May

May 8/9
  • Reading: PR 322-334
  • Topic: Cold War
  • Workshop: DBQ practice
May 12/13
  • Reading: PR 334-345
  • Topic: Decolonization
  • Workshop: FRQ practice
May 14
  • Reading: PR 345-352
  • Topic: Globalization
  • Workshop: last minute review
May 15
  •  AP Exam - 8 am.
May 16/19
  •  Intro to historical film analysis
May 20/21
  • Reading: film analysis handout
  • In-class: Historical film viewing 1
May 22/23
  • Reading: none 
  • Discussion: elements of film analysis
  • In-class: Historical film viewing 2
  • Due: annotated handout
May 27/28
  • Reading: none
  • In-class: Historical film viewing 3
May 29/30
  • In-class: End of year celebration
  • Due: Film analysis essay
    • In a 3-4 page essay, evaluate the effectiveness of feature film as a medium for telling history. Compare Battle of Algiers and one other historical film of your choice in the essay, and include both the benefits and limitations of film.

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Unit 7

We have six weeks of class time before the AP exam, which is scheduled for May 15th at 8:00 am. We will have two more units on the World War and post-War eras, and will use workshop time for the exam review process. If you haven't picked up your Princeton Review book please do so ASAP. Here is the plan for the first unit.

March 28/31
  • Read: none
  • Lecture: WWI: Background
  • Workshop: planning AP review process
April 1/2
  • Read: Strayer 625-632
  • Lecture: WWI: Fighting
  • Workshop: Review Strategies
April 3/4
  • Read: Princeton chap. 6
  • Lecture: WWI: Legacy
  • Workshop: Review 
  • Due: 1-page sample of review strategy
April 7/8
  • Read: Strayer 633-645
  • Lecture: Interwar Italy
  • Workshop: Review
April 9/10
  • Read: Princeton chap. 7
  • Lecture: Interwar Germany & Japan
  • Workshop: Review
  • Due: 1-page sample of review strategy
April 11/14
  • Read: Strayer 645-656
  • Lecture: Intro WWII
  • Workshop: AP Review
    • Sect 2 in-class DBQ
April 15/28
  • Read: Princeton chap. 8
  • Lecture: WWII
  • Workshop: Timeline
    • Sect 1 in-class DBQ
April 16
  • Glass Menagerie field trip
April 17
  • Reading: none
  • In-class: Psychoanalysis of Hitler & Stalin
April 28/29
  • Read: review Strayer 645-656
  • Lecture: WWII, pt. 1
  • Workshop: TBA
April 30/May 1
  • Read: PR chap. 9 (1st half)
  • Lecture: WWII, pt. 2
May 2/5
  • Read: PR chap. 9 (2nd half)
  • Lecture: Postwar Settlement
  • Workshop: Exam Review
  • Due: Exam 7 Review sheet
May 6/7
  • Exam 7

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Unit 6

Welcome back from break. I hope you had a restful vacation. Here is our plan for the next unit:

Feb. 24/25
  • Reading: none
  • Presentation: Race and 19th c. Imperialism
  • Workshop: same
Feb. 26/27
Feb. 28/March 3
  • Read: Reilly 797-805
  • Lecture: Industrialization in Latin America
  • Workshop: discuss Reilly
    • prepare panel presentations
  • Due: Reading Quiz
March 4/5
  • Read: Strayer 590-594
  • Lecture: Intro to the New Imperialism
  • Workshop: Panel Presentation preparation
  • Due: homework check - 1 page research findings 
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March 10/11
  • Read: 594-598
  • Lecture: Intro to the New Imperialism
  • Workshop: Panel Presentations
  • Due: submit supporting research (w/ citation)
March 13/14
  • Read: Strayer 598-603
  • Lecture: Imperial Economies
  • Workshop: Panel Presentations
  • Due: submit supporting research (w/ citation)
March 17/18

  • Read: Strayer 604-606
  • Lecture: Labor & the New Imperialism
  • Workshop: TBA
March 19/20
  • Read: Strayer 607-613
  • Lecture: Imperialism and identity
  • Workshop: exam prep
March 24/25
  • Read: Reilly 818-826
  • Lecture: Reilly discussion
  • Workshop: exam review
  • Due: review sheet & notebook
March 26/27
  •  Exam 6
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Unit 5

Jan. 27/28

  • Read: Strayer 516-520
  • Lecture: Nationalism & Social Movement Theory
  • Workshop: Change-Over-Time Essay
  • Essay Prompt: Analyze changes and continuities in group identities during the long nineteenth century. Why did they change; why did they stay the same?
Jan. 29/30
  • Read: Strayer 513-516; 520-523
  • Lecture: Abolition & Feminism
  • Workshop: Identity
Jan. 31/Feb. 3
  • Read: Strayer 527-533
  • Lecture: Intro to Industrial Revolution
  • Workshop: Mill Times
  • Due: Essay Outline
Feb. 4/5
  • Read: Strayer 534-541
  • Lecture: Industrial Revolution in Britain
  • Workshop: Mill Times
  • Due: Guided Viewing Questions
Feb. 6/7
  • Read: none
  • Lecture: Industrial Revolution
  • Workshop: none
Feb. 10/11
  • Read: Reilly 783-789
  • Discussion: Marx & Communist theory
  • Workshop: Exam Review
  • Due: Completed Review Sheet
Feb. 12/13
  • Exam 5
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Unit 4 - January 2014

January 6/7
  • Reading: none
  • Presentation: Review of Enlightenment Political Ideals
  • Workshop: DBQ writing recap
January 8/9
  • Reading: Strayer 500-504; Reilly #129
  • Presentation: American Independence
  • Workshop: "Revolution" or "Independence Movement" debate
  • Due: 2-paragraph Response
    • Summarize the concepts of "popular sovereignty" and the "social contract" and explain their origins as Enlightenment political ideals.
January 10/13
  • Reading: Strayer 504-507; Reilly #130
  • Presentation: French Revolution
  • Workshop: Seminar on Political Documents
January 14/15
  • Reading: Strayer 507-510; Reilly #132
  • Presentation: Haitian Revolution
  • Workshop: Egalite for All video
January 16/17
  • Reading: Strayer 510-513; Reilly #133
  • Presentation: Spanish American Revolutions
  • Workshop: Exam prep
January 21/22
  • Reading: none
  • Presentation: Review/Summary
  • Workshop: Exam Review Q&A
  • Due: Review Sheet
January 23/24
  • Exam 4
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Unit 4

December 2/3
  • Reading: Strayer 462-467
  • Discussion: Protestant Reformation
  • Workshop: Assign DBQ #2
December 4/9
  • Reading: Strayer 467-472
  • Discussion: Catholic Counter-Reformation & Missionary Activity
  • Workshop: discuss DBQ docs
  • Due: DBQ annotations
December 10/11
  • Reading: Reilly 649-657
  • Discussion: Luther & Williams
  • Workshop: DBQ
  • Due: DBQ groups, PoVs & Additional Doc.
December 12/13
  • Reading: Strayer 477-482
  • Discussion: Scientific Revolution
  • Workshop: DBQ 
  • Due: DBQ thesis & outline
December 16/17
  • Reading: Strayer 482-486
  • Discussion: Enlightenment
  • Workshop: Review & Planning for Unit test 4
  • Due: DBQ #2
December 18/19
  • Reading: none
  • Discussion: Preview of Atlantic Revolutions
  • Workshop: Review
  • Due: Notebook Check
December 20
  • holiday celebrations
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Unit 3

Oct. 31/Nov. 1
  • Reading: Strayer 433-437
  • Discussion: Portuguese in Asia
  • Activity: Intro to DBQ
November 4/5
  • Reading: Reilly 673-676
  • Discussion: Trading Post Empire
  • Activity: DBQ Grouping
  • Due: annotate DBQ packet
November 6/7
  • Reading: Strayer 437-442
  • Discussion: Spanish, Dutch & French in the Indian Ocean
  • Activity: DBQ Intro
  • Due: Paragraph on Grouping
November 8/12
  • Reading: Strayer 442-445
  • Discussion: Silver Trade
  • Activity: DBQ writing
  • Due: DBQ introduction
November 13/14
  • Reading: Strayer 445-448
  • Discussion: Fur Trade
  • Activity: Mapping Exercise
  • Due: DBQ essay
November 15/18
  • Reading: Strayer 449-455
  • Discussion: Slave Trade
  • Activity: Understanding Slavery
November 19/20
  • Reading: Reilly 616-623
  • Discussion: Equiano Reading
  • Activity: Exam Prep
  • Due: Review Sheet
November 21/22
  • Exam 3
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