ADVANCED PLACEMENT EUROPEAN HISTORY

UNIT I:  The Transition from Medieval to Modern Europe

TEXT READINGS: 

McKay.  A History of Western Society.  Chapter 12, pp. 378-413 and Chapter 13, pp. 414-449.

First day of classes: August 13, 2007

1) Summer assignment due

WEEK 1: Homework READ McKay 379-409

TOPIC(S):  Black Death (McKay 379-387); Hundred Years War (McKay 387-393); Decline of the Church's Prestige (McKay 393-396); Life of the People and Vernacular Literature (McKay 396-409)

In class - Print out: "The Black Death and the Jews"  and complete PSD analysis worksheet.

St. Catherine of Siena: go to AUDIOBOOK listen and take notes on  the following treatises: Book 1: "A Treatise of Divine Providence," Book 2:  "A Treatise of Discretion," and Book 3: "A Treatise of Prayer."

Test #1: Chapter 12

TOPIC(S): .

Homework - McKay 415-421.

Evolution of Italian Renaissance. In class - "The Greatness of Lorenzo de Medici" and "Florence, 1472" (handout). Homework - McKay 421-423.

Individualism, Humanism and Secular Spirit. In class - Perry 6-12 (Petrarch, The Father of Humanism; Bruni, Study of Greek Literature and a Humanist Educational Program; and Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man) and complete PSAW. Homework - McKay 424- 429.

Renaissance Art and Artists. Homework - "On Painting" (handout) and "Art and Science" (handout).

Renaissance Art and Artists. Homework - McKay 428-440.

Social Change. In class - Misc. readings on women in the Renaissance." Homework - McKay 440-443.

Renaissance in the North. Homework - McKay 443-449.

Politics and the State in the Renaissance. Homework - Final Preparations for Test #2.

Test #2: Chapter 13

 Homework - McKay 453-459.