Date |
In Class Activity |
Upcoming Homework |
Homework due next class |
Thur/Fri
8/17-18 |
What is history and historiography?:
Rules and procedures
Cornell Notes practice: Lecture - America moves west |
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Read over, sign, and have your parents sign the class contract
rint out and have your parents sign the Film Permission Slip, sign them and return them by Tuesday.
Over the course of the semester each student is required to do 3 out of class participation forms each semester. These do not count for events you are required to do (e.g. football players going to a football game). the rules are here HOC description. Remember two are school events supporting your peers and the third is a historical visit with pictures and a paragraph about the experience. |
Mon/Tues
8/21-22 |
Lecture: America Moves West
Video: Frontier House |
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Interatively read handout and do the questions. Here it is if you weren't in class today. |
Wed/Thur
8/23-24 |
America Moves West
Plight of Native Americans (Stations Activity &. Genocide discussion) |
Bring a laptop to class |
Watch & Take Notes on Crash Course #25: Growth, Cities, and Immigration (Do not forget to have a summary at the end 3-5 sentences. |
Fri/Mon
8/25-28 |
Finish group think on Boarding Schools, Discuss adoptions and genocide
Lecture/Video: Intro to the Gilded Age
Assign Sweatshop 'Trial' |
Gilded Age Extra Credit Opportunities: Watch 3 episodes of the television show The Knick or The Alienist |
Watch, take Notes, and summarize Crash Course #26: Politics of the Gilded Age
For next Thursday/Friday, be prepared with the Sweatshop Trial: on 10/29 by writing a 1 to 1 1/2 page opening statement. The individual groups Multinational Corporations, Poor Country Ruling Elite, Poor Country Workers, United States Consumer, System of Profit |
Tues/Wed
8/29-30 |
Continue Gilded Age PPT
Lecture: Push-Pull Immigration and Immigration Stations 1-3 & 6-7
---You must be the change we wish to see in the world.'
-Mahatma Gandhi |
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Finish prepping for the Sweatshop Trial: by writing a 1 page opening statement. The individual groups Multinational Corporations, Poor Country Ruling Elite, Poor Country Workers, United States Consumer, System of Profit |
Thur/Fri
8/31-9/1 |
Begin Lecture: Life for the Middle Class & Labor in the Gilded Age
Start Lecture: American Labor Movement
Sweatshop Trial and post powerpoint: Click on this link.
Assign Immigration History Reports |
Start Work on Family history immigration projects |
Finish the Sweatshop Trial Worksheet. |
Tues/Wed
9/5-9/6 |
Finish Immigration Stations
Labor in the Gilded Age Lecture
Labor Unit analysis and do the Labor Movement Analysis
Start Lecture: Progressives
Introduce & Choose roles for the Presidential Progressive Simulation: Election of 1912< |
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Print out the Labor Movement Analysis you did in class today and turn it in next class
Finish Immigration Reports. |
Thur/Fri
9/7-9/8 |
Immigration Reports |
If you received a character for the 1912 Election today, read through your packet. |
Print out and take Cornell notes on John Spargo looks at Child Labor |
Mon/Tues
9/11-9/12 |
Start Lecture: Progressives - video clip and Jungle reading
Progressive
Assign Progressive 'Activity' |
Read through your 1912 election character/position handout if you haven't already. |
Print out and skim through the 1912 Elections packet. It does not need to be interactively read.
Make sure you have a slogan and idea for your progressive mini-project (you will get 40 minutes to work on it in class). |
Wed/Thur
9/13-9/14 |
Work on Progressive Mini-Project
Case Study Women's Suffrage
Explain 1912 Pres Election Simulation
Begin Lecture: Presidential Progressives Movement |
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Finish your Progressive Project and be ready to present
Characters be dressed (head to toe) and be prepared to give a speech (no longer than 90 seconds) presenting who you are and what you're looking for in a candidate for the next class. (You will turn it in). Candidates dress (upper half at least) and be prepared to give a brief speech (no longer than 90 seconds) introducing yourself and explaining your viewpoint on one of your key issues. The Campaign Managers will give a 20-second speech introducing their character candidate speech. The campaign team makes ads and hangs them in the classroom before class. Also, be prepared to have a commercial on Day 2. |
Fri/Mon
9/15-9/18 |
Work on Progressive Muckrakers (period 1)
Continue Progressive PPT:
Present Progressive Project
Pres Progressive Simulation Day 1: Campaigning to the undecided. Commercials. |
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Prep for presidential simulation: Campaigns. VPs will give speeches on Day 2, campaign team will decorate the classroom, and show ads. President will campaign
Print out and bring to class the Trial of Woodrow Wilson (you don't need to do anything with it yet -- except bring to class.
Be prepared for a Quiz/Test (Quest) Thursday/Friday on the West, Gilded Age & Populism Gilded Age/Populism. (Most of the test will be Gilded Age/Progressivism. |
Tues/Wed
9/19-9/20 |
Continue Presidential Progressive PPT
Presidential Election Day 2: Speeches by Progressive Players & candidates & Election:
Do DBQ on progressive era within time limit or political cartoons on progressive era |
Take a look at the studyguides for our test.Gilded Age/Populism and progressives |
Prep for the final day of the simulation: Candidates will debate
Be prepared for a Quiz/Test (Quest) next class on the West and Progressives. Remember, the bulk of the test is Gilded Age (25%) and Progressive Era(70%) (more on progressives. Also - Know the states) West is only (5%). There are PDFs of my powerpoints and some student notes in files under West, Gilded Age, & Progressives |
Thur/Fri
9/21-9/22 |
Quest: West thru Progressives
Presidential Election Day #3: Debate, commercials & election vote
Assign roles for the Trial of Woodrow Wilson and the Metaphor Project |
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Interactively Read Historians & the Progressives
Go to new Website Imperialism & WW1 |