Goals & Objectives Students will be able to list some of the problems facing recently arrive immigrants and workers in the industrial parts of the country during the time period between 1900-1920. Students will be able to explain what a muckraker is and what they do. Students will be able to list to legislative accomplishments that are a result of the progressive era.
California State Content Standards 11.2.1 Know the effects of industrialization on living and working conditions, including the portrayal of working conditions and food safety in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. 11.2.9 Understand the effect of political programs and activities of the Progressives (e.g., federal regulation of railroad transport, Children's Bureau, the Sixteenth Amendment, Theodore Roosevelt, Hiram Johnson).
Common Core Literacy Standards CCSS, ELA 11-12, RH 2 Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary that makes clear the relationships among the key details and ideas. CCSS, ELA 11-12, WHST 9 Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Driving Historical Question What was life for people during this time? What were the negative aspects of this rapid industrialization and new urban landscape? What prompted change?
Lesson Introduction (Anticipatory Set/Hook/Accessing Prior Knowledge) Ask students if any of them has a job? Ask those that don’t what kind of job are they looking for? Guide the conversation so that they have to consider their safety while working, their benefits in case they get injured. Introduce a few concepts like Worker’s Compensation, minimum working age and OSHA.
Vocabulary (Content Language Development) Progressive Movement Child Labor Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Muckraker “The Jungle”
Content Delivery (Method of Instruction) Pass out pre-constructed notes that have some key points in them which students will need to fill in key information that they need. The notes on the projector will be from a PowerPoint presentation in which I will show them what needs to be highlighted as I add on to each point with general background knowledge on the subject. There will be a video shown during the presentation and two picture description activities which will be embedded within the lecture as well as primary source text analysis. The time for these activities however has already been set aside as well.
Student Engagement (Critical Thinking & Student Activities) Students will examine photograph that depict the living conditions at the time as well as child labor Their task is to interpret them and show supporting evidence for their interpretation. Students will have to read, annotate, and discuss with their partners who they sit with the excerpt from Sinclair’s book “The Jungle”. This reading will challenge them to interpret the text but they will be supported by their group members as well as by the teacher. The first three sentences will be modeled by the teacher they will have to do the rest in their groups. There will also be a 25 word summary on the reading.
Lesson Closure Students will write a 30 word summary on what the lesson for the day. They should include factual information as well as their opinions and ideas discussed. This will be their exit slip.
Assessments (Formative & Summative) Exit slip write up where they will be asked to summarize the day’s lesson. I will look for mentions of bad working conditions, muckrakers, and descriptions of the photographs shown.
Accommodations for English Learners, Striving Readers and Students with Special Needs Working in groups that are heterogeneous will help EL students see the things that need to be done during class modeled by students of different academic levels. Sitting in these groups will also grant these opportunities to share in a smaller setting their ideas and get feedback from their peers.
Resources (Books, Websites, Handouts, Materials) Unblocked access to the video link on the presentation from Youtube.com Guided note handouts. Projector and a computer with PowerPoint. Markers for writing the lesson’s vocab words on the whiteboard.