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Rogers High School
Course Syllabus
Academic Year – 2015-2016
Quarter 2
Teacher: Stephen Ferris Course #/title: 632/
Advanced Placement European History
Room: 118 Meetings time: 5th Period
E-Mail: stephenferris@npsri.net
Office hours: Before and after school
Course description: Traces the evolution of Europe from the Scientific Revolution to the Age of Napoleon
Course text(s)/Reading(s): The Western Heritage 9th (AP) Edition with study guide
Evening in the Palace of Reason- James R. Gaines
The Days of the French Revolution – Christopher Hibbert
Citizens – Simon Schama
Other primary and secondary sources
Course materials: All students are required to maintain a notebook and binder/folder for course materials
DVD/Videos: Newton’s Dark Secrets
Amadeus (excerpts)
Waterloo (excerpts)
Landmarks of Western Art series: The Baroque; From Rococo to Revolution, and
Romanticism
The French Revolution (documentary)
Quarter Goals: (Common Core Standards/GSE’s addressed this quarter)
RH1: Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the information.
RH2: Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of a text.
RH3: Analyze in detail a series of events described in a text; determine whether earlier events caused later ones or simply preceded them.
RH4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary describing political, social, or economic aspects of history/social science.
RH5: Analyze how a text uses structure to emphasize key points or advance an explanation or analysis. (textbook: The Western Heritage 9th (AP) Edition
RH6: Compare the point of view of two or more authors for how they treat the same or similar topics
WH1: Write arguments focused on discipline-specific content
WH2: Write informative/explanatory texts, including the narration of historical events
WH4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
WH5: Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience.
SL4: Present information, findings, and supporting evidence, conveying a clear
and distinct perspective, such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning,
alternative or opposing perspectives are addressed, and the organization,
development, substance, and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and a
range of formal and informal tasks.
SL5: Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and
interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings,
reasoning, and evidence and to add interest
Grading Policy:
Formative Assessments: (Total value toward grade = %)
· Homework –10 %
· Classwork -50%
Summative Assessments: (Total value toward grade = %)
· Tests – 40% Test for each chapter using questions from released AP Exams
Benchmark – Oral Presentations based on “The Days of the French
Revolution”
Rubric assessed- RHS Oral Presentation Rubric- Due in late January
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Rogers High School
Course Syllabus
Academic Year – 2014-2015
Quarter 1
Teacher: Stephen Ferris Course #/title: 632/
Advanced Placement European History
Room: 118 Meeting time: 5th Period
E-Mail: stephenferris@npsri.net
Office hours: Before and after school
Course description: Traces the evolution of Europe from the Renaissance to the beginning of the eighteenth century. Pre 1450-1700
Course text(s)/Reading(s): The Western Heritage 9th (AP) Edition with study guide
A World Lit Only by Fire –William Manchester
A Mighty Fortress- Stephen Ozment
The Thirty Years War- Peter H. Wilson
Evening in the Palace of Reason-James R. Gaines (begin)
Other primary and secondary sources
Course materials: All students are required to maintain a notebook and binder/folder for course materials
DVD/Videos: Luther- excerpts
The Agony and the Ecstasy- excerpts
Elizabeth- Excerpts
Peter the Great
Versailles-The Visit- excerpts
Quarter Goals: (Common Core Standards/GSE’s addressed this quarter)
RH1: Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the information.
RH2: Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of a text.
RH3: Analyze in detail a series of events described in a text; determine whether earlier events caused later ones or simply preceded them.
RH4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary describing political, social, or economic aspects of history/social science.
RH5: Analyze how a text uses structure to emphasize key points or advance an explanation or analysis. (textbook : The Western Heritage 9th (AP) Edition
RH6: Compare the point of view of two or more authors for how they treat the same or similar topics
WH1: Write arguments focused on discipline-specific content
WH2: Write informative/explanatory texts, including the narration of historical events
WH4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
WH5: Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience.
Grading Policy:
Formative Assessments: (Total value toward grade = %)
Homework –10 %
Classwork -50%
Summative Assessments: (Total value toward grade = %)
Tests – 40% Test for each chapter using questions from released AP Exams
Benchmark – 2 Essays on the summer reading assignment, A World Lit only by Fire
Due no later than – September 24, 2012
Adherence to criteria
Rubric assessed