Thursday, 4/23 Based on your investigation yesterday, list some of the important issues that Muckrakers were concerned about. We will continue to check out the placards around the room in a few minutes. Ida Tarbell Jacob Riis

Muckraker Field Work, cont. Muckrakers move quietly through their work and start where they left off yesterday. Remember you are completing the Muckraker’s Name, Issue (of concern), and Description. Your Description should be detailed and thorough with at least three specific points noted. When you finish return to your seat and begin working on your vocabulary notecards until we are ready to move on.

“Issues of Muckrakers” Civil Rights Conservationism (protecting the environment) Women’s Suffrage Unsafe Working Conditions and/or Child Labor Unsafe Food Production Living Conditions Political Corruption

Progressive Reforms Categories Moral, Economic, Political, Social Specific Reforms (Economic) Gap Between Rich and Poor 16th Amendment

Closer Thursday, 4/24 Define Progressivism or Progressive Reforms as you understand them RIGHT NOW in 25 words or less. Count the words used and note them clearly with your statement. 25!

Wednesday,4/22 Think back to previous units: What problems need to be fixed or reformed in the U.S. at the beginning of the 20 th Century?

Progressive Reforms Categories Economic, Moral, Political, Social Muckrakers (Economic Reforms)

Muckraker Field Work Muckrakers do not create a disturbance when investigating problems. Move quietly through your work starting at the folder closest to where you are seated. Read the information at the folder and complete your chart with the Muckraker’s Name, Issue (of concern), and provide a Description of what is happening in the write-up and/or illustration. Your Description should be detailed and thorough with at least three specific points noted.

Closer Wed. 4/22 Now that you know more about the Progressive Era Reforms, use your knowledge to complete a quick letter to our Principal, Dr. Donovan, addressing the question below: How would you fix or reform Middletown High School to improve your education? Make sure you include your idea for how the problem should be fixed in order to get full credit.

Previous Semester’s Slides Pull from these to modify for the current semester

Wednesday, 12/10 1.Pick-up a computer sheet and fill it out for the Progressive Test. 2.Please take a few minutes to review your materials for the Progressivism Test! 3.Sharpen your pencils! 4.Questions will be addressed right after the bell!

When You Are Finished... 1.Review your test – Is your name on all answer sheets? 2.Bring everything up to me! 3.Drop-off your note cards (securely bound) in the bin with your name on them! 4.Pick-up a packet about Imperialism. Read the front page and begin working on parts #2-4. Use a textbook to help with the map. Welcome to Imperialism!

No Specific Closer – Wed., 12/10 Finishing Progressivism Unit Test

What rights might women want at the turn-of-the-century? How might women make the American public listen and take note? Tues., 12/09

Unit Test Information No extra time given unless entitled w/ documentation 38 Matching/Multiple Choice (computer form) 2 Extended Response (drawn from notes) - Give the problem, note the category, provide a detailed explanation of the problem (how fought and fixed) 3 Identification – NOT LINKING TERMS – Looking for detailed definitions 10 True/False w/ corrections as needed (one word or short phrase)

Closer Tues., 12/09 Answer the following question with details on your closer paper. In your opinion who was the more effective leader African American leader: Booker T. Washington or W.E.B. DuBois? Why?

Monday, 12/08 Select ONE (1) photo in the packet to analyze. Answer the questions below on your warm-up paper! You may have to make an educated guess! 1.How old do you think the child/children are at the time of the photo? 2.Where are they working? 3.What job(s) are they doing?

Closer – Mon., 12/08 Please note the following on your closer worksheet 3 Things that you have learned about Child Labor and/or the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (Working Conditions). 2 Things that you already knew about Child Labor and/or the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (Working Conditions). 1 Question regarding Social Reforms in general that you still have.

Friday, 12/05 Pick-up and examine the “Vin Vitae” advertisement. Highlight key words/phrases or pictures that reflect –the culture of this time period, and –something unusual or different compared to modern advertisements. Explain what you highlighted for today’s warm-up.

Activity for Social Reforms #3 Look closely at the picture you received (matching the one above). Pick five different individuals and create a speech bubble with what they might be thinking. The speech bubble should be class appropriate and reflect your studies to this point.

Hey, you lower class kids, STOP STEALING MY FRUIT!

Closer – Fri., 12/05 Please note the following on your closer worksheet 3 Things that you have learned about the Drug Safety and/or Tenement Houses (Social Reforms). 2 Things that you already knew about the Drug Safety and/or Tenement Houses (Social Reforms). 1 Question regarding Social Reforms in general that you still have.

Thursday, 12/04 Please get out your note cards so that we can finish our Political Reform notes. We will get to our warm- up after we finish Political Reforms!

Thursday, 12/04 Describe a time when you or someone you know purchased food that was of poor quality or unfit to eat. What did you do? If this has never happened to you, what do you think you would do?

Wednesday, 12/07 – 4 th period only Open your notebook to Morality Notes from yesterday. We need to get caught up since we had a shortened class on Tuesday!

Progressive Reforms Categories Moral, Economic, Political, Social Specific Reforms (Social) 1. Safer Food 2. Safer Medicines

Closer – Thurs., 12/04 (1 st period only) In your opinion, do you think that Americans today are safe from the food and drug problems seen at the start of the 1900s? Please explain your position.

Wednesday, 12/03 How can Income Taxes be considered a good thing? ( note: think of what the original reason for the 16 th Amendment! Go to your notes to help! )

Progressive Reforms Categories Economic, Moral, Political, Social Specific Reforms Moral Reforms (yesterday we did Economics)

Closer – Wed., 12/02 (1 st /4 th periods only) Robert McHenry (former chief editor of Britannica Encyclopedia) suggests that, compared to Prohibition, our “war on drugs” is “The exact same terrible idea, this time conducted even more ruthlessly, at enormous cost in lives and money and social peace, to no good end whatever.” What do you think? How can you compare the war on alcohol to today’s war on drugs?

Monday, 11/25 Please pick-up a packet titled “Politics in the Gilded Age” Read through the information and answer the questions that follow for pages one and two only. Do not go on to the note sheet that is attached. Also: Drop-off last weeks warm-up/closer sheet and pick-up the one for this week!

Friday, 11/22 Please drop-off your letter to an administrator regarding reforms at MHS. Not for 1 st period. Based on your investigation yesterday, what were some of the important issues that Muckrakers were concerned about?

Previous Semester’s Slides Specific to Life in the 1900s (may be skipped due to timing)

Tuesday, 11/25 Pick up a reading in the bin and answer the following question based on the first article, “Eating Habits Change”: Explain how technological innovations and cultural changes are reflected in the food products offered to Americans in 1900.

Eating Habits Change

Closer – Tues., 11/25 What are three difficulties found in The 1900 House that we do not have today? What are three similarities in your life to those of The 1900 House?

Have a Happy Civically-Minded Thanksgiving How would a turkey express it’s civic duty by protesting it’s inevitable doom on the Thanksgiving table? Please caption the protest message and add any additional key information.

Monday, 11/24 Predict what life will be like in 100 years by answering the following questions: What language will be the most spoken language in the world? What will be the most populated country? What will be the biggest ethnic group in the United States? (e.g.: Caucasian, Multi-Racial, etc.) What will transportation look like? Also: Drop-off last weeks warm- up/closer sheet and pick-up the one for this week!

Highlight what shows the following: Accuracy in the prediction (something like this is happening now!) Inaccuracy in the prediction (what were they thinking???) Examples of what was important in the 1900 (why they predicted what they predicted)

“The horse is here to stay, but the automobile is only a novelty—a fad.” Advice from a president of the Michigan Savings Bank to Henry Ford's lawyer Horace Rackham. Rackham ignored the advice and invested $5000 in Ford stock, selling it later for $12.5 million.

Mini Unit for Background What was life like at the Turn-Of-The-Century, or The Gilded Age, or The Progressive Period, or The Victorian Era

Who is this US President? Our 32 nd President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Current Day Prices of Sears Products Women’s Corset $.48 Child’s Walking Cloak $.75 Boys $4.00 Now $11.00 Now $19.60 Now $ Now $286.00

Corset Stays Made of Whale Bone

Closer – Monday, 11/24 What are some differences found in clothing styles between 1900 and today? What are some similarities found in clothing styles between 1900 and today?

Tuesday, 11/19 Pick-up a reading in the bin and answer the two questions about the Boy Scouts on your warm-up sheet.

1900 Charts/Graphs Part I: Use your answer sheet to record data from the charts and graphs. Part II: A Power Point will begin scrolling later in the period – it will provide the information for the questions at the bottom of your answer sheet. Part III: Complete the worksheet on the back, “Middle Class Life.” Part IV: Begin defining the vocabulary on a separate sheet of paper for Economic, Moral, and Muckrakers.

1900 Charts/Graphs - Vocabulary Longevity: how long someone lives Homicides: murders Nonmarital Births: babies born to an unmarried woman Infant Mortality Rate: death rate of those between birth and first birthday Lynching: to hang someone – used predominately against the African American community (or those who supported African American freedoms)

Closer - Tuesday, 11/19 Based on what you now know about life in 1900, describe what your life would be like if you were transported back to 1900!