4 Politics: Gilded Age to Progressive Era
Wednesday, 1/4: 1. Before & Afters - #TrashTag
2. Overview of 2nd Semester Timeline notes
3. Gov't Intro + Ideas of conservative and liberal
a. US Gov’t Notes - 3 branches plus 3 levels of government - checks and balances to keep balance of power
Thursday, 1/5: 1. Late passes and Redo pass
2. Gilded meaning - Begin Gilded Age notes through 'Pater' questions & Federal Level Scandals Notes
Friday, 1/6: 1. Watch a short on Ulysses S Grant
1. Gilded Age Presidents (hard copy): Use THIS SITE to complete. Due Monday.
Monday, 1/9: 1. Grade Gilded Age Presidents
Tuesday, 1/10: 1. We started with learning about Tom Pendergast and then the Kansas City Massacre at Union Station.
2. Political Machine assignment: Answer Questions over Pendergast. Repeat for Tammany Hall's Boss Tweed + Political Cartoons
Boss Tom Pendergast Historic Missourians
Wednesday, 1/11: 1. We watched this on Tammany Hall. We then finished the assignment and graded it.
2. We began to clean up the corruption by discussing the different points of view about government - defined Liberal and Conservative.
Thursday, 1/12: 1. Intro to Progressive Era - Popular Sovereignty and the Overton Window. We created notes and introduced the Progressive Era.
2. Cleaning up the Corruption - Mix and Match - 1st. Match what it is. 2nd Match an example of it. 3rd. Match up how it cleans up corruption.
16th
17th
Recall
Referendum
Petition
Friday, 1/13: 1. Finish intro to Progressive Era - all the different topics web
2. Complete the 16th/17/R/R/I assignment
Monday, 1/16: MLK Day - No School
Tuesday, 1/17: 1. Grade Cleaning up the Corruption assignment
Begin Muckrakers info
2. Info Literacy Today (6 Corporations) + Bias Notes
Wednesday, 1/18: 1. Muckrakers Info. The Jungle
Thursday, 1/19: 1. Muckrakers Assignment - Groups of 2 - 3 each
Make a copy and save it to ‘4 Progressive Era’
Friday, 1/20: 1. Muckraker’s Due to Classroom
Haves & Have nots - tying together the poverty of the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era
2. Intro to immigration - Shortened intro to immigration - Pics by Jacob Riis showing the poverty of the Cities.
Jane Addams & Hull House begin the Settlement House movement - watch and then read the article together - do questions
Monday, 1/23: 1. Grade Jane Addams & Hull House
2. Populist Movement - Introduce 'Populism' and watch History Channel's 'What is Populism?'
Tuesday, 1/24: 1. Finish Bimetallism Notes - 'Cross of Gold' speech (Transcript - last paragraph + Audio)
2. Comparing Bimetallism to The Wizard of Oz (the people) and the Issues (start at 6th paragraph down)
Wednesday, 1/25: Snow Day - No School
Thursday, 1/26: 1. Grade Wizard of Oz Assignment
2. Intro - Amazon Unionization
Unions Notes
Friday, 1/27: - Finish the Unions Notes
1. City Reforms - You and a partner do one together and then divide and conquer to complete the work. Then do the questions at the bottom together.
One partner make a copy and save '4 Progressive Era' then share with other partner, who saves to the same folder.
Monday, 1/30: Take notes over TR in your note packet
If absent, Teddy Roosevelt notes - Complete your note packet while watching this lecture over TR.
Tuesday, 1/31: 1. Intro - Please do not be like these women.
Notes over Women's Suffrage = 19th Amendment - Picketing the White House
Understand the plight of how women were treated in this clip from Iron Jawed Angels showing Alice Paul in prison. (Interview in prison)
Wednesday, 2/1: 1. Finish Suffrage Notes - Check out a good and artistic summary of the movement HERE.
Thursday, 2/2: 1. Prohibition: packet for notes and thinking over its effects to answer the questions over the statistics: 'Why was it 'noble'? Why was it an 'experiment'?
If absent, HERE is the lecture you to take notes. Please email me for the digital copy of the blank notes if you do have your paper copy.
Friday, 2/3: 1. Create a review sheet from our Need to Knows: 3rd Hour
2. Review Game