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Second Quarter Activities, US History 1865 - Present
__**November 8th and November 9th, 2012 **__

1. Finish class discussion of the guided reading activity, "The New Immigrants," using the attached powerpoint to review the material.

The New Immigrants:

The New Immigrants:

2. Discuss the significance of Emma Lazarus' poem, "The New Colossus" at the base of the Statue of Liberty.

Emma Lazarus' "The New Colossus":

The Statue of Liberty:

3. Discuss the influence of Jacob Riis, and take notes on a powerpoint related to his most famous work, "How the Other Half Lives."

Jacob Riis' "How the Other Half Lives":

4. Complete a matching activity on the influence of other Progressive reformers and "muckrakers."

The Progressive Era Matching Review:

5. Introduce tonight's homework assignment, "The Gilded Age and Progressive Reforms."

The Gilded Age and Progressive Reforms GRA:

The Gilded Age and Progressive Reforms Powerpoint Review:

__**November 12, 2012 - Make-Up Day **__ <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">1. Students will work independently on the guided reading activity, "Education and Culture."

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Guided Reading Activity, "Education and Culture":

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">2. Class discussion of the guided reading activity, "Education and Culture."

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">PowerPoint review, Education and Culture:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">3. View the Schlessinger Documentary, "The Progressive Movement." During the film, students will answer the questions to a video viewing guide on the documentary.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The Progressive Movement Video Viewing Guide:

__**<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">November 13 and November 14, 2012: (Guidance Lesson on Tolerance will take place for 30 Minutes.) **__

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">1. View the film "The Long, Long Journey" and answer the accompanying video viewing guide.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The Long, Long, Journey:

__**<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">2. Guidance Lesson! Featuring Mrs. Bolling and Mrs. Hinton! **__

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">3. Review of individuals and vocabulary terms for Units Two and Three.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Matching Review for Units Two and Three:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">4. Begin working on the Cumulative Review Guide on Industrialization and Immigration:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Cumulative Review Guide for Units 2 & 3:

__**<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">November 15 and November 16, 2012: **__

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Students will submit their Labor Incidents and Immigration Letters today in class, and will have the option of presenting their work for extra credit.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">1. Complete the Unit Two and Unit Three Vocabulary and Identification Container Drill:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Vocabulary and Identification Container Drill:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">2. Immigration in History and as a Current Event:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Immigration in History and as a Current Event:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">3. Writing Review for Units Two and Three:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Urbanization and Immigration Writing Review:

__**<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">November 19 and November 20, 2012: **__

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Review the Unit Two and Three Cumulative Review Guide, prior to collecting the assignment and recording the grade for the work.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Test Two Review Guide:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Distribute, read the directions to, and administer the Unit Test on Industrialization, Urbanization, and Immigration.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Begin working on the homework assignment, "Eyes on the Pacific."

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Eyes on the Pacific Guided Reading Activity:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Eyes on the Pacific Powerpoint:

__**<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">November 21 and November 26, 2012: **__

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">1. Discuss the answers to the guided reading activity, "Eyes on the Pacific."

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Eyes on the Pacific Homework Assessment:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Eyes on the Pacific Guided Reading Activity:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Eyes on the Pacific PowerPoint Activity:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">2. Schlessinger Documentary Video: The United States and the World, 1865 - 1917

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Video Viewing Guide:

__**<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">November 27 and November 28, 2012: **__

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">1. Complete the Foreign Policy Matcher Activity, to preview types of Foreign Policy in US History.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Foreign Policy Matcher Activity:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">2. Take notes on the history of United States Foreign Policy.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">NOTES on US Foreign Policy:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">NOTES on US Foreign Policy Filled-In:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">3. US Foreign Policy Vocabulary and Scenarios Worksheet.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">US Foreign Policy Vocabulary and Scenarios Worksheet:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">4. Begin working on tonight's homework, The Spanish American War.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The Spanish American War:

__**<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">November 29 and November 30, 2012: **__

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">1. Complete the homework assessment quiz on the Spanish American War.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The Spanish American War Homework Assessment:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">2. Complete "The Crucible of Empire" - a pbs.org Webquest Activity.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The Crucible of War:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">3. Discuss the answers to the guided reading activity, "The Spanish American War," using the attached PowerPoint review activity.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The Spanish American War:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">4. Begin working on tonight's homework activity, "The United States and Latin America."

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The United States and Latin America:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The United States and Latin American PowerPoint Review:

__**<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">December 3 and December 4, 2012: **__

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">1. Complete our discussion of the Spanish-American War, using our guided reading activity and the PowerPoint below:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The Spanish American War Guided Reading Activity:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The Spanish American War PowerPoint:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">2. Take the homework assessment quiz for the guided reading activity, "The US and Latin America."

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The US and Latin America Homework Assessment:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">3. Discuss the homework activity, "The US and Latin America," using the PowerPoint activity below:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The US and Latin America Guided Reading Activity:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The US and Latin America PowerPoint Review:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Extra: The Role of Disease in American History - "The Fever" - a Hampton Roads Reflection

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">"The Fever":

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">4. Political Cartoon Interpretations for the Spanish American War and US Imperialist Policies:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Spanish-American War Political Cartoon Interpretations:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">5. Use the balance of class time in order to work on tonight's homework, "The United States Becomes a World Power, 1865 - 1917."

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Cumulative Review Guide for US Foreign Policy Unit:

__**<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">December 5 and December 6, 2012: **__

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">1. Briefly review the US Foreign Policy Cumulative Review Guide, and collect the document for a homework grade.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">US Foreign Policy Cumulative Review Guide:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">2. Distribute, read the directions to, and administer the US Foreign Policy Test.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">3. Begin working on the World War I Introductory mapping activity. Use the PowerPoint review attached below in order to check your answers.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">World War I Introductory Mapping Activity:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Map of Europe, circa 1914:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">World War I Mapping Directions:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">4. Begin working on tonight's homework activity, "The Road to War." Use the PowerPoint attached below to review your answers.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The Road to War Guided Reading Activity:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The Road to War PowerPoint Review:

__**<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">December 7 and December 10, 2012: **__

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">1. Introduce our Unit on World War I with the song, "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda." Students will listen to the song and answer questions about the lyrics.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">2. Discussion of the guided reading activity, "The Road to War." Students will review their answers in groups, and then present their findings in jigsaw presentations.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The Road to War GRA:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The Road to War Powerpoint Review:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">3. Homework Assessment Quiz on "The Road to War":

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">4. Notetaking Activity on the Origins of World War I.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Origins of World War I, Part A:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Origins of World War I, Part B:

__**<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">December 11 and December 12, 2012: **__

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">1. Complete group work presentations and discussions of homework assignment, "The Road to War."

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">2. Homework assessment quiz, "The Road to War."

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">3. Discuss last night's homework, "Supporting the War Effort."

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Supporting the War Effort Guided Reading Activity:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Supporting the War Effort PowerPoint Review:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">4. Video: Schlessinger Series on World War I. Students will complete a Video Viewing Guide:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Schlessinger Video Viewing Guide, The Great War:

__**<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">December 13 and December 14, 2012: **__

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">1. Complete our discussion of the homework assignment, Supporting the War Effort, using the PowerPoint below:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Supporting the War Effort: Supportin

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">2. Take a homework assessment quiz on Supporting the War Effort, in anticipation of the upcoming test.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Supporting the War Effort Homework Assessment:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">3. Discuss the answers to the homework assignment, Americans at War, using the PowerPoint below:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Americans at War:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">4. Take a homework assessment quiz on Americans at War, in anticipation of the upcoming test.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Americans at War Homework Assessment:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">5. Begin working on the World War I Cumulative Review Guide, which will be collected prior to the test on Wednesday, December 19th (A-Day Students) or Thursday, December 20th (B-Day Students).

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">World War I Cumulative Review Guide:

__**<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">January 2nd and January 3rd, 2013: **__

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">1. Discuss the homework assignment, "The Gilded Age and Progressive Reforms."

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The Gilded Age and Progressive Reforms:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Use the powerpoint below to frame our discussion:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The Gilded Age and Progressive Reforms:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">2. Review the Progressive Party's Platform of government, and determine how that platform supports and aligns with the basic goals of labor union's articulated by the American Federation of Labor, the Knights of Labor, or the Industrial Workers of the World.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The Progressive Party Platform:

__**<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">January 4th and January 7th, 2013: **__

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">1. Review Jacob Riis's muckraking photoessay, __//How the Other Half Lives//__.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">How the other Half Lives:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">2. Review Upton Sinclair's __//The Jungle//__, and complete a questionairre regarding Chapter 15 in the work.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Upton Sinclair's The Jungle:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">3. Discuss the homework assignment, The Progressive Presidents.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The Progressive Presidents Guided Reading Activity:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The Progressive Presidents PowerpOint Review:

__**<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">January 8th and January 9th, 2013: **__

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">1. Review the guided reading activity, "The Progressive Presidents," using the powerpoint below to frame discussion.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The Progressive Presidents:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">2. Complete the Progressive Era Timeline of Events and discuss as a class.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The Progressive Era Timeline of Events:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">3. Begin discussion of "The Rights of Women," last night's homework activity.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The Rights of Women:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Use the PowerPoint activity below to frame the discussion:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The Rights of Women:

__**<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">January 10th and January 11th, 2013: **__

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">1. Complete the Progressive Era Amendments container drill activity:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Progressive Era Amendments Container Drill.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">2. Discuss the guided reading activity, "The Rights of Women," using the PowerPoint below as a guide.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The Rights of Women:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">3. Progressive Reforms in the present:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The Women's Movement:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Prohibition Movements:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Prohibition Opinion Paper:

__**<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">January 14, 2013: **__

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Complete review of the guided reading activity, "Struggles for Justice: Failures of the Progressive Era."

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Struggles for Justice: Failures of the Progressive Era:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">For classes which missed previous opportunity, complete a short notetaking activity on "How the Other Half Lives" by Jacob Riis. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">How the Other Half Lives:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Notetaking container activity for The Progressive Era Writing Campaign Letters:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Notetaking Container:


 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">January 15, 2013 through January 18th, 2013 **

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Students will be brainstorming about, researching and composing letters addressing modern day incarnations of Progressive Era concerns. Each student must identify a persistent problem in modern US History, compare the problem with one of the themes of the Progressive Era we have studied this week, and compose a business letter to a member of the government, the leader of a charity, or a businessman that might be able to help out the situation.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**//Part I//**. Complete the Progressive Era Notetaking Container.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Progressive Era Notetaking Container:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//**Part II**//. Consider the task at hand - the directions to the assignment.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Progressive Era Assignment Sheet:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//**Part III**//. Complete the checklist for the topic selection and research components of the assignment.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Progressive Era Checklist:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//**Part IV**//. Composition of the letters.

__**<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">January 22, 2013 and January 23, 2012 **__

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">1. Pre-Test on the Progressive Era. Vocabulary review in anticipation of the test next class period.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The Progressive Era Vocabulary Review:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">2. Finish any discussion of the guided reading activity, "Struggles for Reform - Failures of the Progressive Era."

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Struggles for Reform:

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">3. For those classes who have already finished the guided reading activity, we will consider this primary source document authored by Booker T. Washington.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Booker T. Washington "In Response to a Lynching":

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">4. Video Segment from "The Progressive Era: The Emergence of Modern America."

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">5. Video Segment from "The Presidents: The Lives and Legacies of the 43 Leaders of the United States" to focus on "Cleveland to Taft, 1885 -1913."