Welcome back from Spring Break Baby Birds! I hope you enjoyed your time off from school. I spent my week grading research papers and watching the History Channel...duh! We have a few things ahead of us this week before I head to DC with the 7th graders, and when I head to DC there will be a number of tasks for you to complete when I am gone. You should follow me on Twitter when in DC, for I will take tons of pictures in the museums for you!!
Day 1
In Class: Gilded Age review -- Vertical vs. Horizontal Integration....Carnegie, Vanderbilt, Morgan, Rockefeller...Inventions during the Gilded Age...The CITY! Is the modern city the greatest thing that came about during this age???...I think so!....
HW: Abraham Lincoln Presidential Project due Friday, April 5
Notes: Civil War Test on April 9/10 (Day 2 of that week for you)
In Class: THE CITY = DEATH to Native America...The frontier closes...What are the effects of urbanization? -- Great test question FYI Gilded Age Presidents: Wow, were they bad or what? Presidents Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, Cleveland Part II, and McKinley...A tale of two cities: Jacob Riis and the rise of the slums...The Great Wave of of Immigration from 1880--1920
HW: Abraham Lincoln Presidential Project due Friday, April 5
Notes: Civil War Test on April 9/10 (Day 2 of that week for you)
Day 3
In Class: MUCKRAKING and the Progressive Era begins!!! TR an American Original who helped clean up the muck of America!
HW: Abraham Lincoln Presidential Project due Friday, April 5
Notes: Civil War Test on April 9/10 (Day 2 of that week for you)
In Class: MUCKRAKING and the Progressive Era begins!!! TR an American Original who helped clean up the muck of America!
HW: Abraham Lincoln Presidential Project due Friday, April 5
Notes: Civil War Test on April 9/10 (Day 2 of that week for you)