Lesson Plan World War I, African American Soldiers, and America’s War for Democracy 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Click to download this lesson plan.
Guided Readings Guided Readings: Urban Political Machines Economics, Government and Civics 9, 10, 11, 12 Reading 1 An army led by a council seldom conquers: It must have a commander-in-chief who settles disputes, decides in emergencies, inspires fear or attachment. The head of the Ring is such a commander. He dispenses places, rewards...
Guided Readings Guided Readings: The Rise of the City Economics, Government and Civics, Religion and Philosophy 9, 10, 11, 12 Reading 1 To-day, what is a tenement? . . . When last arraigned before the bar of public justice: “It is generally a brick building from four to six stories high on the street, frequently with a store on the first floor which, when...
Guided Readings Guided Readings: Problems of Youth 9, 10, 11, 12 Reading 1 Every American boy, a hundred years ago, lived either on a farm or in such close touch with farm life that he reaped its benefits. He had all the practical knowledge that comes from country surroundings; that is, he could...
Guided Readings Guided Readings: Progressive Reform and the Trusts Economics, Government and Civics 9, 10, 11, 12 Reading 1 The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men; their greed and arrogance . . . and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition of excitement and irritation in the popular mind,...
Guided Readings Guided Readings: World War I Economics, Government and Civics, Religion and Philosophy, World History 9, 10, 11, 12 Reading 1 The United States must be neutral in fact, as well as in name, during these days that are to try men’s souls. We must be impartial in thought, as well as action, must put a curb upon our sentiments, as well as upon every...
Guided Readings Guided Readings: African Americans after Slavery Government and Civics 9, 10, 11, 12 Reading 1 All freedmen . . . over the age of eighteen years, found on the second Monday in January, 1866, or thereafter, with no lawful employment or business, or found unlawfully assembling themselves together, either in the day or...
Guided Readings Guided Readings: The Changing Status of Women 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Reading 1 Man is or should be woman’s protector and defender. The natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex evidently unfits it for many of the occupations of civil life. . . .The paramount destiny and...
Guided Readings Guided Readings: Responses to Industrialism Economics 9, 10, 11, 12 Reading 1 It is idle to talk of a peaceful strike. None such has ever occurred. All combinations to interfere with perfect freedom in the proper management and control of one's lawful business, to dictate the terms upon which such...
Lesson Plan Alice Paul: Suffragist and Agitator 9, 10, 11, 12 Background The American women’s suffrage movement has always been identified with its two founders, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, whose strong, enthusiastic leadership defined the movement. When they retired from active...
Lesson Plan The Jungle Literature 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Overview The United States was transformed in the last decades of the nineteenth century by the industrial revolution. The rapid growth of cities, increase in immigration, expansion of a struggling working class, and concentration of...
Lesson Plan Theodore Roosevelt: A Bully Reformer Economics 9, 10, 11, 12 Introduction Theodore Roosevelt was the twenty-sixth president of the United States. His presidency would become the symbol of strong leadership, reform, and a square deal for Americans in the new century. When Roosevelt was...
Lesson Plan Theodore Roosevelt and the Trusts Economics, Government and Civics 9, 10, 11, 12 Background Thick dark smoke billowing out of smokestacks several stories high proliferated across city skylines, heralding America's rise to world prominence and industrial supremacy. After the Civil War, Americans embraced the smog...
Lesson Plan Comparison of Ideas: Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois Economics 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Essential Question Which of the two views presented below, W.E.B. Du Bois’ or Booker T. Washington’s, offered a better strategy to put our nation on a quicker path to equality for African Americans at the turn of the twentieth century...