AP European History Daily Plan: February 22 - March 1, 2012

Wednesday/Thursday , February 22/23, 2012

CLASS:

Notes #17: European Politics: 1815 - 1901

Discuss 19^th Century Novel Project

Analyze student FRQ Picture Essays

Hand out Russian Peasants DBQ (If time)

HOMEWORK:

Homework: Read pages 681 - 686. This examines the intellectual and cultural developments of the last few decades of the 19th century and first part of the 20th century. Specifically, it looks at new developments in science and a changing understanding of the human mind. Be prepared for a pop quiz.

Discussion questions:

1.  Explain how Europeans perceived and understood science in the last part of the 19th century. In what ways did the "new science" change their understanding of the world?

2. Explain the main arguments against "progress" and "reason" as articulated by philosophers such as Nietzsche, Bergson, and Sorel.

3. What, in your own words, did Nietzsche mean when he wrote, "God is dead."

4. What is psychoanalysis and how did it alter humanity's understanding of the inner workings of the mind?

5. What was the role of the unconscious in the human mind according to Freud?

Key Terms:

                                1. Marie Curie

                                2. Max Planck

                                3. Albert Einstein

                                4. Relativity theory

                                5. Friedrich Nietzsche

                                6. Henri Bergson

                                7. Georges Sorel

                                8. Sigmund Freud

                                9. volk/ volkish thought

                                10. Social Darwinism

Friday , February 24, 2012

CLASS:

Finish Notes #17: European Politics: 1815 - 1901

HOMEWORK:

Read pages 686 - 692. This examines religion at the end of the 19th century and then some specific cultural movements in the latter part of the century. Be prepared for a pop quiz.

Discussion questions:

1.  In what ways did the Catholic Church become more liberal in the late 19th century? In what ways did it attempt to maintain traditional or conservative values?

2. What was the goal or intent of naturalist/realist authors?

3. In what ways was impressionism a rebellion from other art movements?

4. How did abstract painting depart from impressionism as an art style?

Key Terms:

                                1. Pope Pius IX

                                2. Pope Leo XIII

                                3. Modernism

                                4. Naturalism                                                       

                                5. Fyodor Dostoevsky

                                6. Leo Tolstoy

                                7. Emile Zola

                                8. Claude Monet

                                10. Edvard Grieg

                                11. Claude Debussy

                                12. Cubism

                                13. Igor Stravinsky

Monday , February 27, 2012

CLASS:

Notes #18: Modernism in the 19^th Century

HOMEWORK:

Read pages 692 - 697. This section looks at women's rights movements and the growth of anti-Semitic belief in the late 19th century.

Discussion questions:

1.  What were some of the goals of women's rights movements in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?

2. What were the causes of the increase in anti-Semitic attitudes in the late 19th century? Is there any region where they were more prominent? Why?

Key Terms:

                                1. Emmeline Pankhurst

                                2. suffragists

                                3. Maria Montessori

                                4. pogroms

                                5. Zionism

                                6. Theodor Herzl

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

CLASS:

Notes #18: Modernism in the 19^th Century

HOMEWORK:

Prepare for Russian Peasants DBQ

Wednesday, February 29/ Thursday, March 1, 2012

CLASS:

DBQ #5: Russian Peasants

Notes #18: Modernism in the 19^th Century

HOMEWORK:

Homework: Read pages 697 - 701. This section examines Britain, France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, and Russia in the two decades before World War I.

Discussion questions:

1.  How did David Lloyd George change the alignment of the British Parliament?

2. In what way did modernist and traditionalist views clash in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century?

3. How did nationalist conflicts worsen in Austria-Hungary in the late 19th century?

4. What were the effects of the Revolution of 1905 in Russia?

Key Terms:

                                1. David Lloyd George

                                2. Labour Party

                                3. transformism

                                4. the Dreyfus Affair

                                5. Count Sergei Witte

Propaganda and the Russian Revolution

Once Russia was taken over by the Bolsheviks, they turned Russia's burgeoning small film industry into another propaganda mouthpiece. Sergei Eisenstein was Russia's greatest filmmaker, and consequently made some great propaganda films. His greatest is arguably Battleship Potemkin (1925). Here is the most famous sequence from the film, known as the Odessa Steps sequence. It is about a group of Russians of various classes attacked by tsarist troops during the Revolution of 1905.



What about this sequence is propaganda? You may have to do some research on it to answer the question. Post your response in the answer below.

Podcast Test

For this blog entry I am doing a test of a podcast web site that I have been testing out over the last week or so. No podcast is posted yet, but this is a good test of the ability to connect a blog to a podcast.

Helpful Site to Study for the Final

Hello Students,

Welcome to my blog for our Advanced Placement European History class for 2010-2011!

The purpose of this blog is to communicate with parents and students as to what's going on in class, and also provide helpful tips, tricks, resources and other interesting European history-related things.

Since our final is upcoming, I wanted to provide all students with some helpful resources to study for the final. To that end, one site that I have found extremely valuable over my years as a professional educator is Ms. Susan Pojer's AP European History web site.

Susan Pojer

It contains numerous resources, including a gigantic review packet, practice quizzes, and a topic by topic review page. It's a nearly unlimited resource for students. I expect that you will use it now in December and also in April and May to study for the national AP Exam.

Also made by Ms. Pojer is the PowerPoint Palooza web site. This web site contains literally dozens of AP European History PowerPoints for you to download and review. You may recognize some parts of some PowerPoints as many of them provided the original foundation for some of the SMART board presentations we do in class. Of course, I have provided credit where credit is due, even if the presentation is 90% mine now!

I hope you use these valuable resources. There is a reason why I am giving them to you now instead of in April. I think they will be useful for the rest of the school year. Enjoy!

Mr. Hudson