Hell Week
Monday through Friday, November 18-22, 2013, and
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Monday through Tuesday, November 25-26, 2013.
Thanksgiving Break, 11/27-11/31.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING BREAK!!!
Events:
First round of independent research paper drafts DUE this Wednesday, 11/20.
Quiz#7 on Friday; covers Week 13.
Model UN, Thursday-Friday, 11/21-22.
Dearly Departed shows: Friday, November 22nd and Saturday, November 23rd at 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, November 24th matinee at 2:00 p.m.
Grandparents' Day on Tuesday, 11/26.
Independent research paper drafts DUE by the end of the day on Tuesday, 11/26.
THANKSGIVING BREAK!!! Wednesday, 11/27-Sunday, 12/1.
Day 1: Review of the Enlightenment and Age of Reason, Part 1.
- In-class: Go over Quiz#6; read primary and secondary source sets on the Enlightenment.
- Homework: NO NEW READING HOMEWORK; work on independent research rough drafts.
Day 2/3: Review of the Enlightenment and Age of Reason, Part 2.
- In-class: Continue to read and discuss primary and secondary source sets on the Enlightenment.
- Homework: NO NEW READING HOMEWORK; work on independent research rough drafts.
Day 4: Monday, November 25: The Old Regime, 1715-1789.
- In-class: Read "Competing for Wealth and Power," from The West in the World, Vol II., eds. Sherman and Salisbury, pp. 451-464 (up until the section on "the triangle of trade").
- Homework: Finish reading from class for Day 5. and take notes on the key terms and persons.
- Key Terms: Balance of power, 1767 Decree on Serfs, 1773 Cossack Rebellion, Partition of Poland, Wahhabism, Pragmatic Sanction, 1756 Diplomatic Revolution, and Parlements
- Key Persons: Frederick the Great (of Prussia), Pugachev, Maria Theresa (of Austria).
Day 5: Tuesday, November 26: The Twilight of Monarchies?
- In-class: Read "The Twilight of Monarchies?," from The West in the World, Vol II., eds. Sherman and Salisbury, pp. 468-481 (up until the section on the American Revolution).
- Homework: Finish reading from class, take notes on the following key terms, and create a PERSIA table for France, England, Prussia, Austria, Poland, Russia and the Ottoman Empire. P=Politics, E=Economics (and/or Environment), R=Religion, S=Society (and/or Science), I=Ideas, and A=Arts.
*** HOMEWORK from Days 4&5 WILL BE CHECKED on MONDAY, 12/1.
- Key Terms: The agricultural revolution, enclosures, cottage industry, bourgeoisie, cult of sensibility, Baroque style, classical style, the grand tour and pietism.
"The past is never dead. It's not even past." William Faulkner
Course Description
Welcome! This site is for students, parents, teachers and anyone else interested in the tenth-grade World History 2 Course at Santa Fe Prep.
The overall course covers the history of the world from roughly 1500 to the present. The first quarter opens with the time when Asia was the center of world affairs, then traces European encounters with Asia and the Americas, and the complex interactions and consequences of the so-called "Columbian Exchange" between Europe, Asia, the Americas and Africa. The first quarter ends with a survey of the European Renaissance and Reformation, in both its local and global dimensions. The second quarter will focus on the rise of absolute monarchies and new ideas and practices, especially with the scientific revolution and Enlightenment. The second quarter ends with assessments of the legacies of the French Revolution, Napoleon and the emergence of the British Empire. The third quarter starts with the implications of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars in the wake of the Congress of Vienna, i.e., the discourse on rights, reaction, revolution and reform, the rise of new ideologies, in particular, Classical Liberalism, nationalism, and romanticism, and conservative reactions to the changes wrought by the American and French Revolutions. The course then examines the rise of industrialization and social change in 19th-century Europe, and the emergence of middle and working class cultures, followed by new iterations of liberalism and conservatism, the proliferation of more ideologies, e.g., socialism, communism, ultranationalism, social Darwinism, and antisemitism. Then the course examines the unification of the Italian and German nation states, and the creation of the modern welfare state. From there the course traces the rise of a new wave of Western imperialism, followed by the rest of the world's reactions to the rise of European empires and ideas, and in particular, the emergence of industrial Japan and their surprising victory over Russia. The third quarter ends with the outbreak of the First World War. The fourth and final quarter surveys the effects of the First World War, followed by the brief peak of classical liberal nation states and promises for peace, and the rapid rise of authoritarianism, in both communist and fascist variations, with a special focus on the rise of Nazism, the Nazi racial transformation of Germany and the Holocaust and Shoah of modern Europe. The fourth quarter concludes by looking at the causes and effects of the Second World War, the Cold War, the end of European empires in Asia and Africa, the emergence of the Modern Middle East and China, the end of the Cold War, history since 1989, all the way to the present, including current events.
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