Thursday December 17 - Modern Music and Art
1. Music Appreciation - Stavinsky and Modern Music (The Firebird and The Rite of Spring)
2. Art Gallery Tour - Modern Art (Cezanne, Braque, and Picasso)
Homework:
1) SECRET SANTA FOR YOUR COLLEAGUES!! !! !! !!
2) WA # 1 - Critical Biography - Cafe en Prague (3 to 5 page critical biography of your historical
person, along with a question for each of the people in your group) (please also ponder your
answers to the specific questions listed for your group)
OVERARCHING QUESTION - WHAT IS THE MODERN? HOW CAN WE GAIN AN UNDERSTANDING OF
THE MODERN AND OF MODERN MAN? (Everyone please ponder how you in your historical role
would answer that question)
Group One - Painters - What is the most appropriate way to depict truth? How does your style allow
you to represent truth?
Picasso (Greaney)
Van Gogh (Anderson)
Morisot (Gracie)
Kandinsky (O'Neill)
Degas (Sharov)
Cezanne (Makaremi)
Dali (Wentz-Fitzgerald)
Manet (Erik)
Group Two - Philosophers - What is the nature of reality? What is the true nature of man?
Freud (Fretz)
Darwin (Wiedmann)
Nietzsche (Cybulski)
Marx (Knuutinen)
Schroedinger (Burger)
Marie Curie (Negash)
Group Three - Political Leaders - What should the organizing principle behind any nation be? What
rights does the individual have in relation to the state?
Lenin (Redfield)
Nightengale (Simpson)
Bismarck (Hussain)
Trotsky (Vance)
Rasputin (Roberts)
Mutshito (Moore)
Pankhurst (Roodenrijs)
Tsar Nicholas II (Dodson)
Kaiser William II (Efren)
Group Four - Musicians - What role does music play in modern society? Can music be separated
from the life of the people? How does your music affect people?
Pavlova (Stanbrough)
Debussy (Caldwell)
Ravel (Moore)
Stavinsky (McCollum)
Liszt (Raack)
Tchaikovsky (Sedgwick)
Chopin (Reyes)
Group Five - Writers - How does literature reflect the condition of modern man? What role does
literature play in modern society? How does your literary style reflect modern times?
Kafka (Ilenstine)
Dostevsky (Fikes)
Hesse (Zaunius)
Owen (Flattery)
Joyce (Rogers)
Wednesday December 16 - World War I
1. Class Discussion - The Nature of Total War
2. Literary Analysis - Wilfred Owen and "Dulce et Decorum Est"
Homework:
1) Please read and annotate Humanities 32 and 33
2) Please research and write WA # 1 - Critical Biography for Cafe en Prague
Tuesday December 15 - World War I
1. Things Learned - "The Trial" (Who is Leni? How did Joseph K. come in contact with her? What is
her distinguishing feature?)
2. Class Discussion - World War I
Homework:
1) Read Spielvogel 25 (pages 707-726, 733-738) THINGS LEARNED
2) Read Thomas Bailey article "Woodrow Wilson and The League of Nations" (all) THINGS LEARNED
3) Read the next chapter of "The Trial" ("The Lawyer - The Factory Owner - The Painter") by
THURSDAY !! !! !! THINGS LEARNED ON IT ON THURSDAY
4) Research critical biography on your historical figure
Monday December 14 - Modernity
1. Class Discussion - Sigmund Freud and the Interpretation of Dreams
Homework:
1) Please read Speilvogel 24 (714- 726)
2) Please read "The Trial" through the "chapter" entitled "His Uncle - Leni" YOU WILL BE QUIZZED ON
IT TOMORROW!! !! !!
3) Please select five (5) questions to guide our roundtable discussions on Friday's Meeting of the
Minds at the Cafe en Prague
WE WILL FINISH "THE TRIAL" BY FRIDAY!! !! !! (keep reading!)
WE WILL HAVE A THREE TO FOUR PAGE CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY DUE ON FRIDAY!! !! !! (along with
answers to questions that we develop - just like last)
WE WILL HAVE A CAFE EN PRAGUE TO CELEBRATE THE WINTER BREAK ON FRIDAY!! !! !!
WE WILL DO WWI AND THE FAILED PEACE ON TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY AND THEN PROCEED TO
MODERN ART AND MUSIC ON THURSDAY.
Friday December 11 - Modernity
1) Quiz - Cultural Epochs in European History
2) Group Work - Cafe en Prague
(Select the historical figure that you would like to become at the Meeting of the Minds at a cafe in
Prague in 1927)
Homework:
1) Read Humanities 33
2) Read "The Trial" Please read through "The Thrasher"
3) Research your historical figure (you will have a 3 page critical biography due on Friday, along with
some answers to specific questions, so begin that research!! !! !!)
WE WILL DO ON MONDAY WHAT WE INTENDED TO DO ON FRIDAY - FREUD, KAFKA, AND THEN
MODERN ART
Thursday December 10 - Modernity
1. Class Discussion - The Advent of the Modern
2. Group Work - Nietzsche and "Beyond Good and Evil"
Homework:
1) Study for quiz on the Cultural Eras of Europe - Be able to define, give the time period, and
provide an example of each of the cultural epochs of European history: Florentine Renaissance
1400-1450, the High Renaissance 1450 -1550, Mannerism 1550-1600, the Baroque Era 1600-
1750, The Enlightenment or The Age of Reason 1750-1800, Romanticism 1800-1850, Realism
1850-1900, and the Advent of the Modern 1850-1914.
2) Read more of "The Trial"
3) Read "Humanities" chapter 33
Wednesday December 9 - World War One
1. Class Discussion - Causes of World War I
Homework:
1) Read Spielvogel 24 (672-682)
2) Read "The Trial" through "The Flogger"
3) Read Nietzsche "Beyond Good and Evil" and Freud "Interpretations of Dreams"
Tuesday December 8 - The Build Up to World War
1. Group Work - Destabilization and the Crippled Kaiser
2. Class Discussion - The Balance of Power and the Coming War
Homework:
1) Please read through Chapter "5" of "The Trial" or through the chapter entitled "The Flogger" "The
Whipper" or something like that. YOU WILL HAVE A THINGS LEARNED ON IT!! !! !!
2) Please read Spielvogel Chapter 24 (pages 707-717)
Monday December 7 - Imperialism
1. Class Discussion - Imperialism
2. Powerpoint Lecture - Imperialism (Causes and Consequences)
3. Literary Analysis - Rudyard Kipling and "The White Man's Burden"
Homework:
1) Read Spielvogel Chapter 24 (pages 700-706) and Chapter 25 (pages 707-711)
2) Continue reading "The Trial" (However I don't have a copy of the book in front of me so try to get
the next two chapters accomplished by Tuesday - you will have a test on Wednesday and Thursday
and Friday on most of the rest of the book so keep reading)
Friday December 4 - Modern Music and Art
1. Musical Appreciation - Debussy, Ravel and Impressionism
2. Art Galley Tour - From Impressionism to Modernism
Homework:
1) Please read Spielvogel 24 (pages 690-706)
Thursday December 3 - Politics of 19th Century Europe
1. Class Discussion - "The Trial"
2. Class Discussion - Politics in Late 19th Century Europe
Homework:
1) Read Spielvogel 24 (672-682)
2) Read Humanities 32 (up to page 400)
Wednesday December 2 - Intellectual Developments in 19th Century Europe
1. Class Discussion - Karl Marx and the Dialectic of Class Stuggle
2. Class Discussion - Charles Darwin and the Descent of Man
Homework:
1) Read the first two chapters of "The Trial" by Franz Kafka
2) Read Spielvogel 24 (690-706)
Tuesday December 1 - European Society in the 19th Century
1. Class Discussion - The Modern European City
(Paris and Vienna - The forces that shaped an open and wealthy city)
2) Group Work - The Nation-States of Late 19th Century Europe
(From Anti-Semitism to the New Woman, what was happening in European society in the late 1800s)
3) Student Presentations - Nation-States in Late 19th Century Europe
Homework:
1) Please read Chapters 1 and 2 of Franz Kafka's "The Trial"
2) Please read Spielvogel Chapter 24 (pages 690 - 699)
WE WILL DISCUSS MARX, DARWIN, AND THEN KAFKA FIRST THING TOMORROW. THEN WE WILL
EXPLORE IMPERIALISM. BE PREPARED!
Monday November 30 - 19th Century European Society
1. Class Discussion - Art and Sport in Modern Western Civilization
2. Group Work - The Modern European City
(Paris and Vienna - The forces that transformed the modern city and the impact on the people living
in those cities.) Good job today - nice analysis that we will finish tomorrow.
Homework:
1) Read Spielvogel 24 (pages 682-690) Please read carefully as you will have a Things Learned on it
2) Complete your annotations (not highlighting) of the Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels
3) Complete your annotations (not highlighting) of Darwin's "The Descent of Man"
4) Read Kafka's "The Trial" Chapters 1 and 2
Sorry, but there were no more editions of "The Trial" available at Chaucer's. Please read on line or
borrow or order, but read the first two chapters by Wednesday.
Tuesday November 24 - 19th Century European Society
1. Group Work - A Visual Mosaic of European Society
(Three people in a group. Review Spielvogel Chapter 23. Examine the six areas = New Industry,
Workers, Urban Environment, Social Stratification, Women's Role, Leisure)
Homework:
1) Read Franz Kafka "The Trial" Chapters 1 and 2
2) Read "Paris and Vienna - The Development of the Modern City" and highlight it
3) Read Marx and Engels "The Communist Manifesto"
4) Read Charles Darwin "The Descent of Man"
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! !! !! !! !! !!
Monday November 23 - Realism in Art and Literature
1. Class Discussion - Realism in Literarture (Baudelaire, Flaubert, Balzac, and Zola)
2. Art Gallery Tour - Realism in Painting (Turner, Rousseau, Millet, Courbet, and Manet)
Homework:
1) Please read Spielvogel 23 (pages 642-664)
2) Please locate a copy of Franz Kafka's "The Trial"
Friday November 20 - The Era of Nationalism
1. Group Work - Which Force Won and Why - Germany, Italy, France, Russia, Austria, Great Britain
Homework:
1) Please read Humanities 30 (all)
2) Notes # 30a - Please take notes on the Humanities packet
Thursday November 19 - The Era of Nationalism
1. Class Discussion - Italian and German Unification
Homework:
1) Read Spielvogel 23 (pages 642-665) YOU WILL HAVE A THINGS LEARNED ON IT
Wednesday November 18 - The Era of Nationalism
1. Class Discussion - Which Force Won and Why - Europe in the Era of Nationalism
Homework:
1) Read Spielvogel 23 (pages 665-671)
Tuesday November 17 - The Era of Nationalism
1. Test # 1 - Mega Midterm Exam
2. Group Work - Notes # 22 - The Era of Nationalism
(In your new group you are to explore the forces affecting Europe in the 1850 to 1871 time period.
You will research with your group, both in Spielvogel and another source, what took place and then
state a sophisticated claim regarding your nation answering the question of what force and why.
Please support that claim with abundant evidence (yes, each of you will be doing this assignment).
Then please take the alternative position that some other force beside the decision of your group
actually prevailed in your nation during that time period. Please state that alternative claim and
support it with abundant evidence. Each person should write a separate point-counterpoint and turn
it in tomorrow - with another source in addition to Spielvogel on Wednesday November 18. Each
group will present their point-counterpoint at the start of class tomorrow.)
Homework:
1) Notes # 22a - The Era of Nationalism
2) Read Spielvogel 23 (pages 665 - 671)
Monday November 16 - Midterm Exam
1. Mega Midterm Exam
Homework:
1) Notes # 20a - Causes and Consequences of Industrialization
2) Read Spielvogel 22 (611-622)
GIVEN THE LATE START THIS MORNING, YOU WILL HAVE 20 MORE MINUTES TO FINISH THE LAST
ESSAY ON YOUR TEST. NO ADDITIONAL TIME ON IDENTIFICATIONS OR MULTIPLE CHOICE
Friday November 13 - Industrialization
1. Group Work - The Causes and Consequences of Industrialization - Notes # 20a
2. Class Discussion - The Forces of 19th Century Europe - Conservatism, Liberalism, Nationalism,
and Socialism
Homework:
1) Study for Mega Midterm on Monday November 16
2) Notes # 20a - The Causes and Consequences of Industrialization - Due on Tuesday Nov 17
Thursday November 12 - Romanticism and Industrialization
1. Art Gallery Tour - Romanticism (David, Turner, Friedrich, Delacroix, Goya)
2. Group Work - LIbrary Research - The Causes and Consequences of Industrialization
Homework:
1) Study for Mega Midterm Exam on Monday November 16th (Chapters 19, 20, 21 - Multiple Choice,
IDs, and Essays)
2) Read and know Spielvogel Chapter 20 (all)
Wednesday November 11 - Veterans' Day
ORIGINALLY KNOWN AS ARMISTICE DAY - WHICH WAS THE CELEBRATION OF THE END OF WORLD
WAR ONE - WHEN THE ARMISTICE ENDING THE WAR WAS SIGNED ON THE ELEVENTH HOUR OF THE
ELEVENTH DAY OF THE ELEVENTH MONTH IN 1918.
Tuesday November 10 - The Age of Romanticism
1. Literary Analysis - Wordsworth and the Poetry of Romanticism
2. Art Gallery Tour - The Romantic Era (Casper David Friedrich, J.M.W. Turner, Jean-Francios Millet)
Homework:
WE WILL CONTINUE OUR INVESTIGATION OF ROMANTIC ART ON THURSDAY. WE WILL ALSO REVISIT
OUR STUDY OF WHICH FORCE WON - LIBERALISM, NATIONALISM, CONSERVATISM, OR SOCIALISM.
PLEASE BE SURE TO HAVE READ CHAPTER 20 OF SPIELVOGEL AS WE WILL DO SOME LIBRARY
RESEARCH ON GROUP PROJECTS ON INDUSTRIALIZATION ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY.
Monday November 9 - Politics and Art
1. Film Documentary - Jacques Louis-David and the Service of Art
2. Music Appreciation - Classical Music and Mozart - Romanticism and Beethoven
Homework:
1) Notes # 21a - Which Force Won and Why (Please describe which force won in your country in the
years between 1815 and 1850. Please write that history with abundant detail and a strong sense of
the forces abounding in Europe at the time)
WE WILL FINISH ROMANTICISM (BOTH POETRY AND PAINTING) TOMORROW BEFORE FINALIZING OUR
INVESTIGATION OF THE FORCES OVERWHELMING EUROPE DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH
CENTURY.
Friday November 6 - Politics and Art
1. Class Discussion -
2. Film Documentary - Jacques Louis-David and the French Revolution
Homework:
1) Please read all of Humanities 28 (the excerpts too!)
Thursday November 5 - The Forces of Politics in 19th Century Europe
1. Class Discussion - Which Force Won - Liberalism, Nationalism, Conservatism, and Socialism?
Homework:
1) Read Humanities 28 (pages 285-290)
Wednesday November 4 - The Resurgence of Conservatism
1. Class Discussion - The Conservative Order
2. Group Work - Revolution and Restorations - Europe 1815 -1850
Homework:
PLEASE LEARN AND UNDERSTAND YOUR NATION - YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ARTICULATING
WHICH FORCE WON IN YOUR NATION BETWEEN 1815 AND 1850 - LIBERALISM, NATIONALISM,
CONSERVATISM, OR SOCIALISM.
Otherwise, please study for Econ
Tuesday November 3 - The Resurgence of Conservatism
1. Class Discussion - The Isms - Mercantilism, Capitalism, Liberalism, Nationalism, Socialism
Homework:
1) Read Spielvogel Chapter 20 (pages 552 -565) YOU WILL HAVE A THINGS LEARNED ON IT
TOMORROW
Monday November 2 - Napoleon
1. Group Work - Napoleon and the Conquest of Europe (please chart on a timeline the major events
of the Napoleonic Era - 1804-1815 - and describe them while stating their historical significance.
The please place them on a timeline demonstrating an understanding of the sweep of events in the
era.
Homework;
1) Read Spielvogel 21 (pages 579 through 593) THERE WILL BE A THINGS LEARNED ON THIS
Friday October 29 - Napoleon
1. Film Documentary - Napoleon
Homework:
1) Read Spielvogel 21 (pages 579-593)
ON MONDAY WE WILL FINISH NAPOLEON WITH A GROUP EXERCISE ON HIS CONQUESTS.
THEN WE WILL BEGIN CHAPTER 21 WITH AN INVESTIGATION OF THE FORCES
OF LIBERALISM AND NATIONALISM AS THEY TRY TO DEFEAT THE CONSERVATIVE ORDER.
Thursday October 29 - Napoleon
1. Musical Appreciation - Woodstock and Tending Your Garden
2. Film Documentary - Napoleon
Homework:
1) Read Spielvogel 19 (all)
Wednesday October 28 - The French Revolution
1. Class Discussion - The French Revolution (Causes and Consequences, Women and Economics)
2. Class Discussion - Voltaire and Candide (Opera, Broadway, and the Whimsical Tale)
Homework:
1) Be prepared to investigate and dissect Napoleon!
Tuesday October 27 - The French Revolution
1. Things Learned - Candide and The French Revolution (Describe each of the following and state
which interpretation of the French Revolution it supports - Civil Constitution of the Clergy, The
Committee of Public Safety, The Republic of Virtue, The Directory)
2. Film Documentary - The French Revolution
Homework:
1) Read Spielvogel 19 (pages 544- 551) YOU WILL HAVE A THINGS LEARNED ON IT
Monday October 26 - The French Revolution
1. Class Discussion - Events of Revolution (Estates General, The Three Estates, Abbe Sieyes, The
Third Estate, the National Assembly, The Tennis Court Oath, The Declaration of the Rights of Man
and the Citizen, the Storming of the Bastille, the Great Fear, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, the
Women's March on Versailles, Robespiere, levee en masse, King's escape, guillotine)
2. Film Documentary - Events of the Revolution (see above events)
Homework:
1) Finish Candide,
2) Read Spielvogel 19 (through 544)
Friday October 23 - The Middle Ages
1. Film - Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Homework:
1) PSD Analysis - Chapters 16, 17, 18 (see below for which documents to select)
2) Finish Candide
3) Read Spielvogel 19 (pages 522-544)
Thursday October 22 - Salon de Paris
1. Group Work and Student Presentations - The Salon de Paris
Homework:
1) Study for Final Exam on the Middle Ages
Wednesday October 21 - The French Revolution
1. Class Discussion - Causes of History - The Storming of the Bastille
2. Film Documentary - The French Revolution
Homework:
1) WA # 2b - Questions for the Salon de Paris
COME PREPARED FOR EXCITING AND DYNAMIC CONVERSATION! PLEASE REMEMBER TO BRING A PROP
WITH YOU TO SHOW WHO YOU ARE!
REMEMBER THE GIANT FINAL IN ON FRIDAY. I AM WILLING TO COME IN EARLY ON FRIDAY AT 9 AM
TO DO A REVIEW SESSION BEFORE 1ST PERIOD IF YOU ALL WOULD LIKE THAT.
PSD PACKET IS DUE ON MONDAY OCTOBER 26.
Tuesday October 20 - The French Revolution
1. Film Documentary - The French Revolution (schlubman and Marie Antoinette, Necker and finance,
the Royal Guard, the Estates General, the Three Estates, the Tennis Court Oath, the Storming of the
Bastille)
2. Group Work - Causation in History - The Storming of the Bastille
As a group of historians focused on your discipline (economic, political, ideological, or personal)
analyze the documents surrounding the storming of the Bastille and select five documents that
support your theory of how the French Revolution started)
Homework:
1) WA # 2 - Biographical Precis and Answer to Four Overarching Issues
2) Read Spielvogel Chapter 19 (pages 522- 544) YOU WILL HAVE A THINGS LEARNED ON THIS!!!
Monday October 19 - The French Revolution
1. Things Learned
2. Class Discussion - Historical Causation
3. Film Documentary - The French Revolutino
Homework:
1) Read packet of psd on the storming of the Bastille.
Friday October 16 - 18th Century European Society
1. Group Work - 18th Century European Society
I. Introduction
a. Definitions - Early Modern Europe and Ancien Regime
II. Social Life
A. Poverty
1. Make a claim regarding the historian and history in the article regarding "Poverty and Marginality
in the Early Modern City."
2. Support that claim with three supporting pieces of evidence from the article.
3. Compare the article with the corresponding section in Spielvogel ("The Problem of Poverty" page
518).
B. Pregnancy
1. Make a claim regarding the historian and history in the article regarding "The Experience of
Pregnancy."
2. Supporrt that claim with three supporting pieces of evidence from the article.
3. Compare the article with the corresponding section in Spielvogel ("Marriages and Childbirth"
page 509)
C. Social Order
1. Make a sophisticated claim regarding what happened to each of the following social classes in the
18th Century - Peasants, Nobility, City Dwellers. Support each claim with abundant evidence.
Homework:
1) Read Spielvogel 19 (pages 522-535) BE PREPARED FOR A THINGS LEARNED AND BE PREPARED TO
CHALLENGE ME DURING THE EVALUATION! ! !
2) WA # 2 - Salon de Paris precis and answers is due on Wednesday October 21.
3) WA # 2a - Five Issue Questions and One Personal Question is due on Thursday October 22.
4) Test # 4 - Final Exam is on Friday October 24.
5) Finish Candide (to be discussed on Wednesday October 21.
Thursday October 15 - The Absolute Monarchs
1. Powerpoint Lecture - The Absolute Monarchs
Homework:
1) Read Social History Readings (Pregnancy and Poverty in Early Modern Europe)
2) Read Spielvogel 18 (503-521)
3) Read Candide (finish!)
Wednesday October 14 - The Enlightenment
1. Powerpoint Lecture - The Enlightenment (Definition, Precursors, Philosophes, Montesquieu,
Diderot, Voltaire, Rousseau)
2. Group Work - Voltaire's Candide
Homework:
1) Read Spielvogel 18 (pages 491-503)
2) Read Candide through Chapter XX
THE PSD NOTEBOOKS FOR CHAPTERS 16, 17, AND 18 ARE DUE ON MONDAY OCTOBER 19. THE
DOCUMENTS TO BE ANALYZED INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:
CHAPTER 16
Copernicus (444)
Kepler (445)
Galileo (446)
Newton (448)
Descartes (455)
Pascal (458)
CHAPTER 17
Montesquieu (468)
Rousseau (473)
Wollstonecraft (475)
CHAPTER 18
Frederick the Great (498)
Catherine the Great (500)
Woolen Workers (514)
YOUR SALON DE PARIS ASSIGNMENT IS UP AT THE SCHOOL WEBSITE. PLEASE REVIEW IT AND COME
TO CLASS WITH ANY QUESTIONS. YOUR PRECIS IS DUE ON MONDAY OCTOBER 19 AS WELL, WITH
SUBSEQUENT QUESTIONS DUE ON THE DAY OF THE SALON ON THURSDAY OCTOBER 22.
YOUR FINAL EXAM WILL BE ON FRIDAY OCTOBER 23 AND WILL TAKE THE ENTIRE HOUR. THERE ARE
30 MULTIPLE CHOISE QUESTIONS, 10 IDENTIFICATIONS, AND AN ESSAY, AND WILL ENCOMPASS ALL
THAT WE HAVE COVERED THIS TERM. PLEASE PREPARE WELL.
Tuesday October 13 - Guest Presentation - The Rwandan Genocide
Homework:
1) Read through Chapter VIII of Candide
Monday October 12 - The Scientifci Revolution and Political Theory
1. Class Discussion - Hobbes and Locke and the State Of Nature
Homework:
1) Read Brinkley 17 (pages 463-476)
2) Read Candide by Voltaire (chapters I though III)
Friday October 9 - Science and Religion
1. Class Discussion - Spnioza and Pascal - Wagering Your Life for Science or Reason
Homework:
1. Read and take notes on packet
Thursday October 8 - The Scientific Revolution
1. Powerpoint Lecture - The Scientific Revolution (Galileo and Newton)
Homework: Readings and notes thereon
Wednesday October 7 - The Scientific Revolution
1. Group Work - The Shoulders of Giants
2. Powerpoint - The Scientific Revolution (Witchcraft, Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, Galileo, Newton)
Homework:
1) Read Spielvogel 16 (pages 449-462)
Tuesday October 6 - Mega Midterm Exam
1. Review Session
2. Test # 3 - Short Essay and Jeopardy
Homework:
1) Read Spielvogel 16 (pages 438-449)
Monday October 5 - The Baroque Era in Art and Culture
1. Art Gallery Tour - The Baroque (Rubens, Carravaggio, Artemesia, Velasquez, Zurburan)
2. Film Documentary - The Realm of Light - Baroque Art
Homework:
1) Study for Mega Midterm Exam (see below for ids and short essay topics)
Friday October 2 - The Baroque Era in Art and Culture
1. Music Appreciation - JS Bach and the Brandenburg Concertos
2. Art Gallery Tour - El Greco and the Mannerism of the late 1500s
3. Art Gallery Tour - The Baroque
Homework:
1) Read Humanities 22 (one page of notes)
WE WILL WRAP UP OUR INVESTIGATION OF BAROQUE ART AND CULTURE ON MONDAY AND THEN DO
THE MEGA MIDTERM EXAM ON TUESDAY. SEE BELOW FOR THE CONTENT OF THE MIDTERM EXAM.
FORMAT WILL BE MULTIPLE CHOICE, IDENTIFICATION, AND SHORT ESSAY.
Thursday October 1 - Stuart England
1. Film Documentary - The British Civil Wars
2. Powerpoint Lecture - Stuart England and Constitutional Monarchy
Homework:
1) Read Spielvogel 15 (last seven pages of chapter)
2) Read Humanities 22 (all and take notes)
I REALIZE THAT YOU DON'T HAVE YOUR BACKPACKS WITH YOU - BUT WE WILL PROCEED WITH THE
BAROQUE ERA IN EUROPEAN CULTURE TOMORROW. THE NOTES FROM THE CHAPTER WILL BE DUE ON
MONDAY. THE TEST WILL STILL BE ON MONDAY.
THANK YOU FOR BEING OUTSTANDING STUDENTS TODAY - YOU ALL DID A GREAT JOB! ! !
MOCK TRIAL TRYOUTS SCHEDULED FOR FRIDAY OCTOBER 2 WILL PROCEED NORMALLY. PLEASE BE
PREPARED TO GO. EVERYONE ELSE WILL BE ABLE TO SIGN UP FOR TRYOUT TIMES FOR MONDAY (AND
PERHAPS TUESDAY, BUT WE WOULD LIKE TO LIMIT IT TO MONDAY.
Wednesday September 30 - The British Civil Wars
1. Film Documentary - Simon Schama and the British Civil Wars
Homework:
I HAVE DECIDED TO POSTPONE THE TEST UNTIL MONDAY. WE WILL COMPLETE OUR INVESTIGATION
OF THE BRITISH CIVIL WARS TOMORROW AND THEN INVESTIGATE BAROQUE ART.
! ! ! ! YOU MUST CALL THREE PEOPLE IN THE CLASS TO INFORM THEM OF THE CHANGE ! ! !
! ! ! ! SELECT THREE PEOPLE WHOM YOU NORMALLY WOULD NOT TALK TO AND TELL THEM OF THE
CHANGE ! ! ! !
1) Please finish reading Chapter 15 in Speilvogel
Tuesday September 29 - The Age of Absolutism
1. Music Appreciation - Lully and Moliere's "Would-Be Gentleman" -- The Comedy Ballet of Louis
XIV's Court
2. Class Discussion - The Absolute Monarchs of Europe in the 17th Century
3. Powerpoint Lecture - Stuart England
4. Film Documentary - Simon Schama and the British Civil Wars
Homework:
1) Read Spielvogel 15 (424-430)
2) Study for the Mega Midterm on Thursday
YOU WILL HAVE MULTIPLE CHOICE, IDENTIFICATIONS, AND SHORT ESSAYS ON THE FOLLOWING
TOPICS. REMEMBER WE HAVE REVIEWED THE IDENTIFICATIONS FOR EACH SECTION. YOU HAVE THE
ISSUES FROM EACH SECTION THAT WILL SERVE AS THE POSSIBLE ESSAY QUESTIONS. AND IF YOU
KNOW YOUR STUFF, YOU CAN ANSWER MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION.
- The Religious Wars of the Late 1500s (pages 359-367)
- Europe and the World (Europe Heads Out Into the World - 368-371 -- Portuguese and Spanish
Conquest - 371-379 -- Rivals on the World Stage - 380-391 -- Toward a World Economy - 391-
393)
- The Thirty Years War (403-408)
- Louis The Fourteenth (408-416)
- The Absolute Monarchs (416-424)
- The English Civil Wars (424-430)
Monday September 28 - Louis XIV and Absolutism
1. Powerpoint - Louis XIV and Absolute Power
2. Group Work - The Absolute Monarchs
Homework:
1) Notes # 15a - The Absolute Monarchs (Please select one of the following nations and explore in a
detailed paragraph how the monarch gained and maintained power - Russia, Prussia, Austria,
Ottoman Empire) (some of you have already turned this)
2) Read Spielvogel 15 (424-430)
Friday September 25 - Louis XIV and Absolutism
1. Long Boring Class Discussion - The Religious Wars of the 1500s and the Thirty Years War
(Please remember and know all of the identifications from what we have learned - you will be tested
on them next week - and as a scholar of western culture, you should know them all. Thus, anything
we talked about today is fair game on any test from here on out. Further, please recognize your
ability to answer the overarching issue of whether these wars between 1550 and 1650 were fought
for religious or political reasons)
2. Powerpoint Lecture - Louis XIV and Absolutism
(know all the important points of his life and rule up to the late 1600s)
Homework:
1) Read Spielvogel Chapter 15 (416-424) YOU WILL HAVE A THINGS LEARNED ON THIS MATERIAL
2) Read Moliere's "The Would-Be Gentleman" (you received it as a handout at the end of class)
3) Complete the PSD Notebook (see below for the documents that you must analyze for point of
view and content)
4) Complete Notes # 14 - Europe and the World (the assignment is online below and should be self-
explanatory - email me with questions)
Thursday September 24 - The Religious Wars
1. Group Work - The Religious Wars (Holland, England, France, and Spain, plus the Thirty Years War)
2. Jeopardy - The Religious Wars (40 point quiz based upon how well your group knew the era)
Homework:
FOR FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 25:
1) Read Spielvogel 15 (408-416) YOU WILL HAVE A THINGS LEARNED ON THIS CHAPTER! ! !
FOR MONDAY SEPTEMBER 28:
1) Read Spielvogel 15 (416-424)
2) PSD Notebook (see below)
3) Notes # 14 - Europe and the World
Wednesday September 23 - Europe and the World
1. Lecture - Europe and the World
I. On the Brink of the New World (368-371)
How did Europe finally find itself exploring and conquering the world? (1. technology stolen from
the middle east, 2. financial and structural wherewithal of the nation state, 3. competition amongst
those nation states, 4, confidence resulting from the Renaissance, and 5. desire for trade routes to
Asia without arabian middle-man)
2. Group Work - Europe and the World
II. The "New" World - Portugal and Spain and Conquest of the Globe (371-379)
A. Please select the 3 identifications that you feel are the most important from this section of
the chapter for understanding the European colonization of Africa and the Americas.
B. Compare the viewpoints of Sepulveda and Las Casas (from the American Spirit textbook)
regarding the Americans the Spanish encountered when conquering the continent
C. Create a woodblock depicting the Native American view of the Spanish or the African view of
the Portuguese.
III. New Rivals on the World Stage (380-391)
A. Select the one identification that you feel is most significant for African Slave Trade, India,
and China (one each).
B. Please write a one-page editorial for a newpaper in one of the European countries (Holland,
England, France, etc.) regarding its colonization efforts in Asia.
IV. Toward a World Economy (391-393)
A. Write a half-page analysis, as a historian, of the reasons why capitalism and mercantilism
arose as economic practices and theories in the 1500-1800s. In the analysis, please be sure to
compare the two theories.
Homework:
FOR THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 24:
1) Spielvogel 13 (359-367) and Spielvogel 15 (400-408) YOU WILL HAVE A THINGS LEARNED ON IT
FOR FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 25:
1) Read Spielvogel 15 (408-416)
FOR MONDAY SEPTEMBER 28:
1) Read Spielvogel 15 (416-424)
2) PSD Notebook (see below)
3) Notes # 14 - Europe and the World
Tuesday September 22 - The Reformation
1. Powerpoint Lecture - The Spread of the Reformation (Calvinism, Presbyterianism, the Protestant
Work Ethic, King Henry VIII and the Church of England, The Counter Reformation, the Council of
Trent, Saint Ignatius of Loyola)
2. Group Work - The Religious Wars of the Late 1500s
Faith or Power? Which Drives the Religious Wars of Europe? (thesis statement with 3 identifications
proving that thesis - then visual depiction of that thesis)
Homework:
1) Read Spielvogel 14 (all) (read it well so that you can succeed at a quiz on it - there will be a
question on each section of the chapter - section 1 "New Horizons - Portuguese and Spanish
Empires," 2. "New Rivals on the World Stage," and 3. "Toward a World Economy")
YOUR PSD NOTEBOOK WILL BE DUE ON FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 25 AND WILL INCLUDE MOST DOCS FROM
CHAPTERS 13 AND 14 AND 15. THE LIST OF DOCS TO BE INCLUDED IS AS FOLLOWS:
CHAPTER 13
LUTHER - 341
LUTHER - 344
MARBORG - 349
CALVIN - 353
PROTESTANT WOMAN - 354
LOYOLA - 358
QUEEN ELIZABETH - 365
CHAPTER 14
COLUMBUS - 375
CORTES - 378
LAS CASAS - 379
SLAVE TRADE - 381
MISSION - 394
CHAPTER 15
30 YEARS WAR - 407
LOUIS XIV - 410
SAINT-SIMON - 414
PETER THE GREAT - 420
Monday September 19 - The Reformation
1. Class Discussion - Martin Luther and Protestant Theology
2. Powerpoint Lecture - The Spread of the Reformation
Homework:
1) Read Spielvogel 13 (pages 359-367)
2) Prepare to teach regarding your country (1 = The Netherlands, 2 = Britain, 3 = France, 4 =
Spain) and what happened there during the late 1500s.
Friday September 18 - Mega Midterm Exam
1. Mega Midterm # 1 - The Middle Ages, The Renaissance, and the Reformation
Homework:
1) Read Spielvogel 13 (all)
Thursday September 17 - Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation
1. Film Documentary - Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation (salvation, monasticism, the
pilgrimage to Rome, Papal corruption, relics, the sale of indulgences, Johann Tetzel, the Tower
Experience, salvation through faith, 95 Theses, printing press, Letter to German Nobility,
excommunication, Duke of Saxony, Diet of Worms)
Homework:
1) Study for Test # 1 (see below)
Wednesday September 16 - The Northern Renaissance and Reformation
1. Art Galley Tour - The Northern Renaissance (Christian Humanism, Printing Press, Van Eyck,
Holbein, Durer, Breugal)
2. Film Documentary - Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation
Homework:
1) Read Spielvogel 13 (pages 347-359)
2) Read packet of Martin Luther readings
MEGA MIDTERM FRIDAY ! ! ! !
STUDY ALL THAT WE HAVE LEARNED FROM THE FIRST DAY OF CLASS ! ! ! !
THE PSD ANALYSIS WILL BE DUE FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 25TH AND WILL INCLUDE DOCS SELECTED FROM
CHAPTERS 13, 14, 15
Study Guide for Mega Midterm
You will have three essays each 15 minutes in length. That will be preceded by the art section of the
midterm where you will describe works of art that we have studied in class.
1) Essay # 1 - You will be asked to describe in detail the legacy of the six different strands that we
studied the first two weeks of the class. In other words, you must be able to articulate what is
important from that we have gained from each of the civilizations we studied - Greek, Roman, Judeo,
Christian, Byzantine, and Muslim. Good scores will result from specific detailed knowledge imparted
about each.
2) Essay # 2 - You will be asked to describe what took place with the three major events of the
Calamitous 14th Century - The Black Death, The Hundred Years War, and the Great Schism - and
very importantly describe each one's impact on European society. Good scores will result from
describing what each was and what the results of it were for Europe and Europeans.
3) Essay # 3 - You will be asked to analyze the causes and driving forces behind the Protestant
Reformation. Was it ideological, spiritual, economic, political, personal, technological, or
circumstantial forces that lay behind this profound change in European society? Good scores will
result from specific detailed knowledge regarding the Protestant Reformation.
4) Short Answer # 1 - You will be asked to identify the artist and work of art, along with an analysis
of how and why the piece of art is representative of the Renaissance. Good scores will result from
thorough analysis of the piece of art and it place within the larger era of the Renaissance.
Tuesday September 15 - The Northern Renaissance
1. Class Discussion - Italian City-States and Governance (Machiavelli and Human Nature)
2. Class Discussion - The Northern Renaissance (Erasmus and More)
Homework:
1) Read Spielvogel 13 (340-347)
2) Read Gutenberg article
3) Read excerpts from Martin Luther's writings
Monday September 12 - The High Renaissance
1. Art Gallery Tour - The High Renaissance (Botticelli, Raphael, Michelangelo, Leonardo)
Homework:
1) Read Spielvogel Chapter 12 (302-325, 327-335) Chapter 13 (336-340)
2) Read Machiavelli, More, and Erasmus handouts
Friday September 11 - The Italian Renaissance
1. Film Documentary - Florence and the Italian Renaissance
Homework:
1) Read Spielvogel 12 (302-315, 327-335)
2) Read handout from "The Prince" by Machiavelli
and for Tuesday's homework
3) Read Spielvogel 13 (336-340)
4) Read handout from "Utopia" by More
5) Read handout from "The Praise of Folly" by Erasmus
Thursday September 10 - The Italian Renaissance
1. Film Documentary - Florence and the Italian Renaissance
Homework:
1) Primary Source Document Notebook (please complete all of the documents in Spielvogel 11 and
Spielvogel 12 (but only on the pages that have been assigned before 315-327)
2) Notes # 12a - Renaissance Critical Biography
(Please write a one-page critical biography of a Renaissance master - you may choose from
Botticelli, Raphael, Michelangelo, or Leonardo. Please spend 1/2 researching your person and then
come up with a sophisticated thesis regarding your artist. That thesis can relate to his personal life,
his artistic work and vision, or the social context of his art. That thesis must be the first sentence of
the one paragraph that you will write. Thus every piece of evidence in the paragraph must prove the
thesis - please do not include anything that does not support your thesis.)
Wednesday September 9 - The Italian Renaissance
1. Things Learned Week 3 9/9 (1. Humanism, 2. Masaccio, Donatello, Botticelli)
2. Powerpoint Lecture - The Italian Renaissance (Dante,Petrarch, Boccaccio, Civic Humanism,
Neoplatonism, Pico della Mirandola)
Homework:
1) Read Spielvogel 12 (315-327)
2) Study for Test # 1 on Friday
3) PSD Notebook - due on Friday
Tuesday September 8 - The Calamitous 14th Century
1. Student Teaching - The Black Death, The Hundred Years War, the Great Schism
Homework:
1) Read Spielvogel Chapter 12 (pages 315-327) (there will be quiz on that reading at the start of
the period tomorrow)
Friday September 4 - After the Fall of the Roman Empire
1. Music Appreciation - The Gregory Chant and Medieval Music (St. Gregory, Phillipe de Vitry,
Guillaume de Machaut)
2. Powerpoint Lecture - The Byzantine and Islamic Empires
Homework:
1) Read Jackson Spielvogel "Western Civilization" Chapter 11 (all of it)
2) Notes # 11a - Prepare a lesson plan that organizes and outlines your teaching of the class on
your assigned topic = 1. The Black Death - Economy, 2. The Hundred Years War - Political, 3. The
Great Schism - Religion. Please prepare to teach the class on your topic and outline the goals, skills,
substantive knowledge, and teaching strategies that will be a part of your lesson. Spend about a
page outlining your thoughts and preparing to teach on Tuesday. You do not need to prepare
outside of class, just be creative and ready to go! ! ! !
Thursday September 3 - The Legacy of Rome
1. Class Discussion - The Sermon on the Mount
2. Powerpoint Lecture - Christianity and its Legacy for Western Civilization
3. Powerpoint Lecture - Byzantine Empire
Homework:
1) Read Chapter 8 of the Humanities
Tuesday September 1 - Greek Philosophy
1. Class Discussion - Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle (Socratic Dialogue, Deductive Reasoning)
Homework:
1) Read and take notes on Chapter 8 of the Humanities
Monday August 31 - Philosophy and Our World
1. Class Discussion - Heraclitus and Plato - The Nature of the Physical World
Homework:
1) Please review Humanities 6 and 7
Friday August 28 - The Golden Age of Greece
1. Powerpoint Lecture - The Golden Age of Greece
2. Class Discussion - Philosophy and the Advancement of Civilization
Homework:
1) Read and take notes on "The Humanities" Chapter 7
Thursday August 27 - Western Civilization and its Discontents
1. Class Discussion - Who Won and Why?
Homework:
1) Read and take notes on Chapter 6 of "The Humanities
Wednesday August 26 - Western Civilization and its Discontents
1. Group Work - Introductions and Dinesh D'Souza - "What is So Great About America"
2. Group Work - Jared Diamond - "Guns, Germs, and Steel"
3. Class Discussion - Who Won and Why?
Homework:
1) Please read and take notes (1/2 page to 1 page) on Chapter 6 of "The Humanities"
Tuesday August 25 - Geography
1. Student Presentations - The Personal and the Political - Geographical Interpretations of Europe
Homework:
1) Read D'Souza and Diamond articles and take notes and answer the questions on the study guide
Monday August 24 - Introduction
1. Why European History?
2. Textual Investigation - The Texts of Western Civilization
Homework:
1) Map # 1 - Personal and Political Geography (see website for instructions)