Friday, February 4, 2011

Weekly Agenda Feb 7-11

Progressivism & WWI

MONDAY & TUESDAY
Finish review of previous semester notes
-Women's suffrage
-->primary sources: reactions to "Declaration of Sentiments"
--> your reactions
Assignment: In The News-analyzing primary versus secondary sources and presentation requirements
-President Roosevelt
-->accomplishments
-->trials and tribulations
-->modern applications
HW for WED, bring in a source (primary or secondary) to practice In The News

WEDNESDAY

Geography
  • tracing the progressives influence across the United States
  • President Roosevelt's influence
  • environmental reform
  • health and safety: Upton Sinclair
  • suffrage: Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • muckrakers:
  • capitalism: Carnegie, Rockefeller
  • socialism: Eugene Debs,
  • Big $: Rail & Oil
Quiz tomorrow, fill in blank map

THURSDAY & FRIDAY
Introduction World War I
  1. President Woodrow Wilson
  2. The Mexican Revolution
  3. Outbreak (Alliances-map)
  4. Neutrality
  5. Draft and women, in war
  6. Suspicion and limits on free speech
NEXT
Trench warfare
Extended Lessons: League of Nations
The War's Impact
  • race
  • red scare
  • President Harding and "a return to normalcy"
Review of In the News and prepare for unit test