Thursday, September 19, 2013

2.2 C & 2.2 D

Finish: 2.2 C Panama Canal Markup (26)

  • Mark up activity...Remember: 
    • Circle content vocab on reading
    • underline key information
    • one margin summary for each paragraph (1-4 words total)

2.2 D: Progressive President's Foreign Policy (27)

  • Two sheets, one is white and one is yellow
  • We only worked on the white sheet.
    • On the back of the White sheet please write this: 



Anti-Imperialists
  • Andrew Carnegie
    • Offered the Philippines $20 million dollars to attempt to help them buy their freedom from the US after the Spanish-American War
    • Believed that Imperialism was "Anti-Democratic" or against the principals of democracy where people control their government
  • Mark Twain
    • One of the Founding members of the Anti-Imperialist Leauge (see 2.2 A for info about them)
    • Believed that Imperialism was racist; based on the US thinking Filipinos could not run their own government


Wednesday, September 18, 2013

2.2 B & C

2.2 B: Spanish-American War (25)

  • Watch THIS VIDEO (8 mins long) for review
  • Use pages 558-564 in your textbook to complete a COMIC ACTIVITY
    • Remember to complete the Comic Activity using these steps...IN ORDER
      • Add all 10 labels (titles)
      • Complete all 10 Captions
      • ONLY THEN complete the pictures

2.2 C: Panama Canal Mark-up (26)

  • While reading 2.2 C: Panama Canal Mark-up, do the following on the sheet
    • Circle vocab terms specific to the Panama Canal
    • underline short, important information
    • Write a 1-4 word margin summary that summarizes each paragraph
    • On the KIM sheet, find 5 words that you don't know and look them up, defining them with your own words and a quick symbol (memory cue)
    • Level 4 on the notebook would need more than 5....

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

2.2



Turned in 2.1 Homework & Learning Activities

Finish: Progressive Presidents (20)

  • Watched Woodrow Wilson's Presidency Video
  • Discussed Election of 1912 & Federal Reserve Act
    • YOU MUST KNOW THESE!! They are on the BIG LIST! 


Review: Women's Suffrage

  • We went through the questions found on the REVIEW presentation


2.2 Learning A: Foreign Policy Notes (24)

  • Completed 2.2 Learning A
  • Add three notes.   Use THIS VIDEO if you were absent

Monday, September 16, 2013

Finish 2.1

Practice: Progressive Movement (2.1 B & C)

  • "Speed Dating" Activity (you cannot do this activity if you missed class....review each of these on your own!) about the following people:
    • Ida Tarbell
    • Upton  Sinclair
    • Lewis Hine
    • Jane Addams
    • Tom Johnson
    • Robert La Follette Sr.
    • John Muir
    • Booker T Washington
    • W.E.B. DuBois
    • James Garfield
    • Chester Arthur
    • William McKinley
    • Teddy Roosevelt
    • William Taft
    • Woodrow Wilson

Finish: 2.1 C: Prohibition Movement

  • Watch last segment of video in class
2.1 D: Women's Movement
  • Complete this worksheet with your island

2.1 Homework due tomorrow with ALL 2.1 completed (including 2.1 B, which you should share with Mr. McDonald via google docs!)

Friday, September 13, 2013

2.1 Learning E

2.1 Learning E: Prohibition Movement (22) 

  • Watched Prohibition video....check out the video in the library if you missed it.  
  • Try Amazon.com or netflix.com and look for Ken Burns "Prohibition".  1st Episode: A Nation of Drunkards"
  • 2.2 Homework Due Tuesday

Finish 2.1 B: Reforming Society, the Workplace and Government

Finish 2.1 B: Reforming Society, the Workplace and Government

  • We went to the library for the entire hour and a half to complete this.  We began this Tuesday.  
  • IF you did not complete this today you must by the time you turn in your homework next Tuesday
  • YOU MUST SHARE THIS WITH ME....NO need to print it out for your notebook--that would just waste lots of paper.
Today was also the revision day for your notebook.  If you did not turn it in you can no longer revise it.  If you were absent you may revise it the day you come back.

Handed out the following papers or organized what you had into this order: 

2.1 C: Presidents notes (20)--you should already have this
2.1 D: Women's Movement (21)
  • You must re number this paper--my copies have the wrong number on them.
2.1 E: Prohibition Movement (22)

  • You must re number this paper--my copies have the wrong number on them.

2.1 Homework (23)

  • You must re number this paper--my copies have the wrong number on them.

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Here is the link for CEDAR RAPIDS FIRE
To rotate the view, you need to download it as a pdf.  here are the instructions:

Click "file" and "download"
On the bottom of your screen a question will pop up...press "keep"
The file will eventually open as a .pdf
Click "view" and "rotate" until you can see it upright.
I also emailed you the .pdf if you need it.

NEW TERMS:
John Muir
16th Amendment
17th Amendment