Week of December 7th to 11th

This week we will begin exploring how economic modernization and industrialization transformed the United States. 

We will:

• Simulate the transformation of work and labor through a Paper Airplane Simulation
• Complete class readings: "Free to Think, Talk, Listen, or Sing," and Zinn's A People's History of the United States Chapter 11 "Robber Barons and Rebels" (pages 254-265).
• Defining and assessing key facts and concepts related to economic modernization and industrialization.

Here are the slides from Monday's class:



Here are the slides from Wednesday's class:



On Friday we will finish our key concepts posters and create study guides ahead of the Key Concepts quiz on Monday.