Course Description
This is a combined course description for both one-semester senior elective courses, Advanced Placement Early European History and Advanced Placement Recent European History. Should you be taking only one of these courses, you may ignore those portions of this guide that do not pertain to you. Course expectations apply to both courses.

Early European History focuses on the period from the early Renaissance up through Napoleonic Europe, and Recent European History takes us from the Congress of Vienna through the 1990s.

This course has no prerequisites; however, students must expect to be academically challenged. This course requires extensive reading. Students must complete all assigned readings as scheduled; there will be pop quizzes on readings. Students will also be expected to take lecture notes, carry out individual and small group research projects; participate in class discussions and analyses; develop and refine essay writing skills; give class presentations; and successfully answer both objective and essay test questions.

You will be held to all guidelines on the Course Guide, whether or not I discuss them in class. This course will be taught as a college-level course, and your responsibilities are extensive.

Course Guide
This is the complete set of policies and guidelines for grading, late work and absences, etc. You may view it, download it, or print it. It includes all Chapter Study Guides, for the entire year.

One component of the course is student led discussions of primary source readings, along with the submission of written answers to questions created by the student discussion leaders about those readings. Click for examples of well written Discussion Questions and of corresponding (and excellent) Discussion Answers. You will need a pdf reader to open these documents.

Assignment Guide
This is the day-by-day schedule of in class activities, homework assignments. A new one is issued every 2 to 4 weeks. Changes to this schedule will occur. Changes announced in class take precedence over the written version.

Assignments and Handouts
You may access most past and current assignments and handouts for AP European History chapters and units from the menu to the right.

Assignments and handouts are also available in my SCASD Hand Out Folder, located on the SCASD file server LEAD.

If you are using a computer at school, simply connect to the file server LEAD, and choose C_Staff, then choose CORNWELL_jcc11,and you will see my Hand Out Folder. Open it up, and choose the correct course and unit to see all available documents. You may copy the documents to work on, or examine at your leisure, by simply highlighting the unopened document, and dragging it over to your own server space or computer drive

To access a document while using a computer outside the SCASD network, you must first connect to and log into the SCASD server system. Click here for instructions on how to connect to all SCASD servers available to you. Following these instructions, you will log into the SCASD server LEAD, choose C_Staff, then choose CORNWELL_jcc11,and you will see my Hand Out Folder. Open it up, and choose the correct course and unit to see all available documents. You may copy the documents to work on, or examine at your leisure, by simply highlighting the unopened document, and dragging it over to your own server space or computer drive.

Hand In Folder
Occasionally you will be asked to submit assignments to my SCASD Hand In Folder, located on the SCASD file server LEAD.

If you are using a computer at school, simply connect to the file server LEAD, and choose C_Staff, then choose CORNWELL_jcc11,and you will see my Hand In Folder.

To submit a document while using a computer outside the SCASD network, you must first connect to and log into the SCASD server system. Click here for instructions on how to connect to all SCASD servers available to you. Following these instructions, you will log into the SCASD server LEAD, choose C_Staff, then choose CORNWELL_jcc11,and you will see my Hand In Folder.

To get something into my Hand In Folder, first save and close the document (file) that you want to hand in. Then, simply size and position the window on your desktop that contains the item along with the window for my Hand In Folder so that you can see them both. Then, simply drag (click on and hold down while moving the mouse) your item from its original location on your desktop over to my drop box, until my Hand In Folder is highlighted, and release the mouse. Warning: Do not try to put your item in an individual class folder. If you try to do this, your work will not transfer at all, and your assignment will not be submitted!

Advanced Placement Exam in European History: Friday, May 9, 2008 (afternoon)

Here is the College Board's page for the AP Exam in European History. You can review pages that describe course Themes, The Exam, Sample Questions & Scoring, and Grade Distribution.

Links to other authors' AP and European History review sites are on the History Links page on this site.

As a review text, I strongly recommend Birdsall S. Viault's "Modern European History," in any of the editions available (ISBN 0070674337 or other editions).

"Western Civilization" Textbook Chapter Study Guides, Review Questions, and Other Materials (from the publisher)

TOP OF PAGE