8th Grade Social Studies Homework Calendar October 2008

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All Classes: The Age of Big Business. Case Study: Robber Barons or Captains of Industry?

EDSITEment

20th Century History Game: The Rise of Big Business

Honors Homework #6: Chapter 19 Section 4 Page 575 Questions 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 Due Friday 10/10

Regents Homework #6: Organized Labor Homework sheet Due Friday 10/4

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Regents Classes: Economics, Free Markets, Corporations, and Trusts in the Gilded Age

Þ Vertical and Horizontal Integration

Þ Supply and Demand Video

Þ The Corporation Video

Þ Stock and stockholders

Þ Dividends

Þ Monopolies and Trusts

Þ Free Market, Free Enterprise, Capitalism Video

Þ Socialism, Communism (Video)

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Field Trip to Ellis Island

Arrive @ Samoset 5:15am

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No School

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All Classes: Industrial Workers

·  Low wages, unsafe working conditions, long hours

·  Sweatshops, child labor

·  Formation of Labor Unions

·  Knights of Labor v. AFL

·  Samuel Gompers, collective bargaining

·  Failure of early unions, government resistance.

·  Haymarket Riot, Homestead Strike

· Socialist and Eugene V. Debs

·  Pullman Strike

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No School

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Regents Classes: Understanding Political Cartoons

Honors Classes: Video Podcast Project Report to the Library

Honors Homework #7: Chapter 20 Section 1 Page 587 Questions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6  Due Thursday 10/16

Regents Homework #7: Immigrants Homework sheet Due Thursday 10/16

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Regents Classes: The “New Immigrants” come to the Promised Land.

Honors Classes: Video Podcast Project Report to the Library

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Regents Classes: Industrialization and the Need for Reform: Case Study: The Rise of Organized Labor.

Honors Classes: Video Podcast Project Report to the Library

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Regents Classes: Industrialization and the Need for Reform. Case Study: The Photos of Lewis Hine

(Worksheet)

Honors Classes: Video Podcast Project Report to the Library

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Regents Classes: Urbanization; An Age of Cites. Case Study Jacob Riis, “How the Other Half Lives”

(Worksheet)

Honors Classes Industrialization Project Presentation

Honors Homework #8: Chapter 20 Section 2 Page 595 Questions 1, 2, 3,  5 Due Tuesday 10/21

Regents Homework #8: Homework sheet Due Tuesday 10/21

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Regents Classes: Problems in the Workplace. Case Study the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (Worksheet).

Case Study: Jane Addams

 (Worksheet)

Honors Classes Industrialization Project Presentation

Honors Homework #9: Chapter 20 Section 3 Page 602 Questions 1, 3,4 &  5 Due Friday 10/24

Regents Homework #9: Read 612-615 page 615 Questions 2, 3, 4, 5

Due Friday 10/24

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Regents Classes: Spotlight on Life in the Changing Cities.

(Worksheet)

· Coney Island

· Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show

· Baseball, Football & the Negro Leagues

· Hearst, Pulitzer & Yellow Journalism

· Vaudeville

· Horatio Alger and the Dime Novel

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Test Review All Classes

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Test today all classes: Industrialization, Immigration and Urbanization

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