2/10/12

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("The Crisis of American Politics: The 1890s")
2)  Test 7 Prep Sheet (test is next Thursday, 2/16)

3)  Continue watching "The Wizard of Oz"as a political allegory
--Continue filling out note guide


4)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 525-531; 534 ("Race and Politics in the New South")
Focus your reading on:  a) Booker T. Washington's views on segregation (Accommodationist; Atlanta Compromise Address)  b) W.E.B. DuBois' views that disagreed with Washington  c) Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896).

2/9/12

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("The Politics of the Status Quo, 1877-93")

2)  "The Wizard of Oz" as a Political Allegory
--Introduce 1890s political situation with notes on board
--Read summary of 1896 presidential election as a class
--Hand out note guide for movie
--Begin watching movie

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 534-540 ("The Crisis of American Politics: The 1890s")
Focus your reading on:  a) William McKinley  b) William Jennings Bryan  c) "Cross of Gold" speech

2/8/12

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("The Problems of Industrialism")-Canada

2)  Labor Presentations
--Audience should take class notes (this is test material)

3)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 516-521; 523-525 ("The Politics of the Status Quo, 1877-93")
Focus your reading on:  a) Collective characteristics of the "status quo" presidents from 1877-93  b) "Gilded Age"  c) Social Darwinism  d) Political machines  e) Women's Christian Temperance Union

2/7/12

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("The Socialist Challenge")--this is different than what was assigned yesterday

2)  6 groups:  Labor Groups and Key Events
--Prep Day in lab
--Present  tomorrow

3)  Homework:  Paul Bennett reading in new Green Readers ("The Problems of Industrialism")-Canada
Focus your reading on:  Knights of Labor in British Columbia

2/6/12

Today's agenda: (START OF 2ND SEMESTER)

1)  New Seating Chart
2)  Notes ("The World of Work")

3)  Labor Readings
a) Read documents in books provided (pages 64-70)
b)  Answer questions from sheets provided
c)  Graded Discussion


4)  Homework: Textbook, pages 505-512 ("The Labor Movement")
Focus your reading on:  a) Haymarket Square Riot  b) Homestead Strike  c) Pullman Strike

2/2/12

Today's agenda:

2nd period only:   (End of the 1st Semester)


Same as yesterday's agenda for 3rd and 4th periods

2/1/12

Today's agenda:

2nd period:  STUDY PERIOD

3rd and 4th periods:


1) Notes ("The Great Race")-Part 2  and ("A Railway in Principle")

2)  Finish "The Grandest Enterprise Under God" video and discuss/hand in notes.

3)  Extra Credit Opportunity (in class only)


4)  Homework: Textbook, pages 498-505 ("The World of Work")
Focus your reading on:  a) Characteristics of production line work in the late 1800s  b) Characteristics of women's working conditions