Tuesday
Activities
1. Do Now- Take out a pencil and scantron.
2. Gilded Age Test- Students will complete a multiple-choice assessment over Unit 1. MAJOR
GRADE
Materials: Test
Follow Up/HW:
Wed/Thur
Activities:
1. Do Now- Name the group of individuals who supported the Social Gospel.
2. Guided Notes: Progressive Reforms- Students will take notes over specific Progressive
reforms including initiative, referendum, recall, the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th amendments.
3. Cooperative Learning: Progressive Era Reformers and Muckrakers- Students will read
selected articles reflecting the work of one leader of the Progressive Era. Each group will then
create a poster highlighting the accomplishments of their assigned reformer or muckraker.
Students will then complete a gallery walk to gather information on all reformers.
Materials: Notes, articles
Follow Up/HW:
Friday
Monday
Week of September 22-26, 2014
Teacher: Kindred
Team: US History
Weekly Learning Targets
I can tell who the Populists were, what they wanted to change and describe the effect this third party
had on elections and economic policies in late 1800s.
I can define reform and muckraking and identify and evaluate the impact of Upton Sinclair, Susan B.
Anthony, Ida B. Wells, W.E.B. DuBois, Frances Willard, and Jane Addams as reform leaders and
muckrakers.
I can define/describe initiative, referendum, recall, the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th amendments, and
the Pure Food and Drug Act and evaluate the impact of these Progressive reforms on American
society.
I can identify Teddy Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson as progressive U.S.
Presidents and tell how their domestic policy reflected Progressive reforms.
Activities: OPEN HOUSE TONIGHT
1. Do Now- Who were the Populists?
2. Who Were the Populists? Activity- Students will complete their activity from last week.
3. Gilded Age Review- Students will complete a crossword puzzle to review for tomorrow’s test.
Materials: Review, crossword
Follow Up/HW: Study for Test TOMORROW
Activities:
1. Do Now- Define initiative, referendum and recall.
2. Cooperative Learning: Women’s Suffrage Activity- Students will analyze events of the
Women’s Suffrage movement and complete a graphic organizer.
3. Progressives Timeline- Students will create a timeline highlighting the key events of the
Progressive era.
Materials: Articles, timeline
Follow Up/HW: