Week 7
March 6-10
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Standard 4 The Gilded Age
The student will be able to…
1. define the term monopoly as it applies to “big business”
2. define the term trusts as it applies to “big business”
3. list the factors of production
4. realize the importance of the transcontinental railroad
5. compare and contrast vertical and horizontal integration
6. identify Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt and John Rockefeller
7. describe what Jim Crow Laws were.
8. describe what literacy tests were for voting.
9. describe what pole taxes were.
10. explain the Plessey v. Ferguson case.
Chapter 12
Monopoly
Cooperate Mergers
Trusts
Factors of Production: land, labor, capitol, technology and entrepreneurship
Transcontinental Railroad
Rockefeller
Carnegie
Vertical Integration
Horizontal Integration
Sherman Antitrust Act
Social Darwinism
Laissez-Faire Policies
Knights of Labor/Haymarket Square Bombing
Collective Bargaining
Sherman-Antitrust Act
Evaluations
1. Class Discussions
2. Questioning
3. Quizzes
4. Test
5. Homework Assignments
Resources
1. Textbook
2. Internet
3. Various magazines
4. Maps
5. SMART Board
Honors Class Assignments are in brown.
Numeracy: Each student is required to keep a grade sheet in their classroom
folders. This is to be updated several times a week. Since the grading system is
based on points, they will record, total and average their points.
All students will keep a daily writing journal.
Primary Source document assignment.
Literacy – Daily Writing Journals
Standard USHC-4: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the industrial
development and the consequences of that development on society and politics during the
second half of the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries.
USHC 4.1 Summarize the impact that government policy and the construction of the
transcontinental railroads had on the development of the national market and on the culture of
Native American peoples.
USHC-4.2 Analyze the factors that influenced the economic growth of the United States and its
emergence as an industrial power, including the abundance of natural resources; government
support and protection in the form of railroad subsidies, tariffs, and labor policies; and the
expansion of international markets.
Monday
Activities
The students will…
1. finish notes on Chapter 10 “Reconstruction”
2. watch a short DVD on presidents Hayes and Garfield (students will take notes
as they watch)
3. watch Episode 22 of Crash Course US History (students will answer questions
as they watch)
4. review for Test 2 (Chapters 8-10)
Evaluation
The teacher will…
1. Teacher will monitor and give feedback
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Tuesday
Activities
The students will…
1. take Test 2 (Chapters 8-10)
Evaluation
The teacher will…
1. monitor and give feedback
2. grade Test 2
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Wednesday
Activities
The students will…
1. begin taking notes on Chapter 11 “Settling the West”
2. watch an episode of “America; the Story of Us” - Heartland (Students will
answer questions as they watch).
3. be assigned Current Event #4
4. complete Writing Journal #21
Evaluation
The teacher will…
1. Teacher will monitor and give feedback
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Thursday
Activities
The students will…
1. begin taking notes on Chapter 12“Industrialization”
2. watch an episode of US History Crash Course #24 “The Industrial
Economy”. Students will answer questions as they watch.
3. complete a worksheet on major events of the early 1900's
4. finish the episode of “The Men Who Built America Vanderbilt (students will
answer questions as they watch)
5. complete Writing Journal #22
6. take Quiz 6
Evaluation
The teacher will…
1. Teacher will monitor and give feedback
2. Teacher will grade Quiz 6
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Wednesday
Activities
The students will…
1.
2. finish taking notes on Chapter 12 “Industrialization”
3. watch part of an episode of “The Men Who Built America” Vanderbilt (students
will answer questions as they watch)
Evaluation
The teacher will…
1. monitor and give feedback
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Thursday
Activities
The students will…
1. begin taking notes on Chapter 13 “Urbanization”
2. watch a short DVD on the presidency of Cleveland and Harrison (students will
take notes, Honors classes will take notes independently)
3. complete a worksheet on progressives and identify their rationale for reforming
government to improve society
4. complete Writing Journal #23
Evaluation
The teacher will…
1. Teacher will monitor and give feedback
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Friday
Activities
The students will…
1. continue taking notes on Chapter 13 “Urbanization”
2. watch part of an episode of “The Men Who Built America” Rockefeller
(students will answer questions as they watch)
3. complete a worksheet on progressives and identify their rationale for reforming
government to improve society
4. complete Writing Journal #24
Evaluation
The teacher will…
1. Teacher will monitor and give feedback