Lesson Plans
Meaghan McCauley
Week of December 4th, 2006

Monday-Friday: 48-minutes

Objectives:
1) Visualize industrialization, especially mills.
2) Compare/Contrast the impact of technology on the 19th and 20th centuries.
3) Explain the beginnings of industrialization.
4) Recognize why Great Britain industrialized first.
5) Compare early factories conditions to sweatshops today.

Essential Question:
By 1800, England had lost its American colonies and France was torn by a violent revolution. Yet, by 1900, Western Europe and the U.S. had worldwide empires, a dominance which endures to this day. What factors brought Western Europe and the U.S. to this world power status and what were the domestic and worldwide responses to these changes?

Departmental Focus Questions:
1) What technical, social, and political innovations led England to industrialize first?
2) How did industrialization spread and what impact did it have on the growth of modern cities and daily life?

Monday:
1) Focus Question: Why do you think textiles industrialized first?
2) Finish video worksheets.
3) Close Activity: Read and Complete Section Assessment for 25.1, #1-4 “The Beginnings of Industrialization.”
Homework:
1) None.

Tuesday:
1) Focus Question: What evidence of 19th century industry in the U.S. still exists today?
2) Video and Worksheet: David Macaulay’s “Mill Time”.
3) Close Activity: Mill Time Video Questions.
Homework:
1) Read and Complete Section Assessment for Chapter 25, Section 2, “Industrialization-Case Study: Manchester,” #1-4.

Wednesday:
1) Focus Question: How did factory owners justify conditions? Do you agree?
2) Comparing Early Factories and Sweatshops: Students will read primary sources about child labor during the Industrial Revolution and sweatshops today. They will be asked to draw parallels between the two and find measures that were/are taken to stop worker exploitation.
3) Close Activity: Will you still buy products that are produced in sweatshops?
Homework:
1) None.

Thursday:
1) Focus Question: Please give one advantage and disadvantage of industrialization.
2) Key Ideas for Chapter 25, Sections 1 and 2.
3) Close Activity: Review social class pyramid. Does this pyramid still exist?
Homework:
1) Read and Complete Section Assessment for Chapter 25, Section 3, “Industrialization Spreads”, #1-4.

Friday:
1) Focus Question: Why did imperialism grow out of industrialization?
2) Work on Reading and Completing Section Assessment for Chapter 25, Section 4, “An Age of Reform,” #1-4.
3) Close Activity: Karl Marx and Adam Smith bios.
Homework:
1) Unit 1 Project Due!
2) Have a great weekend!