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 #6: The French Revolution & Napoleon
2/14: Unit #6 Test
2/13: Congress of Vienna simulation
2/10: Rest of Napoleon lecture; Napoleon video
2/9: Battle of Trafalgar comics
2/8: finish lecture; What has Napoleon ever done for us reading? - French and Russia reforms
2/7: French Revolution quiz; begin Napoleon builds an empire lecture
2/6: Declaration of the Rights of Women; Did the French Revolution change society?
2/3: Terror reconciliation (of Robespierre's arguments), discussion (of whose fault), and historiography research - answer this question
2/2: Discuss Declaration of the Rights of Man; Paine vs. Burke - can revolutiona be bloodless?; Terror reconciliation (of Robespierre's arguments), discussion (of whose fault), and historiography research - answer this question
2/1: quickly discuss Seisys and Estates and Fall of the Bastille primary source(s); Finish Frech Rev video
1/31: Review difference between first & third estates; French Revolution video
1/30: French Revolution video
1/27: Intro unit; French Revolution intro lecture
Unit #6 student guide; Timeline of French Rev & Napoleonic Era
Unit #5: The Enlightenment
1/26: 1st semster exam - review guide
1/23: Exam review day - review guide
1/16-1/20: no school, snow
1/13: All day English
1/12: Enlightnement Salon
1/11: discuss "What is Scientific Authority"
1/10: Scientific revolution lecture and discussion
1/9: Voltaire jigsaw; Vindication of the Rights of Women & Age of Reason discussion; Salon intro project and work time
1/6: Enlightenment and LOTF socratic seminar
1/5: [(([Hobbes + Locke) + Montesquieu + Rousseau) * Enlightened Despots) ^ LOTF] chalk talk; Montaigne Of Cannibals
1/4: Finish Enlightenment lecture
1/3: New seats; return papers; go over unit guide and political systems spectrum; beginning of the Enlightenment lecture
12/16: A Modest Proposal
Enlightenment Unit Guide; political systems spectrum
Unit #4: Religious Conflict & Absolutism
12/15: Absolutism Unit test - study guide
12/14: Tie together: Absolute monarchs, freedom and protection, hard and soft power, The Prince
12/13: Review with Catherine the Great; Absolutism in central Europe - Hapsburgs and Frederick the Great lecture; Frederick the Great and Enlightened Despotism reading; add other absolute monarch to power chart
12/12: Absolute Monarchs facebook project - facebook template; directions
12/9: Peter the Great video
12/8: Find examples of Louis' power; create power chart; Louis & power
12/7: Mid-unit quiz (11/21-12/6) - study guide; Absolutism in France
12/6: Ivan the Terrible
12/5: Absolutism in Spain discussion and the Dutch Republic & power; Intro Russia
12/2: Finish 30 Years War
12/1: Anglo-American Bill of Right comparison and Our First Revolution discussion; Discuss Magdelena and Balthasar; Intro 30 years war; 30 years war poster work time and gallery walk; war and religion discussion, again; start Spain?
11/30: From Cromwell to the Battle of the Boyne;
11/29: All day English
11/28: tie it all together - Macbeth, women, Machiavelli, the Reformation the Renaissance, Great Chain of Being, witches, King James I; gunpowder plot; the Tudors, etc.;
11/24-11/25: no school
11/23: UK video; Hobbes vs. Locke
11/22: finish English Civil War lecture; talk about the powers of Parliament; Oliver Cromwell song
11/21: Intro absolute unit; Discuss James I on Divine Right; start English Civil War lecture
Absolutism student guide; European Wars 1648-1789
Unit #3: The Reformation
11/18: Reformation Test - study guide; answer key to mid-unit quiz
11/17: finish Elizabeth; The Elizabethan age; Review
11/16: Elizabeth - alternate assignment
11/15: finish Burning Convictions; Circa Regna Tonat; religion turns violent: Militant Catholicism and Protestantism - Spain and the Dutch - cuius regio, euis religio? discussion
11/14: finish lecture; Burning Convictions
11/11: No school
11/10: Tudor England lecture
11/9: other paper nuts and bolts
11/8: peer edit rough drafts
11/7: Reformation and Counter Reformation on the Continent quiz - study guide; finish Lithuanian Reformation lecture
11/4: peer edit outline; start Lithuanian Reformation lecture
11/3: Go over paper; Finish jigsaw;
11/2: Go over theses; how to do a good outline
11/1: Church and state paper library day #2
10/31: Witches!!!; Reformation on other places in the continent lecture; primary source reading on other parts of the Reformation - jigsaw/share
10/28: Church and state paper library day #1
10/27: Finish Luther discussuion; introduce research paper
10/26: Did Luther change the live of peasants?
10/25: Double English day
10/24: Luther vs. Tetzel discussion; Luther on the Peasant's revolt & marriage - will the real Martin Luther please stand up?
10/21: Luther video part II; work on Luther books
10/20: Discuss Tyndale and the information age; Luther video part I
10/19: Discuss Avignon Schism poem; The Church on the eve of the Reformation talk
Reformation student guide; Reformation terms to know; problems w/ the church; Tudor & Stuart family tree
Unit #2: The Renaissance
10/18: Unit #2 Tizz; read article on Religion from Ren. to Ref.
10/17: discuss N. Ren. Art; discuss Rise of Printing and the end of the Renaissance; Age of Exploration review; start the Horrors of Conquest; review (if time and nothing more to do)
10/14: Northern Renaissance Art in the lab; Play Die Hanse
10/13: Double English Day??
10/12: Northern Renaissance lecture; Church in the Renaissance background; Praise of Folly; PSAT - 30 min for 1st and 2nd period only
10/11: Finish women reading and discussion
10/10: Reading quiz; Did women have a Renaissance? reading and discussion
10/7: Finish Prince disucssion
10/6: Lorenzo in Medici video; Discuss humanism & politics in the Renaissance article; start Prince disucssion
10/5: Dati & Pitti - Ren. vs. M.A. Life
10/4: finish Ren art lecture; Golden Mean
10/3: finish Medici video; Renaissance Art lecture
9/30: Humanism concept formation work time; Medici video part #1
9/29: Humanism primary source analysis; finish Italian Ren lecture
9/28: Discuss intro Black Plague-->Renaissance article and the rise of Florence; start Italian Renaissance intro lecture
The Renaissance student guide; map of Renaissance Italy
Unit #1: Europe through the Middle Ages
9/27: Unit #1 test - study guide, Old Jeopardy PowerPoints to review - 1, 2; Dante notes; turn in Middle Ages HW packet
9/26: Why are the middle ages falling apart?; review - study guide; Dante project due - directions; Canto assignments; Cantos; rubric
9/23: Black plague (map) reading and analysis; Holy Grail clip; Plague and healthcare discussion; final Dante work time (short and in the room, if time)
9/22: work on Politics of Europe in the Middle Ages lecture; Magna Carta discussion; finish Politics (100 years war) lecture
9/21: finish Crusades and war in the name of religion discussion; start Politics of Europe in the Middle Ages lecture
9/20: History quiz; start Crusades and war in the name of religion discussion
9/19: The role of the church and the state; Work on Cecilia of Brigstock readings: Community 1, 2, 3, 4; Economics 1, 2, 3; Home life 1, 2
9/16: Discuss medieval economics and flow chart; Dante project work time
9/15: Cecilia of Brigstock readings: Community 1, 2, 3, 4; Economics 1, 2, 3; Home life 1, 2; recreate Brigstock
9/14 finish 1066; discuss 1066
9/13: reading quiz; 1066; why 1066 matters assignment
9/12: map quiz - countries to know - blank map to practice; High Middle Ages lecture
9/9: discuss Charlamagne paragraphs w/evidence; Viking Day!!
9/8: finish Clovis conversations; Charlemagne Dark Ages DVD
9/7: reading quiz; finish Clovis; Clovis Dark Ages DVD;
9/6: reading quiz; discuss Clovis readings;
9/5: no school, Labor day
9/2: Mr. Doran is gone -- double English with Ms. Matheny
9/1: practice reading quiz; finish lecture; go over Christianity theses
8/31: Go over Sparta; discuss map quiz - blank map to practice; Makings of the Western world lecture
8/30: Introductions and notecards; review syllabus; This is Sparta!?!; Spartan reading and questions
Europe through the Middle Ages Student Guide; Map of Spread of Christianity
2011-2012 syllabus
*If instructions appear but there is no link, it means there is no electronic version of the required materials. As a result, you will have to see me to get the materials required to make up the assignment.
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