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TedTalk: We’re building a dystopia just to make people click on ads
Here’s the talk from today – if you were absent please see me for your argument analysis sheet.
Posted in: AP Seminar, Notes and Homework
Religious Wars & The Thirty Years’ War Notes
January 29, 2020
We will be using some parts of the notes (Western Europe pre-1648) for this unit and the rest for the next. Sorry for the confusion – there’s a lot of overlap between themes and events here. The mid-1600s is kind of a transitional time. Tom Richey’s website has an excellent streamlined breakdown of the war […]
Posted in: AP European History, Notes and Homework
Protestant Reformation and Catholic Reformation Art
January 28, 2020
Google Arts and Culture has put together a wonderful compare and contrast regarding the two art styles. I forgot to publish this last week when we looked at the styles in class. This is a super cool tool – all of the images are in high res so you can zoom in and look at […]
Posted in: AP European History, Notes and Homework
Song China Artwork Activity
January 27, 2020
Here is the on-line art primary resource activity that we completed in class today. If you were not here, please complete it and share it with apworldpapers@gmail.com. SongChinaPaintings-worksheet
Posted in: AP World History, Notes and Homework
Age of Exploration Notes & Crash Courses
January 22, 2020
Here are the textbooks notes for this section of unit 1: Chapter 14 Notes As an added bonus, here’re the two Crash Courses that go along with chapter 14. You should watch each of these in class while I’m out of town. Have a great weekend and I’ll see you Monday!
Posted in: AP European History, Notes and Homework
The Head of Good King Henry
January 21, 2020
Henry IV was one of the most beloved kings in French history (ignore the assassination), so of course his head went missing and was later found in someone’s attic. A reconstruction proves it! Or maybe not. Three years ago, Philippe Charlier, an osteo-archaeologist from France’s University Hospital Raymond-Poincaré in Garches, used a forensic exam to […]
Posted in: AP World History
Art of the Reformation and Counter Reformation
January 17, 2020
We discussed the differences in Catholic and Protestant art of the 1500s and 1600s today, especially the themes of virtue and their portrayal of Christ. For more in-depth information, I strongly suggest you guys read this analysis from Visual Arts Cork regarding the differences in style. Google Culture also has a nice, if brief, collection […]
Posted in: AP European History, Notes and Homework
Dr. Astorian's AP Consortium 
January 31, 2020
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