Your History Site Homework Calendar

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Samoset Homework Calendar / Plan Book September / October 2011

L of C Primary Source Sets Smart Notebook Express PBS Supreme Court Games Sweet Search for Social Studies Awesome Stories Embed Plus Video Editor Historical Thinking Matters	Scribble Maps Fakebook Wordle Xtranormal Video Creator Primary Access Playing History Hippo Campus	Quiz Star NY Times Learning Network Live-brary Cliff Notes U.S. History pt 1 American History Videos Primary Access MovieMaker Shmoop	CNN Student News Life Photo Magazine Online Prezi Cliff Notes U.S. History pt 2 Write Comics Cartoon Creator ToonDoo	Authentic History Center History Animated The Week in Rap Exploring Constitutional Law The Internet Archive Reading like a Historian
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19 All Classes: Review for Civil War and Reconstruction	20 All Classes test on Civil War and Reconstruction.	21 All Classes Aim: The Growth on an Industrial Society: Railroads Lead the Way. Railroad PowerPoint The Industrial Revolution Video Industrialization PowerPoint Railroad Expansion and Consolidation Railroad Barons Railroads Expand the economy Technological Improvements Limiting competition with rebates and pools Time Zones	22 All Classes Aim: The Growth of an Industrial Society: Inventions 1.The telegraph and telephone (Alexander Graham Bell) 2.The Wright Brothers 3. George Eastman and Kodak 4. John Thurman and the vacuum 5. The Wizard of Menlo Park (Thomas Edison) 6. Henry Ford, The Assembly Line and mass production The Sears catalog F.W. Woolworths Inventions PowerPoint The Inventors Class Notes All Classes Homework: Choose from the list of inventions and inventors above (numbers 1-6) Write a one page essay detailing the how the inventor and invention helped change America. Due Monday 9/26	23 All Classes Aim: The Growth of an Industrial Society: An Age of Big Business- Basic Economics Want vs. Need Problem of Scarcity Traditional, Command and Market Economies Adam Smith "The Wealth of Nations" Factors of Production Profit Motive Supply and Demand Free Market or Free Enterprise System or Capitalism Corporations Stock, Stock Market or Exchange, Stockholder or Shareholder Stockbroker Dividends Horizontal and Vertical Integration Monopolies and Trusts Competition Understanding Economics Video
26 All Classes Aim: The Growth of an Industrial Society: An Age of Big Business Growth of Corporations The Oil Business, John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Trust. The Steel Business, Andrew Carnegie and U.S. Steel The Banking Business, J.PierPont Morgan (J.P. Morgan) Philanthropy Mergers abd aquisitions Government Regulation- The Sherman Antitrust Act\ The Industrial Revolution (1750- 1915) Video	27 Open School Night All Classes Aim: The Growth of an Industrial Society: Industrial Workers Working Conditions and Sweatshops Women in the Workplace Child Labor Labor Unions- The Knights of Labor and the AFL Samuel Gompers Collective Bargaining Strikes and Strikebreakers Government sides with Business Haymarket Riot, Homestead Strike Industrial Workers PowerPoint Industrial Workers PowerPoint II Regents Class Homework: Read pages 590-595 Complete the Homework Worksheet Due Wed 9/28 Honors Classes Homework: Read pages 572-575. Create five essential question for the section and answer each question with a five to six sentence paragraph. Due Wednesday 9/28	28 All Classes Aim: Toward an Urban America: The New Immigrants NY Up-Close: Immigration and the Industrial Revolution Video New Immigration European Geography Causes of Immigration The Statue of Liberty, Emma Lazarus and "The New Colossus" Ellis Island Immigration and Eliis Island PowerPoint Sweatshops Assimilation to America Immigrant Communities The Nativist Movement The Chinese Exclusion Act Regents Class Homework: Read pages 600-605 Complete the Homework Worksheet Due Monday 10/3 Honors Classes Homework: Read pages 582-587. Create five essential question for the section and answer each question with a five to six sentence paragraph. Due Monday 10/3	29 Rosh Hashanah No School Regents Class Homework: Read pages 606-610 Complete the Homework Worksheet Due Monday 10/3 Honors Classes Homework: Read pages 590-595. Create five essential question for the section and answer each question with a five to six sentence paragraph. Due Monday 10/3	30 Rosh Hashanah No School
3 All Classes Aim: Toward an Urban America: Moving to the Cities (Urbanization) The Growth of Cities Tenements Growth of the Middle Class The Gilded Age Seeking Solutions-Jane Addamsand Hull House The Skyscrapper New Designs- Frederick Law Olmstead and Central Park Subways and Cable Cars and Trollies The Brooklyn Bridge Brooklyn Bridge Video Urban Growth in America Video Honors Classes Homework: Read pages 597-602. Create five essential question for the section and answer each question with a five to six sentence paragraph. Due Wednesday 10/5	4 All Classes Aim: Life in the Changing Cities, Education and Culture A Builing Boom Skycrapers Americans at Play Vaudville Newspapers An American Culture Regents Class Homework: Read pages 612-612 Complete the Homework Worksheet Due Wednesday 10/5	5 Aim: Spotlight on History- Jane Addams and Jacob Riis Jane Addams and The Settlement House Movement Handout Jacob Riis and How the Other Half Lives Worksheet Photo Slideshow	6 Aim: Spotlight on History- The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Handout Test Review Sheet Honors Due Tuesday 10/11 Test Review Sheet Regents Due Tuesday 10/11	7 All Classes: All Classes Little Theater; Ken Burns NY: The Statue of Liberty
10 No School Columbus Day	11 All Classes Test Review for Urbanization, Immigration and Industrialization Test	12 All Classes: Test Today All Classes Homework: Complete the short answer part of the DBQ packet. Due Friday 10/14	13 All Classes Ellis Island Field Trip	14 All Classes: Immigration DBQ in class today. Immigration DBQ