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High School: Teachers: Mr. Dempster

Lesson Plans

By James Dempster

March 07, 2010

Teacher:

MR. DEMPSTER

jadempster@genoaschools.com

 Link to course guide:

Freshman U.S. & World Studies course guide

Link to 3rd quarter project

3rd Quarter Follow Directions Opinion Paper (FDOP)

2nd semester topics/Units to be covered:

• Various U.S. Geography activities
• Reconstruction
• Transportation & Industrialization
• Immigration
• Guilded Age/Populism/Progressivism
• Imperialism
• Unification of Germany; Italy; & Russian Revolution
• The Great War (WWI)

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Link to Sociology course guide:

   

 

Week Of:

MARCH 8-12, 2010

 

 

 

 

                             Lesson Plans

Last Friday – March 5

Freshman U.S. & World Studies: 1815-1919

Period 1,2,3,5,7

IMMIGRATION UNIT DAY 7

Video = “The Immigrant Story”

 

Assignment:

Catch up on all reading assignments and worksheets

 

 

Sociology

 

Period 4

Procedures:

Begin film: Castaway

 

Assignment:

Work on Chapter 4 & 5 reading worksheets to turn in next week

 

Monday – March 8

Freshman U.S. & World Studies: 1815-1919

 

Period 1,2,3,5,7

IMMIGRATION UNIT DAY 8

Procedures:

Quiz, REVIEW & possible worksheets

 

Assignment:

Study for TEST

Complete opinion paper

 

                               

Sociology

 

Period 4

Procedures:

Continue film: Castaway

 

Assignment:

Work on Chapter 4 & 5 reading worksheets to turn in tomorrow

 

Tuesday -  3/9

Freshman U.S. & World Studies: 1815-1919

 

Period 1,2,3,5,7

IMMIGRATION UNIT - closure

Discuss & complete minority chart for Immigrants

Begin minority comparison assignment?

 

Assignment:

Complete opinion paper

Study for Immigration Unit TEST

 

                

Sociology

 

Period 4

Procedures:

Continue film: Castaway

 

Assignment:

Review chapters 4 & 5 for upcoming test

 

Wednesday - 3/10

Freshman U.S. & World Studies: 1815-1919

 

Period 1,2,3,5,7

DEADLINE TO TURN IN OPINION PAPERS - BY END OF THE SCHOOL DAY

IMMIGRATION UNIT DAY 9

TEST

 

Assignment:

 

 

                

Sociology

 

Period 4

Procedures:

Conclude Film: Castaway

 

Assignment:

Review chapters 4 & 5 for upcoming test

Thursday - 3/11

Freshman U.S. & World Studies: 1815-1919

 

Period 1,2,3,5,7

Complete minority comparison assignment using charts completed in class.

 

Hand out Gilded Age unit outline

 

Assignment:

Introductory Homework: Read Chapter 8, section 1, pages 246-251

Define key terms: political machine, corruption, graft, kickback, William Marcy Tweed

 

                

Sociology

 

Period 4

Procedures:

Review of chapters 4 & 5

 

Assignment:

study for TEST

  

Friday - 3/12

Freshman U.S. & World Studies: 1815-1919

 

Period 1,2,3,5,7

GILDED AGE UNIT DAY 1

Intro./notes/discussion on political machines and corruption/Video: American Tale

 

 

 

Assignment:

Read pages 252-258

Define key terms: Horace Greeley, Liberal Republican Party, spoils system, Stalwarts, Half-Breeds, Pendleton Civil Service Act, mugwumps  

 

                               

Sociology

 

Period 4

Procedures:

TEST - CHAPTERS 4 & 5

 

Assignment:

Intro to chapter 6

 

 

IMMIGRATION UNIT

Length = About 9 class meetings

 

Chapter/section       pages              Topic

7.1                            220-225           “The New Immigrants” (ALL)

5.2                            172                  top of page–3 paragraphs beginning “European…”

Various handouts & videos

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DAY 1 =          Notes, lecture, discussion about “The Lure of America” and “Arriving in America”

                        Chapter 5.2 page 172 in class

Homework =    Read chapter 7.1, pages 220-222 only

                        Define key terms & people in notebooks: old immigrants, new immigrants,

                         steerage, Ellis Island, AngelIsland

 

DAY 2 =          Notes, lecture, discussion Photos: Ellis Island/Video: PBS History Detectives – Angel Island

                       

DAY 4 =          Notes, lecture, discussion about “A New Life” and “The Nativist Response”

Homework =    Read chapter 7.1, pages 222-225

Define key terms & people in notebooks: benevolent societies, Chinese Exclusion Act, Immigration Restriction League, Dennis Kearney,

Grover Cleveland

 

DAY 5 =          Video  “Statue of Liberty” / Discuss Living conditions – map handout

Homework =    Read and complete worksheets: Statue of Liberty, The New Colossus,

           

DAY 6 =          Quiz/ notes, lecture, discussion about    “People on the Move”  ; “The U.S and World Migration” & “From Country to City”          

 

DAY 7 =          Video = “The Immigrant Story”

Homework = Catch up on all reading assignments and worksheets

 

DAY 8 =          Quiz, REVIEW & possible worksheets

 

DAY 9 = TEST

 

 

Gilded Age Unit

Chapter: Section                      Pages                     Topic

8.1                                           246-251                Political Machines

8.2                                           252-258                Restoring Honest Government

8.3                                           259-265                Populist Movement

9.1                                           274-279                Progressive Movement

9.2                                           280-285                Reforming the New Industrial Order

9.3                                           286-293                Reforming Society

10.1                                         298-302                Reforming Government

10.2                                         303-309                Roosevelt & the Square Deal

10.3                                         310-314                Reform Under Taft

10.4                                        315-321                 Wilson’s “New Freedom”

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Introductory Homework: Read Chapter 8, section 1, pages 246-251

Define key terms: political machine, corruption, graft, kickback, William Marcy Tweed

     

DAY 1:  Intro./notes/discussion on political machines and corruption/Video: American Tale

Homework:      Read pages 252-258

Define key terms: Horace Greeley, Liberal Republican Party, spoils system, Stalwarts, Half-Breeds, Pendleton Civil Service Act, mugwumps  

 

DAY 2:  Notes/discussion on politics of the Gilded Age, restoration of honest government, intro

   to populist movement; in-class reading, worksheet?

Homework:      Read 259-265 & 274-279

Define key terms: National Grange, cooperatives, Interstate Commerce Act, graduated income tax, gold standard, Bland-Allison Act, Sherman Silver Purchase Act, Populist Party, James B. Weaver, William McKinley, William Jennings Bryan, progressivism, muckrakers, Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell, Ray Stannard Baker

 

DAY 3:  Quiz, notes/discussion on populist and progressive movements, literature reading,

Homework:      Read 298-302 & 280-285

            Define key terms: direct primary, Seventeenth Amendment, initiative, referendum, recall, Samuel M. Jones, Tom Johnson, Florence Kelley, Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, freedom of contract, Muller v. Oregon, Louis D. Brendeis, closed shop, socialism, Samuel Gompers, open shop Industrial Workers of the World, William “Big Bill” Haywood, Wobblies

           

DAY 4:  Complete worksheets in class as a small-group activity

 

DAY 5:  Review government & election reform, labor reform; Triangle Shirtwaist Fire reading;

               Read 286-293

               Define key terms: city planning, prohibition, Eighteenth Amendment, W.E.B. DuBois, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Society of    American Indians

 

DAY 6: Complete worksheets/Quiz?

 Lecture notes on city & moral reform, experience of non-white & non-Americans; in-

 class reading,

 Read 303-309

 Define key terms: arbitration, Square Deal, trustbusting

  

 

DAY 7:  Complete worksheet

  Notes on President T. Roosevelt, , Geography activity, National Park video clip

   Read 310-314, 315-321

   Define key terms: Sixteenth Amendment, Bull Moose Party, Federal Reserve Act

 

DAY 8: Video: Teddy Roosevelt

                        Complete worksheet

 

DAY 9:  Notes on the presidencies of William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson, unit review

               STUDY for test on Day 10!

 

DAY 10:  TEST

     Possible European geography activity?

 
 

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