Wednesday 9/19

BW: Read “One American’s Story” on page 196. Who was Jacob Riis? What did Jacob Riis learn about life in the United States?

CW: child labor activity

HW: 4.1-4.2                                                                                                                                                                   

 

Thursday 9/20

BW: Read "One American's Story" on page 204. What is the importance of the term "Gilded Age"?

CW: 4.1-4.2

Begin film- Hester Street

HW: 4.3

 

Friday 9/21

BW: Read "One American's Story" on page 228. What happened to Camella Teoli? How does this story reflect both immigrant and labor problems during this time?

CW: continue film- Hester Street

HW: 4.3

 

Monday 9/24

BW: Read “Water,” “Sanitation,” “Crime,” and “Fire” on pages

200-202. Describe how water, sanitation, crime, and fire were problems in the rapidly growing cities of the industrial era.

CW: 4.3

HW: 5.3

 

Tuesday 9/25- HALF DAY

BW: Read “Women and Reform” and “A Three-Part Strategy for Suffrage” on page 254-255. What is suffrage? What happened at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848? What was the Three-Part Strategy for Suffrage?

CW: Suffrage something
HW: Notes 5.3

 

Wednesday 9/26

BW: Read “Expanding Public Education” starting on page 238, and also examine the graph. What was the state of education at the turn of the century? Why did high school enrollment rise? How was school enrollment different for African Americans? What was the purpose of Henry Ford’s Sociology Department?

CW: 5.3

Plessy activity

HW: 5.1

 

Thursday 9/27

BW: p. 231- What is a muckraker? p. 232- What did Ida Tarbell and Lincoln Steffens try to expose through their muckraking?

CW: 5.1

HW: none

 

Friday 9/28

BW: Read “The Settlement House Movement” starting on page 201. What was the Social Gospel movement?

What is a settlement house? Which of the four goals of Progressivism was best served by the settlement house movement?

CW: Quiz

HW: Test Monday

 

Monday 10/1

BW: Read “Promoting Fine Arts” on page 219-220. What was realism? What was the Ashcan School?

HW: Review Day

Test Monday

 

Tuesday 10/2

BW: Read “Mass Circulation Newspapers” on pages 221-222. How did Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst compete for customers? How did circulation change by 1898?

CW: Test

HW: Read “Mass Circulation Newspapers” on pages 221-222.

How did Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst compete for customers?

How did circulation change by 1898?

 

 

Unit 2 Outline: 

Outline for Notes