Unit 3 Absolutism & New Worldview

Mrs. Kaminskis
AP European History

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Unit 3 Chapter 6
New Worldview
Unit Goal:
The seventeenth century was a time of crisis and rebuilding for Europe. Analyze how the
rise of absolutism and constitutionalism tried to deal with order in Europe, as well as the
emerging new worldview created by the Age of Enlightenment.
Language Objectives:

Define academic vocabulary using both oral and written responses. Explain content
material using complete sentences. Create a thesis and prove it.
Enabling Objectives: Students will be able to.using
1. Identify/define the chapter I.D.s terms and their significance to this unit.
2. Explain the revolutionary discoveries that were made in the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries and the intellectual and social results.
3. Examine the impact the new ways of thinking had on political developments and monarchical
absolutism.
Chapter 6, New Directions in Thought & Culture
Reading: Text pp. 202-235
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Date
Oct. 3

Topic of the Day

Complete Graphic Organizer using E Lectures
Class Discussion

Homework/Reading
Study for Ch. 5 Reading Quiz
Ch. 6 Read 202-210 (#1-11)

T&W

Oct. 4, 5

Reading Quiz on Chpt. 5

Mr. Byrds Scientific Revolution

Th & F

Oct. 6,7
End of 1st Qtr

Two Treatises of Government

PPT Locke vs Hobbes
Group Project / Presidential Elections

Read 211-218 (#12-18)

Start working on Unit Study
Guide due Oct. 11,12
Read 219-226 (#19-21)
Group Project due Oct. 11, 12

Work on Unit 3 Study Guide

Complete Group Project

Dittoget it done
AND Read 227-234 (#22-24)

Oct. 10
Columbus Day
No School

T&W

Oct. 11, 12

Group
Study Guide due! Study Groups

Study for Unit 3 Exam

Th & F

Oct. 13,14

Unit 3 Exam

Unit 4 Reading Guide

Reading Guide

Chapter 6 I.D. Notecards and Reading questions. Each I.D. notecard must list the definition and
significance of the topic. All questions must be answered in complete sentences.
1. What was the Scientific Revolution? (203)
2. Nicolaus Copernicus (203)
3. Ptolemaic System (203)
4. Geocentrism (203)
5. Tycho Brahe & Johannes Kepler (205)
6. Galileo Galilei (206)
7. Isaac Newton (207)
8. Empiricism (208)Oh no, Sophies World Flash Back!
9. What impact did the new science have on philosophy? (208)
10.Francis Bacon (209)
11.Novum Organum (210)
12.Rene Descartes (211)
13.Thomas Hobbes (212)

14.The Leviathan (212)

15.John Locke (213)
16.What was the social & political context for scientific inquiry in the 17 th century? (215)
17.Enlightenment (218)
18. What role did women play in the Scientific Revolution? (218)
19. Margaret Cavendish (219)
20. What efforts were made to reconcile the new science & religion? (221)
21.Blaise Pascal (224)
22. What explains the witch hunts & panics of the 16 th and 17th centuries? (227)
23. What types of women became midwives in early modern Europe?(231)
24.How did baroque art serve both religious and secular ends? (232)