APUSH This Week

Tues 1/21                    IC-       The Century “Seeds of Change”

HW-    Read Chapter 25 “America Moves to the City,” pages 558-567,

            Hippocampus – Urban Nation

1.     Chinese Immigrants

2.     New Immigration

3.     Appeal of the City

Wed 1/22                     IC-       1. Review Philosophy of Industrialists Lesson

2. Late 1800’s – Monopolies

HW-    Read Chapter 25 “America Moves to the City,” pages 568-574,

                                                Hippocampus – Urban Nation

1.     Reaction to New Immigration

2.     Squalid Side of the City

3.     Social Development

Thurs 1/23                  IC-       Child Labor & Labor Unions

                                    HW-    Read Chapter 25 “America Moves to the City,” pages 574-582,

                                                Hippocampus – Reform

                                                            1. Social Alternatives

Fri 1/24                       IC-       The Men Who Built America – Henry Ford

                                    HW-    Read Chapter 25 “America Moves to the City,” pages 582-592.

                                                Hippocampus – Reform

1. Women & Blacks in America          

Thursday, 1/16

Social Studies 8 - Today we finished with the Jungle.  Homework tonight is read chapter 22, section II "The Progressives."  Page 633.

APUSH - Today we started our discussion on Industrial America.

Wednesday, 1/15

Social Studies 8 -  Today we read excerpts from Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.  As we read we inventoried the different aspects of the muckraking novel.  Homework is to read Chapter 21, Section 4 starting on page 617.

APUSH - Today we discussed the Gilded Age Presidents.  

APUSH Extra Credit

Watch all three videos by Friday, January 17th.  Report to Mr. Clark of your completion and earn 30/30 on a minor grade.

Rutherford B Hayes #19:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85AgydJebA0
(10 Minutes)

James Garfield #20:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gzYlSPpks4
(10:30 Minutes)

William McKinley #25:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2z1svlX9ZA
(7:30 Minutes)

The Jungle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHF_BWfSPik (class begins)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxe9nosWawM (after reading over)

Monday, 1/13

SS 8-  Today in class we watched two video clips on poverty in America.  One concentrated on Jane Addams and the other was a 21st century example from CBS' Sunday Morning.  We further discussed the negative aspects that often coincide with Industrialization.  

HW- Section III, Ch 21 Life in Changing Cities (handout)


APUSH - Today in class we started by watching a 9-minute video on the presidency of Ulysses S Grant (linked below).  We then started the lesson on the "Gilded Age Presidents."  

HW:  Read Chapter 23 “Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age,” pages 521-528

SS8 - Monday Video

Jane Addams' Life (5:50)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw4GZeABlNI

CBS News - Sunday Morning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msrfIuvs16g