Social Studies:
CHAPTER 21 TEST on
MONDAY JANUARY 28!
COLLECTED AND GRADED TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FIRE PROJECT. Grade is in Infinite Campus.
NOTE Progress Report Grades Close This Friday 1/25
TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FIRE PROJECT STARTED 1/15
THE TWO PARAGRAPH LETTER WAS DUE FRIDAY 1/18
WE HAD THURSDAY IN CLASS TO WRAP UP!
SEE LINKS BELOW FOR ADDITIONAL FACTS ETC.
GAVE STUDENTS THE THREE DAY WEEKEND TO IMPROVE WEAK WORK. COLLECTED UPGRADED TRIANGLE PROJECTS ON TUESDAY 1/22
WEDNESDAY: JAN 23: FINISHED reading section 3 of chapter 21on TEMPERANCE and WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE.
Learned about CARRY NATION and her AX!
Started Chapter 21 on1/2/2013. The Progressive Spirit of Reform.
Read Both Sections 1 &2 of Chapter 21 by Jan/9.
Wednesday 1/9: All focus Questions for section 1 covered in class by now.
Discussed the TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FIRE in NYC 1911 to prepare for a small upcoming project. See links below and Project Guidelines off to the right.
Also Discussed what REFORM means and talked about ongoing reform in our government.
Read a handout about Upton Sinclair's book, The Jungle, about the meatpacking industry.
Learned that Upton Sinclair wrote this historical fiction about the meatpackers because he wanted his readers to sympathize with the plight (trouble) of the typical meatpacker and the horrid conditions he worked under. However, readers often focused on the nasty ingredients he described in the meat and therefore overlooked the workers themselves. In other words, Upton Sinclair "aimed at the reader's heart, but hit him in the stomach."
See video clip we watched in class:
Video Clip on Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle: Full Text from Project Guttenberg: FREE
The Jungle Free Full Text
Watch the History Channel Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Video on Youtube Below:
38:50 Triangle Shirtwaist Video
Triangle Shirtwaist Oral History told years later below:
Triangle Shirtwaist Oral History
Triangle Shirtwaist Newspaper: Click Below
Triangle Shirtwaist Testimony (Primary Source): Click Below
Triangle Shirtwaist Testimony Primary Source
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Secondary Source Story
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Secondary Source Story
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Secondary Source Story
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Secondary Source Story
Newspapers write up some REFORM ideas.
Newspaper with Reform Ideas
ENGLISH: NOUNS TEST MONDAY JAN 28!
WEDNESDAY: JANUARY 23:
WE ARE NOW
DISCUSSING NOUNS IN CLASS:
FAMILY ESSAY GRADES ARE IN INFINITE CAMPUS.
SINGULAR VS PLURAL
COMMON VS PROPER
CONCRETE VS ABSTRACT
COLLECTIVE VS COMPOUND
POSSESSIVES
APPOSITIVE PHRASES WORKING WITH NOUNS.
Tuesday 1/15: Collected all FAMILY ESSAYS. Most students turned in complete work, others handed in rough draft that could improve with immediate revision.
Thursday 1/17: Reading some of the completed family essays in class, then moving onto parts of speech: NOUNS.
We are writing a professional essay on FAMILY. Very specific requirements have been given to students. 750+ words in a five-paragraph essay detailing how your family is UNIQUE, IMPORTANT and how it GUIDES YOU! We will have most of this week to work on it in class (1/7 - 1/11) and I will collect the finished copy on MONDAY January 14: finished or not. I expect the five paragraphs turned in on time given the amount of class time we will devote to it. Students wishing to work outside the classroom may:
A) print a copy daily and take it home to improve by hand.
B) bring home laptop if allowed by school to do so.
C) bring home project daily on pen-drive to work on home comp.
D) work in Advisory, in my room at lunch, or after school so long as the student has a way home.
