Welcome, New AP Euro students

After a year hiatus, Mrs. Olsen is back teaching European History. 

We will start off learning about the Early Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and then move onto the reformation (which we finish by early October).

I will be handing out a detailed calendar to help us keep up the pace of the class.  You will be doing a lot of writing and reading in this class (it is structured to be like college), but it is also a lot of fun, with many interesting developments and stories to keep you interest.

end of the year projects, final exam

Students have all received a list of end of the year projects.  These projects are to be presented as a powerpoint, a brief lecture, a play, a skit, a video---

Focus on the Who, What, Where, Why, When and How....

The topics are fascinating--so feel free to keep the sheet and peruse over the summer to increase your cultural literacy.

Wednesday, May 15th is the AP European History Exam

Friday, May 17, Monday and Tuesday May 20, 21 are the Final Exam.  I will review on Thursday, but since it is based mainly on readings it will not require much advanced preparation.

We will watch the film Dr. Zhivago May 22-24th, and Final Projects start presenting on My 28th through June 4th.

Finishing the course and a review

This week we will end our AP Euro course!  We are ploughing though the cold war and will hopefully end with the Euro crisis.  Starting next week, we begin and intensive in class review...half the class is taking the AP exam, so they will also receive update e-mails from me about certain review topics on the free response essays.

We will be writing two DBQ's back to back to make sure all student understand the role of point of view, not just for the exam but in their future college papers.

Ending the 19th century

We have been very busy in European History

We have done Chapters 23, Viva La Vida worksheet

Chapter 23-25 on Imperialism

Chapter 24

And we are finishing up on Chapter 25.

Major exam on the 1800s is going to be on March 14th.  Students will be learning about World War I, the failure of the Weimer Republic, and the rise of the dictators....all to be done by the end of spring break.  There is a mantra in AP Euro, and that is we have to be at Hitler's dictatorship by Spring Break. 

Mid Term Study Guide

The last two weeks of AP Euro will be busy.

We will finish Napoleon by January 15th and move onto the momentous changes from the Congress of Vienna.  After the Congress of Vienna...we will move into the Industrial Revolution, and the Age of Romanticism which, of course, was a reaction to the changes in the countryside of England and France.

We will also be learning about the different ideologies that emerged after the French Revolution...yes, now the people had a right to participate in government...and everyone had an opinion on how government and economic systems should operate.

Word like Conservatism, Liberalism, Radicalism, Socialism, Republicanism and yes....Communism will dominate.  This will be called the age of the 'isms.

French Revolution by Tuesday, DBQ test over Holiday

We are just sliding into the French Revolution and will have a test on next Tuesday, December 18th.  Students will also be given a 100 pt. take home exam on DBQ interpretation.  They should really enjoy the test.  It is self contained with the documents included in the text of the test.

As promised here's the guide for the multiple choice 50 point French Revolution test.

French Revolution Test Guide

Not all questions are on this quide, but many are.  Numbers DO NOT correspond with numbers on the test.  For some of these items below, I have given you the actual fact that corresponds with the TEST question.

1. Do Revolutions occur always because things are getting worse?
2. What was the main long term economic reason behind the revolution (p. 752)
3. Why was the voting procedure unfair for the Estates GeneraL (p. 753)
4. What were the Cahiers Doleance (check up on internet)?
5. Please know the social structure of France, especially the traits of the three estates. (page 753-755)
6. There will be a number of questions on the unfair taxation system under the OLD REGIME
7. Read about the pamphlet that Abbe Sieyes wrote.  Check up on line the first sentence of that pamphlet.  You must know this.  (page 754)
8. Did some members of the other estates join the third estate (page 754) and your timeline.
9. On page 745, what was the main reason behind the oath at the Tennis Court?
10. Read on page 745 and remember that those who went into exile were called Emigres.
11. What was the impact of the fall of the Bastille on the people (page 745)
12. What was the Great Fear found on page 757.
13. Read about the ideas and the circumstances, including what famous founding father was in Paris at the time of the writing of the Declaration of the Rigths of Man and Citizen. P. 757.
14. One page 759, read about the division of the departments and what they looked like in the map on page 760.
15. What were Assignats (page 759).
16. Page 759…what did the Civil Constitution do regarding the Catholic Church?
17. What happened to the monarchy on September 22, 1792 (page 762).
18. Please read the words on the lower part of page 761 about the King’s failed flight to Varennes.
19. Page 765.  What is the French National Anthem?
20. Two countries were involved in the Brunswick manifesto…Austria and Prussia.
21. What did the Brunswick manifesto announce (page 761)
22. Before they divided into the Girondins and the Mountain what were these groups members of (read on page 762…and throughout the next few pages)
23. What was the purpose of the Committee of Public Safety…but what was really the lethal result (page 763)
24. Please go on the internet and read about this first important victory for the Revolutionary forces (Valmy).  The new spirit of the French army was due to this (page 764).
25. Page 768:  What region in France let the Counter Revolution?
26. What group of people were involved in the Counter Revolution (page 768)
27. Unfortunately, Charlotte Corday’s assassination of the Marat, turned them into this (page 767)
28. What did the continued threat of attacks on France eventually contribute to this horrific event that went over many months and forever marred the revolution (page 763)
29. What was the main purpose of the Reign of Terror (page 763)
30. What did the National Assembly due during the night of August 4^th, 1789 that left a lasting legacy in France (page 757)
31. Foreign intervention during the revolution eventually led to this (bottom of page 764).
32. The ideas of conservative (right) moderate (middle) and liberal (left) reflect the actually seating chart of the French Revolution.  You will have 5 questions asking how different people in the revolution viewed these ideas and what they were opposed to or what they would have supported.

Down with kings....up with science

We are moving swiftly toward the Enlightenment...and, as I warned students, we would be moving along....time and time and European History waits for no one.

This is what we are working on right now, students:

Versailles Worksheet
Louis XIV Court (on flip side of Versailles worksheet)
A time of Tulips and Turmoil
Where in the World is the World (both sides--Scientific Revolution and Political Thought)
Chapter 17 Questions
Absolutism Test....

Yes, we'll gather all this in when we get back from Thanksgiving Break.
Monday before Thanksgiving will be a work day.