Thursday 11/19

US History-We are semi ending unit 3 and beginning unit 4 prior to tomorrow's quiz on unit 3. Below students compared the events of the Pullman strike from two different newspaper perspectives. It reflects the two ways America saw strikers. Both newspapers in Chicago reported the incidents in different ways. Notes are attached as well and the final slide has the assignment that went with the reading.
Link to the Assignment on the Pullman Car Incident
Notes and Assignment

Wed 11/25

US History- We changed the date of the quiz/test to friday. We finished looking at the populists and students had 15 minutes to study and review for the quiz.

Tuesday 11/17

We finished looking at the post from last friday with the last two pages on the Homestead strike. It doesn't really end well for anyone. The workers get shot, the Pinkerton's get shot, Carnegie and Frick look like jerks. It was one of the first strikes in America and a step toward eventual labor improvements in America.
We finished class by looking at pages 219-223 in the textbook on the rise and fall of the populist party.
Populist Party Handout
There will be a quiz on Unit 3 on Thursday

Monday 11/16

US History-We continued looking at Industrialism. We looked at the next 2 handouts from Friday's post. Vertical and Horizontal Integration made building a bigger and better company possible. The titans of the day succeeded in doing both of these. We also looked at the end from a clip of how some of Carnegie's workers went on strike when their wages were low.

Friday 11/13

US History
We began looking at Industrialism in America. A perfect example of the Like a Monet unit title. While America was getting wealthy many workers were not. The rich were getting richer and the poor were staying poor. We took a slide of notes and then looked at an intro handout on Robber Barons vs Captains of Industry. Lastly we watched a clip from the Men who Built America that looked at how John Rockefeller turned his oil refining business into a Monopoly.
Notes to start section
Today was the first 2 pages on here.

Thursday 11/12

In class we were looking at two African American leaders that both set a path to equality in America. W.E.B DuBois and Booker T Washington took different paths to equality, one more direct and the other over time.
Notes and Quickwrite

Tuesday 11/10

We looked at how the Chinese Exclusion Act was put in place and why people were wanting the Chinese run out of America. While they contributed in an Amazing way to the transcontinental railroad of yesterday, within 20 years America prohibited their immigration.
Chinese Exclusion Act Reading
Basic Understanding of Law
Primary Source Opinions on Chinese Exclusion

Questions that went with this

Monday 9th

We can work through this tomorrow but the main part
Econ notebook

US History

This is the first part of 5 clips. If you open it in youtube the next 4 episodes will be on right side.

Thursday 11/5

US- Notebook order for US. It is due tomorrow. We also started taking some notes on urbanization and people coming to America through Ellis Island.

Econ-We finished price ceilings and floors. Students had time to review for tomorrow's test and fix yesterday's quiz answers if they wanted to.

Wed 11/6

US-We continued looking at immigration. We started Unit 3 which was titled Like a Monet. America looked good to the world, and seemed like a great place to be. Up close though it was not nearly as nice. It had many problems that it was struggling to work through. We also did our first quickwrite which will be posted later. We looked at two political cartoons and compared immigration of the past to today. We are going to be looking at political cartoons this unit. They are usually done to try to make an argument for something.
Political Cartoons

Econ-Class had a quiz on supply and demand curves. After I went over last weeks work and tried to clarify price floors and ceilings.

Tuesday 11/3

US-We continued looking at immigration into America at this time in history. One of the ways this was evident was the Statue of Liberty. It became a symbol for America and what it stood for. Below the statue is a poem. It does a great job of showing how America stood for something unique in the world.
The new Colossus

Econ-We reviewed yesterday's work and graphs

Monday 11/2

Econ-Sorry not there(I have golf for playoffs to work) The following notes should be written in your notebook, then the quickwrite done before you start on the graphing.

Notes and Quickwrite

US-The class continued looking at how America was taking place after the Civil War. The main thing was what like was like as cities began to grow. The massive wave of immigrants lead to major issues throughout cities.
Immigration into cities

Friday 10/30

US History-Students took their midterms on unit 2
Econ-took department quiz then finished and turned in yesterday's work