AP+European+History+Summer+Assignment

//__**Welcome to AP European History and Your Summer Assignment! **__//

//**Please follow the directions below to complete your summer assignment.**//
//Make sure you scroll all the way to the bottom to find all of the assignment.// //Assignments not completed by the due date will be considered late as also stated in the written instructions you received.//

=**__//DUE: August 17, 2009//__**=
 * 1) ====**Register for our class wiki.** If you are viewing this, and you can access the discussion postings via the tab at the top, then you are done.====

=__//**DUE: August 20, 2009**//__=
 * 1) ====**Read the Chapter 1 Summary** of our textbook and the Course Syllabus via the link under //Readings// below.====
 * 2) ====**Watch Podcast/Movie on Foundations of Modern Europe embedded on this page** . *Note: The file was too large to post all together. So it has been divided into nine segments. The entire podcast is approximately thirty minutes in length. If you wish to watch it in shorter segments, I recommend watching Parts 1 & 2 together, and then All of Part 3 (A, B, C, D, & E) and then Part 4 (A & B).====
 * 3) ====**Read Two Short Articles** (one by Meek and the other by Huntington) via the links under //Readings// below. ====
 * 4) ====**Discussion Posting #1 - Post One Original Response in our Foundations of Modern Europe Discussion via the discussion tab at the top of this page ** (instead of Turnitin,com). Please review class policies about online behavior. Postings are expected to be significant and specific contributions based on specific information/evidence from the lesson materials (video, readings, etc.). //Responses need not be lengthy just quality thought and specific - one main idea is plenty if you back it up well.// There are 44 people who will be posting to this session. As a result, you can select choose one discussion to post for your initial ideas (for example, Foundations of Modern Europe or Branch 2) - they are the same - just four veins have been created for ease of discussion. If twelve different people have posted on one of the veins, please post on a different vein. When you post your response to someone else you may want to choose someone on the opposite branch.====
 * 5) ====**Optional :** Watch some videos on YouTube linked below.====

__//**Reference from Video:**//__
[|Physical Map of Europe]

__//**Podcast Movie:**//__
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=__//Optional Video links://__=

Note: The links will redirect your open page so when finished, click back on your browser.
 [|Barbarians - Vikings] (There are five parts to this video on YouTube.)

[|Worst Jobs in the Middle Ages] (There are six parts to this video on YouTube.)

[|Dennis the Constitutional Peasant] (From //Monty Python and the Holy Grail//)

=__//**DUE: August, 24, 2009**//__=
 * 1) ====**Discussion Posting #2 - Respond once to a classmates' posting** in the discussion via the tab at the top of this page. __**NOTE:**__ When you respond, be sure to note whose post you are responding to and respond on the same branch as the posting to which you are replying. Responses should either add to the idea or constructively question with evidence in a positive manner. These are //NOT// to be directed at the author or made personal. These are to remain academic in nature.====

=__//**DUE: August 26, 2009**//__=
 * 1) ====**Write a maximum 700 word essay and post to [|Turnitin.com]** . For instructions, please open the file below.====