Schedule for February 27th --

Note: Crazy week coming up with AIMS testing/parent-teacher conferences, baseball/softball/tennis games/matches and spring break right around the corner. And speaking of spring break, I'll be out of class Wednesday, Thursday and Friday just prior to spring break, and on those days, you'll be completing your one-pager for chapter 10 (Wednesday) and then taking the test (Thursday & Friday). Although classes may not be meeting every day, we'll adjust the schedule as needed.

Our objectives were:

• Understand and give examples of the changes that were taking place with the nation in terms of population growth, population movement, urbanization, and the impact of immigration.
• Understand the significance of the Erie Canal and how it effected the development of the West and New York City.

Monday
Objectives

• Understand and give examples of the changes that were taking place in transportation, business, industry, labor and commerce as the full impact of the industrial revolution was felt in the US.
• Understand the reasons for the appearance of the nativist movement of the 1850s.

See:

http://are.as.wvu.edu/baker.htm

Class Discussion

• Last Friday we began section two ("Transportation Communications and Technology") of Chapter Ten ("America's Economic Revolution") and today we should finish this section and begin the next ("Commerce & Industry").

Homework for Tuesday (or whenever our next class meets) pp. 275-278

Tuesday (or next class meeting)
Objective

• Understand and give examples of the vast changes taking place in the Northeast as agriculture declined while urbanization and industrialization progressed at a rapid rate.

Homework for next class -- pp. 278-292 (this pp. represent two sections, "Men & Women at Work" and Patterns of Industrial Society")

Wednesday

Objective

• Discuss the living and working conditions of both men and women in the northern factory towns and on the northwestern farms.

Homework for next class...

Thursday

Objective

• List reasons why the Northeast and Northwest tended to become more dependent on each other, while the South become isolated from the rest of the nation in the 1840s and 1850s.

Homework... finish the chapter pp. 292-295

Friday

Objective

• List reasons why the Northeast and Northwest tended to become more dependent on each other, while the South become isolated from the rest of the nation in the 1840s and 1850s.

Most likely, we'll not finish the chapter although that is our main objective...

On Monday, our objective will be to introduce Chapter 11 (Hey! A person can dream, can't he?)