Wed., Sept. 30

Here's the PowerPoint from class today: (E & F)
Immigration

Homework:

E & F-
How the Other Half Lives
Read excerpt and respond to questions 1-5.
Due tomorrow (or Friday for E).

B-
15-1 and 15-2, Reading and worksheet.
Due Tomorrow!

Amusing Link of the Day:
Mexico: Now Hiring 2.4 Million Busboys
Warning, it's The Onion. Use your analysis skills to identify intense sarcasm...

Tues., Sept. 29

E & F:
We had socratic seminar style discussions about the documentary we watched yesterday. As always, nice eavesdropping on you! I heard some good questions thrown out to the group. We will use our dialogue about the current immigration debate to better understand the period of immigration influx that occurred around the dawn of the 20th century.

Homework:

Read 15-1 and 15-2 of your Online textbook, and complete front and back worksheet that go along with those sections. Due tomorrow.

B Period:

See yesterday's post please :)

Link: (just for fun)
Could you pass the citizenship test?

Mon., Sept. 28

Day 1 of Immigration and Urbanization!

Beginning with our current national debate about immigration...

Link:
YouTube video, background info. set to a dance party soundtrack.
Warning: The discussion below the video gets pretty heated/innapropriate. This illustrates how contentious our national debate over immigration really is.

Warm-Up Question:
What are your own beliefs concerning the immigration debate? How does immigration play into your own family history?

Link:
Farmingville
We watched the first 30 minutes of this documentary, and took notes...
What did you see/hear? What did you think?

Tomorrow we will have a socratic-seminar style discussion about the film and the issues that it raises.

Homework:
Read Chapter 15-1 and 15-2 of your online textbook, and complete accompanying worksheets.
Due: Wednesday

Fri., Sept 25

Hey Everybody,

So you took a test today. Why don't you take some time to relax and laugh now. This always amuses me:
Link:
Flight of the Conchords Ep 3 Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros

If you haven't taken the test yet, and we haven't already discussed a time for you to make it up, you need to get in touch with me ASAP!!!

Next week we will move into talking about Immigration and Urbanization. Here are the reading and accompanying worksheets for this topic:

Read 15-1 and 15-2 of your Online Textbook, and Complete Accomanying Worksheets:

Again, not necessarily homework, but you can get it out of the way...

15-1 Worksheet
15-2 Worksheet

Thurs., 9/24

Homework:

Same as yesterday... Study for the test tomorrow!

Please see yesterday's post for hints on what you should be studying etc.

Here's some extra review material from class today:

Links:
Review- Social Darwinism, The Gospel of Wealth and Big Business

Review- Labor Unions

Images to Practice OPVLing, Comparing/Contrasting, Getting info from...

Wed., Sept. 23

Homework:

Study for our test Friday!

What should you be studying?

*Study your I.D.'s and review The Machine Age reading

*Practice working with documents (use the packet I gave you Monday).

• Comprehension Questions (are you able to get important info out of document?)
• Can you analyze the Origin, Purpose, Value and Limitations from a document?
• Can you compare and contrast two documents?
• Are you prepared to answer a historical question using a number of documents as well as your own knowledge?

Review the sample Paper 1 questions I gave you last week. This is the same format your test will be in on Friday.

PLEASE TRY TO THINK OF ANY QUESTIONS YOU STILL HAVE SO THAT WE CAN TRY TO ADDRESS THEM DURING REVIEW TOMORROW!

Tues., Sept. 22

F Period-

Today we spent some time in the library, and started our Socratic Seminar.

• On Thursday we will pick up where we left off with the Socratic Seminar, and also review for the test on FRIDAY.
• If we haven't heard from you yet in the discussion, be prepared to pose a question and jump in with your ideas! We need to hear from everyone.

Homework:

Study for our test Friday!

What should you be studying?

• I.D.'s from The Machine Age
• Practice working with documents (use the packet I gave you Monday).
• Compare/Contrast
• OPVL
• Use the documents and your own knowledge to answer a historical question.

B Period-

Homework:

Prepare for Socratic Seminar tomorrrow!

Link:

Socratic Seminar, Assignment Description

ADMISSION TICKET TO CLASS WILL BE A HEALTHY LIST OF DISCUSSION QUESTIONS AND NOTES FOR THE SEMINAR.

Mon., Sept. 21

Link:
Labor Violence and Unrest: The Dawn of the American Labor Movement (Lecture Notes)

Link:
The Haymarket Affair, Video

Homework:

E Period- Read document packet and study your Machine Age reading to prepare for the Socratic Seminar on Wednesday.

YOUR TICKET INTO CLASS WILL BE WELL PREPARED NOTES AND A LIST OF DISCUSSION QUESTIONS.

B&F Periods- Read and annotate documents in packet. (annotate=notes in margins, highlighting, etc...)

Fri., Sept. 18

My post for yesterday is late...please forgive me!

On Friday we finished watching China Blue, and had some great discussion on the issues it raised.

Homework:

Finish the reading packet, The Machine Age
p.504 "Standards of Living" through p.510 is optional reading...you don't have any I.D.'s from that section. Pick back up on p.510 at "The Corporate Consolidation Movement."

Reminders:

Friday 9/25 is an important day!!

• Our first test is on Friday
• Identifications from The Machine Age are due (these are a study aid for you!!)
  
• I will be collecting notebooks
  

Thurs., Sept.3

B Period- We are on hiatus until Friday. Hope you are enjoying the "China Price" reading and generating lots of questions and points for discussion.

E & F Periods-

Sorry I skipped out on your today. I got to tag along on a field trip to the Plimoth Plantation. Contain your jealousy people!

I hope you enjoyed China Blue, and were able to draw connections to the era of rapid industrialization in our own nation's history that we have been studying.

Link to watch China Blue

More Information about the Film


Homework:

"China Price" Reading (full article version)

Read carefully and be ready to discuss on Friday. Come armed with questions and points to raise in discussion.

Wed., Sept.16

Hello E Period! I have a special message for you...

What you did on Tuesday is listed under today, since on Wednesday is your computer lab day.
AHHHH! Mass confusion! Work with me here, and we'll figure it out.

Hello Everybody Else (B&F):

The Ingredients of Industrialization Power Point


B Period Homework:

China Price Reading... be ready to discuss on Friday when we meet again!


F Period Homework:

Inventions and Innovations Worksheet (which I gave you at the VERY end of class!)
*Use 14-1 of the Online Textbook and The Machine Age reading packet.
*Shoot for 5-6 of the most important inventions/innovations.

Tues., Sept. 15

Computer Lab Day for Period's B&E...

wooooooot woooooot!!!!!!!

The Triangle Factory Fire

Follow the link everybody, it's your assignment for today. Do it. Now.


Homework:

• Of the documents you examined today, choose 2 to do OPVL write-ups on.
• This website featured a variety of different forms of evidence, including photographs, trial transcripts and personal accounts.
• Try to choose two different kinds of sources for your two OPVL write-ups.

Feeling lost about OPVL?? Never fear:

OPVL Guidance

I will collect this assignment, along with your notes from the activity, tomorrow during class.

Mon., Sept. 14

Homework:

"Inventions Dramatically Alter Industry in the US," Worksheet
-Had time to work on in class, please finish for homework.
-Pull all important inventions you can find from "The Age of Mechanization" reading and from Section 14.1 of your Online Textbook.

Sept.10-11, Thurs. and Fri.

In Class:

Group Work/Presentations, Documents-
*Gov't Policy shifts to Assimilation
*The Dawes Act (1877)
*The Massacre at Wounded Knee (1890)

Film Clip on Gov't Boarding Schools
This clip is part of an episode of the PBS series on the history of U.S. relations with Native American tribes, We Shall Remain. This episode is specifically about the 1973 stand-off at the sight of the Wounded Knee Massacre. Discussion of government run boarding schools and assimilation of Native American youth is about 35 minutes into this episode, but I would encourage you to watch the whole thing.

Lecture and Discussion-
Railroads, Homesteaders and Cowboys (...oh my!)

Lecture Outline
PowerPoint of Images

Homework:

Reading Packet, "The Machine Age"
Read to p.499 by Monday and get started on Identifications
Identifications for "The Machine Age"


Have a great weekend! See you Monday.

Wed., Sept. 9

Homework:

E & F Period- Take Home Reading, p.187-190,
"Robber Barons and Rebels," A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

B Period- See homework for September 8

Tues., Sept. 8

Warm Up:

OPVL Practice. Excerpt, The Buffalo Harvest by Frank H. Mayer and Charles B. Roth

Reservation Policy and the Indian Wars:

Class PowerPoint, Indian Policy
Lecture Outline

Homework:

What is assimilation?

Is assimilation still a relevant issue today? If yes, how? If not, why?

In what ways, if any, should groups have to assimilate into mainstream society?

Fri., Sept. 4

Examining the Myth and Reality of the "Wild West"

*Warm-Up Question:

1. Why do you think the "Wild West" has been such an enduring fascination?

2. When thinking about the settlement of the West, how do we separate myth from reality?

*YouTube clip:

"Western Montage" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QuV6u-y38m

If this was the only information you had about the American West 1877-1900 what would you believe to be true?

*Discussed the reading "The Development of the West" that was homework 9/3:

Be able to discuss the contrasting views of the significance of the West held by Frederick Jackson Turner and his frontier thesis, and Buffalo Bill Cody and his "Wild West Show."

*More about Buffalo Bill Cody: (B Period)

American Experience- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/cody/

Sections 1,3,4

I asked you to please write down what was surprising and information that was new to you.

Homework:

Read Chapter 13

Section 13-1 and 13-2

A reading guide was handed out in class, which tells you what you will need to know from Chapter 13. While it is not a homework assignment, please use it to structure your notes from the chapter.

I hope everybody has a great long weekend!

Thurs., Sept. 3

Discussion: Does history matter?

Homework:

Reading- "The Development of the West"

What I need to see tomorrow-

*That you are prepared for discussion (key points, questions, etc...)
*You have highlighted key ideas, facts and that there are notes in the margin.

I will check to see evidence of careful reading during warm-up tomorrow!

Wed., September 2

First day of school! I think it's going to be a good year.

Things to remember from today:

If you are seeing this, I'm probably preaching to the choir, but by Friday you need to have completed the Online Registration and gotten all set with the Online Textbook.

Tomorrow, those lovely bright orange parent slips are due to me, and we will actually be talking about HISTORY! Contain your excitement.