Lesson Plans
By James Dempster
March 07, 2010
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MR. DEMPSTERLink 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Link to Sociology course guide: |
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MARCH 8-12, 2010
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Lesson Plans
Last Friday – March 5
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Freshman U.S. & World Studies: 1815-1919 Period 1,2,3,5,7 |
IMMIGRATION UNIT DAY 7 Video = “The Immigrant Story” |
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Assignment: Catch up on all reading assignments and worksheets |
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Sociology
Period 4 |
Procedures: Begin film: Castaway |
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Assignment: Work on Chapter 4 & 5 reading worksheets to turn in next week |
Monday – March 8
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Freshman U.S. & World Studies: 1815-1919
Period 1,2,3,5,7 |
IMMIGRATION UNIT DAY 8 Procedures: Quiz, REVIEW & possible worksheets |
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Assignment: Study for TEST Complete opinion paper |
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Sociology
Period 4 |
Procedures: Continue film: Castaway |
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Assignment: Work on Chapter 4 & 5 reading worksheets to turn in tomorrow |
Tuesday - 3/9
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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? |
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Assignment: Complete opinion paper Study for Immigration Unit TEST |
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Sociology
Period 4 |
Procedures: Continue film: Castaway |
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Assignment: Review chapters 4 & 5 for upcoming test |
Wednesday - 3/10
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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 |
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Assignment:
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Sociology
Period 4 |
Procedures: Conclude Film: Castaway |
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Assignment: Review chapters 4 & 5 for upcoming test |
Thursday - 3/11
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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 |
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Assignment: Introductory Homework: Read Chapter 8, section 1, pages 246-251 Define key terms: political machine, corruption, graft, kickback, William Marcy Tweed |
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Sociology
Period 4 |
Procedures: Review of chapters 4 & 5 |
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Assignment: study for TEST |
Friday - 3/12
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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
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Assignment: Read pages 252-258 Define key terms: Horace Greeley, Liberal Republican Party, spoils system, Stalwarts, Half-Breeds, Pendleton Civil Service Act, mugwumps |
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Sociology
Period 4 |
Procedures: TEST - CHAPTERS 4 & 5 |
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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?
