Unit Calendars, Objectives, Readings & Assignments
Below please find the unit calendar for each unit of study we complete this year. They will be added one by one as we begin a new unit. Each unit guide includes the learning goals, terms to know, daily topics, textbook readings, and homework assignments. Please use each guide as a calendar and if you are absent you can find what you missed there. Please email or see me with any additional questions you may have.
00 Unit 1 Guide--Western CivilizationTo the left is the guide for Unit 1. Lecture notes will be linked daily from this location:
00 Unit 2 Guide --Western CivilizationTo the left is the guide for Unit 2. Lecture notes will be linked daily from this location:
08/26: Minoans, Mycenaeans, and the Trojan War
08/27: Greek Dark Age and Greek Epic Poetry
08/29: Greek Expansion and Colonization
9/2: No School Labor Day
9/3: Rise of Athenian Democracy
9/5-6: Society and Culture in Classical Athens
9/7-9: Philosophy in Classical Athens
9/10-9/12: Document Study: Greek Philosophy
9/13: Peloponnesian War Handout and Slides
9/17: Hellenistic Age -- Politics and Urban Life
9/18: Hellenistic Age -- Economics and Religion
9/19: Hellenistic Age -- Philosophy, Mathematics, and Science
9/20: Unit 2 Test
Documents for Greece CR #2.2This is the reading for CR #2 in Unit 2.
To the left is the guide for Unit 3. Lecture notes will be linked daily from this location:
- 00: Introduction
- 01 - Ancient Italy Before the Romans
- 02: Roman Republic
- 03: Roman Expansion
- 04: The Punic Wars
- 05: Life in Republican Rome
- 06: Crisis in the Late Republic
- 07: Julius Caesar
- 08: Augustus Caesar and the Roman Empire
- 09 - Augustus, Literature, and Morality
- 10 - Augustus Caesar, the Legions, & Expansion
- 11 - Imperial Dynasties--Julio-Claudians, Flavians, and Antonines
- 11.5 - Golden Age of the Roman Empire
- 12 - Jesus of Nazareth
- 13 - Spread and Evolution of Christianity
- 14: Late Imperial Problems & Diocletian's and Constantine's Reforms
- 15: Barbarian Invasions and the Fall of the Western Empire
- Essay Exam Source List Link
Roman Legion Article by Jon Heggie.pdfThis is the PDF article you need for the first Constructed Response of Unit 3.
To the left is the guide for Unit 4. Lecture notes will be linked daily from this location:
- 01-02 In Class Film and Questions
- 03: Early Christian Church: Constantine and Theodosius and the Rise of the Catholic Church, Monasticism and Benedictine Rule
- 04: Germanic Tribal Life and Migration
- 05: Christianity, Classical Culture, and Saint Augustine and the process of Christian conversion
- 06: Byzantine Empire. Islam
- 07: Merovingian’s and the Rise of the Carolingians
- 08: Charlemagne
- 09: Invasions of the 9th century: Vikings, Magyars, and Muslims
- 10: Feudalism and Manorialism
- 11: Test
To the left is the guide for Unit 5. Lecture notes will be linked daily from this location:
- Day1: Rise of Early Modern State: England, France, Holy Roman Empire (stop at “Italy)
- Day 2: Those Who Fight & Pray - Life of the Nobility & Clergy in the High Middle Ages
- Day 3: Finish Clergy - “Reforms of the Catholic Church”
- Day 4: The Crusades and The Expansion of Latin Christendom: Ireland, Iberia, Eastern Europe
- Day 5: Those Who Work - Life of the Peasants in the High Middle Ages
- Day 6: Rise of Towns & Economic Revival
- Day 7: Universities & Gothic Art
- Day 8: The Calamities of the 14th Century: The Great Famine and The Black Death
- Day 9: The Calamities of the 14th Century: The Hundred Years War and Major Changes
- Day 10: Review Day
- Day 11: Unit 5 Exam
- 3 Day Term Paper Preview - Please see the "Term Paper" sub-page for more information
- Final Exam Review
- Comprehensive Final Exam
To the left is the calendar and guide for Unit 6, articles needed for the homework are linked in this guide. Lecture notes will be linked daily from this location:
- 01/06: Term Paper Work Day
- 01/7: Unit Introduction, Origins of Renaissance: Wealth and Power in Renaissance Italy
- 01/8: Political Thought, Medici Politics & Machiavelli’s The Prince
- 01/9: Discuss Intellectual Change: Intellectual Hallmarks of the Renaissance Homework, Renaissance Art and the Artist
- 01/10: Education, Gutenberg’s Printing Press, and Social Hierarchies: Changes views of race, social class, and gender
- 01/13: Christian Humanism and the Northern Renaissance
- 01/14: Politics and the State in Western Europe: Renaissance Rulers in France, England, and Spain
- worksheet for homework
- 01/15: Problems in the Catholic Church and Early Reformers (Wycliff and Hus)
- 01/16: The Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther, Protestant Thought and Appeal
- 01/17: Spread of the Reformation: Geneva under John Calvin
- 01/21: Spread of the Reformation--English Protestantism
- 01/22: Catholic Counter-Reformation
- 01/23: German Politics in the Reformation
- 01/24: Chaos and Civil War in France
- 01/27: Religious Conflict--Spain, Netherlands, and England
- 01/28: Unit 6 Test Review - Complete Unit Guide
- 01/29: Unit Test
2/6 (W): Thirty Years War/Recap Essential State Building
2/7 (TH): Origins of the Age of Exploration
2/8 (F): Portuguese Exploration
2/11 (M): Christopher Columbus and the Age of Discovery
2/12 (T): Spanish, French, and English Exploration
2/13 (W): Spanish, French, and English Exploration
2/14 (TH): Impacts of Exploration Part I
- Viceroyalties, encomiendas, mercantilism, price rev.
2/15 (F): Half Day - Flexible Schedule
PRESIDENT’S DAY WEEKEND -- NO SCHOOL on 2/18/2018
2/19: (T) Impacts of Exploration Part II
- Colombian Exchange, Atlantic Slave Trade, Racism
2/20 (W): Origins of the Scientific Revolution
- HOMEWORK VIDEO LINK (While the text assignment for RA#4 is required reading, these videos are optional and NOT required)
2/21 (TH): Results of the Scientific Revolution
2/22 (F): Isaac Newton Video
02/25 (M) Unit 7 Test
Unit 8 Daily Calendar and Lecture Links:
01: Introduction to Absolutism and Constitutionalism
02 : Origins of French Absolutism
03: Domestic Policies of Louis XIV
04: Foreign Policies of Louis XIV
05: Versailles: Dream of a King Video
08: Term Paper Day
10: The Early Stuarts and the English Civil War
11: Cromwell: The Killer King Video
12: English Restoration and Glorious Revolution
13: Origins of the Enlightenment
14: International Enlightenment
16: Unit 8 Test
3/20: Term Paper Due
Unit 9 Daily Calendar and Lecture Links:
- A Revolution in Agriculture
- Rural Manufacturing the 1700s
- Economic Liberalization in the 18th and 19th Centuries
- No Class - Testing
- Global Colonial Conflict and Atlantic Economy
- Social Changes of the 1700s: Families, Marriage, and Education
- Social Changes of the 1700s: Consumer Revolution and Popular Religion
- Introduction to the Industrial Revolution: Why Britain?
- Origins and Characteristics of the IR in England
- Continental Responses to British IR
- Impact of the IR
- Review unit
- Exam
Unit 10 Daily Calendar and Lecture Links:
- Background to the French Revolution
- French Revolution - Phase 1: Estates General to Constitutional Monarchy
- French Revolution - Phase 2/3: Reign of Terror to the Thermidorian Reaction
- Age of Napoleon
- Congress of Vienna
- 19th Century Liberalism and Nationalism
- Finish 19th Century Socialism, Liberal Reforms in Britain, Revolution of 1830 in France
- Revolutions of 1848
- Flex Day
- Unit 10 Exam
Unit 11: Urbanization, Nationalism, Imperialism, and WWI (1848-1918)
- 05/09: Urbanization in the 19th Century - In class notes to take
- 05/10-05/11: Block Days: Social Class System in the 19th Century, Science and Realism in the 1800s (RA#2/B)
- 05/13-05/14: BLOCK DAY: Nationalism in Germany and Italy and Responsive Nation-State in the 1800s (RA#3/C)
- 05/15: European Imperialism--Part 1
- 05/16: European Imperialism--Part 2
- 05/17: Origins of World War I
- LINK TO NOTES FOR RA #11-E "Family Life in the 19th Century"
- 05/20: Fighting WWI
- 05/21: End of WWI and the Peace Settlement
- 05/22: Final Exams -- 6th, 5th, and 4th Periods
- 05/23: Final Exams -- 3rd, 2nd, and 1st Periods