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Friday, May 18, 2012

Summer Assignment 2012-13

Welcome. You can have great success in my class and on the AP Euro Exam, but you must first understand that your success mostly depends on YOU taking ownership over your own learning.

The Summer Assignment can help you get a jump start on what will likely be a challenging and fast paced year of European History.

   HISTORICAL TOPICS FOR THE YEAR

1. The Crisis in the Middle Ages  ch.12
2. Europe in the Age of Renaissance  ch.13
3. Protestant Reformation & Counter-Reformation  ch.14
4. Age of Overseas Exploration  ch.15
5. Absolutism & Constitutionalism (Western Europe)  ch.16
6. Absolutism (Eastern Europe)  ch. 17
7. Scientific Revolution & Enlightenment ch.18
8. Agricultural Revolution  ch.19
9. Changing Life of the People (18th C.)  ch.20
10. Revolution in Politics (1775-1815)  ch.21

11. Revolution in Energy & Industry  ch.22
12. Ideologies & Upheavals (1815-1850)  ch.23
13. Life in Emerging Urban Society (19th C.) ch.24
14. The Age of Nationalism 1850-1914  ch.25
15.  West & the World (Imperialism)  ch.26
16. WW-I and Russian Revolution  ch.27
17. Age of Anxiety (20th C. Modernism)  ch.28
18. Rise of Dictatorships & WW-II  ch.29
19. The Cold War & Social Change (1945-85)  ch.30
20. Revolution & Challenge (1985-present)  ch.31
                                     
THINGS TO DO OVER SUMMER

***Try to get your AP Euro texts from the Media Center after the second week of Summer School. The main texts to get are by 1) Mckay and 2) Perry. We will use these all year long.


1. Purchase or borrow an up-to-date AP European History Exam prep book. There are a wide variety of published prep books to choose from. Select one that best matches your learning style.

2. Review the course topics above.

3. Do assignments as instructed.

4. ****HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: Visit the College Board website to become aware of what an AP course entails. These are people who MAKE THE EXAM, so you would do well to become very familiar with what they have posted here. You MUST read about the course description, course themes, the course Exam (including what’s entailed in each section), and see sample exams and scoring guides.  http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/sub_eurohist.html  This is very important. Research shows that if students know what the expectations are for a course, they are typically better prepared to meet those expectations.

AP EURO SUMMER ASSIGNMENT:

I. Research and Answer the 6 essay questions below. Questions and answers are to be hand written, not typed. Please do your own work! Ideally, you could use the McKay text, but such questions are broad and generic enough so that you may use a variety of sources.

1.    Compare and contrast the Renaissance with the Later Middle Ages
2.    To what extent is the Renaissance truly a departure from the past?
3.    To what extent did Renaissance humanism affect the view of the individual?
4.    Analyze the influence of humanism on Renaissance art. Select at least three artists and analyze at least one work for each artist.
5.    Analyze the impact of patronage on Renaissance art.
6.    To what extent were women impacted by the Renaissance?



II. VOCAB & PEOPLE of the RENAISSANCE ERA
     For each vocab item below, explain its historical significance to the RENAISSANCE period (not mere definitions). Work must be written by hand, not typed.

VOCAB ITEMS  ch.13
1. Features of the Italian Renaissance
2. Features of the Northern Renaissance (p.438 ff)
3. Leonardo da Vinci
4. Botticelli
5. oligarchy (aristocracy, despotism, i.e., Medici Family)
6. signori
7. communes
8. popolo
9. reconquista
10. humanism
11. secularism
12. individualism
13. materialism
14. hermandades
15. Machiavellian (the Prince)
16. English Royal Council and Court of Star Chamber
17. conquest of Granada
18. Habsburg-Valois wars
19. Filippo Brunelleschi
20. Pico della Mirandola
21. Desiderius Erasmus
22. Jan van Eyck
23. Thomas More
24. Donatello
25. Baldassare Castiglione
26. Niccolo Machiavelli
27. Johan Gutenberg
28. Lefevre d’Etaples
29. Saint John Chrysostom
30. Lorenzo Valla
31. Savonarola
32. Jerome Bosch
33. Francois Rabelais
34. Louis XI of France
35. Henry VII of England
36. Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain
37. Charles of VII of France
38. Cesare Borgia
39. Giovanni Boccaccio

Mr. Barone  (Rm D-4)
AP European History
sjbarone@hlpusd.k12.ca.us 
gawhsapeuro@hotmail.com 

Summer NOTE: AP European History 2012-2013. In case you have not heard, this class will be very demanding all year long. For most of you, this will be your first AP class. It may, therefore, prove helpful for you to immerse yourself in course content prior to the start of the school year. The intent is to “increase” your adaptability to college level reading material and decrease the initial “shock” that ALWAYS comes along with the first few weeks of school. YOU WILL BE CHALLENGED, but from this, you WILL LEARN. Help yourself now by preparing for what you will face later. Though you will not receive a grade on everything detailed in this assignment, the indirect result of doing all that this assignment suggests over the Summer (not merely the last few days before school starts) will make your transition to the course a bit easier in August/September, especially for our first few assignments and exams. This Summer Assignment will be due the FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL.  

Assignment OBJECTIVES:           

1)      Increase familiarity and adaptability to “college level” learning expectations (critical reading, critical thinking, and critical writing---   all necessary for success in EARNING college credit on the AP EXAM in May 2012.
2)       Increase student familiarity and growing understanding of historical content related to European history 
3)       Become familiar with course themes, writing guides, essay rubrics, and useful course materials (college board) 
4)       Increase preparedness for first few weeks of school, which promise to be quite demanding (1 chapter per week)



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