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Lesson Plans -year three
| Americanization: A Melting Pot or a Fruit Salad? Taking a closer look at early 20th century immigration and the melting pot theory |
| Progressivism - Then and Now Who were the Progressives, what issues did they chosoe as targets for reform, and what methods did they chose to address those issues? |
| Sinclair’s The Jungle As It Relates to Urbanization, Industrialization, and Immigration of the Progressive Era Analyzing Sinclair's The Jungle and the impact of urbanization, industrialization, and immigration on the immigrants and on the American population and culture. |
| Progressivism and You: Making Change Today What key issues did Progressives seek to reform and what key issues need reform today? |
| FAUX NEWS ALERT: WOMAN SUFFRAGE—A MENACE TO SOCIETY? What were the main arguments for and against Woman Suffrage in the thirty years leading up to the 19th Amendment to the Constitution? |
| Not tired, not huddled, not wretched Discovering the push-pull theory of immigration and the origins and goals of late 19th and 20th century immigrants |
| Southern Slavery What was life like for a slave in the Antebellum South? |
| Was slavery cruel? Examining the true cruelty of slavery and the justification of slave owners. |
| The True Experience of the Peculiar Institution Comparing and contrasting the portrayals of slavery in primary documents and non-fiction and fiction writing. |
| Boun' for de promised land: Harriet Tubman Evaluating the actions and decisions of Harriet Tubman |
| Hannah Valentine and Lethe Jackson, An Insight to Slavery Through Personal Letters Illustrate the dehumanizing aspects of slavery through the letters of Hannah Valentine and Lethe Jackson. |
| To the Victor: The Spoils System in Early Nineteenth Century Politics Understanding the spoils system true effect on local people |
| Campaigning for establishing a local railroad line Examining the true cruelty of slavery and the justification of slave owners. |
| The True Experience of the Peculiar Institution Comparing and contrasting the portrayals of slavery in primary documents and non-fiction and fiction writing. |
| Deciphering Diaries: Antebellum Issues through the Pens of Two Essex County Men Evaluating the actions and decisions of Harriet Tubman |
| Interpreting History with Primary Sources Understanding the politics and social climate and abolition movement of the late 1830s |
| Don’t be Depressed! You’re FAR better off than everyone else! Using the National American Manufacturers of the USA pamphlet to analyze propaganda during the Great Depression |
| The New Deal and The Great Depression Analyzing the relationship between the public and government |
| The True Experience of the Peculiar Institution Comparing and contrasting the portrayals of slavery in primary documents and non-fiction and fiction writing. |
| Hoover vs. FDR on what to do about the Great Depression To hunker down or to help & spread hope: What’s government’s role? Evaluating the actions and decisions of Harriet Tubman |
| The Constitution: Popular Sovereignty and Ratification in Massachusetts Understanding popular sovereignty and the ratification process |
| “We the People: Debating the Ratification of the Constitution in Beverly, MA” Students will simulate a Beverly Town Meeting with the purpose of providing recommendations to the town’s delegates to the state convention regarding ratification of the new constitution. |
| The True Experience of the Peculiar Institution Comparing and contrasting the portrayals of slavery in primary documents and non-fiction and fiction writing. |
| Irish Immigration The impact of Irish Immigration |
| Immigration in 19th Century Boston Analyzing the social, economic, and political effects of immigration on Boston |
