Mock Regents Exam
Period 7:
-Block, Wed. 1/20
-Single, Fri. 1/22
Period 8:
-Block, Thurs. 1/21
-Single, Fri. 1/22
Format:
Thematic Essay
Multiple Choice
Primary Documents with Questions
Purpose:
This exam is being given to all 10th grade students who will be taking the Global History and Geography Regents in June 2010. The purpose of this exam is to simulate the actual exam and give students an opportunity to gauge how they would do on the exam with the knowledge and skills they currently possess.
Study Aids:
It is recommended that students use the following items to properly prepare for thier exam:
-9th Grade Study Binders
-Castle Learning Practice Questions (count as a HW assignment)
-regentsprep.org - a website for Regents prepartion
Materials on the Exam:
All units from 9th Grade-Africa
-Middle East
-India
-China
-Japan
-Latin America
-Greece
All units from 10th grade thus far:
-Roman Empire
-Christianity
-Byzantine Empire
-Middle Ages
-Commercial Revolution
-Renaissance
-Scientific Revolution
-Reformation
-Rise of Nation-States
-Age of Exploration
-Absolutism
-Enlightenment
-French Revolution
-Global Nationalism and Revolutions throughout Europe
Monday, January 11, 2010
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Study Guide: Enlightenment & French Revolution
Exam: Enlightenment & French Revolution
Period 7: Wednesday, January 13th
Period 8: Thursday, Janyuary 14th
Castle Learning is available for multiple choice practice
Materials to Study:
Chapter 22, Sections 2, 3
Chapter 23, Sections 1-5
Chart on Enlightenment Thinkers from Powerpoint
Chart on Enlightenment Thinkers from "Press Conference" (with masks)
Play about the 3rd Estate
Packet #1 on Bourgeosie Phase of the French Revolution
Packet #2 on Radical Phase of the French Revolution
Reading Packet 1 (A Tale of 2 Cities, Bread, Marie Antionette)
Reading Packet 2 (Louis XVI Execution, Robespierre, Reign of Terror, Living Heads)
Enlightenment Vocabulary:
Enlightenment
Rationalism
Secularism
Utilitarianism
Scientific Method
Philosophe
Social Contract
Natural Rights (life, liberty, property)
Republic
Freedom of Speech
Separation of Powers of Government
Direct Democracy
Salon
Enlightened Despot
Enlightenment People to Know:
Locke
Rousseau
Voltaire
Montesquieu
French Revolution Vocabulary:
Bourgeosie
Estates System
-1st Estate
-2nd Estate
-3rd Estate
National Assembly (gov't)
Bastille
Great Fear
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity!
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Women's March
Declaration of the Rights of Women and Female Citizens
First Coalition
National Convention (gov't)
Jacobins
Sans-Cullottes
Guillotine
Committee for Public Safety
Reign of Terror
Metric System
French Revolution People to Know:
Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
Maximilien Robespierre
Short Answer:
1. List and explain 3 characteristics of the Enlightenment.
2. For EACH Enlightenment Thinker (Locke, Rousseau, Voltaire, or Montesquieu)and explain their position on government, the social contract, or the will of man.
3. List and explain the causes of the French Revolution
4. Explain the phrase "When France Sneezes Europe Gets a Cold"
5. How did the Jacobins unify the French people?
6. Explain how the laws created by the National Convention allowed for so many people to die. Be sure to include names of specific laws.
Exam Format:
Multiple Choice
Short Answer
Documents with questions (similar to a DBQ)
Period 7: Wednesday, January 13th
Period 8: Thursday, Janyuary 14th
Castle Learning is available for multiple choice practice
Materials to Study:
Chapter 22, Sections 2, 3
Chapter 23, Sections 1-5
Chart on Enlightenment Thinkers from Powerpoint
Chart on Enlightenment Thinkers from "Press Conference" (with masks)
Play about the 3rd Estate
Packet #1 on Bourgeosie Phase of the French Revolution
Packet #2 on Radical Phase of the French Revolution
Reading Packet 1 (A Tale of 2 Cities, Bread, Marie Antionette)
Reading Packet 2 (Louis XVI Execution, Robespierre, Reign of Terror, Living Heads)
Enlightenment Vocabulary:
Enlightenment
Rationalism
Secularism
Utilitarianism
Scientific Method
Philosophe
Social Contract
Natural Rights (life, liberty, property)
Republic
Freedom of Speech
Separation of Powers of Government
Direct Democracy
Salon
Enlightened Despot
Enlightenment People to Know:
Locke
Rousseau
Voltaire
Montesquieu
French Revolution Vocabulary:
Bourgeosie
Estates System
-1st Estate
-2nd Estate
-3rd Estate
National Assembly (gov't)
Bastille
Great Fear
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity!
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Women's March
Declaration of the Rights of Women and Female Citizens
First Coalition
National Convention (gov't)
Jacobins
Sans-Cullottes
Guillotine
Committee for Public Safety
Reign of Terror
Metric System
French Revolution People to Know:
Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
Maximilien Robespierre
Short Answer:
1. List and explain 3 characteristics of the Enlightenment.
2. For EACH Enlightenment Thinker (Locke, Rousseau, Voltaire, or Montesquieu)and explain their position on government, the social contract, or the will of man.
3. List and explain the causes of the French Revolution
4. Explain the phrase "When France Sneezes Europe Gets a Cold"
5. How did the Jacobins unify the French people?
6. Explain how the laws created by the National Convention allowed for so many people to die. Be sure to include names of specific laws.
Exam Format:
Multiple Choice
Short Answer
Documents with questions (similar to a DBQ)
Monday, January 4, 2010
HW 1/4 Ch. 23
Read Chapter 23, Sections 3, 4, 5 in the textbook
Take Outline notes as you read focusing on Main Events and vocabulary.
Due: Friday, January 8th
Suggested Schedule of completion:
Tuesday, Jan. 5: Chapter 23, Section 3
Wednesday, Jan. 6: Chapter 23, Section 4
Thursday, Jan. 7: Chapter 23, Section 5
Take Outline notes as you read focusing on Main Events and vocabulary.
Due: Friday, January 8th
Suggested Schedule of completion:
Tuesday, Jan. 5: Chapter 23, Section 3
Wednesday, Jan. 6: Chapter 23, Section 4
Thursday, Jan. 7: Chapter 23, Section 5
Monday, December 21, 2009
HW 12/23 Ch. 23 Sec.1
Read Chapter 23 Section 1 in your textbook and answer the following questions. Answers should be in blue or black ink or typed and printed.
Due:
Period 7: Monday, January 4, 2010
Period 8: Tuesday, January 5, 2010
1. Define:
a. Old Regime
b. estates
c. Louis XVI
d. Marie Antoinette
e. Estates General
f. National Assembly
g. Great Fear
2. How was the bourgeoisie unlike other groups within the Third Estate?
3. Did France's system of Estates violate the principle of equality? Explain.
4. How did Louis XVI's weak leadership contribute to the growing crisis in France? Explain.
5. How did the women's march mark a turning point in the relationship between the king and the people?
6. After years of oppression what finally caused the French people to revolt?
7. Were changes in the French government inevitable? Explain using your knowledge of prior French government leading up to the revolt.
Due:
Period 7: Monday, January 4, 2010
Period 8: Tuesday, January 5, 2010
1. Define:
a. Old Regime
b. estates
c. Louis XVI
d. Marie Antoinette
e. Estates General
f. National Assembly
g. Great Fear
2. How was the bourgeoisie unlike other groups within the Third Estate?
3. Did France's system of Estates violate the principle of equality? Explain.
4. How did Louis XVI's weak leadership contribute to the growing crisis in France? Explain.
5. How did the women's march mark a turning point in the relationship between the king and the people?
6. After years of oppression what finally caused the French people to revolt?
7. Were changes in the French government inevitable? Explain using your knowledge of prior French government leading up to the revolt.
Friday, December 11, 2009
HW 12/11 Enlightenment Readings
Read the passages provided by Locke, Rousseau, Kant
Annotate the readings and focus on the following question as you annotate:
Which of the twelve Enlightenment characterisitics (from the powerpoint notes on Wed/Thurs) does each author highlight? Each author may highlight more than one characteristic.
1. You will turn in the readings with annotations
2. Write the characteristic(s) the author embodies as part of the annotations.
3. Assignments without characteristics listed within the reading will receive a zero.
Annotate the readings and focus on the following question as you annotate:
Which of the twelve Enlightenment characterisitics (from the powerpoint notes on Wed/Thurs) does each author highlight? Each author may highlight more than one characteristic.
1. You will turn in the readings with annotations
2. Write the characteristic(s) the author embodies as part of the annotations.
3. Assignments without characteristics listed within the reading will receive a zero.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Study Guide: Age of Exploration to Absolutism
Exam: Age of Exploration to Absolutism
Period 7: Wed, 12/9
Period 8: Thurs, 12/10
Castle Learning is available to you. The students who have performed the best on the exams so far have used the study guide as their primary source of studying and then castle learning to boost their multiple choice score.
Materials to Study:
Packet on Absolutism and Women of Nation States
Notes on Versailles Palace Powerpoint
Packet on English Constitutional Monarchy
Worksheet on Absolute Power of Rulers
Textbook Materials to Study:
Chapter 19, Section 1
Chapter 20, Sections 1, 4
Chapter 21, Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Terms to Know:
Cartography
Columbian Exchange
Treaty of Tordesillas
Montezuma/Aztecs
Atahualpa/Incans
Columbus
Cortes
Pizzaro
Vasco da Gama
Bartolomeu Dias
Circumnavigation
Conquistadors
Mercantilism
Commercial Revolution
Joint-stock company
Capitalism
Favorable balance of trade
Colonization
Econmienda System
Small Pox
Latin Colonial Hierarchy (mestizos, peninsulares, creoles etc)
Nation-State
Queen Elizabeth
Queen Isabella
Joan of Arc
Hapsburgs
James I
Peter the Great
Peter's Reforms
Louis XIV
Absolutism
Absolute Monarchy
Divine Right
Divine Right vs. Mandate of Heaven
Leviathan (Thomas Hobbes)
Intendents
Jean Baptiste-Colbert
Versailles Palace
Edict of Nantes
Skepticism
Boyar
Westernization
Habeus Corpos
Limited Monarchy
Guy Fawkes
English Constitutional Monarchy
English Civil War
Roundheads
Cavaliers
Parliament
Oliver Cromwell
Charles I
Charles II
Petition of Right
William & Mary
Glorious Revolution
English Bill of Rights
Magna Carta
Exam Format:
Mutltiple Choice
Short Answer
Short Answer:
What were the motives behind European exploration in the 1400's?
Why was Spain a leader in overseas exploration?
How did the Columbian Exchange impact global civilization?
What were the positive and negative consequences of the Columbian Exchange?
How did the rise of nation-states lead to the development of absolute monarchies?
To what extent is Louis XIV the perfect example of an absolute monarch?
How did Peter's attempt to westernize Russia affect Russian's opinions of Christians in western Europe?
How does a constitutional monarchy differ from an absolute monarchy?
How did Parliament try to limit the power of the English monarchy?
What political and social changes resulted from the English Civil War?
Period 7: Wed, 12/9
Period 8: Thurs, 12/10
Castle Learning is available to you. The students who have performed the best on the exams so far have used the study guide as their primary source of studying and then castle learning to boost their multiple choice score.
Materials to Study:
Packet on Absolutism and Women of Nation States
Notes on Versailles Palace Powerpoint
Packet on English Constitutional Monarchy
Worksheet on Absolute Power of Rulers
Textbook Materials to Study:
Chapter 19, Section 1
Chapter 20, Sections 1, 4
Chapter 21, Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Terms to Know:
Cartography
Columbian Exchange
Treaty of Tordesillas
Montezuma/Aztecs
Atahualpa/Incans
Columbus
Cortes
Pizzaro
Vasco da Gama
Bartolomeu Dias
Circumnavigation
Conquistadors
Mercantilism
Commercial Revolution
Joint-stock company
Capitalism
Favorable balance of trade
Colonization
Econmienda System
Small Pox
Latin Colonial Hierarchy (mestizos, peninsulares, creoles etc)
Nation-State
Queen Elizabeth
Queen Isabella
Joan of Arc
Hapsburgs
James I
Peter the Great
Peter's Reforms
Louis XIV
Absolutism
Absolute Monarchy
Divine Right
Divine Right vs. Mandate of Heaven
Leviathan (Thomas Hobbes)
Intendents
Jean Baptiste-Colbert
Versailles Palace
Edict of Nantes
Skepticism
Boyar
Westernization
Habeus Corpos
Limited Monarchy
Guy Fawkes
English Constitutional Monarchy
English Civil War
Roundheads
Cavaliers
Parliament
Oliver Cromwell
Charles I
Charles II
Petition of Right
William & Mary
Glorious Revolution
English Bill of Rights
Magna Carta
Exam Format:
Mutltiple Choice
Short Answer
Short Answer:
What were the motives behind European exploration in the 1400's?
Why was Spain a leader in overseas exploration?
How did the Columbian Exchange impact global civilization?
What were the positive and negative consequences of the Columbian Exchange?
How did the rise of nation-states lead to the development of absolute monarchies?
To what extent is Louis XIV the perfect example of an absolute monarch?
How did Peter's attempt to westernize Russia affect Russian's opinions of Christians in western Europe?
How does a constitutional monarchy differ from an absolute monarchy?
How did Parliament try to limit the power of the English monarchy?
What political and social changes resulted from the English Civil War?
Monday, November 30, 2009
HW 11/30 Ch. 21, Sec. 3 & 4
Read Chapter 21, Sections 3 & 4 from your textbook. As you read, take notes in OUTLINE FORMAT.
Due:
Period 7: Wednesday 12/2
Period 8: Thursday 12/3
Due:
Period 7: Wednesday 12/2
Period 8: Thursday 12/3
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