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High School: Teachers: Mr. Dempster

Lesson Plans

By James Dempster

February 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:

FEBRUARY 8-12, 2010

 

 

 

Lesson Plans

Last Friday – Feb. 5

 

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

 

Period 1,2,3,5,7

TRANSPORTATION & INDUSTRIALIZATION UNIT DAY 1

Introduction/notes, lecture, discussion about transportation, industry, railroads and farming.

Read in class from chapter 2.2 &  5.2

Discuss and listen to music selection The Erie Canal, map and handouts.

 

Assignment:

Reread chapter 1.3 (pages 79-80 & 81-82); chapter 5.2 pages(171 & 173)       

Define key terms & people in notebooks: Henry Clay, American System, strike, nativism, Pacific Railway Act, “Self-binding” harvesters, combine, bonanza farm.

 

                

Sociology

 

Period 4

Procedures:

  1. Begin chapter 3 – Conformity & Deviance
  2. Notes/discussion: preview/intro.
 

Assignment:

  1. Read chapter 3.1 page 46

 

 

 

Monday

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

 

Period 1,2,3,5,7

TRANSPORTATION & INDUSTRIALIZATION UNIT DAY 2

  1. Notes, lecture, discussion about inventions
  2. Worksheets?

 

 

Assignment:

Read chapter 6.1, pages 192-200

Define key terms & people in notebooks: Bessemer process, patent, Transcontinental railroad, trunk lines, telegraph, Edwin L. Drake, Elijah McCoy, George Westinghouse, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Alva Edison, Lewis Latimer.

 

                

Sociology

 

Period 4

Procedures:

  1. Notes discussion on chapter 3.1
 

Assignment:

  1. Read chapter 3.1 & define terms in notebooks

 

Tuesday

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

 

Period 1,2,3,5,7

TRANSPORTATION & INDUSTRIALIZATION UNIT DAY 3

  1. Begin worksheets on effects of major industries with notes

 

 

Assignment:

possible worksheets/complete all previous reading & defining

 

                

Sociology

 

Period 4

Procedures:

  1. Notes/discussion chapter 3.2
 

Assignment:

  1. Read chapter 3.2 & define terms in notes

 

 

 

 

Wednesday

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

 

Period 1,2,3,5,7

TRANSPORTATION & INDUSTRIALIZATION UNIT DAY 4

Procedures:

  1. Quiz 6.1?
  2. Notes, lecture, discussion about “The Rise of Big Business”
  3. VIDEO (Pittsburgh)
 

Assignment:

Begin to Read chapter 6.2 (p. 201-308)

Define key terms & people in notebooks: Laissez-faire capitalism, free enterprise, Communism, social Darwinism, corporation, trust, monopoly, vertical integration,

horizontal integration, Horatio Alger Jr., Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt, George Pullman.

 

                

Sociology

 

Period 4

Procedures:

  • Notes/discussion chapter 3.3
 

Assignment:

  • Read chapter 3.3 & define key terms in notes

 

Thursday

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

 

Period 1,2,3,5,7

TRANSPORTATION & INDUSTRIALIZATION UNIT DAY 5

  1. Notes, lecture, discussion about “The Rise of Big Business”
  2. VIDEO (Pittsburgh)

 

 

Assignment:

Finish reading chapter 6.2 (p. 201-208)

Define remainder of Day 4 key terms & people in notebooks

 

                

Sociology

 

Period 4

Procedures:

  1. Notes/discussion chapter 3.4
 

Assignment:

  1. Read chapter 3.4 & define terms into notes

 

Friday

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

 

Period 1,2,3,5,7

TRANSPORTATION & INDUSTRIALIZATION UNIT DAY 6

Quiz 6.2?

Notes, lecture, discussion about “Labor Strives to Organize”           

                       

 

Assignment:

Begin to Read chapter 6.3 (pages 209-215)

Define key terms, people & places in notebooks: Sherman Antitrust Act, Knights of Labor, Great Upheaval, Haymarket Riot, anarchists, American Federation of Labor, Terence V. Powderly, Mary Harris Jones, Eugene V. Debs, Haymarket Square, Homestead, Pullman

 

                

Sociology

 

Period 4

Procedures:

  1. Notes/discussion chapter 3.5
 

Assignment:

  1. Read chapter 3.5 & define terms in notebooks

 

TRANSPORTATION & INDUSTRIALIZATION UNIT

Length = About 10 class meetings

Chapter/section          pages              Topic

2.2                               79-80               “A Transportation Revolution”

2.2                               81-82               “The Industrial North”

5.2                               171                  “The Railroads”

5.2                               173                  “New Farming Equipment”

6.1                               192-200           “The Age of Invention” (ALL)

6.2                               201-208           “The Rise of Big Business” (ALL)

6.3                               209-215           “Labor Strives to Organize” (ALL)

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DAY 1 =         Introduction/notes, lecture, discussion about transportation, industry, railroads

                        and farming.

                        Read in class from chapter 2.2 &  5.2

                        Discuss and listen to music selection The Erie Canal, map and handouts.Homework =    Reread chapter 1.3 (pages 79-80 & 81-82); chapter 5.2 pages(171 & 173)   

Define key terms & people in notebooks: Henry Clay, American System, strike, nativism, Pacific Railway Act, “Self-binding” harvesters, combine, bonanza farm.

DAY 2 =          Notes, lecture, discussion about inventions 

Worksheets?

Homework =    Read chapter 6.1, pages 192-200

Define key terms & people in notebooks: Bessemer process, patent,

Transcontinental railroad, trunk lines, telegraph, Edwin L. Drake,

Elijah McCoy, George Westinghouse, Alexander Graham Bell,

Thomas Alva Edison, Lewis Latimer.         

DAY 3 =          Begin worksheets on effects of major industries with notes

Homework = possible worksheets/complete all previous reading & defining

DAY 4 =          Quiz 6.1?

Notes, lecture, discussion about “The Rise of Big Business”/VIDEO (Pittsburgh)

Homework =    Begin to Read chapter 6.2 (p. 201-308)

                        Define key terms & people in notebooks: Laissez-faire capitalism, free enterprise, Communism, social Darwinism, corporation, trust, monopoly, vertical integration, horizontal integration, Horatio Alger Jr., Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt, George Pullman.

DAY 5 =          Notes, lecture, discussion about “The Rise of Big Business”/VIDEO (Pittsburgh)

Homework =    Finish reading chapter 6.2 (p. 201-208)

                        Define remainder of Day 4 key terms & people in notebooks

DAY 6 =          Quiz 6.2?

Notes, lecture, discussion about “Labor Strives to Organize”    

Homework =    Begin to Read chapter 6.3 (pages 209-215)

                        Define key terms, people & places in notebooks: Sherman Antitrust Act, Knights of Labor, Great Upheaval, Haymarket Riot, anarchists, American Federation of Labor, Terence V. Powderly, Mary Harris Jones, Eugene V. Debs, Haymarket Square, Homestead, Pullman

DAY 7 =          Notes, lecture, discussion about            “Labor Strives to Organize”     

Homework =    Finish reading chapter 6.3 (pages 209-215)

Complete defining remainder of Day 6  key terms, people & places in notebooks.                     

DAY 8 =          Quiz 6.3?

Notes, lecture, discussion about “Industrialization and Global Trade”    

DAY 9 =          REVIEW

                        Video: Industrial Revolution

DAY 10 =        TEST!

 

 
 

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