APUSH HW - Week of March 5 2010

Hello, APUSHers:

Here are your HW assignments for the week of March 5, 2010.

Big Assignments

1. EXAMENITO MUCHO MAS GRANDE tentatively set for FRIDAY!

2. Progressive Web Quest - Due Friday 5th period and 8th Period. Click for the resources.

Monday Night: Due Date Tuesday March 2.

1. Finish Chapter 28 Guided Reading Questions and Chapter ID's

2. Listen to the Following PODCAST:

The Progressive Movement
Our guest this week, Michael McGerr, has written a book on what many historians believe is the greatest reform movement in American history--the Progressive Movement. President Theodore Roosevelt referred to the time as a period of "fierce discontent with evil." McGerr is interviewed by Talking History’s Jim Madison. Airdate: March 1, 2004.

3. Continue working on the Progressive Quest that we started in class.

Tuesday: Continue working on the Progressive Quest, and MOVIE NIGHT! Due Thursday March 4.

The Unfinished Nation: The Progressive Era

Documents the progressive era, a period of major reform efforts reacting to the changes brought on by industrialization and urbanization of the Industrial Revolution. While this program examines the more prominent successes of the movement--women’s suffrage, labor reform, prohibition, and monopoly reform--it also discusses the groups for which the era brought little change, including African Americans, immigrants, and women's social status. The program also highlights Jane Addams and the Hull House and explains social theories behind United States immigration, touching on Anglo-Saxon conformity, cultural pluralism, and the melting pot myth. Play

Thursday: Finish the Progressive Web Quest

Friday Night: For Monday

1. Finish Examenito Mucho Mas Grande.

2. RHO Book Notes on Chapter 29 CLICK HERE For Chapter 29 notes. SPOT CHECK OF INDEX CARDS!

APUSH HW - 2/26/2010

Hello, APUSHers:

Hope all of you are enjoying the snow day, and taking time to work on things APUSH.

Your HW This Weekend -

1. READ, HIGHLIGHT and OUTLINE (RHO) Chapter 28 Notes (on Index Card) SPOT CHECK OF INDEX CARDS 8TH PERIOD MONDAY!!!
2. Read Chapter 28
3. Complete Chapter ID's and Guided Reading Questions (ID's and GRQ's are due TUESDAY!!!)

Chapter 28 NOTES - READ, HIGHLIGHT AND OUTLINE the NOTES. Then Read the Chapter!

Chapter 28 ONLINE

Chapter 28 Guided Readings and ID's - This is the APUSH Workbook. Just scroll down till you find Chapter 28.

AUDIO BOOK of Chapter 28

STAY TUNED FOR NEXT WEEK'S ASSIGNMENTS!

IRHOF Assignment

Hello, Everyone:

CLICK HERE for the link to the "IRHOF Worksheet"


https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ASwKkVrh4N0RZGQ0cjl2MjhfMzQzMGR2eHJuZ2hw&hl=en


Use the worksheet to help you keep your information organized.

Feel free to check in anytime during Extra Help afterschool. ALL ARE INVITED!

Homework Assignments - Week of 2/22/2010

Hello, APUSHers:

To help you get a jump on things for next week, and keep you on pace, here's the HW for the week of 2/22/10.

Monday Night - Podcast Night "Spanish American War." Please complete the PODCAST SHEET and turn in on TUESDAY 2/23.

Tuesday Night - MOVIE NIGHT. Complete the Movie/Podcast Sheet and turn in on Thursday

The Unfinished Nation: Imperial Ambition

Uses informative interviews and forums with well-recognized scholars to profile America's growing global presence during the era of the Spanish-American War. The documentary begins with a look at the widely influential British empire and the effects of increased intercontinental transportation, noting America's involvement in the colonization of and conflicts in China, Cuba, the Philippines, and Hawaii, and profiles the contributions of Grover Cleveland, Joseph Pulitzer, and Theodore Roosevelt.

Thursday Night - Finish the assignments for Chapter 27 and the in-class assignment (if you didn't complete it during the day).

Friday Night - RHO Chapter 28. Complete Guided Reading Questions, and Chapter ID's. List of Resources to follow.

APUSH Pub Lab Assignment 2/11/2010

Hello, Everyone:

Here is your assignment for 8th Period. Value is 2.0 scaled points. Please finish for HW if you don't finish in class.

1. CLICK HERE for the Digital History Link to "Responses to Industrialization."

2. There are Five sets of Documents:

I. Responses to Industrialism

II. Industrialization

III. American Labor

IV. Changing Living Standards

V. The Gospel of Wealth

Post your answers to the questions at the end of each section. If you don't finish all of the sections, please finish for HW. You are being graded on completion of the task, and accuracy of information.

Here are the questions for each section:

SECTION I: 1. On what grounds do critics complain about the emerging industrial order? How valid do you find their criticism?

2. What do the quotations suggest should be the proper role of government in the economy?

3. Is bigness in industry the result of manipulation or the natural workings of economic laws? Is bigness in industry bad and if so, why?

4. Big business's critics accused it of financial trickery, political corruption, the unscrupulous exercise of monopoly power, inhumanity toward labor, and disregard for the consumer. Defenders stressed big business innovations--economies of scale, vertical and horizontal integration, rationalization of American industry, technical innovation, and promotion of efficient organization, capitalization, and research. Which argument do you find more persuasive?

Section II. 1. Why do you think the size of industrial establishments grew after the Civil War?

2. What difference might this make to the lives of employees?

3. Why do you think industrial output increased so rapidly in the late 19th century?

4. Which increased more rapidly--value added per worker in agricultural or in manufacturing and mining? Why?

Section III.

1. Describe the general trend in the wages of American workers.

2. When did wages rise most rapidly? Most slowly?

3. When was labor unrest greatest?

4. During what periods did the number of strikes rise most rapidly?

Section IV.

1. How did the standard of living of American and German workers compare in 1900?

2. Who in your view is better off and by how much?

3. Is a typical poor family today materially better off than a typical American family in 1900? If not, why not?

4. How have expenditures and diet changed over time?

Section V.

1. How does wealth come about, according to the quotations--by exploitation or by the virtues of patience and frugality?

2. What is the role of the entrepreneur in promoting economic development? in helping the poor and disadvantaged? What are the business leader's social responsibilities, if any?

3. How is economic inequality explained?

4. Can the private sector be trusted to serve the public interest?

APUSH FEBRUARY RECESS ASSIGNMENTS

Hello, APUSHers:

Hopefully, you are staying warm and enjoying the snow. In an effort to let everyone get a jump on their February Break Assignments (FBAs), I am posting them a little early. Please note the due dates are staggered, so everything is not due when you get back from vacation on the 22nd. I have also included an opportunity for a GEM project that can be used as a full test grade (4.0 scaled points).

The assignments are as follows.

1. MAKE UP MISSING QUIZ/Examenito: Due Date 2/22/2010. If you didn't complete the chapter 25 Quiz, or the Civil War/Reconstruction Examenito, you must complete it by Feb. 22nd, or the grade will be recorded as a ZERO. If you completed these assignments, you obviously are not responsible for doing them.

2. FREE RESPONSE ESSAY: Due Date 2/22/2010. This is a MANDATORY ASSIGNMENT! EVERYONE MUST COMPLETE THIS ONE! Will be graded as a full test (4.0 scaled points)! Here is the task that you must complete for this essay:

"Identify and Analyze the factors that changed the American City in the second half of the nineteenth century"

Your essay must be typed and printed, or neatly handwritten (in blue or black only, on looseleaf paper). Minimum length 750 words (two pages).

CLICK HERE FOR A LIST OF RESOURCES TO HELP YOU WRITE YOUR ESSAY!

3. Chapter 27 Assignments: Due Date: 2/25/2010. Highlight and Outline (RHO) Chapter 27 in The American Pageant. Complete Chapter ID's and Guided Reading Questions.

CLICK HERE FOR CHAPTER 27 Resources.

4. GO THE EXTRA MILE ASSIGNMENT: EXTRA CREDIT. Worth one full test (4.0 scaled points):

Immigration Web Quest - Due Date Friday February 26th.

Here is the link for the Web Quest Work Sheet!

Chapter 27 Resources

WORKBOOK for GRQ's and Chapter ID's

Chapter 27 - Textbook

Chapter 27 - Book Notes

Chapter 27 - Audio

Free Response Essay Resources

Question/Task:

"Identify and Analyze the factors that changed the American City in the second half of the nineteenth century:

Possible topics of discussion:

*growth of industry

• advent of the steam engine

• improved transportation: railroads; streetcars

• large factories

• increased immigration I

• port cities

• architectural changes: skyscrapers

• electric lights for commercial purposes

• urban planning

• tenements

• amusement parks (though this may be more an effect)

• theatres, museums

Resources:

The American Pageant Chapter 25

Sample Essays: Actual essays from "real" AP Students.

Online Lectures: Click the links below and listen to the lectures

• Lesson 49 - Growth of Citiesfile
• Lesson 50 - Life in the City

Reading: The Rise of American Cities

Video: The Unfinished Nation: The Age of the City

Grading Rubric - Please print and return with your essay!

HW 2/9, 2/10

Hello, APUSHers:

Here are your HW assignments for the remainder of the week. As there is no school tomorrow, you can probably finish these in one day.

1. MOVIE NIGHT: Here's tonight's feature

The Unfinished Nation: The Age of the City

Chronicles the rapid population growth in major cities in the United States during the late 1800s due to rapid immigration from Germany, Ireland, Italy, and Russia. The program examines immigrants’ assimilation into the United States and the public pressures they faced to abandon any sense of their “Old World identity.” Segments on the gender roles of immigrant men and women and growing differentiation between the upper and middle classes emphasizes immigration's ruffling of the American social fabric. Urban life--focusing specifically on tenement apartments in Chicago and Milwaukee, unemployment, and pollution--is compared to homes in the outlying suburbs, revealing the catalysts behind the development of departments of public health and such capitalistic enterprises as Sears and Roebuck. Play

2. Podcast Wednesday:

Generate Podcast Notes on

The Bowery Boys Podcast "Boss Tweed"

3. Thursday: Click on the link for The Rise of American Cities. You will need a copy for the activity we will be completing in class on Friday. Read, Highlight, and Outline the article.

Vacation Assignments will be posted before the end of the week!

APUSH ASSIGNMENT FRIDAY 2/5

APUSH ASSIGNMENT FRIDAY 2/5

HELLO, APUSHers:

Here's your assignment for today.

CLICK HERE for the link to the PPT on Industrialization.

Read over the entire Power Point. Based on Chapter 24, the PPT, and your knowledge of this time period, please answer the questions on slides 2, 7, 14, 20, 26 and 30.

Please post your answers. You must finish by the end of the period. Thank you!

APUSH Assignment for Wed. 2/3/2010

This assignment is ONLY for students whom I am seeing on Wednesdays.



Click the links below, and watch the following lectures.



Consumer Culture

Rise of Unions



After you view the lectures, CLICK HERE and complete the writing assignment.



If you don't finish in class, you must hand it in to me tomorrow, either via email, or by putting a copy in my mailbox (@ WJPS).



Thanks!

Today's Quiz Chapter 24

CLICK HERE FOR THE LINK TO QUIZ WEBSITE

When you get to the website, please click on Chapter 24: Industry Comes of Age, 1865-1900.

Complete the quiz to the best of your abilities. When you are done, please email me your results, so I may give you a grade.

Thanks!

Friday Night's HW CHAPTER 25 QUIZ (DUE MONDAY 2/8)

CLICK HERE FOR THE LINK. Please complete all answers on one answer sheet.

Thursday Night's Assignment - Due 2/4 (Friday)

THURSDAY NIGHT - DUE FRIDAY!

1. PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW, and READ THE ARTICLE!

Robber Barons and Rebels pages 270 to 282

2. Answer the questions below

1. What successes did the labor movement score in the 1880's and 1890's?

2. Why did the Thidodaux workers go on strike? Was the strike successful? What accounts for its success or lack of success?

3. What were the demands of the Tennessee coal miners in 1891?

4. What was Frick's strategy to break the steel workers' union at the Homestead steel plant? Did the plan work? Provide evidence to support your answer

5. What were black workers reluctant to support the Pullman strike?

Tuesday Night's HW Assignment Due Thursday 2/4

Tuesday Night - Due By Thursday. Two assignments (worth a total of .5 grade points (4.0 scale).

Please post your answers by commenting on this post.

1. CLICK HERE. After accessing the lecture website, please download the lecture entitled "Economics of Industrialization." You must post two things that you learned from the lecture on-line. However, you CANNOT post the same thing as someone else. In order to get credit, you must post a comment for this lecture.

2. The RETURN of MOVIE NIGHT!!! Based on your last name, you will watch one of the following films, and complete a supplemental video summary sheet. Again, you must post a piece of information that is DIFFERENT than what someone else has posted.

Please label each post appropriately, i.e. "Lecture Comments," and "Movie Comments"

1. Last Names AMEDEO-GOBIN, click below.

The Unfinished Nation: Revolution of a Different Sort

Analyzes how the onset of the Industrial Revolution affected the social, economic, and demographic structure of nineteenth-century American life. Addressing significant factors that incited the Revolution, looking especially at the Eastern European, Irish, and German immigration boom along with the improved use of canals and steam engines, the program discusses impact of the Potato Famine, growth of large urban centers, and increased economic opportunity. Turning to industry, the program assesses the importance of textile mills, entrepreneurships, corporations, and banks to early industrialists, investigating what life was like for the women and men working at factories and in early labor movements. The presentation demonstrates the importance of bolstered communications, especially penny and steam press newspapers and the telegraph, which made up the concurrent Technological Revolution.Play

2. Last Names HANIFF-ZHAO, you are responsible for the following video.

The Unfinished Nation: A New Corporate Order

Investigates the major causes and implications for the Industrial Revolution. Set against the backdrop of social change and political dispute, the program discusses Thomas Edison, the light bulb, Eli Whitney, the cotton gin, J. P. Morgan, John Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, the railroad strike, the Knights of Labor Union, and the American Federation of Labor. Wrapping up with a look at the tremendous transformations in the quality of life for both skilled and unskilled workers during the revolution, the informative presentation addresses wage disputes, poverty, the creation of the working class, and child labor