Introduction to Big Business

   -paperclip activity

   -discuss patents

   -define vocabulary

Define Corporation, entrpeneur, trusts, monopolies

Background of Battle of the Bulge 

Labor Movement-

 first unions and strikes

Finsih TFK activity and veteran letters

Tests returned-reviewed

Labor Songs

Union posters

Test signature

TFK magazine reading

Posters due

Video clip

TFK Activity

Review for test

Test on 2nd Industrial Revolution

Quality lesson- how to improve work

TFK reading

Locker Cleanout

DBQ  (Document Based Question) Essay

Tests returned

Quilt Information

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Review tests on Western Expansion & 2nd Industrial Rev.

Introduction to Immigration-Neil Diamond song

  ~discuss reasons (push/pull factors)

  ~old vs. new immigrants

  ~web on crossing the ocean and settling in new lands

(pp.637-640)

Intr 

-Video Clip on Immigration

-Discuss and view political cartoons on opposition to immigration then and now

-Finish web if not done from yesterday

Quilt Project

Immigrant Letter-Write a letter to your homeland

Poem- 'New Colussus"

Cahnges in Cities- web on changes an deffects

Urban Problems and Solutions

What are specific problems ?

How did society try to solve these problems?

Melting Pot

Working in stations, students will anlayze and summarize the immigration experience

Quilt Project

Paragraph on 'Why America is a melting pot?