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Essential Question:
Does the industrialization of America at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century hold any lessons for us today?
Objective:
What are the main vocabulary words and Ideas and geographical places for this unit?
Language Objective:
Student will produce a vocabulary word splash for the important words/people for this unit.
Students will use a word bank.
Students will produce a Google Earth list of all important places
KEY WORDS
Railroads, Barons, Leland Stanford, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Time Zones, George Westinghouse, George Pullman, Samuel Morse, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Granville Woods, Henry Ford, Assembly Line, Mass production, Wright Brothers, TESLA, Capitalism, Corporation, Monopoly, Oil, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, trust, Steel, Banking, J.P. Morgan, working conditions, Labor Unions, Knights of Labor, AFL, Triangle Factory Fire, Strikes, Haymarket Square, Homestead PA, Mother Jones, stocks
*****MUST INCLUDE 10 PICTURES*****
Do now:
Take out Chromebooks
Make a Google Drawing in Quarter Two folder and name it "Chapter Splash Big Business"
DAY 2:
Please make a new Google Earth Document and call it Quarter 2 geography
PLOTS TO POINT ON YOUR GOOGLE EARTH LIST (8) Items
New York - Cornelius Vanderbilt Lives
New Jersey- Thomas Edison (Menlo Park)
Detroit Michigan- Henry Ford
North Carolina- Wright Brothers
Pennsylvania- Standard Oil Company
Pittsburg- Carnegie Steel
New York city- Triangle Factory Fire
Chicago- Haymarket Square Riot
Essential Question:
Does the industrialization of America at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century hold any lessons for us today?
Objective:
What is the first major topic for this unit?
What is an inventor?
If we used the show Shark Tank, would we be able to recreate the show using inventors from the 1800-1900s?
Language Objective:
Student will create a "mock episode" of shark tank
Students will decide the important inventions of the inventors
Students will be working with partners
Students will be justifying a list of importance.
Essential Question:
Essential Question:
Did big businesses in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s help the United States economy grow quickly?
Did big businesses in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s help the United States economy grow quickly?
Objective:
Objective:
How did Railroads contribute to the growth of business and industry?
How did Railroads contribute to the growth of business and industry?
Language Objective:
Students will explain, arrange and create a pamphlet .
Objective:
Objective:
How did "Robber Barons and/or "Captains of Industry" contribute to the growth of business and industry?
How did "Robber Barons and/or "Captains of Industry" contribute to the growth of business and industry?
What is an entrepreneur?
What is an entrepreneur?
en·tre·pre·neur
en·tre·pre·neur
- a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.
"Captain of Industry"
In the 19th century, a captain of industry was a business leader whose means of amassing a personal fortune contributed positively to the country in some way.
This may have been through increased productivity, expansion of markets, providing more jobs, or acts of philanthropy.
"Robber Barons"
"Robber Barons"
The term "robber baron" was first used in the Middle Ages to describe businessmen who used unethical methods to monopolize industry and were known to exploit workers. It was later applied to many of the American industrial tycoons of the late 19th and early 20th centuries
Essential Question:
Essential Question:
How did big businesses and other factors in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s help the United States economy grow quickly?
How did big businesses and other factors in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s help the United States economy grow quickly?
Objective:
Objective:
How did the rivalry between Unions and Business Owners begin and what interactions did they have during this time period?
How did the rivalry between Unions and Business Owners begin and what interactions did they have during this time period?
Language Objective:
Language Objective:
The students will be reading and placing people around a dinner table. They will have to speak to their partners in order to know who sits where at the table.
The students will be reading and placing people around a dinner table. They will have to speak to their partners in order to know who sits where at the table.
Do now:
Do now:
Please wait for directions:
Please wait for directions:
Labor union:
Labor union:
an organization that acts as an intermediary between its members and the business that employs them.
an organization that acts as an intermediary between its members and the business that employs them.
The main purpose of labor unions is to give workers the power to negotiate for more favorable working conditions and other benefits through collective bargaining.
The main purpose of labor unions is to give workers the power to negotiate for more favorable working conditions and other benefits through collective bargaining.
Thanksgiving:
In 1621, the Plymouth colonists from England and the Native American Wampanoag people shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. For more than two centuries, days of thanksgiving were celebrated by individual colonies and states.
Essential Question:
Essential Question:
How did big businesses and other factors in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s help the United States economy grow quickly?
How did big businesses and other factors in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s help the United States economy grow quickly?
Objective:
Objective:
What is a trust? What is a monopoly? How do they impact us now?
What is a trust? What is a monopoly? How do they impact us now?
Language Objective:
Language Objective:
The students will be reading text and summarizing answers to questions
The students will be reading text and summarizing answers to questions
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Do now:
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