Advanced Placement World History
Unit 5: The European Moment, 1750 - 1914
Chapter 17: The Atlantic Revolutions and Their Echoes
Week at a Glance:MON: Quiz Ch 17; Finish French Revolution
TUE: DBQ Analysis & POV; Haitian and Latin Revolutions
WED/THU: Final pointers on DBQ; Review CH 17; The Art of the French Revolution
FRI: DBQ Due in class written and final essay; TEST Chapter 17
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| Napoleon "Crossing the Alps" by David |
Quote: "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." - Robert Frost
Learning Targets:
• Understand the number and diversity of Atlantic revolutions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and how forces at work through the Enlightenment impacted them
• Explore the cross-pollination between revolutionary movements and compare their various causes and overall results
• Compare the real impact of the Atlantic revolutions on their citizens and understand the global impact of the revolutionary movement of the era.
• Consider the consequences of using violence to achieve liberty and equality. How much violence is necessary or justifiable?
Essential Questions:
1. How did the issue of slavery show contradiction and complexity during the Atlantic Revolutions?
2. Do revolutions originate in oppression and injustice, in the weakening of political authorities, in new ideas, or in the activities of small groups of determined activists?
3. “The influence of revolutions endured long after they ended.” To what extent does this chapter support or undermine this idea?
4. In what ways did the Atlantic revolutions and their echoes give a new and distinctive
shape to the emerging societies of nineteenth-century Europe and the Americas?
Agenda:
1. Quiz Chapter 17
2. Finish French Revolution
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| Storming of the Bastille and arrest of the Governor M. de Launay, July 14, 1789. -Anonymous painter |
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Quote: "The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases." - Carl Jung
Learning Targets:
• Understand the number and diversity of Atlantic revolutions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and how forces at work through the Enlightenment impacted them
• Explore the cross-pollination between revolutionary movements and compare their various causes and overall results
• Compare the real impact of the Atlantic revolutions on their citizens and understand the global impact of the revolutionary movement of the era.
• Consider the consequences of using violence to achieve liberty and equality. How much violence is necessary or justifiable?
Essential Questions:
1. How did the issue of slavery show contradiction and complexity during the Atlantic Revolutions?
2. Do revolutions originate in oppression and injustice, in the weakening of political authorities, in new ideas, or in the activities of small groups of determined activists?
3. “The influence of revolutions endured long after they ended.” To what extent does this chapter support or undermine this idea?
4. In what ways did the Atlantic revolutions and their echoes give a new and distinctive
shape to the emerging societies of nineteenth-century Europe and the Americas?
Agenda:
1. DO NOW QUESTION: What is your thesis statement for the DBQ? Which documents support slavery? Which oppose? Which documents are you using for evidence of Point of View?
2. Collaborative teamwork to prepare document based question for Friday. Meaning, Analysis, Point of View. Thesis. Evidence. Impact.
3. If time, review of French Revolution and introduce Haitian Revolution.
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| The Haitian Revolution - the first successful slave revolt in history. |
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 -and- Thursday, February 7, 2013
Quote: "Every man dies. Not every man really lives." - William Wallace
Learning Targets:
• Understand the number and diversity of Atlantic revolutions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and how forces at work through the Enlightenment impacted them
• Explore the cross-pollination between revolutionary movements and compare their various causes and overall results
• Compare the real impact of the Atlantic revolutions on their citizens and understand the global impact of the revolutionary movement of the era.
• Consider the consequences of using violence to achieve liberty and equality. How much violence is necessary or justifiable?
Essential Questions:
1. How did the issue of slavery show contradiction and complexity during the Atlantic Revolutions?
2. Do revolutions originate in oppression and injustice, in the weakening of political authorities, in new ideas, or in the activities of small groups of determined activists?
3. “The influence of revolutions endured long after they ended.” To what extent does this chapter support or undermine this idea?
4. In what ways did the Atlantic revolutions and their echoes give a new and distinctive
shape to the emerging societies of nineteenth-century Europe and the Americas?
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| French artist Jacques Louis David |
Agenda:
1. DO NOW QUESTION: Make a chart comparing the North American, French, Haitian, and Spanish American revolutions. What categories of comparison would be most appropriate
to include?
2. Notes, Video, Discussion: Haitian Revolution
3. Notes, Video, Discussion: Latin American Revolution
4. Notes, Video, and Discussion: The Art of the French Revolution: impact of the artist Jacque Louis David on the French Revolution and French propaganda.
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Friday, February 7, 2013
Quote: "All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on." - Henry Ellis
Agenda:
1. Turn in DBQ
2. Test Chapter 17
Quiz on Tuesday over Chapter 18 - Industrial Revolution.
We will write the CCOT over the Industrial Revolution next Friday.
