Westside High School Lesson Plan
Teacher Name:
Course:
Kindred
AP U.S. History
Unit Name and #:
Dates:
Period 6: 1865-1898
Jan. 12 – Jan. 16,
2015
Monday
What are we learning?
Daily Objective: I can describe how technological innovations and redesigned financial and
management structures such as monopolies sought to maximize the exploitation of natural
resources and a growing labor force.
TEKS/AP/Standards: Large-scale production — accompanied by massive technological
change, expanding international communication networks, and pro-growth government
policies — fueled the development of a “Gilded Age” marked by an emphasis on
consumption, marketing, and business consolidation.
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
1. Do Now: Name one 21st century entrepreneur.
2. Class Discussion: Sources of Industrial Growth
3. Cooperative Learning: Entrepreneurs of the Gilded Age Graphic Organizer
4. Quick Write: How do you believe your assigned industrialist would respond to the
Workingman’s Ten Commandments? Write a hypothetical letter to the editor in
response.
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: Quick Write
Checks for Understanding: Class Discussion
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: Entrepreneur biography, graphic organizer, notebook
Tuesday
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW: Study for Chp. 16 Quiz
What are we learning?
Daily Objective: I can compare the influence of Social Gospel and Social Darwinism on the
actions of late 19th century industrialists.
TEKS/AP/Standards: New cultural and intellectual movements both buttressed and
challenged the social order of the Gilded Age.
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
1. Do Now: Define horizontal and vertical integration
2. Video Analysis: Arguments for and Against Modern Capitalism
3. Chapter 16 Quiz
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: Quiz
Checks for Understanding: Randomized Questioning
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: Notebook, videos
Wed/Thur
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW: Study for Assessment #11
What are we learning?
Daily Objective: I can analyze how leaders of big business in the Gilded Age were challenged
in different ways by labor movements.
TEKS/AP/Standards: Labor and management battled for control over wages and working
conditions, with workers organizing local and national unions and/or directly confronting
corporate power.
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
1. Do Now: Compare Social Darwinism and Social Gospel
2. Cooperative Learning: Workers Respond to Industrialists Timeline
3. Writing Skills: Chunking Review and Writing Sample Evaluation
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: Timeline
Checks for Understanding: Running Roster
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: Notebook, articles, chunking instructions
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW: Study for Assessment #11
Friday
What are we learning?
Daily Objective: I can compose a thesis statement and two fully chunked paragraphs.
TEKS/AP/Standards:
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
1. Major Grade Writing Assessment
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: Essay
Checks for Understanding:
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: Blue/Black Pen
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW: Read Chapter 18