Class Agenda

1.  Bell Ringer: You are the president of the United States, and you need to appoint someone to be the Secretary of Defense (military/defense adviser to the president).  Question:  How would YOU choose someone to fill that VERY important job?  Jot down some ideas...
2.  Pair-Share Activity:  Progressivism (Politics/Business) on pg. 6 (textbook pgs. 594-596).
3.  Review.
HW - Page 6A "Reforming the Government" (textbook pgs. 599-601)

Class Agenda

1.  Bell Ringer:  Using the pictures in power point, answer the following review questions:

• What was happening in these pictures?
• What impact did this event have on America?

2.  Class Notes (Pg. 5A) - discuss/define words:  progress, reform, corrupt
3.  Vocab (Pg. 4-5)
HW - Finish Vocab.

Class Agenda: November 17 - 23

We will be working on a DBQ Essay in class.  We will be taking it step by step to complete the assignment:

Wednesday:  CRQ questions and review responses
Thursday:  Analyze the documents and develop a thesis statement
Friday:  Create topic sentences and an essay outline
Monday:  Start to write the essay
Tuesday:  Finish essay

NOTE:  To anyone absent on Thursday and/or Friday, click here for a copy of our class discussion/brainstorm notes for:  document analysis, thesis statement, topic sentences, and essay outline. Be sure to use your "Guide to Writing DBQs" to be sure you follow all the necessary steps.  

Class Agenda

1.  Bell Ringer:  Do pg. 1 of your Industrial Revolution packet.
2.  Industrial Revolution Test
HW - None

Class Agenda

1.  Bell Ringer:  Using Page 26a...write which predictions came true or kinda-true.  Discuss inventions. 
2.  Webquest for "Inventors/Pioneers of the Industrial Era" on pg. 27.
HW - Study for Industrial Revolution Test tomorrow.  Review Sheet is on pg. 29.

Class Agenda

1.  Bell Ringer (Movie Clip):  How did Jane Addams help the urban poor?  List...

2.  Town Meetings Activity (Pg. 28).
HW - Industrial Revolution Test on TUESDAY (Review Sheet on pg. 29)

Class Agenda

1.  Bell Ringer:  What are the pros/cons of a longer school day?
2.  Workers & Unions Notes
3.  Movie Clips:  Answer questions from Notes

HW - Pgs 25-26.  Think of the sacrifices our veterans have made on our behalf!

10 Week Extra Credit

DUE DATE:  Friday November 12

Directions:  Read the article and complete the assignment.  You can do ONE or BOTH of the assignments, depending on how much extra credit you want.

1.  Read the article "Islam, Not in my Backyard;"

•   Write 2 paragraph summary of the article (using your OWN words)
•   Write 1 paragraph personal reaction to the article (What do you think about this issue?)

2.  Read the article "Who Gets to be an American?"

•   Write 2 paragraph summary of the article (using your OWN words)
•   Write 1 paragraph personal reaction to the article (What do you think about this issue?)

Class Agenda

1.  Bell Ringer: What is the importance of having fire drills?
2.  Shirt Waist Factory Reading and Questions (Pgs. 20-23)
3.  Movie Clip
HW - Finish Pgs. 23-34

Class Agenda

Student Assembly. 
HW - None

Class Agenda

1.  Bell Ringer:  Read "Never Shall I Forget," and answer the following question:  Which line do you find the most disturbing?  Explain.
2.  Class Reading:  "The Holocaust"
3.  Musicians in Terezin Introduction

•  Read excerpts from "I Never Saw Another Butterfly"

HW - None.  Assembly "Musicians in Terezin" on Monday

Class Agenda

Note:  Thursday 11/4, Friday 11/5 are set-up days for the assembly on Monday 11/8.
1.  Bell Ringer:  Read the following Martin Niemoller quote: 

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• What is the message of this quote?  What did Niemoller intend for us to LEARN from it?

2.  Power Point:  Fascism and the Rise of Adolf Hitler
3.  Read the book "The Harmonica" by Tony Johnston
HW - None

Class Agenda

1.  Bell Ringer:  What is a "market?"  Compare and contrast:  Farmer's Market vs. Stock Market.
2.  Brain-Pop...Stock Market
3.  Stock Ownership Reading and Q's (Pg. 17a-17c)
4.  Intro Assembly on Monday 11/8
HW - None

Class Agenda

1.  Bell Ringer:  Why do people collect stuff (coins, baseball cards, comic books, etc)?  Identify 3 reasons.
2.  Brain-Pop on "Stocks and Shares"
3.  The Stock Market Worksheet (Pg. 19)

• Go to Google Finance and type your company's name in the box where it says "Get quotes"
• See what the current price per share (it'll be the big number under the company's name).  Complete the arrows up through "Total Cost" on Pg. 19.
• For the last 2 arrows...scroll over the stock chart and look at the price of your stock 3 days ago (FURTHEST to the left on the chart).  
• If you invested your money 3 days ago...would you have made money?  Or lost money?

HW - Finish Pg. 19..."Homework"

Class Agenda

1.  Bell Ringer:  Movie Clip and Questions

• In your own words - define the term muckraker.
• How many years did it take Ida Tarbell to write her article on Rockefeller?  
• What was the effect of Ida Tarbell's muckraking?  

2.  Sherman Anti-Trust Activity (Pgs 9-11)
HW - Read Pg. 18 AND on Pg 19 - JUST pick a stock to follow.  Use CNN Money website to pick a company to buy stock in.  Click around and have fun...OR use this link to pick one of the bigger companies in the stock market (Dow Jones Industrial Average).