Greetings, everyone!! This is our homepage for our summer project and additional media as we add it. At the top, if you HOVER OVER THE 'Summer AP European History work' TAB, you can quickly navigate to each pages' content for that week. At the bottom of each page, you'll find a mix of possible media such as the pdf for our powerpoint, our podcast lectures (as they are completed), or additional media for that chapter. At the bottom of this page are our central documents (the week by week IDs, dates to remember, maps, and other resources).
For your summer work, I want you to complete three tasks:
1) Watch the media linked on each page. I find it useful for students to get a few stories in their mind about the general history. You're not going to remember everything or cover all the content, but having a few memories to "hang" our content on throughout the year can be very helpful.
2) Get a head start on your IDs (identifications). The IDs are your main source of weekly homework throughout the year. During the year, you'll read our textbook chapter, prepare your IDs for the beginning of the week, and then we'll review and clarify content in lectures and discussions. Getting 25% of these done over the summer for the first semester will save you a TON of time. Scroll to the bottom of this page to get the master list of IDs for the year (titled: apeuropeanidsweekbyweek). For each ID, you want to write a short paragraph (just a few lines) of data hitting the most important information about the ID. You can use any resource to get the information for your ID (during the year, the textbook is best, but over summer you can use the videos, your test prep book, or wikipedia). So, for example, you have Sandro Botticelli as one of your Renaissance IDs. You could say: Renaissance painter in Florence. Painted Greek mythological paintings like Birth of Venus and Primivera. Known for light airy depictions of realistic-looking women. Fell into Savanarola's preaching and burned some of his own paintings in the Bonfire of the Vanities.
3) You are also going to create PHYSICAL notecards of all of the dates throughout the year. You can use these to study for dates quizzes as we progress through the class. Yes, I know that you can do them on a google doc. Yes, I know that there are online study sites like Quizlet. I don't care. I have found time and time again that sometimes old tech is the best tech. I want to see notecards with 1517 on one side and "Martin Luther posts the 95 theses" on the back. There's a file with all 80 or so dates at the bottom of this page (titled: ap_euro_dates_you_must_know____-_sheet1.pdf).
4) This fourth task is optional and won't get you an extra credit, but I recommend it nonetheless. If you are around Mt. Pleasant, contact me in July/August and I can loan you some books to read. Also, I would buy one of the prep test books (like Barron's, Princeton review, steps to a 5 - they're all very similar) over Amazon if you don't already have one. Read the historical narrative (ie. just the information about what happened in the past and not all the test strategy stuff - we'll do that in class). You can cover the nuts and bolts of the entire year in just 150 pages or so. It'll be well worth doing to help you get the most out of the textbook and our lectures.
Below in the list are all the summer assignment pages. There are some weeks that I am working on, but I'll just make you responsible for these below. Please dedicate a day or two to each one throughout the summer. Everyone that completes these three tasks will begin the year with a 100% quiz grade and a 100% ID grade. Start off strong!
--Week 1 - Medieval Legacies
-- Week 2 - Renaissance
-- Week 3 - The Two Reformations
-- Week 5 - The Rise of the Atlantic Economy
-- Week 6 - England and the Dutch Republic
-- Week 7 - Age of Absolutism
-- Week 8 - New Philosophy of Science
-- Week 12 - French Revolution
-- Week 14 - The Industrial Revolution
Recap summer assignment: go to ONLY the seven pages above, watch the videos, then fill out the IDs for just those listed. For example, on the page Week 3, just do the ones on the webpage:ID List:
The Medicis
Lorenzo de Medici
Florence
Sandro Botticelli
Savonarola
Bonfire of the Vanities
Michelangelo
Giovanni de Medici (Pope Leo X)
Niccolo Machiavelli
Leonardo da Vinci
Indulgences
Martin Luther
The peasant revolution(s) of 1525
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