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Mohawk High School Lesson Plan

American History Grade 10 Mr. Stobbs H113 Periods 2, 3, 10

Lesson Plan (Unit): Progressive America

Date(s) covered in this plan: 11/26/2012 – 12/07/2012

Unit Description: This unit focuses on the Progressive Era, a time when many Americans tried to improve their society. They tried to make government honest, efficient, and more democratic. The movement for woman suffrage gained more support, as did efforts to limit child labor and reduce alcohol abuse.

Unit Time Period: 9 class periods (this plan)

Key Topics:

• The rise of Progressivism

• Government reforms

• Woman suffrage

• Social reforms

• Regulation of business

• Conservation

• The election of 1912

• Legacy of Progressivism

Related Standards:

• Content Statement 14. The Progressive era was an effort to address the ills of American society stemming from industrial capitalism, urbanization and political corruption.

Supporting Text: United States History and Geography: Modern Times (2013)

Unit Objectives: Working individually and in learning support teams, students will …

• Understand the origins of progressive reform and the principles and beliefs progressives applied to society’s problems.

• Identify the societal problems that progressives hoped to solve and briefly explain the nature of those problems.

• Understand the significance of the woman suffrage movement and relate it to progressive reforms.

• Compare and contrast the progressive philosophies of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.

• Analyze the achievements and limitations of the progressive movement to determine its success. I

Materials:

• Course syllabus

• Textbook

• Student binders and work materials

• Smart board

• Regular access to the computer lab and McGraw-Hill Online learning tools

• Notebooks

• Handouts (where noted)

• Teacher’s notes

Assessment:

• Oral probes, one-minute quizzes, discussion, review, group and individual exercises, homework, in-class text-based performance tasks.

ONLINE HOMEWORK / HOMEWORK: By the noted due dates, students must have completed the following web-based and text-based assignments.

a. Begin self-guided Online reading and study of Lessons 1 and 2.

b. Create vocabulary cards for Lesson 1 (7 terms). Due WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28.

c. Complete Geography Connection Exercise on page 165. DUE THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29.

d. Complete Critical Thinking Exercise on Page 167. DUE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30.

e. Create vocabulary cards for Lesson 2 (3 terms). DUE MONDAY, DECEMBER 3.

f. Persuasive Writing Activity, Page 168. We will begin this in class on Wednesday, December 5. It is due on FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7.

g. EXTRA CREDIT: Read The Jungle. Complete a two- three-page synopsis, including a short biography of the author and discuss your feelings about the book. I encourage you to do extra research on this book, and if you do, include a MLA Works Cited page. May earn up to 20 extra points on this assignment, due JANUARY 2, typed to standard.

Process, Week of 26 November, 2012

Monday, November 26, 2012:

1. No school.

Tuesday, November 27:

1. In lab: Access . Complete guided exercise. May be completed at home TO BE TURNED IN ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28.

Wednesday, November 28:

1. Turn in Vocabulary Cards for grading.

2. In Class: Complete Background Knowledge Assessment and Questionnaire. Allow 5 – 7 minutes, then discuss. Take a poll of how students responded to each statement. Ask students to identify areas of weakness in their knowledge. Collect for exercise grade.

Thursday, November 29:

1. DEMONSTRATE KNOWLEDGE: Lesson 1 Vocabulary Quiz.

a. Distribute Guided Reading Activity Sheets. All sections due at the end of the lesson.

b. Review Geography Connection homework: Trade and Grade.

c. Begin Read-around.

Friday, November 30:

1. Collect Lesson 2 Vocabulary cards for review.

2. Review Critical Thinking homework: Trade and Grade

3. Continue Read-around for 20 minutes.

4. Allow the remaining time to work on guided reading.

Monday, December 3:

1. Continue Read-around to completion.

2. Allow time to complete guided reading.

3. Review guided reading. Collect for grade.

Tuesday, December 4: Learning lab:

1. Return Guided Reading papers.

2. In class: Complete Lesson 1 Review Numbers 1 – 7. Print for grading. Students with extended time may turn it in on Wednesday.

Wednesday, December 5:

1. In class: Discuss and begin Writing Activity (No. 8 on page 168). Begin work in class. DUE FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7.

Thursday, December 6:

1. DEMONSTRATE KNOWLEDGE: Vocabulary Quiz, Lesson 2.

2. Discuss answers to Review Questions, clarify concerns. Collect for grading. Announce that unit quiz will be on Tuesday, December 11. It will include review questions from previous units.

Friday, December 7:

1. Collect essays for grading.

2. Distribute Lesson 2 Guided reading sheets.

3. Introduce Lesson 2.

Web-Based Research: Key Moments of the Progressive Era

1. Study the timeline to answer the questions that follow. At any point along the way, select the “More” tab to create a student account at Gilder-Lehrman for an extra five points.

a. What was the Great Migration? When did it take place? How many people were involved?

b. What was the Niagara Movement? Who was its leader? What was its purpose?

c. When was The Jungle published? Who wrote it? What was it about?

d. Why was January 16, 1906 an important date for Native Americans?

e. Describe two important pieces of progressive legislation passed in 1906. What did they accomplish?

f. What was accomplished in the 1908 case of Muller v. Oregon?

g. When was the NAACP founded? What was its purpose?

h. What was the Mann Act?

i. How many people lost their lives in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911? What god came out of this disaster?

j. What did the Sixteenth Amendment accomplish?

k. What did the Seventeenth Amendment accomplish?

l. What did the Federal Reserve Act accomplish?

m. What did the Federal Trade Commission Act accomplish?

n. What did the Clayton Antitrust Act accomplish?

o. What did the Eighteenth Amendment do?

p. When was the 19th Amendment passed? What did it accomplish?

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