finish makings of the western world lecture; pictures; Clovis DVD
8/31: Discuss vocabulary; discuss Map quiz - countries to know; blank map to practice; Finish Sparta reading and questions; start makings of the western world lecture
8/30: How was your summer? free write; Introductions and notecards; review syllabus; This is Sparta!?!; start Sparta reading and questions
Europe through the Middle Ages Student Guide; Spread of Christianity map
2011-2012 syllabus
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