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Monday:

• Late Start
• Due: Modernizing America Unit Packet
• Due: Modernizing America Study Guide (p. 23-25)
• Unit 7 Test: Modernizing America!

Tuesday:

• Hand out: Unit 8 Packet: Progressive Era
• Number packets
• Introduce: Progressivism p.3
• Continue:  Progressive Era Notes (Goals: Progressive Era p.3)
• Study Buddies: Progressive Priorities and Problem Solving p.4
  
• Study Buddy Huddles: Pick two Progressive Problems, get together with another group and discuss in depth, what could be done to solve these problems.
  

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• Class Discussion
• Promethean Board Notes: Introduction to Progressive Era
• Class Visual: Progressivism Reading Packet p.1-8
• Students take notes on p. 3 (Goals: Progressive Era)

Wednesday:

• Reminder: Bring Laptop!
• Continue:  Progressive Era Notes (Goals: Progressive Era p.3)
• Class Visual: Progressivism Reading Packet p.1-8
• Students take notes on p. 3 (Goals: Progressive Era)

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• Introduce: Muckrakers
  
• Study Buddies: Muckraker Research Activity p.6
• Each group is assigned two famous Muckrakers to research and report the results to to class (stamped)
• Class Discussion of famous Muckrakers p.6

Research Websites:

•  biography.com
  
• history.com
• http://americanhistory.about.com/
  

Thursday:

• Reminder: Bring Computers!
• Finish: Muckrakers
  
• Study Buddies: Muckraker Research Activity p.6
• Each group is assigned two famous Muckrakers to research and report the results to to class (stamped)
• Class Discussion of famous Muckrakers p.6

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• Finish:  Class Discussion of famous Muckrakers p.6

• Introduce: Muckrakers (Upton Sinclair, the Jungle)
• Read excerpt from The Jungle p.7-8
• Answer Questions at the end of the reading p.8

Friday:

• FOCUS: EDUCATION
• (10 min) Public Education Background  p.10
  
• (15-20 min) Comparing Industrial Ed and Academic Ed 
  
·         7 Min: Document #1 with Neighborhood Study Buddy
·         7 Min: Document #2 with Across Town Study Buddy

• Student work on Public Education Worksheet p.11
•  (5 min) Bellringer
  
• (5 min) Video 
• Discussion

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Continue: Debate over today's schools (video/bell ringer)

Introduce Themes of Progressive Era p.9