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Watch the video and take notes. This video explains how the assignments for each unit are done.

How to Read the Textbook:

Read your Terms handout
Read your essay question or questions for the unit
Go Read the Title of the Chapter
- The read each Red bolded headings and then the smaller blue bolded headings before you begin reading the chapter
- Then read the terms at the end of the chapter and notice which terms listed match with the terms that you must write and note the page number that each term is on.
Then read the chapter as normal. While reading the chapter define your terms within the context of the textbook.
- Make sure to connect the term with another term
- Make sure to list the Person's Major work of art or Major writing
  - Example Term: Michelangelo: You must have "David" and "Sistine Chapel" and connect him to another painter or connect him to Humanism
  - Example: Term: Machiavelli: You must put "The Prince" and connect to "The Medici" family
  - Example Term: John Tetzel: connect to he was a leading seller of "indulgences" prior to the "reformation"

Terms: are to be written in two sentences. You must connect with at least another term and also you must set the context of the term (See above examples). This is not a English vocab term. You must tell me the event, or person or vocab word and why within the context (while reading the textbook and notes) of the event, person or the vocab word is important.

Journal: Must be in this order and all typed. SO: DO NOT PROCRASTINATE THIS!

Terms: two –three sentence historical definitions
3-5 Essay Intro & Thesis Statements (4-5 sentences of context and then thesis staement)
1-2 OPTICS (See explanation below)
3-5 SACS some done in class some on Canvas done outside of class
Reading Notes (Not required but encouraged)
Written Class notes (Not required but encouraged)

THE READING JOURNAL ALSO BECOMES A REVIEW GUIDE AT THE END OF EACH SEMESTER.

Explanation of O.P.T.I.C:

Print picture or painting to fit in reading journal

Overview: Name of Painter and Painting

Part: Pick a quadrant of the painting and explain in detail what you see & why you think the painter painted what he painted.

Time Period: What year? What era? Why is it in that era?

Information: Biographical Information on Painter along with other major works

Comment: Why did you pick this painting?

Explanation of SACS

S ources: Bullet Point 5-7 things you notice about document (Primary or Secondary Source, Time Period etc…)

Analysis: What is the article about? Who wrote it? Purpose for writing the article? Point of View of Author?

C (Context): What is going on in the time period that would make this article so important? This is outside information that is not in the article but what your historical knowledge is.

Synthesis: Or Thesis: Give information and connect it to what we are studying as a thesis statement