WWI ....USA joins the WAR

uCW: Complete rewrite of the JUST WAR.
HW p. 378 SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA AND EVENTS THAT BROUGHT U.S.A. INTO WAR; Write summary paragraph. Was this a good reason to join the war? Why or why not? Were other reasons contributing as well?

TRENCH WARFARE! WW1 technology

HW: Read 375-376 Describe Trench warfare: include description, technology, problems, type of battles, death and diseases; etc.

Causes of WWI; "isms and assassination"!!

uRead . 372-374
uDef nationalism; militarism
uDescribe the ALLIANCE SYSTEM
uHW: p. 374 Describe the assassination of the Archduke of Austria; and, how the alliance system led to war

WEDS NIGHT HW....sorry

uHW: Describe picture on 370 What does the text and picture tell you about the war.
uList 3 observations and 3 pieces of information

Complete outline for essay on Progressive Issues in 1900s

HW: Culminating Task: Newspaper Column on Issues of 1900’s. Choose one big problem. You can write as a muckraking reporter, a progressive with ideas for solving the problems, or a person who suffers from this problem in Society. Outline Due Friday.
uInclude:
1.headline,
2.shocking intro, a personal story about someone
3.2 main informative paragraphs,
4.solution, conclusion….Continue to using shocking language. One page minimum. Essay due Mon.
Notebooks collected tomorrow…FRIDAY.
PERIOD 5 USE YOUR TEXT as the resource.

The successes of Progressives

HW: What new programs did Progressives provide for Food and Drugs, conservation/pollution, civil rights, Women/suffrage

MUCKRAKERS of the early 1900s.

HW: p. 326-7 Read about a Muckraker: Summarize what they investigated. What did they write or publish?
Why was their work so valuable? What would you want to “muckrake” today?? Would you want to be a photojournalist or reporter? Why?

FREE THE CHILDREN; stop child labor today

HW: go to internet sites for : Free the Children
and Unicef
Visit each site; watch video stories about child labor
Use to complete Thursday's assignment for child labor today
Free the Children has projects that we could do as a class or….. Which are interesting and why? Can we buy a goat, build a school, build a water pump, pay for a child to go to school instead of work???

Child Labor Today: In Africa….or…..(internet story) google

Find story on child labor. Or, video.
Write your own story w/ pictures...ready to share with class. We will use the stories to
write our own story about the state of child labor in the world today.

You may also use a video. Write story. Bring Link for us to watch.

Meat: Healthy or Horrible in 1900

HW: 320-322 What acts or laws were passed to protect the health of the consumer? Look at the picture, What were the possible problems for the coal miner? What in the picture on 322 tells you that there is enforcement of laws? What do you see?