Unit+I+Work+-+Lessons

Objectives: 1. Identify and describe successful businessmen of the second industrial revolution. 2. Identify and analyze keys to business success. 3. Define and describe the 2nd Industrial Revolution.
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Tasks: Wealthiest Americans
 * Opener: How do you become rich in America? T-W-PS
 * Read through the information in the graphic linked below and identify commonalities: what are some keys to business success? Write notes as you read, then write a paragraph to explain the common characteristics or practices that you discovered.
 * Focus on four: Rockefeller, Carnegie, Vanderbilt, & Morgan - for each, add a picture and bullet the key information presented in the graphic - industry, earnings, tactics, etc.
 * Summarize the commonalities among these 4 businessmen (must include time period).
 * Define (second) Industrial Revolution and introduce it as first unit of the year.
 * Connect the idea of industrial change to opportunities for major profits.

Objectives: 1. Mark up a document thoughtfully and thoroughly. 2. Develop understanding of the basics of the American government (representative democracy & 3 branches of govt).
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Tasks:
 * Review directions for marking up a text.
 * Tutorial on using Word 2007 to mark up a text.
 * Read and mark up reading on the basics of the U.S. government:
 * Pairshare markups

Objectives: 1. Identify and describe key inventions of the second industrial revolution. 2. Analyze how technological changes affect daily life. 3. Enter text and images to a wikispace notebook.
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Tasks: Inventions Timeline
 * Opener: What have been the 3 most important technological developments of the last 10-15 years? T-W-PS
 * Using the timeline linked below, choose 6 developments of the second industrial revolution - 2 communication, 2 daily life, and 2 transportation - and identify each by name and year, then explain how each changed people's lives. Add a picture for at least 3 of the 6. Label each picture.
 * List 10 other key developments of the 2nd IR - development and year only.
 * Summarize how life changed during the 2nd IR.
 * Identify Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell by their most important inventions. Qs: What was life like before these inventions? Why didn't these two men become as rich as Rockefeller, et. al.?

Objectives: 1. Analyze competition between businesses in America.
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Tasks: The Top 100 Brands of 2009
 * Review of basic principle of capitalism, competition, which Rockefeller and others were trying to avoid by eliminating their competitors.
 * Using the chart linked below, identify which companies are in direct competition with each other, which is "winning" and why you think that might be:
 * What seem to be some of the keys to success for today's most valuable businesses?

Objectives: 1. Mark up a document thoughtfully and thoroughly. 2. Develop understanding of the basics of the American economy (capitalism). 3. Upload a document to a wikispace.
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Tasks:
 * Read and mark up reading on the basics of the American economy:
 * Upload marked up document to wikispace notebook.
 * Below uploaded document, summarize your understanding of capitalism as it is practice in America.
 * Then list the different elements of the economy - for example, workers. T-W-PS
 * For each element listed, describe its role in the economy - for example, workers make products and perform services.

Objectives: 1. Define important vocabulary terms and identify examples of each from the 2nd IR and from current times. Tasks:
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 * __UNIT I VOCABULARY__**
 * Industrial Revolution
 * Industry
 * Company
 * Tycoon
 * Monopoly
 * Entrepreneur
 * Corporation
 * Philanthropy
 * Capitalism
 * Robber Baron
 * Captain of Industry
 * Union
 * Urbanization
 * Social Darwinism
 * Define each term in your own words, and, when possible, identify an example from the 2nd IR and from current times.
 * Write a brief story about yourself using at least 5 vocabulary words: you are going to go into business for yourself...

__**New Vocab - end of Unit I**__
 * Ellis Island
 * Angel Island
 * Nativist
 * Tenement

Objectives: 1. Analyze the positives and negatives of the actions of America’s most successful businessmen. 2. Complete a wikispace discussion tab post and respond to a classmate’s.
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Tasks: Video - Rockefeller's Oil Conspiracy
 * Watch the video linked below about Rockefeller's oil empire and business tactics:
 * Think about the positives and negatives of Rockefeller's impact on society and refresh yourself on the meanings of the terms Robber Baron and Captain of Industry, then create a Discussion Tab post entitled whichever term you think best fits Rockefeller and businessmen like him. In the post, explain your opinion with specific examples.
 * Respond to a classmate's post.
 * Respond to whoever responded to your original post.
 * Class vote.

Objectives: 1. Brainstorm about working conditions and unions through image and quote analysis.
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Tasks: Unions - Images & Quotes
 * Form groups of 4 and assign each group member one picture and one quote from those linked below:
 * Copy your image to your notebook and analyze it below: what do you see, what do you think is being shown, what questions do you have, etc.
 * Copy your quote to your notebook and analyze it: what do you think is being said, why do you think it was said, what questions do you have, etc.
 * In your groups, go around and discuss each picture, starting with the person assigned to each. As others comment on your picture be sure to add to your notes. Repeat the process for the quotes.
 * Summarize what you learned about working conditions and unions, including what questions you still have.

Objectives: 1. Take thorough and thoughtful notes about working conditions during the 2nd IR. 2. Upload a document to a wikispace. Tasks: Video - Workplace Safety
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 * Introduction to 2-column notetaking. Review of template and directions, which are attached below. Tutorial on quickly creating own template in a Word document.
 * Read and complete notes from textbook p.473, heading "Industrial Workers."
 * Pairshare and whole class discussion of notes. Upload notes to wiki notebook.
 * Watch video linked below about workplace safety during the 2nd IR:
 * Add notes from the video to wiki below uploaded notes document.

Objectives: 1. Describe the goals and tactics of unions. 2. Effectively use google docs to collaborate with a classmate. 3. Identify and describe key individuals, organizations, and events related to the labor movement. Tasks: Video - Obama on Unions Video - Gompers - 1 min quote
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 * Watch video linked below of Barack Obama discussing unions, then summarize his key points:
 * Intro to Google Documents and setup of a new google doc for each pair of students: title it "Unions."
 * Pair work in the document: aggregate info from Unions 101 from AFL-CIO site as linked below, then jigsaw to find key info on Samuel Gompers and Eugene Debs, then the AFL and Knights of Labor, then the Great RR Strike and the Homestead Strike.
 * Listen to the quote linked below of Samuel Gompers' words:
 * As a pair, summarize the struggles of unions to form and secure victories for their members.
 * Upload google doc to wikispaces.