Lesson Plans
Meaghan McCauley
Week of December 8th, 2008

Monday-Friday: 48-minute classes

Objectives:
1) Develop editorials based on working conditions in the 19th and 20th century.
2) Investigate the positive and negative effects of the Industrial Revolution.
3) Define terms such as Communism, Socialism, and Capitalism.
4) Analyze and Compare primary sources on capitalism and communism.
5) Lead first Socratic Seminars.

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) How did industrialization spread and what impact did it have on the growth of modern cities and daily life?
2) What were the intellectual responses, both positive and critical, to industrialization (i.e. Malthus, Marx, Darwin, etc.)?
3) In this changing industrial society, how did western governments respond to the calls for reform from workers, women, and other groups?

Monday: BIBLIOGRAPHIES DUE!
1) Focus Question: What is one positive and one negative result of the Industrial Revolution?
2) Investigation Activity: In partners, students will examine primary sources and analyze the positive and negative results of the Industrial Revolution, as well as possible solutions.
3) The Last Word: Begin editorials based on primary sources.
Homework:
1) Finish video packets.

Tuesday: MEET IN LIBRARY!
1) Type up editorials.
Homework:
1) Read and Complete Section Assessment or Topic Notes on Chapter 25, Section 3, “Industrialization Spreads”.

Wednesday: MEET IN LIBRARY!
1) Type up editorials.
Homework:
1) Read and Complete Section Assessment or Topic Notes of Chapter 25, Section 4, “An Age of Reform”.

Thursday:
1) Warm Up: Vocabulary Map-Communism, Capitalism, or Socialism.
2) Rock, Paper, Scissors-The Game of Economic Ideologies.
3) The Last Word: Begin Socratic Seminar Packets.
Homework:
1) Finish Socratic Seminar Readings.

Friday:
1) Socratic Seminars: The Wealth of Nations and the Communist Manifesto.
Homework:
1) Have a great weekend!
2) Drop your water line!