Palmerton High School Social Studies
Here you will find a summary of each day's class and the assignments handed out. Feel free to print them if you need an extra copy or if you miss school in order to stay on track and continue making progress in getting all work completed.
Day 1: September 4th, 2018 -
- Agenda
- Introduction and welcome
- Review student handbook
- Hand out and discuss course syllabus
- Distribute Books (Must be covered by Monday, September 10th)
- U.S. Map Labeling Activity - Due Friday, September 7th.
- Handouts
- American History Since 1900 - Course Outline Syllabus.doc
Day 2: September 5th, 2018 -
Agenda
- Quote of the Day / Birthdays in History / Events in History
- Weekly Current Event: This week's theme - John McCain's Passing (Due Mon 9/10)
- Carbon County Branstorm: How is our area important to the world?
- PowerPoint & Notes: Module 3, Lesson 1 - Industrialization
- Pg 160: Environmental Impact
- Ticket Out: List 3 people and how they contributed to the Industrial Era
- Tonight's Practice: Module 3 Section 1 in Guided Practice Packet
- Handouts
- Module 3 - Industrialization Honors Notes.docx
- Module 3 - 1 PowerPoint.pptx
Day 3: September 6th, 2018
Agenda
- Quote of the Day / Birthdays in History / Events in History
- Amazon Shopping Brainstorm
- PowerPoint & Notes: Module 3, Lesson 2 - Growth of the Railroads
- Reading Sample & Response: The Octopus
- Tonight's Practice: Module 3 Section 2 in Guided Practice Packet
Handouts
- Module 3 - 2 PowerPoint.pptx
- Module 3 - 2 The Octopus.pdf
Day 4: September 7th, 2018
Agenda
- Quote of the Day / Birthdays in History / Events in History
- Team Activity: Stock Market Investments
- PowerPoint & Notes: Module 3, Lesson 3 - Big Business
- Video Clip: The Men Who Built America - Trands of a Titan
- Ticket Out: Robber Barons or Captains of Industry? Does the US benefit or suffer from the rise of Big Businesses?
- Tonight's Assignment: Module 3 Lesson 3 in Guided Practice Packet
Handouts
- Module 3 - 3 PowerPoint.pptx
Day 5: September 10th, 2018
Agenda
- Quote of the Day / Birthdays in History / Events in History
- Turn in Current Events on John McCain - New Topic: Amazon Tax Reductions
- Brainstorming Activty: What do laborers want?
- PowerPoint & Discussion: the Rise of Labor Movements
- Tonight's Assignment: Module 3 Lesson 4 Guided Practice Packet
- For Tomorrow: MODULE 3 QUIZ
Handouts
- Module 3 - 4 PowerPoint.pptx
Day 6 September 11th, 2018
Agenda
- Quote of the Day / Birthdays in History / Events in History
- Turn in Module 3 Packets
- Take Module 3 Quiz
- Brainsorm & Sharing: To date, what has been the defining moment of your life?
- Discussion - Remembering 9/11
- Video Rememberance: Portraits of Resilience
- Tonight's Assignment: Reflect & Respond to the following questions...
1. Why, after seventeen years, should we take the time to think, talk, & reflect upon the events of September 11th of 2001.
2. What does September 11th mean to you?
Day 7 September 12th, 2018
Agenda
- Quote of the Day / Birthdays in History / Events in History
- Return Graded Work
- Hand out new packet: Mudule 4 - Immigration & Urbanization
- "The New Colossus" - Poem reading and interpretation
- PowerPoint & Notes - Module 4 Lesson 1: The New Immigrants
- Pg 192 - The Immigrant Experience
- Exit Ticket: How did late 19th and early 20th century immigration diversify the United States?
- Tonight' Assignment: Module 4 Lesson 1 Guided Practice
Handouts
- Module 4 - 1 PowerPoint.pptx
- Module 4 - Immigration and Urbanization Honors Notes.docx
Day 8 September 13th, 2018
Agenda
- Quote of the Day / Birthdays in History / Events in History
- Bellringer Questions: What are the top 10 complaints today about living conditions in the United States?
- PowerPoint & Notes: Module 4 Lesson 2 - Challenges of Urbanization
- Primary Source Analysis: Jacob Riis' How the Other Half Lives (PowerPoint Photos & Reading Sample)
- Exit Ticket: How do you think today's immigration experience is similar or different from those of the late 19th and early 20th centuries?
- Tonight's Assignment: Module 4 Lesson 2 Guided Practice
Handouts
- Module 4 - 2 PowerPoint.pptx
- Module 4 Lesson 2 - How the Other Half Lives.docx
Day 9 - September 14th, 2018
Agenda
- Quote of the Day / Birthays in History / Events in History
- Turn In and Discuss Current Events
- Gilded Age Introduction - Reading Terminal Market's Chocolate Covered Onion - Video Clip
- PowerPoint & Notes: Module 4 Lesson 3 - Politics in the Gilded Age
- Political Cartoon Analysis: The Tammany Tiger - - - Is this cartoon still accurate today? Why or why not?
- Exit Ticket: Does the US today resember the Gilded Age? Why or why not?
- Tonight's Assignment: Module 4 Lesson 3 Guided Practice
Handouts
- Module 4 - 3 PowerPoint.pptx
Day 10 - September 17th, 2018
Agenda
- Quote of the Day / Birthdays in History / Events in History
- Collect / Hand Out Current Events.
- Brainstorm: “What piece of technology could you absolutely not do without?”
- PowerPoint & Notes: Module 4 Lessons 4 & 5.
- 10 Examples: Students will make lists of how advancements of the turn of the 1900’s are still evident today. Five examples will represent a continuing impact of the era’s technological influence and five examples will represent a continuing impact of the era’s influence on mass culture.
- Conclusion: Students will share their lists and discuss the importance of the developments that took place in regards to technology and the standard of living of Americans at the turn of the 20th Century.
- Tonight's Assignment: Module 4 Lessons 4&5 Guided Practice / Module 4 QUIZ tomorrow. Module 4 Packets Due
Handouts
- -Module 4 - 4&5 PowerPoint.pptx
Day 11 & 12: September 18th & 19th, 2018
Agenda
- Quote of the Day / Birthdays in History / Events in History
- Collect Module 4 Packets
- Take Module 4 Quiz
- Hand out Module 5 Packets: Progressivism
- Intro to Module 5: What would you change if you could fix just one of the world's problems today?
- - - - - Break between days 11 & 12
- Quote of the Day / Birthdays in History / Events in History
- Intro: Team Bellringer - How would you go about bringing change?
- PowerPoint & Notes: Module 5 Lesson 1 - Origins of Progressivism
- List & Describe: 5 ways of producing change in society in the early 1900's & 5 ways of producing change in society today.
- Tonight's Assignment: Module 5 Lesson 1 Guided Practice
Handouts
- Module 5 - 1 Honors Notes.docx
- Module 5 - 1 PowerPoint.pptx
Day 13: September 20th, 2018
Agenda
- Quote of the Day / Birthdays in History / Events in History
- School Board for a Day Activity: What would you do?
- PowerPoint & Notes: Module 5 Lesson 2 - Education Reform
- Predicting the Past: What does the U.S. look like today without the education reform of the Progressive Era?
- Tonight's Assignment: Module 5 Lesson 2 Guided Practice
Handouts
- Module 5 - 2 & 3 Honors Notes.docx
- Module 5 - 2 PowerPoint.pptx
Day 14: September 21st, 2018
Agenda:
- Quote of the Day / Birthdays in History / Events in History
- Current Events: Fun Friday Party! (Segregation Simulation)
- PowerPoint & Notes: Module 5 Lesson 3 - Segregation & Discrimination
- Pages 249 & 250: Reading on the Plessy v. Ferguson Case
- Plessy v. Ferguson worksheet
- Tonight's Assignment: Module 5 Lesson 3 Guided Practice
Handouts:
- Module 5 - 3 Plessy V. Ferguson.docx
- Module 5 - 3 PowerPoint.pptx
Day 15: September 24th, 2018
Agenda
- Quote of the Day / Birthdays in History / Events in History
- Comparing & Contrasting Activity: Men & Women in Today's Society
- PowerPoint & Notes: Module 5 Lesson 4 - Women's Progressive Reform
- List & Describe: 5 New Social Opportunities and 5 New Employment Opportunities for Women After the Progressive Era
- Tonight's Assignment: Module 5 Lesson 4 Guided Practice Packet
*** Module 5 Quiz will be Wed 9/26... Unit Test (Mods 3,4,5) will be Thurs 9/27!
Handouts
- Module 5 - 4 Honors Notes.docx
- Module 5 - 4 PowerPoint.pptx
- Module 5 - 4 Susan B Anthony Arrest Speech.pdf
Day 16: September 25th, 2018
Agenda
- Quote of the Day / Birthdays in History / Events in History
- Brainstorm: What makes a president progressive?
- PowerPoint & Notes: Module 5 Lessons 5,6,7 - the Progressive Presidents
- Newspaper Assignment: Write an article either defending or attacking any of the three progressive presidents in regards to their policies and involvement in the early 1900's Civil Rights Movement.
- Tonight's Assignment: Study for Module 5 Quiz
*** Module 5 Quiz Tomorrow! *** Unit 1 (Mod 3,4,5) Test Thurs 9/27 *** Mod 5 Packet Due Thurs 9/27
Handouts
- Module 5 - 5 6 7 Progressive Presidents Newspaper Article.docx
- Module 5 - 5-6-7 PowerPoint.pptx
- Module 5 - Lessons 5 6 7 Notes.docx
Day 17: September 26th, 2018
Agenda
- Quote of the Day / Birthdays in History / Events in History
- Module 5 Quiz
- Unit Test Review: Kahoot
Day 18: September 27th, 2018
Agenda
- Quote of the Day / Birthdays in History / Events in History
- Unit Test: Modules 3,4,5
- Pick Up & Begin Module 6 Packet: American Imperialism
Handouts
- Module 6 Section 1 Guided Practice.pdf
- Module 6 Section 2 Guided Practice.pdf
- Module 6 Section 3 Guided Practice .pdf
- Module 6 Section 4 Guided Practice.pdf
Day 19: October 1st, 2018
Agenda
- Quote of the Day / Birthdays in History / Events in History
- Return Tests & Other Word: Test corrections must be turned in Wednesday October 3rd!
- Discussion Question: How does superiority impact relationships?
- PowerPoint & Notes: Module 6 Lesson 1 - Origins of Imperialism
- Reading Sample: Alfred T. Mahan - Pg 282
- Exit Ticket: What would the United States look like today if we had not grown to an era of imperialism?
- Tonight's Assignment: Module 6 Lesson 1 Guided Practice
Handouts
Day 20: October 2nd, 2018
Agenda
- Quote of the Day / Birthdays in History / Events in History
- Discussion Qeustion: Headlines that have shocked you.
- PowerPoint & Notes: The Spanish American War
- Reading Samples: Group Assignment - Perspectives on the Spanish American War
- Conclusion: PRo's & Con's of the conflict
- Tonight's Assignment: Module 6 Lesson 2 Guided Practice
Handouts
Module 6 - 1 & 2 PowerPoint.pptx
Module 6 - 2 Spanish American War Readings.pdf
Module 6 - Notes.docx
Day 21: October 3rd, 2018
Agenda
- Quote of the Day / Birthdays in History / Events in History
- Turn in corrections for test.
- Open Discussion: How do you struggle for independence?
- PowerPoint & Notes: 6-3 Acquiring New Lands
- Emilio Aguinaldo - An Interview
- Tonight's Assignment - Module 6 Lesson 3 Guided Practice
Handouts
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Day 22: October 4th, 2018
Agenda
- Quote of the Day / Birthdays in History / Events in History
- Bellringer: How would you resolve a heated conlfict between two of your best friends?
- PowerPoint & Notes: Module 6 Lesson 4 - America as a World Power
- Video: Through the Panama Canal
- Exit Ticket: Grading TR's foreign policy.
- - - - If there is time: Crash Course US History: Imperialism (as a review for tomorrow's Mod. 6 Quiz)
- Tonight's Assignments: Finish Module 6 Packet / Mod 6 QUIZ & PACKET for tomorrow!
Handouts
- Module 6 - Imperialism.pptx
- Crash Course U.S. History: Imperialism
Day 23: October 5th, 2018
Agenda
- Quote of the Day / Birthdays in History / Events in History
- Take & Go over Module 6 Quiz
- Pick up and start Causes of World War I Assignment
Handouts
