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8th Grade Social Studies Homework Calendar October/November 2008

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6.

All Classes: The Age of Big Business. Case Study: Robber Barons or Captains of Industry?

EDSITEment

20th Century History Game: The Rise of Big Business

 

Honors Homework #6: Chapter 19 Section 4 Page 575 Questions 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 Due Friday 10/10

Regents Homework #6: Organized Labor Homework sheet Due Friday 10/4

7

Regents Classes: Economics, Free Markets, Corporations, and Trusts in the Gilded Age

Ž Vertical and Horizontal Integration

Ž Supply and Demand Video

Ž The Corporation Video

Ž Stock and stockholders

Ž Dividends

Ž Monopolies and Trusts

Ž Free Market, Free Enterprise, Capitalism Video

Ž Socialism, Communism (Video)

 

8.

 

 

Field Trip to Ellis Island

Arrive @ Samoset 5:15am

9.

 

No School

10.

Regents Classes: The “New Immigrants” come to the Promised Land.

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No School

 

 

14.

All Classes: Industrial Workers

·  Low wages, unsafe working conditions, long hours

·  Sweatshops, child labor

·  Formation of Labor Unions

·  Knights of Labor v. AFL

·  Samuel Gompers, collective bargaining

·  Failure of early unions, government resistance.

·  Haymarket Riot, Homestead Strike

· Socialist and Eugene V. Debs

·  Pullman Strike

Honors Homework #7: Chapter 20 Section 1 Page 587 Questions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6  Due Thursday 10/16

 

Regents Homework #7: Immigrants Homework sheet Due Thursday 10/16

15.

All Classes: Understanding Political Cartoons

 

 

 

Worksheet: Organized Labor

 

 

 

 

Regents Classes Test Review Sheet Due Thursday 10/16

 

Honors Classes Test Review Sheet Due Thursday 10/16

16.

All Classes Test Review

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Honors Homework #8: Chapter 20 Section 2 Page 595 Questions 1, 2, 3,  5 Due Monday 10/20

Regents Homework #8: Read 612-615 page 615 Questions 2, 3, 4, 5

Due Monday 10/20

 

 

17.

Test Today: Industrialization, Urbanization and Immigration

 

 

 

 

 

20.

Honors Classes: Project on Reform Movements Library today

 

Regents Classes: Life in the Changing Cities

 

 

 

 

Honors Homework #9: Chapter 20 Section 3 Page 602 Questions 1, 3, 4 &  5 Due Friday 10/24

Regents Homework #9: Homework sheet Due Tuesday 10/21

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Honors Classes: Project on Reform Movements Library today

 

Regents Classes: Urbanization; An Age of Cites. Case Study Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives”      (Worksheet)

 

 

Honors Homework #10: Outline Chapter 18 Section 4 Due Wednesday 10/22

Regents Classes Homework #10: Read pages 630-632 Complete the Homework Handout Due Wednesday 10/22

22

Honors Classes: Project on Reform Movements Library today

 

Regents Classes: Problems in the Workplace. Case Study the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (Worksheet).

 

Case Study: Jane Addams

(Worksheet)

Honors Homework #11: Outline Chapter 21 Section 1 Due Friday 10/24

Regents Classes Homework #11: Read pages 633-636 Complete the Homework Handout Due Thursday 10/23

23

Honors Classes: Project on Reform Movements Library today

 

Political Bosses and Political Machines of the Big Cities. Case Study: Boss Tweed and the Political Cartoons of Thomas Nast

 

Worksheet

 

 

24

Honors Classes: Project on Reform Movements Computer Lab Today

 

Regents Classes: Industrialization and the Need for Reform. Case Study: The Photos of Lewis Hine

 

(Worksheet)

 

 

Regents Classes Homework #12: Read pages 557-561 Page 561 answer Questions 2 and 5 Due Monday 10/27

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Honors Classes: Project on Reform Movements Library today

 

Regents Classes: Westward Expansion Native Peoples in Retreat.

PowerPoint Presentation

PowerPoint Presentation Bartels

PowerPoint Presentation McGovern

Worksheet for McGovern PPT

 

Honors Homework #12: Outline Chapter 21 Section 2 Due Tuesday 10/24

Regents Classes Homework #13: Read pages 562-566 Page 566 answer Questions 1a,f,g, 3, 6 Due Tuesday 10/29

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Honors Classes: Project on Reform Movements Library today

 

Regents Classes: Westward Expansion: Problems On the Farms. The Populists look to make reforms.

 

Reforming American Society Worksheet

 

PowerPoint Presentation

 

 

29

Regents Classes: Industrialization and the Need for Reform: The Progressive Movement (Video)

(Video) Worksheet

 

 

 

 

Honors Homework #13: Outline Chapter 21 Section 3 Due Friday 10/31

 

Regents Classes Homework #14: Read pages 638-643 Answer Questions 1a,b,c,d,e,h 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Due Friday 10/31

30

The Progressive Movement Reforms: The Muckrakers: Case Studies: The Jungle (text) by Upton Sinclair  & The History of the Standard Oil Company by Ida Tarbell, Jacob Riis “How the Other Half Lives” Photos and Text

 

Worksheet

31

All Classes: Halloween Party Today and we will be covering:The Progressive Presidents: Teddy Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson

 

(Video)

(Video)

 

PowerPoint

 

Regents Classes Homework #15: Read pages 645-648 Answer Questions 1a,d, g, h 2, 5, Due Monday 11/3

3.

Political Bosses and Political Machines of the Big Cities. Case Study: Boss Tweed and the Political Cartoons of Thomas Nast

 

Worksheet

 

Honors 1st Quarter Research Paper Due Today

If it is turned in late the following applies: Wed. –10pts, Thurs. –15pts

Fri. –20pts. Zero if not turned in by Friday. Please be on time. If you are having problems contact Mr. Saccullo

4.

 

 

 

 

No School

Election Day

5.

Regents Classes: Problems in the Workplace. Case Study the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (Worksheet).

 

Case Study: Jane Addams

(Worksheet)

6.

The Progressive Movement Reforms: The Muckrakers: Case Studies: The Jungle (text) by Upton Sinclair  & The History of the Standard Oil Company by Ida Tarbell, Jacob Riis “How the Other Half Lives” Photos and Text

(Worksheet)

(Worksheet)

7.

Regents Classes: Industrialization and the Need for Reform. Case Study: The Photos of Lewis Hine

 

(Worksheet)

 

End of the 1st Marking Quarter

10.

Regents Classes: Industrialization and the Need for Reform. Case Study: The Photos of Lewis Hine

 

(Worksheet)

11.

 

No School

12.

The Progressive Presidents: Teddy Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson

 

(Video)

(Video)

 

PowerPoint

13.

Regents Classes: The Progressive Movement: Picturing Women; Examining How Images of the dress reform movement as part of  the Suffrage movement in America

Handout and Images

14.

Regents Classes: The Progressive Movement: The Women's Suffrage Movement (Video)

 

PowerPoint

Text Quest Handout