Today we began with a discussion over your Chapter 21 reading then spent a significant chunk of time viewing and analyzing some images by muckraker photographers including Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine. We ended the day with a Docblock over a brief excerpt from Jacob Riis' How the Other Half Lives and an examination of the motives of Progressive Reformers with some documents from the Settlement House movement.
Chapter 22 is due tomorrow! That's your last chapter for this week. You should also be working on the prep for next week's scored discussion. The reading selection is posted under Period 7 on the website. H
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Today I was out on a field trip. You viewed the episode of the documentary series The American Experience on the Gilded Age. Chapter 21 is due tomorrow.
H Today we discussed the Gilded Age, focusing on business and industry as well as the early Labor movement. We completed two DocBlock exercises, one on "Social Darwinism," and the other on "The Gospel of Wealth." We also took a few notes from a mini-lecture on the growth of business and examined three major strike movements using sets of primary sources. These source sets can be found on the Period 6 page of the website.
I will be out tomorrow for a field trip. Your Chapters 20 and 21.1 are still due tomorrow and the rest of Chapter 21 on Wednesday. H Mr. Hutchison was out sick yesterday, thus no blog post for the day. Today, however, we wrote our final graded LEQ essay. We will now start building on these skills to write DBQ essays over the next two months.
Next week is the most intense of the semester in terms of textbook preparation. Chapter 19 is due Monday and you need to check the class calendar on this site so that you can be planning for all of the other readings coming up next week! the good news is that after next week, the workload begins to ease off continually through the rest of the semester! Make sure you are getting your scored discussion posts in as well! Have a great weekend! H We had our second scored discussion today and it seemed to generate a fair bit of critical controversy. Overall, we were pleased with the outcomes and nature of the discussions. For Mr. Hutchison's class, I implemented some moderation techniques during third period that I will introduce to 1st period next time. In addition to that, you should be reflecting on your own participation using the individual feedback charts I gave you at the beginning of class. You will have your charts as well as the class feedback to consider for this discussion as you come into class tomorrow.
Additionally, you need to navigate to the online discussion board for this conversation and continue the conversation. I gave each class some things to consider when contemplating where they might take the conversation online, but feel free to discuss thoughts or questions you did not get to in class or that occurred to you following our in class discussions as well. These online submissions are due next Tuesday by 11:59 pm!!! If you were absent today, the makeup directions are on the discussion board. Chapters 18 & 20.3 are due tomorrow as we continue talking about the expansion geographically and economically during the late 1800's. H Today we took a day to explore the "old West" by trying to piece together the community of Helena, Montana through the lens of a murder that took place there in 1870. The process helped us see the material covered in our chapter in a more "real life" form, but also gave us the opportunity to do history in a more detailed way than we have so far in the class. The take away at the end of this activity is best encapsulated in our response to the question typically asked at the end of this exercise: "so, what really happened?" You now know as much as anyone on this particular event. This is how history is made, through the accumulation of evidence leading to the reconstruction of plausible narratives. There is always a degree of uncertainty in history. Hopefully, however, you realized that there are some verifiable historical truths. while we may never know for certain what exactly transpired in Ah Chow's cabin that night in January, 1870, we can definitively determine who was involved in the event, what Helena was like at the time of the event, the kinds of lives lived and justice systems developed by these people in the process of inventing new lives for themselves.
Tomorrow, you have the opportunity to do some more historical thinking as you discuss and debate your analysis and interpretations of tow historian's points of view on the issue of genocide in relation to Native Americans. Be sure you have your pre-write ready to go! H Exam 2 was today! We are now officially halfway through the "content" of the class! That means you have technically completed the time period you would have in one semester of college. We will dive into the second half tomorrow as we begin our examination of Westward Expansion during and following the civil War. Make sure that you have Chapter 17 completed for tomorrow.
Also, don't forget that your next scored discussion will be on Wednesday and you need to have a pre-write completed once again. Make sure you check the pre-write directions posted with the readings under Period 6 as they are slightly different this time. As a matter of fact, you should double check the class calendar for the next couple of weeks, because it's pretty tightly scheduled with chapter readings. H Today we wrapped up Period 5 with a discussion over Reconstruction. We debriefed your thoughts coming out of your textbook reading then compared that to four major historiographical schools of thought using a brief essay by historian Alan Brinkley. We next wrestled with the question of freedom for African Americans during Reconstruction through an analysis of a set of documents. We finished the day with a DocBlock Lit Circle over the "Voices of Reconstruction," which you can find under Period 5 on this website if you did not finish in class. Monday is your second exam. It will cover Period 4 & 5, 1800-1877, Chapters 8-16. As last time, it will be 45 multiple choice questions followed by 2 short answers. I have posted the list of class activities, DocBlock's and textbook chapters you should have in your binders from these two units. H ![]()
Today we explored the causes of the Civil War with an analysis of secession ordinances from four different Southern states and with a debrief of your Chapter 15 reading. We also spent a good chunk of time analyzing some of Lincoln's public and private communications on the issues of disunion and slavery.
Tomorrow we will tackle the aftermath of the Civil War and Reconstruction as we wrap things up for Period 5 headed into your second exam! Make sure you have finished up Chapter 16 tonight! H Today we continued our discussion over slavery, shifting our focus a bit to see how people in the antebellum period decried and defended slavery and the political repercussions of those debates. We looked at a brief document comparing two accounts of a speech given by Sojourner Truth, followed by a DocBlock Lit Circle over four primary sources illustrating the variety of points of view on slavery prevalent during the time (Uncle Tom's Cabin, Rise of the Cotton Kingdom, The Blessings of Slavery, and Impending Crisis of the South). We ended with a brief look at the Republican Party and its platform during its first two presidential campaigns in its existence, 1856 and 1860.
Chapter 15 is due tomorrow and Chapter 16 on Friday. Your next exam is Monday and your next Scored Discussion is next Wednesday (readings are posted under Period 6). Tomorrow we will tackle the causes of the Civil War. If we have time at the end of class, we will try to answer your biggest remaining questions about Chapters 14 & 15. H |
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