3rd Quarter, Week 8

Monday:  Mrs. McCoy is home with her sick son 😦

1. New Warm Ups
2. Map of the world, charting paths of 1st and 2nd wave of immigrants

Tuesday: (Mrs. McCoy is now home sick herself)

1. Video on Industralization

Wednesday:

1. review days that I was gone
2. push and pull factor demonstration
3. Primary Source Analysis:

                     a.  Political Cartoon: “Looking Backward” (Old immigrants vs.  New immigrants)

• Homework: Venn Diagram on old and new immigrants (first and second wave of immigrants)

Thursday:

Review Venn Diagram Homework

1. Primary Source Analysis

                        b. “What Every Emigrant Should Know” primary source

                        c.  Analysis of “The New Colossus”

       2.  5 new terms for alphabet dictionary

Friday:

1. Photo Analysis: 3 different photos
2. 5 new terms for alphabet dictionary

• Homework: Photo Analysis and written response

3rd Quarter, Week 7

I hope everybody enjoyed their day off for President’s Day and now we begin the stretch before spring break!  Here are this week’s plans:

 

Tuesday:

1. New Warm Ups
2. Complete Industrial Revolution Assignments:  Review Stations, make sure trading cards are finished. 
3. Compare/Contrast Rockefeller, Carnegie, & Gould as well as Jane Addams and Mother Jones
4. Organize Binders

Wednesday

1. Review Handout on Industrial Revolution
2. Pre-AP: Introduction to ASPIRE
3. Binder Checks

Pre-AP Homework: Log into ASPIRE and complete “McCoy Industrial Revolution Homework”

Thursday

1. Industrial Revolution Quiz
2. Begin “An American Tail”: A look at push and pull factors regarding immigration to America 1880-1910.

• Pre-AP” Finish Technology Then & Now Projects

Friday:

1. PreAP: Technology then and now projects are due.
2. Push-Pull Factor Demonstration
3. Finish An American Tail

• Homeowrk for all classes: Describe 3 incidents shown in An American Tail that reflect actual push and pull factors in American History.

3rd Quarter, Week 6

Hi everybody, here is the information and schedule for the week:

Progress Reports will be going home this week.  They will include two quizzes and two units worth of work.  We are currently working on our 3rd unit this quarter: the Industrial Revolution. 🙂

Pre-Ap classes are working on a photo essay using PowerPoint to compare and contrast technology from the Industrial Revolution to now, the Technological Revolution.  We will be spending some time in the lab and the students are to be taking photos of technology in use in 4 different categories:  Work/school, communication, transportation, and entertainment.  They are off to a good start. 🙂

Monday:

1. Reading the children’s book “The Bobbin Girl”
2. Notes: Why the Industrial Revolution occurred when it did.

Tuesday:

1. Pre-AP: Computer lab for photo essay projects
2. 3rd, 4th, and 6th:  Chapter 20 vocabulary
3. The Business Cycle and the board game “Monopoly”

• Pre-AP Homework: Chapter 20 vocabulary

Wednesday:

The impact of the Transcontinental Railroad

1. Pre-AP: Building a 4 car railroad showing the economic, political, geographic, and social causes and effects of the Transcontinental Railroad
2. 3rd, 4th, and 6th Hours:  Categorizing the causes and effects of the Transcontinental Railroad

Thursday:

1. Comparing and Contrasting the Impact of Individuals in the Industrial Revolution:  Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and Jay Gould; Mother Jones and Jane Addams.
2. Slideshow on the Gilded Age

• Homework: Philanthropy writing assignment

Friday:

1. Stations: History Challenge!

3rd Quarter, Week 5

Hooray!  We are FINALLY done with the Civil War AND Reconstruction!  I am so excited to start teaching and learning about industrialization and immigration in America between 1880 and 1910.  This unit will take us all the way to spring break.  Here is the schedule for the week:

Monday:

1. New Warm Ups
2. Defining what the Industrial Revolution is
3. Industrial Revolution Vocabulary

• Homework: Technology comparison between students and parents

Tuesday

1. Maps: Natural Resources in America and the Transcontinental Railroad
2. Pre-AP: Written Response to Geography’s connection to the Industrial Revolution.

Wednesday: Half Day Write.  Go to 4th hour, then to activities

Thursday:

1. The Rise of Big Business
2. Pre-AP: Compare and Contrast Rockefeller and Carnegie

Friday:

1. Stations on chapter 20