Course at Renaissance

Age of
a Glance
UNIT UNIT

1 and Exploration
c. 1450 – c. 1648
2 Reformation
c. 1450 – c. 1648

~15 Class
Periods 10–15% AP Exam
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Periods 10–15% AP Exam
Weighting

Plan
The Course at a Glance provides
4
a useful visual organization of the
AP European History curricular
components, including: CID 2.2 Luther and the
3 Protestant Reformation
§§ Sequence of units, along

with approximate weighting CID 2.3 Protestant Reform
and suggested pacing. 1 Continues
Please note, pacing is based
on 45-minute class periods, SOP
meeting five days each week
for a full academic year.
CID 2.5 The Catholic
§§ Progression of topics within Reformation
2
each unit.
§§ Spiraling of the themes
SCD 2.6 16th-Century Society
and Politics
and historical thinking skills 3

across units. CID 2.7 Art of the 16th Century:

Mannerism and
Teach 5
Baroque Art

HISTORICAL THINKING SKILLS 2.8 Causation in the

Historical thinking skills spiral across units.
6 Age of Reformation and
1 Developments 4 Contextualization
the Wars of Religion
and Processes 5 Making
2 Sourcing and Connections
Situation 6 Argumentation
3 Claims and
Evidence in
Sources

THEMES
Themes spiral across units.

INT Interaction of SOP States and Other

Europe and the Institutions of
World Power
ECD Economic and SCD Social Organization
Commercial and Development
Developments National and
NEI
CID Cultural and European Identity
Intellectual Technological
TSI
Developments and Scientific
Innovation

Assess
Assign the Personal Progress Personal Progress Check 2
Checks—either as homework Multiple-choice: ~15 questions
or in class—for each unit. Short-answer: 2 questions
Each Personal Progress Check § §§ Primary source
§ §§ Primary source
contains formative multiple-
Free-response: 1 question
choice and free-response § §§ Long essay (partial)
questions. The feedback from
the Personal Progress Checks
NOTE: Partial versions of the free-response questions are provided to prepare students for more
shows students the areas where
complex, full questions that they will encounter on the AP Exam.
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 Scientific, Conflict, Crisis,
UNIT Absolutism and UNIT Philosophical, UNIT and Reaction
3 Constitutionalism
c. 1648 – c. 1815
4 and Political
Developments
5 in the Late
18th Century
c. 1648 – c. 1815 c. 1648 – c. 1815

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Periods 10–15% AP Exam
Weighting ~15 Class
Periods 10–15% AP Exam
Weighting

3.1 Contextualizing State 4.1 Contextualizing the 5.1 Contextualizing

4 Building Scientific Revolution 2 18th-Century States
4
and the Enlightenment
SOP 3.2 The English Civil War ECD 5.2 The Rise of Global
and the Glorious
TSI 4.2 The Scientific Markets
1
1
Revolution 3 Revolution
SOP 5.3 Britain’s Ascendency
ECD 3.3 Continuities and SCD 4.3 The Enlightenment
3
Changes to Economic CID
3 Practice and
Development
5 SOP 5.4 The French Revolution
3
ECD 3.4 Economic Development
SCD 4.4 18th-Century Society
and Mercantilism and Demographics
1 2 SCD 5.5 The French
6 Revolution’s Effects
SOP 3.5 The Dutch Golden Age
CID 4.5 18th-Century Culture
and Arts
2 4 SOP 5.6 Napoleon’s Rise,
NEI Dominance, and Defeat
SOP 3.6 Balance of Power
SOP
5
TSI

3 SOP 5.7 The Congress of

3 Vienna
SOP 3.7 Absolutist Approaches 4.7 Causation in the Age
to Power of the Scientific
5 6 CID 5.8 Romanticism
Revolution and the
Enlightenment 4
3.8 Comparison in the
6 Age of Absolutism and 5.9 Continuity and Change
Constitutionalism 5 in 18th-Century States

Personal Progress Check 3 Personal Progress Check 4 Personal Progress Check 5

Multiple-choice: ~20 questions
Short-answer: 2 questions
§§ Primary source
§§ Primary source
Free-response: 1 question
Multiple-choice: ~15 questions Multiple-choice: ~20 questions
Short-answer: 2 questions Short-answer: 2 questions
§§ Primary source §§ Secondary source
§§ Secondary source §§ No stimulus
Free-response: 1 question Free-response: 1 question
§§ Long essay (partial) §§ Document-based (partial)

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 19th-Century
UNIT Industrialization UNIT Perspectives UNIT 20th-Century
6 and Its Effects
c. 1815 – c. 1914
7 and Political
Developments
8 Global Conflicts
c. 1914 – present
c. 1815 – c. 1914

~15 Class
Periods 10–15% AP Exam
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Periods 10–15% AP Exam
Weighting ~15 Class
Periods 10–15% AP Exam
Weighting

6.1 Contextualizing 7.1 Contextualizing 8.1 Contextualizing

4 Industrialization and 19th-Century 5 20th-Century Global
4
Its Origins and Effects Perspectives and Conflicts
Political Developments
ECD 6.2 The Spread of Industry SOP 8.2 World War I
Throughout Europe NEI 7.2 Nationalism TSI
1
5 INT
TSI 6.3 Second Wave 4
ECD Industrialization and NEI 7.3 National Unification
Its Effects SOP and Diplomatic SOP 8.3 The Russian Revolution
5 Tensions
2 1 and Its Effects
SCD 6.4 Social Effects of
Industrialization TSI 7.4 Darwinism, Social
SOP 8.4 Versailles Conference
3
Darwinism 3 and Peace Settlement
3
SOP 6.5 The Concert of
Europe and European TSI 7.5 The Age of Progress
ECD 8.5 Global Economic Crisis
5 and Modernity
Conservatism 5 3

SOP 6.6 Reactions and INT 7.6 New Imperialism:

SOP 8.6 Fascism and
6 Revolutions TSI Motivations and ECD Totalitarianism
Methods 2
CID 6.7 Ideologies of Change 6

2 and Reform Movements SOP 8.7 Europe During the

INT 7.7 Imperialism’s Global Interwar Period
5
SCD 6.8 19th-Century Social 5 Effects
2 Reform TSI 8.8 World War II
CID 7.8 19th-Century Culture
4
SOP 6.9 Institutional Responses 2 and Arts
4 and Reform NEI 8.9 The Holocaust
7.9 Causation in
3
6.10 Causation in the Age 19th-Century
1
5 of Industrialization Perspectives and CID 8.10 20th-Century Cultural,
Political Developments
Intellectual, and
6
Artistic Developments

Personal Progress Check 6 Personal Progress Check 7 Personal Progress Check 8

Multiple-choice: ~25 questions Multiple-choice: ~20 questions Multiple-choice: ~25 questions
Short-answer: 2 questions Short-answer: 2 questions Short-answer: 2 questions
§§ No stimulus §§ Secondary source §§ No stimulus
§§ Primary source §§ No stimulus §§ Primary source
Free-response: 1 question Free-response: 1 question Free-response: 1 question
§§ Document-based (partial) §§ Document-based §§ Long essay

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 Cold War and
UNIT
Contemporary
9 Europe
c. 1914 – present

~17 Class
Periods 10–15% AP Exam
Weighting

9.1 Contextualizing Cold

4 War and Contemporary
Europe

ECD 9.2 Rebuilding Europe

4

INT 9.3 The Cold War

1

ECD 9.4 Two Super Powers

1
Emerge

NEI 9.5 Postwar Nationalism,

Ethnic Conflict, and
5 Atrocities

ECD 9.6 Contemporary Western

2
Democracies

SOP 9.7 The Fall of Communism

3

SCD 9.8 20th-Century Feminism

3

INT 9.9 Decolonization

6

ECD 9.10 The European Union

NEI

SCD

TSI 9.12 Technology

5

TSI 9.13 Globalization

2

CID 9.14 20th- and 21st-Century

Culture, Arts, and
3
Demographic Trends

9.15 Continuity and Change

6 in the 20th and
21st Centuries

Personal Progress Check 9

Multiple-choice: ~35 questions
Short-answer: 2 questions
§§ Secondary source
§§ No stimulus
Free-response: 1 question
§§ Document-based
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