Browsing Archive: November, 2015

Week of November 30th:

Posted by Jennifer Given on Sunday, November 29, 2015,

Triangle Shirt Waist Factory Fire

Monday, November 30th: 

Classwork: Intro to Labor/Unions.  Intro to vocab (to be completed this week).  Class notes on Gilded Age response to industry and inequality. Presidents DVD clips (Cleveland and Harrison) 

Homework: Continue to work on Gilded Age Current Events for Friday. 


Tuesday, December 1st: 

Classwork: Periods 2 and 5: Warm up: Thesis statements. Video and discussion: Triangle Shirt Waist Factory Fire. 

Homework: Continue to work on vocabula...


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Week of November 23rd:

Posted by Jennifer Given on Sunday, November 22, 2015,



Monday, November 23rd: Monday schedule

Classwork: Discuss thesis statements. Discuss social darwinism. Introduce Gilded Age Current Events. 

Homework: No homework. 


Tuesday, November 24th: (Friday schedule, NO PLC) 

Classwork: Continue to work on Gilded Age Current Events. Topic and minimum of one additional source due at the end of the block. Assignment due December 4th. 

Homework: No homework. 


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Week of November 16th:

Posted by Jennifer Given on Sunday, November 15, 2015,



Monday, November 16th: 

Classwork: Crash Course on Industrialization. Notes and discussion on commerce clause and patents. Game: Heads up, using inventors vocabulary. 

Homework: No homework. 


Tuesday, November 17th: 

Classwork: Periods 2,5: Warmup: quote analysis. Class notes: Cities. Excerpts and questions from Devil in the White City. 

Homework: Complete questions on the reading for next block. 


Wednesday, November 18th:

Classwork: Period 2: Warm up: Free Read. Discussion on reading. Kaho...


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Week of November 9th:

Posted by Jennifer Given on Sunday, November 8, 2015,


Monday, November 9th: WEDNESDAY SCHEDULE - Veteran's Day Assembly 

Classwork: Periods 2,3,7: Warm up: SOAPSTone.  Go over vocabulary.  Outline essays.  Video clip on the Turner Thesis. 

Homework: Complete outlines.  Due next block. 


Tuesday, November 10th: 

Classwork: Classwork: Periods 2: Warm up: Free Read. Introduction to Industrialization.  Activity on inventions and innovations of the late 19th/early 20th centuries. 

Period 5: Warm up: SOAPSTone.  Go over vocabulary.  Outline essays.  V...


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Week of November 2nd:

Posted by Jennifer Given on Sunday, November 1, 2015,

Monday, November 2nd: 

Classwork: Free Read. Introduce GO WEST! game.

Homework: No Homework. 


Tuesday, November 3rd: 

Classwork: Periods 2 and 5: Play GO WEST! game. Use primary sources to move your team westward. 

Homework: No Homework: 


Wednesday, November 4th: 

Classwork: Period 2: Finish playing GO WEST! game. Complete final primary source analysis. 

Periods 3,7: Play GO WEST! game. Use primary sources to move your team westward. 

Homework: No Homework. 


Thursday, November 5th: 

Classw...


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