AP Modern European Histony
Summer Reading Assignment

Dear AP Students,
I am very excited about AP MEH and I hope that you are. As you know, summer reading is a requirement in this AP course. I think you will find both of the summer assignments to be enjoyable educational experiences!

PART I – DUE AUGUST 18
The first required reading is Brunelleschi’s Dome: How a Genius Reinvented Architecture, by Ross King. The book is available at most major bookstores, but it will probably be easiest to order it online. King's work is an incredibly informative volume of history. I think you will find it entertaining and enlightening. Please submit a critique of the work that adequately addresses Brunelleschi’s work during the Renaissance (see attached for prompt). Your critique should be at least three pages and no more than four. Detailed instructions are attached. Your critique is due to Mrs. Cross by August 18, 2008 and should be either mailed to NSA or turned in to the front office.

PART II – DUE AUGUST 25 and SEPTEMBER 2
The second assignment involves reading from the textbook, The Western Heritage. Students should read Chapter 9 (pages 292-314) in its entirety and complete the attached term list for the first day of school. Students should also read pages 318–334 in Chapter 10 and complete the attached term sheet. The term sheet for the reading in Chapter 10 will not be due until September 2. Students should buy their textbooks from 2007-2008 AP MEH students ASAP. New and used textbooks are available for purchase in the front office of the Upper School.

I hope that all of you have a fantastic and relaxing summer and return refreshed and ready for an exciting school year next fall. Please feel free to contact me via email with any questions. Happy reading!

Sincerely,

Mrs. Kate Cross
kathrynRcross@gmail.com

CRITIQUE INSTRUCTIONS

• Type your critique
• Write in 12 point font, Times New Roman
• Double space
• Remember to include your name (first and last)!
• Try to develop a three-prong thesis
• Organize your response – 5 paragraph format is a good way to get started
• 3 pages minimum, 4 pages maximum
• No outside sources
• DO NOT quote extensively from the book
• If you do quote – make it brief and cite parenthetically (name of author, page #)
• Pledge your work
• Your critique should be received by Mrs. Cross NO LATER than August 18, 2008 – either mail it to school or turn it in to the receptionist in the Upper School office.
• Mrs. Kate Cross – Upper School
  3373 Pruden Blvd.
  Suffolk, VA 23434

CRITIQUE PROMPT

Analyze how the time period in which Brunelleschi lived had an impact upon his work.

Chapter 9
Terms
DUE: FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL – August 25

Instructions: For each term please list – who or what is it? What happened or what did they do? Why is it historically significant? Your answers do not have to be in complete sentences, but must answer all questions.

Edward III of England
Philip VI of Valois
Estates General
Jacquerie
John Ball and Wat Tyler
Treaty of Troyes
Joan of Arc
Charles VII
Black Death
Boccaccio and Decameron
Flagellants
Boniface VIII
Philip the Fair
Jubilee Year
Unam Sanctum
William of Ockham and Marsilius of Padua
Avignon Papacy – “Babylonian Captivity”
John Wycliffe
John Hus
Great Schism
Councils – Pisa, Constance, Basel

Chapter 10
Terms
DUE: Tuesday, September 2

Instructions: For each term please list – who or what is it? What happened or what did they do? Why is it historically significant? Your answers do not have to be in complete sentences, but must answer all questions.

Ciompi Revolt
Cosimo de’ Medici
Lorenzo de’ Medici
Signoria
Condottieri
Humanism
Francesco Petrarch
Dante Alighieri
Pietro Paulo Vergerio
Christine de Pisan
Marislio Ficino
Pico della Mirandola
Lorenzo Valla
Civic Humanism
Giotto
Leonardo da Vinci
Raphael
Michelangelo
Mannerism
Treaty of Lodi
Charles VIII
Savonarola
Ludovico il Moro
Borgia Family
Pope Julius II
Machiavelli

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