Lesson on Tuesday, October 30, 2018 (L41.2018)

Essential Question(s):  

1. How did industrialization change working conditions and what was the response to those changes? 2. How did the labor movement of the late 19th and early 20th century impact the United States? 

  

Bell Ringer: Review Journal 29(27) / Check yesterday’s Pop Quiz 

  

Objectives: 

  

1. Students will explain and/or evaluate the significance of events, movements, and people in American society prior to and/or during the Second Industrial Revolution. 

2. Students will analyze and/or evaluate the human experience during the Second Industrial Revolution. 

3. Students will describe the origin, course, and/or consequences of the labor movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries 

Agenda: 

1. Bell Ringer (5 min) 

  

2. Print sources from the Library of Congress Resource Gallery on labor unions (http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/lessons/labor/gallery.html) and post on walls around the classroom. Have students do a “gallery walk” to examine each image. Give each student a post-it note for them to write down a comment or question about one of the sources that stood out to them and stick it to the wall next to that source. Discuss the significant themes found in the pictures. In small groups, have students create a poster that portrays a specific issue of turn-of-the-century laborers’ working conditions  

3. Concept Map presentations 

4. Lesson Closure: Have students respond in writing to the essential questions and then complete the home learning activity (described below). 

(period 3 only)  

4. Read pages 104-106 "Working in the United States" (20 min) 

Homework / Evidence of Learning 

Research to find a news article related to a present day labor issue. Summarize the article and share their findings in small groups. Discuss the extent to which workers’ problems have improved in the United States and the world. Use https://www.amnesty.org/en/ as a possible source. You are not limited to that website. 

Please review the following terms that will be in tomorrow's mini quiz, before the actual exam: closed shops, injunction, arbitration, lockouts, and industrial unions.