Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Do pg. 1...Essential Question.
2.  Test:  Industrial Revolution

HW - none

Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  What is the essential difference between a farmer's market and a stock market?  What is similar between the 2?  Create a "T" chart of similarities and differences.
2.  Brain-pop:  Stock Market...Check the "markets."  What is an index?  How does that represent the health of the economy?  What is a bull/bear market?
3.  Test Review:  on page 5, define the unit vocabulary in your own words.  Check your work.

HW - Study for test tomorrow:  Use the review sheet on pg. 29, and the Quia flashcards

Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Why do people collect "stuff" like baseball cards, coins, stamps, autographs, etc?  Bridge discussion into the concept of "buy low, sell high"...a key principle of investment.
2.  Discussion of pg. 18.  Brain-pops on "Stocks."
3.  Stock case study:  Apple, Inc.  Using the internet, we will check the value of Apple stock today, and use "hindsight" to see what could have been, if we invested at various times over history.
4.  Happy Halloween...explore the history of this holiday!


HW - Industrial Revolution Test on WEDNESDAY.
        - Click here to review vocab flashcards.

Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Pg. 26c.  Which predictions about the future came "true" or "kinda true?"
2.  Thomas Edison Brain-pop
3.  Inventions "webquest" (pg. 27).  We'll be using the laptops to collaborate and learn about some of the important inventions of the era.
4.  For fun...check out the "30 dumbest inventions."  Which is the worst?

HW - finish 27...if need be.

Optional Extra Credit - Due Monday:  Read the article, and write 3 paragraphs on the following:  Write 2 paragraphs summarizing what you read.  Then write 1 paragraph reacting to what you read.

Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Pg. 28...on the bottom, write a statement contrasting the lives of the upper class with the lives of the working class.  Use your research to help you compose your statement.
2.  Movie - Profile on city life:  crime, poor immigrants, sanitation, and new inventions (pg. 26B).  Discuss.

3.  On a separate sheet of paper, write a poem synthesizing what we have learned over the past few days: 

Topic = What was life like for the urban poor?

• Length/style of the poem is up to you, but you must incorporate FOUR ideas/concepts/vocabulary words/names in your poem.  
• Packet pages 20 thru 28 have important details/information that will help you.  
• Be as creative as you like!

HW - finish poem

Optional Extra Credit - Due Monday:  Read the article, and write 3 paragraphs on the following:  Write 2 paragraphs summarizing what you read.  Then write 1 paragraph reacting to what you read.

Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Pg. 26a...Jane Addams/Hull House question:  See clip... Jane Addams.
2.  Discuss and review pg. 25b
3.  Jigsaw Activity:  Town Meetings (pg. 28).  Contrast:  Life for the working class vs. life for the upper/middle class.

HW - none

Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  What are some of the + and - of a longer school day (8:00am-6:00pm)?  Bridge discussion into the painfully long days of factory workers during the Industrial Revolution.

2.  Notes (pg. 26a)
3.  Movie Clip - Mother Jones.  Answer question on the bottom of 26a.

HW - Do pg. 25