Blog Archives - A More Perfect Union

Daily Agenda

1/31/2017

Content Standards:
Students will explain how the rise of big business, factories, mechanized farming, and the labor movement impacted the lives of Americans.

Learning Target:
I can analyze the effectiveness of Progressive Era political reforms in addressing the problems of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Today's Agenda:

Background Question: Read the article, "Teddy Roosevelt Was Ready from Day One," then write 2-3 sentences summarizing Teddy Roosevelt's influence on the presidency.
Notes - Progressive Politics
Reflection Question: To what degree did Teddy Roosevelt's policies address the problems of the Progressive Era? William Howard Taft? Explain.

Daily Agenda

1/30/2017

Content Standards:
Students will explain how the rise of big business, factories, mechanized farming, and the labor movement impacted the lives of Americans.

Learning Target:
I can analyze the effectiveness of Progressive Era political reforms in addressing the problems of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Today's Agenda:

Background Question: Create Trading Cards for Teddy Roosevelt, William H. Taft, and Woodrow Wilson.
Notes - Progressive Politics
Reflection Question: To what degree did Teddy Roosevelt's policies address the problems of the Progressive Era? Explain.

Daily Agenda

1/26/2017

Content Standards:
Students will explain how the rise of big business, factories, mechanized farming, and the labor movement impacted the lives of Americans.

Learning Target:
I can analyze the effectiveness of Progressive Era political reforms in addressing the problems of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Today's Agenda:

Background Question: What was the Social Gospel Movement? How did it influence attempts at reform at the turn of the century?
Notes - America Moves to the City
Reflection Question:

Daily Agenda

1/25/2017

Content Standards:
Students will explain how the rise of big business, factories, mechanized farming, and the labor movement impacted the lives of Americans.

Learning Target:
I can analyze the effectiveness of Progressive Era political reforms in addressing the problems of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Today's Agenda:

Background Question: Create Trading Cards for Jane Addams, Alice Paul, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, and Marcus Garvey.
Activity: Three Vision for African Americans
Reflection Question: How successful were reformers at addressing the problems that arose at the turn of the century?

Daily Agenda

1/24/2017

Content Standards:
Students will explain how the rise of big business, factories, mechanized farming, and the labor movement impacted the lives of Americans.

Learning Target:
I can summarize the changes that took place in American cities from 1860-1915, & I can predict the problems that will arise as a result.

Today's Agenda:

Background Question: Create Trading Cards for Jacob Riis, Ida B. Wells, and Upton Sinclair.
Activity: America Moves to the City Chart
Reflection Question: What role did the muckrakers play in uncovering problems at the turn of the century?

Daily Agenda

1/23/2017

Content Standards:
Students will explain how the rise of big business, factories, mechanized farming, and the labor movement impacted the lives of Americans.

Learning Target:
I can summarize the changes that took place in American cities from 1860-1915, & I can predict the problems that will arise as a result.

Today's Agenda:

Background Question:
Activity: America Moves to the City Chart
Reflection Question:

Daily Agenda

1/20/2017

Content Standards:
Students will explain how the rise of big business, factories, mechanized farming, and the labor movement impacted the lives of Americans.

Learning Target:
I can summarize the changes that took place in American cities from 1860-1915, & I can predict the problems that will arise as a result.

Today's Agenda:

Background Question:
Activity: Unit 6 Glossary
Reflection Question:

Daily Agenda

1/19/2017

Content Standards:
Students will explain how the rise of big business, factories, mechanized farming, and the labor movement impacted the lives of Americans.

Learning Target:
I can summarize the changes that took place in American cities from 1860-1915, & I can predict the problems that will arise as a result.

Today's Agenda:

Background Question:
Video: The Story of Us - Cities
Reflection Question: Describe 3 problems that developed as American cities grew during the period from 1860 to 1915.

Daily Agenda

1/18/2017

Content Standards:
Students will explain how the rise of big business, factories, mechanized farming, and the labor movement impacted the lives of Americans.

Learning Target:
I can summarize the changes that took place in American cities from 1860-1915, & I can predict the problems that will arise as a result.

Today's Agenda:

Background Question: Create Trading Cards for Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, and the Wright Brothers.
Activity: Urbanization Simulation

Daily Agenda

1/17/2017

Content Standards:
Students will explain how the rise of big business, factories, mechanized farming, and the labor movement impacted the lives of Americans.

Learning Target:
I can describe the growth of industry in the United States, & I can assess its impact on American society.

Today's Agenda:

Background Question: Create Trading Cards Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and J.P. Morgan.
Notes: The Growth of Industry
Reflection Question: How did a belief in laissez faire economics lead to the success of men such as Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, and Carnegie?

History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.

-Mark Twain

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