Here are the assignments for this upcoming week.
Monday Night - Movie Night
1. Choose ONE of the movies to watch, or if you want to GO THE EXTRA MILE, watch both. Complete the PODCAST VIDEO Review Sheet. Click on the link, and print it out. If you intend to do both, please print two review sheets.
The Unfinished Nation: A New Corporate Order
Investigates the major causes and implications for the Industrial Revolution. Set against the backdrop of social change and political dispute, the program discusses Thomas Edison, the light bulb, Eli Whitney, the cotton gin, J. P. Morgan, John Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, the railroad strike, the Knights of Labor Union, and the American Federation of Labor. Wrapping up with a look at the tremendous transformations in the quality of life for both skilled and unskilled workers during the revolution, the informative presentation addresses wage disputes, poverty, the creation of the working class, and child labor.
The Unfinished Nation: The Age of the City
Chronicles the rapid population growth in major cities in the United States during the late 1800s due to rapid immigration from Germany, Ireland, Italy, and Russia. The program examines immigrants’ assimilation into the United States and the public pressures they faced to abandon any sense of their “Old World identity.” Segments on the gender roles of immigrant men and women and growing differentiation between the upper and middle classes emphasizes immigration's ruffling of the American social fabric. Urban life--focusing specifically on tenement apartments in Chicago and Milwaukee, unemployment, and pollution--is compared to homes in the outlying suburbs, revealing the catalysts behind the development of departments of public health and such capitalistic enterprises as Sears and Roebuck. Play
Tuesday Night: Due Thursday
1. Read Chapter 15 in the Textbook
2. Copy Visual Summary on p. 478.
3. Answer "Terms and Names" on p. 478
4. Answer "Main Ideas" on p. 478
Thursday Night: Prepare for a QUIZ on Chapters 14 and 15 on Friday. A list of possible question topics to follow.
