Lesson 9: Towards the America of Today Essay
Performance Task
Lesson 8: Primary Sources
Activity: Read and analyze one of the primary sources from P644-627
Lesson 7: Review and Test
Lesson 6: War!
Notes: Prezi
Assessment: RI 8.8 - How does the public view of the conflict change over time?
Lesson 5: Reform Movements
Activity: Jigsaw - make a poster describing your group and efforts made to help them
1. Women
2. Alcoholics
3. African-Americans
4. Asian-Americans
5. Mexican-Americans
6. Catholic-Americans
7. Jewish-Americans
Use Textbook Sections 15.3-15.4
And Quiz
Lesson 3: New Presidents
Notes: PPT
Assessment: Four Quarters Organizer (Goal and accomplishment for each President)
Quiz
Unit:
Lesson 1: Welcome to The Jungle
Activity: Paired reading of excerpt (P528-529)
Assessment: RI 8.1
Primary Sources:
Collection of Teddy Roosevelt's Speeches
Act Establishing Yellowstone National Park (1872)
Pendleton Act (1883)
Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)
Plessy v Ferguson (1896)
Platt Amendment (1903)
Resolution to Annex Hawaii (1898)
Roosevelt's Corollary to Monroe Doctrine (1905)
16th Amendment (1913)
17th Amendment (1913)
Child Labor Act (1916)
Zimmermann Telegram (1917)
Declaration of War on Germany (1917)
Wilson's 14 Points (1918)
18th Amendment (1919)
19th Amendment (1920)
Accounts of The Great Chicago Fire (1871)
Accounts of the Triangle Factory Fire (1911)
Accounts of the Prohibition Movement
Accounts of the Spanish-American War
Secondary Sources:
On America's most controversial President: Historynet: "Woodrow Wilson" by Paula Spahn.
Teddy: NYBR: "The TR Show"by Susan Dunn.
Graduation Test: MentalFloss: "Are you Smarter than an Eighth Grader? 1912 Edition" by Lucas Reilly.
Before he was President: Historynet: "The 'Man of Force' Who Saved Belgium" by Richard Ernsberger Jr.
Multimedia:
Inside an American Factory (1904)
CrashCourse: Growth, Cities, and Immigration 12:44
CrashCourse: Gilded Age Politics 13:50
CrashCourse: The Progressive Era 15:00
CrashCourse: American Imperialism 14:03
CrashCourse: Progressive Presidents 15:06
CrashCourse: America in World War One 13:39
CrashCourse: Women's Suffrage 13:30
Berkeley US History: The Gilded Age 33:20
Soviet Propaganda: The American Millionaire 9:54
Media Rich Learning: Spanish-American War 7:53
History Channel: Teddy Roosevelt 14:41
History Channel: Howard Taft 6:50
History Channel: Woodrow Wilson 12:12
The Assassination of William McKinley 2:26
How Doctors Killed President Garfield 7:20
BBC: US Troops Enter World War One 3:36