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This page is intended to give overviews for the units. While these unit overviews are quite specific, it is important to know that they may change given the changing nature of classes. The information here is intended to be a baseline. Be sure to pay attention to what happens in class and listen for any modifications to the schedule.
Lessons in Unit
Promises of Reconstruction:
Day 1
Post Civil War Amendments (13th, 14th, 15th)
Chapter 15.1-2 (pgs 410-418)
Read Sections “The Problem of Peacemaking” and “Radical Reconstruction”
Answer unit questions 1 and 2 in left page of homework journal
Living Under Reconstruction
Day 2
The Freedman’s Bureau
Chapter 15.3-4 (pgs 418-425)
Read Sections “The South in Reconstruction” and “The Grant Administration”
Answer unit questions 3 and 4 in left page of homework journal
Primary Source Work
Day 3
Primary Source Work continued
Failures of Reconstruction
Day 4
The Compromise of 1877 and the New South
Chapter 15.3-4 (pgs 426-441)
Read Sections “The Abandonment of Reconstruction” and “The New South”
Answer unit questions 5 and 6 in left page of homework journal
Day 5
Legacy of Reconstruction Discussion and worktime
End of Unit
Day 6
Unit Quiz
Journal Check
Age of Industry Unit Overview
Lessons in Unit
Industrial Supremacy:
Day 1
The process of industrialization
Chapter 17 (pgs 472-499)
Read Chapter 17
Answer unit questions 1, 2, and 3 on left page of homework journal
Day 2
Robber Baron or Reformer Project introduction and worktime
People versus Big Business and Government
Day 3
Party vs Populism and Reform
Chapter 19: Sections 1-4 (pgs 530-547)
Read sections “The Politics of Equilibrium,” “The Agrarian Revolt,” “The Crisis of the 1890s,” and “A Cross of Gold”
Answer unit question 4 on the left page of homework journal
Day 4
Child Labor Research Exploration
Day 5
Child Labor Research Exploration Continued
The Push for Change
Day 6
The role of women in society
Chapter 20: Sections 1-5 (pgs 567-585)
Read sections “The Progressive Impulse,” “Women and Reform,” “The Assault on the Parties,” “Sources of Progressive Reform,” and “Crusade for Social Order and Reform”
Answer unit question 5 on left page of homework journal
Gender discussion
Day 7
Progressive Laws and Amendments (16th-19th)
Chapter 20: Sections 6-9 (pgs 583-598)
Read sections “Challenging the Capitalist Order,” Theodore Roosevelt and the Modern Presidency,” “The Troubled Succession,” and “Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom”
Answer unit questions 6, and 7 on left page of homework journal
End of Unit
Day 8
Project worktime and review day
Day 9
Unit Quiz
Day 10
Robber Baron or Reformer Presentations
Day 11
Robber Baron or Reformer Presentations continued
Lessons in Unit
Immigration Waves and Policy:
Day 1
U.S. Immigration in the late 1800s
Immigration Research Journal Project
Day 2
U.S. Immigration Policy Timeline
Immigration and migration to the West:
Day 3
Development of the West
Chapter 16 (pgs 442-470)
Read Chapter 16
Answer unit questions 1 and 2 on the left page of the homework journal
The Age of the City
Day 4
Life in industrial cities
Chapter 18 (pgs 500-528)
Read Chapter 18
Answer unit questions 3 and 4 on left page of homework journal
How the Other Half Lives Primary Source Work
Day 5
Immigration Research Journal Project continued
Immigration in Connecticut:
Day 6
Connecticut Immigrants’ Stories Activity
Day 7
Connecticut Immigrants’ Stories Activity continued
End of Unit:
Day 8
Project worktime and review day
Day 9
Unit Quiz
Day 10
Immigration Project Presentations
Day 11
Immigration Project Presentations continued