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Lesson Plans
The Western Heritage
by Kagan, Ozment, and Turner
©2001 by Prentice Hall
The purpose of the following Focus Lessons for The Western Heritage is to assist you in planning your daily lessons by highlighting important ideas and concepts in each chapter as well as the relevant sections in the program's ancillaries. The Focus Lessons, written by an experienced AP* teacher, suggest strategies for assessing how well your students understand the important points in each chapter and also provide test-taking tips that will help your students prepare for and take the AP* European history test successfully.
Chapter Focus Lessons
by Patti Harrold
Edmond Memorial High School
Edmond, Oklahoma
| Focus Lesson 1: | Chapter 9: "The Late Middle Ages (1300–1527)" |
| Focus Lesson 2: | Chapter 10: "Renaissance and Discovery" |
| Focus Lesson 3: | Chapter 11: "The Age of Reformation" |
| Focus Lesson 4: | Chapter 12: "The Age of Religious Wars" |
| Focus Lesson 5: | Chapter 13: "Paths to Constitutionalism and Absolutism: England and France in the Seventeenth Century" |
| Focus Lesson 6: | Chapter 14: "New Directions in Thought and Culture in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries" |
| Focus Lesson 7: | Chapter 15: "Successful and Unsuccessful Paths to Power (1686–1740)" |
| Focus Lesson 8: | Chapter 16: "Society and Economy Under the Old Regime in the Eighteenth Century" |
| Focus Lesson 9: | Chapter 17: "The Transatlantic Economy, Trade Wars, and Colonial Rebellion" |
| Focus Lesson 10: | Chapter 18: "The Age of Enlightenment: Eighteenth Century Thought" |
| Focus Lesson 11: | Chapter 19: "The French Revolution" |
| Focus Lesson 12: | Chapter 20: "The Age of Napoleon and the Triumph of Romanticism" |
| Focus Lesson 13: | Chapter 21: "The Conservative Order and the Challenges of Reform (1815–1832)" |
| Focus Lesson 14: | Chapter 22: "Economic Advance and Social Unrest (1830–1850)" |
| Focus Lesson 15: | Chapter 23: "The Age of Nation-States" |
| Focus Lesson 16: | Chapter 24: "The Building of European Supremacy: Society and Politics to World War I" |
| Focus Lesson 17: | Chapter 25: "The Birth of Modern European Thought" |
| Focus Lesson 18: | Chapter 26: "Imperialism, Alliances, and War" |
| Focus Lesson 19: | Chapter 27: "Political Experiments of the 1920s" |
| Focus Lesson 20: | Chapter 28: "Europe and the Great Depression" |
| Focus Lesson 21: | Chapter 29: "World War II" |
| Focus Lesson 22: | Chapter 30: "Faces of the Twentieth Century: European Social Experiences" |
| Focus Lesson 23: | Chapter 31: "The Cold War Era and the Emergence of the New Europe" |