Friday, October 31, 2008

Announcement and HW 10/31 Ch. 17 Sec. 4

**** VERY IMPORTANT!!!***

The Grade Book for the first quater will close on Wednesday, 11/5. Anything that is missing, ungraded, or a disputed grade needs to be brought to me no later than Wednesday. Please check your My Grade Book account to make sure that you are not missing anything!

Homework:

Period 7: Finish your essay to hand in and do not do the homework listed below.

Period 8: The questions listed below are for homework. Due on Monday, 11/3

Read Chapter 17, Section 4 in your textbook and answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper. Answers must be in blue or black ink or typed and printed.

1. Look at the map on page 434, which countries became mostly Protestant and which countries remained mostly Catholic?

2. How did Protestant teachings cause further divisions in the Christian Church?

3. What were the main teachings of John Calvin?

4. Define Predestination, Council of Trent, and theocracy.

5. What role did the Jesuits play in the Catholic Reformation?

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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

HW 10/30 Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog...

This homework assignment is given in honor of All Hallows Eve and the Reformation.

Below you will find a link to the guidebook Malleus Maleficarum, also known as the "Hammer of Witches," written in 1486 during the Reformation. As you know, the Reformation was a time of questioning and opposing the Catholic Church. In response to the heresy (opposition to Christianity) brought on by Martin Luther, the Church hired two members of the Dominican Order by the names of Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger to investigate the existence of witchcraft. The purpose of their guidebook was to: prove the existence of witches and instruct magistrates and leaders on how to spot, interrogate, and convict witches.

Your Assignment: Select a question that is answered in the guidebook and present its contents to the class tomorrow (Halloween!).

1. Choose a portion of the guidebook Malleus Maleficarum (Book 1, Book 2, or Book 3)

2. Each book contains a number of questions that are answered. Choose a question that you think is interesting or entertaining.

3. Read the answer to the question as written by Kramer & Sprenger and summarize it.

4. Analyze the text. Consider: does your question's answer degrade women, does it make claims that we know today are false, would your text have been used to convict someone of witchcraft (if yes, how so?), how is this text a reflection of the time period of the Reformation?


Links to the Guidebook:

Book 1: Proves the existence of witches, defines the relationship witches have with the devil, whether witches can put love spells on men or change them into animals, and how to spot a woman who may be a witch or become a witch.

Book 2: Discusses the daily and ritual practices of witches, such as how to recruit others to become a witch, how to cast a spell, remedies for spells, how to perform an exorcism, and whether or not witches can fly (my personal favorite, its called "How they are transported from Place to Place")

Book 3: How to interrogate, prosecute, and convict a witch and a step-by-step guide to conducting a witch trial (just 11 easy steps!).


Layout of Your Summary:

Your Name
My Name
Date

Book Number: Title of the Question

3-5 sentence summary of the question

Your analysis of the text, including quotes to support your analysis.

**It would be great if you could print out a copy of the question you selected, but no points will be deducted if you cannot.


Email me with questions and Happy Witch Hunting!!!

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

HW 10/28 Ch. 17, Sec 3

Period 8 ONLY

Read Chapter 17 Section 3 in your textbook and answer the following questions. Your answers should be written in blue or black ink or typed AND PRINTED.

Due: Thursday 10/30

1. How did political, social, and economic forces weaken the Church? Write answers for each force.

2. Based on Luther's 95 Theses, why did Luther feel that it was acceptable to defy (to go against) the Pope?

3. Explain the differenct motives that German princes had for becoming Lutheran.

4. How did Henry VIII and his three children cause religious turmoil in England?

5. Who do you think had a better reason to break away from the Catholic Church- Luther or Henry VIII? Support your answer with details from the text.

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Monday, October 27, 2008

Vocabulary: Renaissance & Scientific Revolution

Renaissance

Guild
Geoffery Chaucer
--The Canterbury Tales
Hanseatic League
Parliament
Magna Carta
The Great Schism
The Hundred Years War
Joan of Arc
Renaissance
Medici Family
Secular vs. Religious
Humanism
Machiavelli
--The Prince
Shakespeare


Scientific Revolution

Scientific Method
Gutenberg
-- The Printing Press
Copernicus
Heliocentric Theory
Geocentric Theory
Galileo
Keppler
Bacon
Descartes
Empiricism
Rationalism
Newton

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Period 7 ONLY!

PERIOD 7 ONLY-- 8th PERIOD WILL HAVE AN EXAM AFTER UNIT ON THE REFORMATION

Exam on Tuesday 10/28 on the Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution

School Island assignment now available for studying.

Study:

Documents from DBQ essay on Revolutions
Class notes
Readings from homework
Worksheet on the Renaissance and Scientific Revolution
Vocabulary on blog/white board from classroom

Format of the Exam:

Documents
Multiple Choice Questions

Come on Monday after school to study with me.

Saturday, October 25, 2008

DBQ Outline Format & Tips

DBQ: Turning Points, Non-Political Revolutions

Outline and Rough Draft Due: Monday, 10/27

Requirements for Rough Draft:
12 pt font
Times New Roman Font
Double Spaced
* Outline may be handwritten

DBQ Outline Format:

I. Thesis Statement and Introductory Ideas

II: Body Paragraph 1: Focus Concept

A. Topic Sentence
B. Evidence From Document
C. Evidence From Outside Knowledge

III: Body Paragraph 2: Focus Concept

A. Topic Sentence
B. Evidence From Document
C. Evidence From Outside Knowledge

IV: Body Paragraph 3: Focus Concept

A. Topic Sentence
B. Evidence From Document
C. Evidence From Outside Knowledge

V: Concluding Paragraph: Summary of your points based on the facts and ideas presented. Connection to a bigger idea in history. No new information!


TIPS

1. Be sure that you can use information from the documents to back up any ideas that you discuss

2. Do not use contractions or personal pronouns such as I, me, or my.

3. Consider how you would answer the essay question if you did not have the documents.

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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

HW 10/21 Descartes & Bacon

Read the writings of Bacon and Descartes distributed in class and answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper. Answers should be submitted in blue or black ink or typed and printed.

Due: Wed. 10/22


Bacon On Suspicion:

1. Choose one of the following quotes and discuss how it reflects either the logic of the scientific method or the attitude of the Scientific Revolution.

a. "Brave people are not hurt by their suspicions, for they have the courage to examine them to see if they are true or false. Cowardly people, however, are hurt by the suspicions, because they believe them too quickly.

b. "There is nothing that makes a man more suspicious than his own ignorance."

c. "The best way to handle suspicions is to assume that they are true, but to deal with them as if they are false."

Descartes Meditations

2. Choose one of the following quotes and discuss how it reflects either the logic of the scientific method or the attitude of the Scientific Revolution.

a. "I therefore made a serious effort to destroy all my former opinions to see if any survived my efforts"

b. "In searching for real and certain knowledge, an opinion which is doubtful is just as useless as one that is false."

c. "Just as a building falls if you destroy its foundation, so too, if I find a particular opinion doubtful, ever opinion built on it is doubtful too."

Monday, October 20, 2008

HW 10/20: Machiavelli's "The Prince"

Read the worksheet with excepts from Machiavelli's The Prince and answer the following questions below. Be sure to pay attention to the excerpt that the question refers to. Answers should be written on a separate sheet of paper in blue or black ink or typed and printed.

Excerpt from Chapter XV

1. Choose two of the following quotes and explain them

a. "There is such a great difference between how human beings actually live and how they ought to live."

b. "A ruler who ignores what is being done by human beings in order to think about what ought to be done will bring about his own destruction."

c. If he thinks about the matter carefully, he will see that if he tries to acquire certain qualities which seem good he might lose his power. On the other hand, some other qualities which seem bad will help him to increase his power."


Excerpt from Chapter XVII:

1. Explain why the following statement is true or false:

"...most people want to be both feared and loved."

2. How did the Catholic Chuch prove the following statements to be true:

a. " ...it is safer to be feared."

b. "...they will not betray you if they fear you and think that you can punish them. Although a ruler must make himself feared, he should not also make himself hated. It is, in fact, possible for a ruler to be feared but not hated."

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Youth Vote Project

Extra Credit Assignment:

As many of you know, when you become a senior at our school you also have the option of becoming part of a group called the Youth Vote Project. This group's mission is to register all High School students across the US who are eligible to vote in any upcoming elections.

Check out their website at www.youthvoteproject.org. and the video they created to promote the youth vote. Below is a link to their video, which is posted on You Tube. Send the link to this video to 5 people you know via email. Bring in a print out of the email to show me that you sent it and you'll receive points!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-pL3Da-mec

Pass on the Vote!

Thursday, October 16, 2008

HW 10/16: Ch. 17 Sec 1

Read Chapter 17, Section 2 in your textbook. Take notes on the section using the outline format listed below. Notes should be typed and PRINTED or in blue or black ink.

Due: Friday 10/17

Outline Format for note taking: ---> = indent

I. Red Headings from textbook
---> A. Green Headings from textbook
-------> i. Key concepts summarized into a sentence in your own words
----------> 1. Details such as vocabulary words with definitions

Roman Numerals (1-10): I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X

Lower case Roman Numerals: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, ix, x

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Tuesday, October 14, 2008

HW 10/14 Ch. 17 Sec. 1

Read Chapter 17, Section 1 in your textbook. Take notes on the section using the outline format listed below. Notes should be typed and PRINTED or in blue or black ink.

Due: Thursday 10/16

Outline Format for note taking: ---> = indent

I. Red Headings from textbook
---> A. Green Headings from textbook
-------> i. Key concepts summarized into a sentence in your own words
----------> 1. Details such as vocabulary words with definitions

Roman Numerals (1-10): I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X

Lower case Roman Numerals: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, ix, x

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Friday, October 10, 2008

Homework 10/10 Ch 14 Sec 3

Read Chapter 14 Section 3 in your textbook. Take notes on the chapter using the outline format listed below. Notes should be typed and PRINTED or in blue or black ink.

Due: Tuesday 10/14

Outline Format for note taking: ---> = indent

I. Red Headings from textbook
---> A. Green Headings from textbook
-------> i. Key concepts summarized into a sentence in your own words
----------> 1. Details such as vocabulary words with definitions

Roman Numerals (1-10): I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X

Lower case Roman Numerals: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, ix, x

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Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Homework 10/8: Ch 14 Sec 2

Read Chapter 14 Section 2 in your textbook and answer the following questions. Your answers should be written in blue or black ink or typed AND PRINTED (See Post titled "Homework Issues).

Due: Friday 10/10

1. Name one short-term effect and one long-term effect of the switch to the three-field system.

2. How did the growth of towns hurt the feudal system?

3. What role did Jews and Muslims play in Christian Europe's financial revolution?

4. How did guilds improve the quality of goods and business practices?

** Sorry for the delay in posting. Its my fault, not yours.**

Sunday, October 5, 2008

HOMEWORK ISSUES

For those of you who have frequently emailed me your homework due to printer problems, please be aware of the following.

If you email me your homework, I EXPECT that you will bring me in a paper copy on the day that the homework is due.
If you email me your homework, I EXPECT that if you cannot print it out, you will as soon as possible.
If you email me your homework, you should know that the emailed copy will only serve as proof that you completed the work in the time that it was due.

I will not print out your homework and grade it.
I will not grade you homework on the computer.
If you do not hand in a paper copy to me, you can expect to see a "MIS" for missing or a "0" for a zero on the work, since it was not graded.

If you have a printer which you know has a tendency to stop working right when you need it to, you should hand-write your homework
If you have a printer which you know currently does not work, then you should hand-write your homework.


Consider yourselves warned...

Thursday, October 2, 2008

HW: 10/2 Ch. 14 Sec. 1

Read Chapter 14 Section 1 in your textbook and answer the following questions. Be sure to write in blue or black ink, OR type and PRINT your work.

Due: Friday, 10/3

1. What were the three main problems that caused Church reformers to want to take action against the church?

2. What was the main goal of the Crusades?

3. What does the term gothic mean when it is used to describe architechture?

4. Name 3 main causes of the Crusades.

5. Name 3 main effects of the Crusades.