Mr. Dunbar richard.dunbar@rtsd.org 610-293-0855 ext.

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AP European History
Course Description
AP European History is a challenging course that includes a basic narrative of events and movements in European History from 1450 to the present. It prepares students for the demands of a college education by providing experience in college level reading, writing, and independence. Critical reading and advanced writing skills, along with a willingness to devote considerable time out of class, are necessary to succeed. Students can expect to spend about six hours per week, or more, outside of class on coursework. The AP European History curriculum investigates the broad themes of intellectual, cultural, economic, and political history and how those ideas are reflected in trends of philosophy, popular literature, and the arts. As events in history can only be understood in terms of their social context, this course will examine demographics and the influences of social classes, the idea of the family, and gender roles on history. The course will also focus on economic history and the role of industrialization by reviewing the development of commercial practices and changing economic structures to recognize European influence on the world. AP European History is organized on the assumption that students will take the College Board AP examination, which allows qualified candidates to receive college credit for the course. While students are not required to take the ap test, it is encouraged. Consequently, there will be a focus on strengthening skills in taking objective exams, in addition to writing good expository essays, and critical reading of historical documents.

Materials
Textbook: The Western Heritage, Since 1300, Ninth Edition. Donald Kagan, Steven Ozment, and Frank M. Turner. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2007. *noteit is expected that you will bring your textbook to class every day*

Technology: This course will utilize the latest in learning communications including blogs and various forms of multi-media presentation. Students can expect to find many primary sources and additional resources online which are linked from my website.

Grading
Grades are calculated on a points system. Generally, tests will be given weekly (typically Fridays). Document based questions (dbqs), debates, mock trials, discussions, presentations, and other projects will also be assigned with some frequency throughout the year.

Make-Up Work
The policy for make-up work in AP European history is consistent with that which is published in the RHS handbook which states, Sometimes students miss class because of illness, death in the immediate family, etc., and prior arrangements cannot be made. In the case of such an excused absence, students will be permitted two school days for each day of an excused absence to make-up schoolwork missed during the period of absence. Of course, if there are extenuating circumstances, please speak to me to arrange an appropriate timeline to complete missing work.

Schedule
Weeks One and Two (9/6 9/16) Introduction to course Guns, Germs, and Steel discussion and project TextbookThe West Before 1300

Week Three (9/19 9/23) Chapter 9The Late Middle Ages: Social and Political Breakdown (1300-1453); test 9/23 Week Four and Five (9/26 10/7) Chapter 10Renaissance and Discovery; test 10/7 The Prince Weeks Six and Seven (10/10 10/21)) Chapter 11The Age of Reformation; test 10/21 Martin Luther Mock Trial Week Eight (10/24-10/28) Chapter 12The Age of Religious Wars; test 10/28 Week Nine (10/31 11/4) Chapter 13European State Consolidation in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; test 11/4 Week Ten (11/7 11/11) Chapter 14New Directions in Thought and Culture in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; test 11/11 Dbq 2005 form b Week Eleven (11/14 11/18) Chapter 15Society and Economy Under the Old Regime in the Eighteenth Century; test 11/8 Week Twelve (11/21 11/25)THANKSGIVING BREAK Week Thirteen (11/28 12/2) Chapter 16The Transatlantic Economy, Trade Wars, and Colonial Rebellion; test 12/2 Weeks Fourteen and Fifteen (12/5 12/16) Chapter 17The Age of Enlightenment: Eighteenth Century Thought; test 12/16 Enlightenment Song Project DBQ Week Sixteen (12/19 12/24) Buffer Week Week Seventeen (12/26 12/30)WINTER BREAK Weeks Eighteen and Nineteen (1/3 1-/13) Chapter 18The French Revolution Week Twenty (1/16 1/20) Chapter 19The Age of Napoleon and the Triumph of Romanticism; test 1/20 Week Twenty-One (1/23 1/27) Midterm review and midterms Week Twenty-Two (1/30 2/3) Chapter 20The Conservative Order and the Challenges of Reform; test 2/3

Week Twenty-Three (2/6 2/10) Chapter 21Economic Advance and Social Unrest (1830-1850); test 2/10 Week Twenty-Four (2/13 2/16) Chapter 22The Age of Nation States and Nationalism; test 2/16 Week Twenty-Five (2/21 - 2/24) Chapter 23The Building of European Supremacy: Society and Politics to World War I; test 2/24 Week Twenty-Six (2/27 3/2) Chapter 24The Birth of Modern European Thought; test 3/2 Weeks Twenty-Seven and Twenty-Eight (3/5 3/16) Chapter 25Imperialism, Alliance, and War; test 3/16 Week Twenty-Nine (3/19 3/23) Chapter 26Political Experiments of the 1920s; test 3/23 Week Thirty (3/26 3/30) Chapter 27Europe and the Great Depression of the 1930s; test 3/30 Week Thirty-One (4/2 4/6)SPRING BREAK Weeks Thirty-Two and Thirty-Three (4/9 4/20) Chapter 28World War II Week Thirty-Four (4/23 4/27) Chapter 29The Cold War Era and the Emergence of A New Europe; test 4/27 Week Thirty-Five (4/30 5/4) Chapter 30The West At the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century; test 5/4 Week Thirty- Six (5/7 5/10) AP Test Review May 11AP TEST!!!