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PART IV: A Maturing Industrial Society

  • Unit Exam: 2/12 (Friday)

  • Ongoing: participation; in-class and homework essays; Binder checks; projects; other work as assigned

  • BOOKMARK THIS: http://jerz.setonhill.edu/writing/academic/thesis.htm  this is the full set of instructions about WHAT TO DO with a prompt to write a good thesis statement. THere are many examples of how to format (blueprint) the thesis. READ THIS! PRINT IT! Put it in your SKILLS section!!!  

  • TEMPLATES & GUIDES -: Reading Notes;  Court Cases; SOAPS+Tone  

    PRESIDENTS:  Remember to use the EVEN NUMBERS (election year dates), not the actual "served" dates - unless the Pres died in office.
    PRESIDENTS through Woodrow Wilson  (Click on Presidents Tab)
Link back to previous unit                
Assignment

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Week   1   January 4  * * *   (Essay week)  
  AMSCO Chapter 16: The Last West; the New South
   Henretta: Chapter 16: The American West

Due MONDAY:   Triangle, the Fire That Changed America:  your written response:
* What is the THESIS of the book? (In other words, what is the author's point in writing the book?) 
* * What complaints did the workers have about their conditions of employment?
* * In what ways was a job at the shirt waist factory a "good job"?  In what ways was it not a good place to work (aside from dying in a fire)?
* * What complaints did the owners of the company have about the workers (may be implicit).
* * How did reformers get changes made to avoid future tragedies of this sort?

 * * For each of the double-starred items, use examples from the book and include page number citations (parenthetical).

Due WEDNESDAY: Reading assignments (Quiz) 
 READ the textbook for this chapter; there is too much rich romance and tragedy in this "Era of the West" for you to depend solely on AMSCO for your understanding.

**PICK ONE of the following  topics to do research; bring a GRAPHIC and an "Interesting One Minute" report about [your topic] in California (if at all possible):
Native Americans, Chinese, Irish, Mexicans,The Railroad, Mining, Natural Environmentalism 
You will share with the class.
 		  
Week  2  January 11
 SKILLS 10 -    Print and bring to class
Ch 17 AMSCO  (for your reference. Do try the quiz.)
Ch 17 Henretta - Capital and Labor in the Age of Enterprise
   Use the Template you received in class to take reading notes on this chapter. (Don't forget to just READ the introduction and the summary at the end of the chapter. Most people find it useful to read the summary before launching into the chapter.
    LABOR is a major theme - Be sure to understand the Labor Movement. Write your responses to Reading American Pictures  "The Killing Floor" section: Analyzing the Evidence.
    What  are the arguments  about Working Women? -- Opinions of married women? Single women? (pp 534-5)

(If you do not have a template, use the standard Cornell notes process.)

For Thursday:
(Bring Skills to class)
 READING (handout) - Carefully read all articles and respond to the questions at the end of each piece. The questions at the end ask you to compare information across all articles. (AP Spiral: Center for Learning lesson)
 Prepare for another quiz.








Resume- Carnegie, in The Ten Days that Unexpectedly Changed America
Week   3   January 18  (M)
 Ch 18 AMSCO  The Growth of Cities and American Culture (for your reference. Do try the quiz.)
Ch 18  Henretta -The Industrial City; Building It, Living In It.
  Use Template to take notes. (Make several copies while you're at it.)
** Continue to bring SKILLS 10 to class.
** Bring the DBQ Labor handout back to class
**QUIZ corrections (ch 17) Due TUESDAY.
***** THURSDAY: Readings handout (City Life). Annotate reading (highlight, margin notes); respond briefly to questions for each reading.
   QUIZ: Yes, there will be one!
 BRING your AMSCO book to class on Thursday.
(Continue Power and the People...)



Week   4   January 25    * * *   (Essay week)
  Ch 19 AMSCO National Politics in the Gilded Age
   Ch 19 Henretta - Politics in the Age of Enterprise
For Monday: Continue working on the issue of Labor. (Chapters 18 & 19)
REVIEW: Triangle: The Fire that Changed America. Review your responses to the questions for January 4th.
Respond in writing (bring to class) Remember to provide SHI in your responses.
 1. To what extent were labor (trade) unions and city life related to each other? 
 2.  What factors made the AFL successful? To what extent was the leadership of Gompers relevant to its success?
 3.  How was the AFL different from industrial unions, such as that led by Eugene V. Debs?
 4. Explain the differences and similarities between socialism, as espoused by Debs, and the so-called "Western Radicalism" among miners in the west, and Big Bill Heywood's IWW.

For Wednesday: Chapter 19 Politics in the Age of Enterprise
  Notes (useTemplate  -) and pay particular attention to the following sections: Women's Political Culture; Race and Politics in the New South
Other readings TBA
 
For Friday: Notes (use template) The Crisis of American Politics; the 1890s and   Summary 
QUIZ on Friday

 

 

Terms for Chapter 19:

Social  Darwinism (Herbert Spencer)
patronage/spoils system
Mugwump
WCTU
NAWSA
Separate Spheres
Frances Willard
"The New South"
Jim Crow laws
Ida B Wells
Tom Watson 		Populism
Mary Elizabeth Lease
Free Silver
William Jennings Bryan / "Cross of Gold"
Week  5  February 1
 Ch 20 AMSCO Foreign Policy, 1865 -1914
  Ch 21 Henretta - An Emerging World Power
(Note the chapter numbers!) 
   For Thursday: Readings - Section on Imperialism (Go to READINGS tab - look in this unit.) Make margin notes to answer the questions at the beginning of each reading.  Highlight, make notes on questions you have.

SKILLS 11 - Bring to class on Thursday   SKILLS WORK due on Saturday to Turnitin.com
     **Read the Summary, pp 114-115; Work on "ideas for discussion" (p 115) (BTW, see SKILLS ch 8 for Q1- or your reading notes, or AMSCO.) Upload your responses - each will be identified identified by your use of complete sentences.
   ** Read the "historical thinking skill" instruction and practice on p 119. Work the "Applying the skill" exercise. (For Aquinaldo, Strong, and Dewey.)  Format like the example.
  (You will work the other exercises along with Chapter 22 in the next unit.) 		Use your turnitin.com account to respond to Skills 11
Week  6  February 8     * * *   (Unit Exam)  (Test is FRIDAY)  
  Ch 21 (H) quiz (Emerging World Power) on Monday!!!!
CH 21 AMSCO - TheProgressive Era 
  Ch 20 - Henretta - The Progressive Era

For Wednesday: Readings - The Progressives (See Readings tab) I STRONGLY ENCOURAGE YOU TO DO THIS READING. To prepare for the M/C, take the AMSCO chapter tests. Find the place in the reading to use as supporting evidence for  your choice. 		 
 
 UNIT EXAM: FEBRUARY 8th, Friday  DBQ!   Review SOAPS+tone.  Practice reading documents quickly and sizing them up quickly.  PAY ATTENTION to the "message" of the total excerpt (don't just pick a quote, because sometimes the MESSAGE is the opposite of the few words you chose!)   Use your AMSCO book's practice DBQs to hone your skills at reading and interpreting documents.  To prepare for the M/C, take the AMSCO chapter tests. Find the place in the reading to use as supporting evidence for  your choice. link to next unit