US II Week 10 Jag

Jag M-T
SOL: USII.4b Date: Oct 19
EKS Reasons for the increase in immigration
 Hope for better opportunities
 Desire for religious freedom
 Escape from oppressive governments
 Desire for adventure

Reasons why cities grew and developed

 Specialized industries, including steel (Pittsburgh)
and meat packing (Chicago)
 Immigration to America from other countries
 Movement of Americans from rural to urban areas
for job opportunities
Rapid industrialization and urbanization led to overcrowded
immigrant neighborhoods and tenements.

Efforts to solve immigration problems

 Settlement houses, such as Hull House founded by
Jane Addams
 Political machines that gained power by attending to
the needs of new immigrants (e.g., jobs, housing)

Discrimination against immigrants

 Chinese
 Irish

Challenges faced by cities

 Tenements and ghettos

Political corruption (political machines)

Key Vocabulary Oppressive, religious freedom, rural, urban, industrialization,

urbanization, tenements, ghettos
Learning Target You will identify and analyze the problems faced by cities as
a result of immigration and decide on the choice you would
have made if you were a potential immigrant.
Agenda (time) 1. Focus (10) Key Questions:
2. Finish Reading from Friday (15) 1. Why did
3. Challenges PPT and Frame Independently (20) immigrants
4. Moodle Drop Notes 4b (10) come to
5. Paragraph- Knowing what you know now, if you America
were an immigrant, would you still come to the US? after the
Why/Why not? Be sure to discuss the reasons you Civil War?
would come and the challenges you’d face once you
got here.
Focus Ghettos- summarize paragraph
Instruction, Frame and Reading Key Examples:
Demonstration, Pictures in PPT
Modeling
Guided Practice Drop Notes on Moodle Check for
Understanding:
Circulate

Independent Paragraph Check for

Practice Understanding:
Students read
paragraphs,
teacher collects.
Manipulatives, Pictures, PPT, Sb, frames Wrap-
Technology up/Concluding
Questions:
If you were an
immigrant, would
you have come
here? Why/Why
not?
Summary or Exit Paragraph- Knowing what you know now, if you were an
Activity immigrant, would you still come to the US? Why/Why not?
Be sure to discuss the reasons you would come and the
challenges you’d face once you got here.
Homework None

Teacher(s) R-F
SOL: USII.4bd Jag Date: Oct 21-22
EKS Reasons for the increase in immigration
 Hope for better opportunities
 Desire for religious freedom
 Escape from oppressive governments
 Desire for adventure

Reasons why cities grew and developed

 Specialized industries, including steel (Pittsburgh)
and meat packing (Chicago)
 Immigration to America from other countries
 Movement of Americans from rural to urban areas
for job opportunities
Rapid industrialization and urbanization led to overcrowded
immigrant neighborhoods and tenements.

Efforts to solve immigration problems

 Settlement houses, such as Hull House founded by
Jane Addams
 Political machines that gained power by attending
to the needs of new immigrants (e.g., jobs, housing)

Discrimination against immigrants

 Chinese
 Irish
 Challenges faced by cities
 Tenements and ghettos
 Political corruption (political machines)
Inventions that contributed to great change and
industrial growth
• Electric lighting and mechanical uses of electricity
(Thomas Edison)
• Telephone service (Alexander Graham Bell)
Reasons for the rise and prosperity of big business
• National markets created by transportation
advances
• Captains of industry (John D. Rockefeller, oil; Andrew
Carnegie, steel; Cornelius Vanderbilt, shipping and
railroads)
• Advertising
• Lower-cost production
Examples of big business
• Railroads
• Oil
• Steel
Postwar changes in farm and city life
• Mechanization (e.g., the reaper) reduced farm labor
needs and increased production.
• Industrial development in cities created increased
labor needs.
• Industrialization provided new access to consumer
goods (e.g., mail order).

Key Vocabulary Urbanization, Industrialization, Lower-cost production,

mechanization, factors of industry,
Learning Target You will describe how inventions led to big business,
practice with 3 gestures and blurbs, differentiate between 6
different categories, and write a paragraph.
Agenda (time) 1. Focus (10) Key Questions:
2. Frame and PPT (25) 2. Why did
3. Sort Game (25) immigrants
4. Paragraph (15) come to
5. Read Paragraph (5) America
after the
Civil War?
Focus Settlement Houses, Jane Addams, Political Machines
Instruction, Frame on EK from 4d with pictures and extra information. Key Examples:
Demonstration, Factors of
Modeling Industry-
how
business got
started.
Reasons for Rise
of BB- How
business
 became
HUGE

Guided Practice Sort Game- student sort clues into categories by number. Check for
Mix of SS and Math. Understanding:
Circulate,
observe, check
boards.

Independent Paragraph- Pick one of these inventions. Then, act as Check for
Practice though you are just using it for the first time and writing a Understanding:
diary entry/letter about it. Describe how the invention has Identify which
made your life easier. problem each
picture
represents.
Manipulatives, Laptops, PPT, Sb, frames Wrap-
Technology up/Concluding
Questions:
2. How did
inventions
help the rise
of BB?
Summary or Exit How did inventions help the rise of BB?
Activity
Homework Inventions HW

Teacher(s) F
SOL: USII.4bd Jag Date: Oct 23
EKS Reasons for the increase in immigration
 Hope for better opportunities
 Desire for religious freedom
 Escape from oppressive governments
 Desire for adventure

Reasons why cities grew and developed

 Specialized industries, including steel
(Pittsburgh) and meat packing (Chicago)
 Immigration to America from other countries
 Movement of Americans from rural to urban
areas for job opportunities
Rapid industrialization and urbanization led to
overcrowded immigrant neighborhoods and tenements.

Efforts to solve immigration problems

 Settlement houses, such as Hull House founded
by Jane Addams
  Political machines that gained power by
attending to the needs of new immigrants (e.g.,
jobs, housing)

Discrimination against immigrants

 Chinese
 Irish

Challenges faced by cities

 Tenements and ghettos

Political corruption (political machines)

Key Vocabulary Oppressive, religious freedom, rural, urban,

industrialization, urbanization
Learning Target You will explain the importance of inventions in farm
life, teach your partners and take a practice test.
Agenda (time) Focus (10) Key Questions:
Teach (15) 2. How did
Practice Test (15) inventions
change life
around 1900?
Focus Roco Van Rail Steelegie, Financial Resources, Lower-cost
production
Instruction, Teach Partners- Inventions, reasons for rise of BB, Key Examples:
Demonstration, Factors of industry, Changes in farm life. 1. Reaper
Modeling

Guided Practice Teach partners. Focus on industrialization and Check for

urbanization Understanding:
Circulate, ensure
100%
participation.

Independent Practice test with a partner and their notes. Open book Check for
Practice due at end of class for a quiz grade. Understanding:
Test Grades
Manipulatives, Laptops, SB. Wrap-
Technology up/Concluding
Questions:
2. Why did
cities grow
and
develop
after the
Civil War?
3. What
problems
did this
present?
Summary or Exit Why did cities grow and develop after the Civil War?
Activity What challenges did Americans face as a result of these
changes?
Homework None