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Darien High School

February 2008

 

Note: any dates in red Indicate a  test, quiz or paper due.

Class Discussion: Native American Resistance and Assimilation

PowerPoint: 

Homework:  Industrialization Chapter 15—Print and Complete for Monday

Class Discussion:              Finish the New York Documentary

PowerPoint: 

Homework:                          Permission Slip and $45 for NYC Trip DUE

Class Discussion: Watch Documentary New York from PBS Video and                                                                         answer   questions.

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Homework:        

Friday 1                  

Tuesday 5

Wednesday 6                        

Monday 4

Class Discussion:              Rise of Corporations and Social Economic Theory

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Homework:                          Progressive Era Reformer Readings and Assignment

 

Thursday 7           

Class Discussion:  The Second Industrial Revolution

PowerPoint:       

Homework:         None

Class Discussion:        Progressive Era Writers

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Homework:                          Progressive Era Questions—Need Textbook—DUE WED.

Class Discussion:        Continue Progressive Era Writers

PowerPoint:

Homework:                          Progressive Era Textbook Questions—Due Wednesday

                                                   Read The Jungle Excerpt for Wednesday

Class Discussion:        Continue Progressive Era Writers

PowerPoint:

Homework:                          Progressive Era Textbook Questions—Due Wednesday

Monday—11          

Tuesday—12

Friday 8

Class Discussion: Jacob Riis and Upton Sinclair

PowerPoint:

Homework:             Andrew Carnegie—Wealth      

Wednesday—13   

 

Class Discussion: Progressive Reforms

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Homework:         PRINT and BRING to class the inaugural address of  either                                                          Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft OR Woodrow Wilson.

                                  Bring your textbook to class

 

Thursday—14       

Class Discussion: QUIZ—INDUSTRIALIZATION—PROGRESSIVE REFORM

PowerPoint:

Homework:         Complete class work if necessary for the 25th.

 

 

 

Friday—15

Class Discussion:              The Progressive Presidents

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Homework:                          Complete the Progressive Presidents Grid

Monday 25

Class Discussion:              Test—Industrialization—Progressivism

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Homework:                          Complete the Take-Home Essay as part of your test.  Submit                                                    to turnitin.com by Sunday night March, 2nd.

                

                                                   Watch America Becomes a World Power Video and                                                             Answer Questions—Due Wednesday, March 5th

                                       YOU NEED WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER                                          DOWNLOAD FREE FROM HERE OR PLAY                                        AT SCHOOL.

                                       You can also access the video at                                                             unitedstreaming.com. 

                                       Username and password: darienhs

                                       Search: America Becomes a World Power

                                       It’s the first video.

 

 

 

Friday 29