Lesson Plans for Jan 21- Jan 25, '08


AMERICAN HISTORY


Monday

NO SCHOOL-MLK Holiday

Tuesday

Content

I. Notebook check

II. Chapt 7: Gilded Age

1.Political Machines

a. Rise of Political Machines

b. Immigrants and political machines

c. Graft and Corruption

d. Thomas Nast


Objectives

The students will:

  • 1). Check notebooks for the 9 weeks, and reocrd scores.
  • 2). Read assignment in handout (p.51-58, American Nation) and answer question on reading in notebooks.
  • 3). define terms such as: graft, kickback, political machine, boss, etc.


  • Procedures

    Exchange notebooks and check against list provided

    Continue Gilded Age

    Read handout and answer question in notebooks from handout.

    Define terms: graft, political machine, boss, etc.

    Read handout

    Materials: Notebook check list, handout from American Nation text, questions over reading, terms on board.

    Homework:Read pp. 216-230.


    Remember to write a journal entry

    Wednesday

    Content

    2. Restoring Honest Government.

    a. Scandal in White House

    b. Struggle for Reform

    c. Advances and Setbacks




    Objectives

    The students will:1). Listen attentively to discussion, and lecture, take notes and ask questions where appropriate. 2). Work on stuy guide. 3). define: mugwumps, stalwarts, Pendleton, Gilded Age.


    Procedures:Short reading on Gilded Age. Complete study guide.

    Materals:textbooks, notebooks, handout on Gilded Age, study guide.

    Read pages:NA.

    Homework:Essay due Thursday: Gilded Age topic

    Remember to write a journal entry

    Thursday

    Content

    3. Populist Movement

    a. Farmer's Plight

    b. Farmers Organize

    c. The Money Question

    d. Decade of Populist Politics

    e. Election of 1896





    Objectives
    The students will: 1).Define terms such as: National Grange, cooperatives, Interstate Commerce Act graduated income tax, gold standard, Bland Allison Act, Sherman Silver Purchase Act, Populist party.


    Procedures:Discuss the problems of American farmers, and their efforts to organize. Explain how the populist party addressed these problems. Discuss the outcome of the election of 1896. .

    Materials: Notebooks, handout, study guide, crossword.

    Read pages:231-237

    Homework:Read assignment

    Remember to write a journal entry

    Friday

    Content:

    CURRENT EVENTS

    Discuss current events for the past week in class. All students should participate, by introducing an event, or contributing to one already presented for discussion. Events may involve international, national, state, local, or school news. Events should be "current"..ie. have happened recently.

    Objectives:

    The students will: 1). discuss current events in class 2). read a newspaper in class to gain information about local, state, national, and international occurrances.

    Procedures:


    Materials:Tribune Review

    Read pages:NA

    Homework: NA

    Remember to write a journal entry

    Project:

    Tests

    Test are given on the dates decreed by the administration. Tests are usually scantron type tests. That is, Multiple Choice, True/False, Matching, and/or Short Answer.
    All "make up" tests are essay type. Make up day is, in class on Friday, unless other arrangements are made. All tests MUST be made up NO LATER than 2 weeks prior to the end of the grading period.

    Notebooks

    Notebooks are required for this class and must be brought to class every day. A grade is given each 9 weeks for the notebook. Be sure yours is up-to-date and all work is in it. Notebook checks are unannounced, so be sure you have yours with you EACH day for class. No locker visits are permitted to go get it.

    Homework

    LATE HOMEWORK IS NOT ACCEPTED. If you are legally absent from school, for each day of school that you miss, you will have that same number of days to make up homework. For example, if you are absent from school for 3 days, homework must be turned in NO LATER than 3 days AFTER the due date.

    All homework MUST have a heading: your first name and your last name, the name of the class, and period, and the date.

    This is the heading:

    YOUR NAME

    PA-4 (your class period)

    Date

    PENNSYLVANIA STANDARDS FOR UNITED STATES HISTORY


    Standards which correspond to lesson plans are indicated by a *

    8.1 Historical Analysis and Skills Development


    8.1.12

    12th Grade


    A. Evaluate Chronological Thinking


    *1. Sequential order of historical narrative
    *2. Continuity and change
    *3. Context for events

    B. Synthesize and Evaluate Historical Sources


    *1. Literal meaning of historical passages
    *2. Data in historical and contemporary maps, graphs, and tables
    *3. Different historical perspectives
    4. Data presented in maps, graphs, and tables
    *5. Visual data presented in historical evidence

    C. Evaluate Historical Interpretation of Events


    *1. Impact of opinions on the perception of facts
    *2. Issues and problems in the past
    *3. Multiple points of view
    *4. Illustrations in historical stories and sources
    *5. Connections between causes and results
    *6. Author or source of historical narratives' points of view
    7. Central issue

    D. Synthesize Historical Research


    *1. Historical event (time and place)
    *2. Facts, folklore, and fiction
    *3. Historical questions
    *4. Primary sources
    5. Secondary sources
    6. Conclusions
    (e.g.,History Day projects, mock trials, speeches)

    *7. Credibility of evidence
    *******

    8.3 UNITED STATES HISTORY


    8.3.12

    12th Grade


    A. Identify and evaluate the political and cultural contributions of individuals and goups to United States history from 1890 to present


    *1. Political leaders
    (e.g., Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt)

    *2. Military leaders
    (e.g., John Persing, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight D. Eisenhower)

    3. Cultural and commercial leaders
    (e.g., Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Langston Hughes, Alan Greenspan)

    4. Innovators and Reformers
    (e.g., Wilbur and Orville Wright, John L. Lewis, Dr. Martin Luther King)

    B. Identify and Evaluate Primary Documents, Material Artifacts, and Historic Sites Important in United States History from 1890 to present


    *1. Documents
    2. 20th Century Writings and Communications
    (e.g.,Coolidge's "The Business of America is Business," King's, "I Have a Dream," Armstrong's, "One Small Step for Man")

    3. Historic Places
    (e.g., Ellis Island, Pearl Harbor, Los Alamos)

    C. Evaluate How Continuity and Change have Influenced United States History from 1890 to present


    *1. Belief systems and religions
    (e.g., 20th Century Movements, religions of recent immigrants)

    *2. Commerce and industry
    (e.g., corporations, conglomerates, multinational corporations)

    *3. Innovations
    (e.g., the Tin Lizzie, radio, WWW)

    *4. Politics
    (e.g., New Deal legislation, Brown vs Topeka, isolationist/non isolationist debate)

    5. Settlement patterns
    (e.g., suburbs, large urban centers, decline of city population)

    *6. Social organization
    (e.g., compulsory school laws, court decisions expanding individual rights, technological impact)

    *7. Transportation and Trade
    (e.g., expansion and decline of railroads, increased mobility, Internet)

    8. Women's Movement
    (e.g., right to vote, women in the war effort, Women's Peace Party)

    D. Identify and Evaluate Conflict and Cooperation Among Social Groups and organizatiuons in United States History from 1890 to present


    *1. Domestic instability
    (e.g., Great Depression, assassination of political and social leaders, terrorist threats)

    *2. Ethnic and racial relations
    (e.g., internment camps for Japanese-Americans, Montgomery Alabama Bus Boycott, land tensions with Native Americans)

    3. Labor relations
    (e.g., rise and decline of industrial unions, free trade agreements, imports impact on domestic employment)

    4. Immigration and Migration
    (e.g., anti-immigrant attitudes, quota laws, westward and southward migration)

    *5. Military conflicts (e.g., World War I, World War II, War on Terrorism)


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