FOURTH SIX WEEKS CALENDAR
DATE
Week One
1/3
1/4
1/5 or 1/6
Block Days
1/7
Week Two
1/10
DAILY TOPICS for LECTURE/
DISCUSSIONS
Student Holiday/Teacher Inservice
Begin Gilded Age
Check out new POAs
Gilded Age Café – Political and Economic
issues of the Gilded Age
Reading Quiz and Class Discussion of POA
articles
Assign Gilded Age Gala – Roast/Toast
Computer Lab
1/11
Finish Roast/Toast
Computer Lab
1/12 and
1/13
Block Days
1/14
Gilded Age Gala
Present Roast/Toast
Week
Three
1/17
1/18
1/19 or 1/20
Block Days
1/21
Week Four
1/24
CLASS/HOMEWORK
Read Bailey Chapters 2325 and 28-29
Read “Master of Steel”
“The Brooklyn Bridge” “A
Little Milk, a Little Honey:
Jewish Immigrants in
America” in POA
Read “The Lady versus
Goliath” in POA.
Continue Reading in
Bailey Ch. 23-25 and 2829
Use these evenings to
make progress in The
Reckless Decade.
Use these evenings to
make progress in The
Reckless Decade.
Use these evenings to
make progress in The
Reckless Decade.
Debate
Celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr.
Gilded Age Politics
Political Cartoon Analysis
Quiz – POA and Wreckless Decade
Begin Responses to Industrialization:
Progressivism
Discuss “Theodore Roosevelt” and African
Americans and Civil Rights Qperhaps Quiz.
Continue with Responses to Industrialization.
Socratic Seminar – The Wreckless Decade
Read Zinn “The Socialist
Challenge” and
“Theodore Roosevelt”and
“African Americans and
the Quest for Civil Rigts”
in POA.
Read “Suffragists Storm
Over Washington” in POA
1/25
1/26 or 1/27
Block Days
1/28
Week Five
1/31
2/1
2/2 or 2/3
Block Days
2/4
Week Six
2/7
2/8
2/9 or 2/10
Block Days
2/11
Week
Seven
2/14
2/15
2/16 or 2/17
Block Days
2/18
Varying Viewpoints: Who were the
Progressives?
Test – Bailey Ch. 23-25, 28-29/The Gilded
Age and Progressive Era
Carnival of Hope (extended advisory)
Indians – movie clip
Study for test
Begin The Great West and manifest destiny
and discuss Sitting Bull and “Death on the
Prairies” and perhaps Quiz.
Read “America’s First SE
Asian War” By David
Kohler and James
Wensyel in POA
Read Zinn “War is the
Health of the State”
Read Bailey 26-27 and 30
Read POA “Sitting Bull
and the Sioux
Resistance” and “Death
on the Prairies”
Introduction to Imperialism
Discuss Big Stick Diplomacy, Dollar
Diplomacy and Moral Diplomacy
Quiz. Discuss causes and justifications for US
involvement in World War I
Art History Day
Read POA “A Tragedy of
Disappointment”
America on the homefront in World War I
Quiz. Discuss Treaty of Versailles and Wilson
Test over Bailey Ch. 26-27 &30/Imperialism
and World War I
Study for Test
Read Bailey Ch. 31-33
Read “Henry Ford: Symbol
of an Age” by Roderick
Nash and “The Trial of
Sacco and Vanzetti” in
POA.
Introduction to Megatrends of the 1920s and
perhaps Quiz.
Trials of the Decade Activity
Culture of the 1920s
Quiz. Politics of the 1920s
Causes of the Great Depression lecture
Read POA “Under
Hoover” and
“Government in Action:
FDR and the Early New
Deal”