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