U.S. History I Students,
Use your notes and these links about life in the colonies to help you complete your processing activity.
Now that you’ve finished your processing activity and have explored these websites, tell me whether you would have lived in the New England, Mid-Atlantic, or Southern colonies and why. What would have been easy for you about life in that colony? What would have been hard for you?
U.S.II Students,
As we wrap-up our unit on the Progressive Era, including African American reformers, I want you to give me your thoughts about Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois. We know that both men wanted similar goals, but they had very different opinions about how to accomplish equality for blacks. Use your notes and these four sites to think further about which man you believe had the best ideas. Don’t forget to think about the time period they lived in and how that affected their goals. Who would you have agreed with if you had lived during the late 1800s? Why?
Remember: A thoughtful, well-written response will earn you extra credit!
Links to sites: Booker T. site 1 site 2 W.E.B. site 1 site 2
For additional research, use the search results from our library media topical search: Library Search (type the name of the man you would like to search, or both, into the keyword search and choose select all in the list of sources, then press search.)
Students,
We’ve discovered wordles this week and we’ve all really enjoyed making them. Feel free to explore more, and I encourage you to use the FAQ tab to answer any questions you have about how to make a wordle. One hint: repeating a word more than once will make it bigger than the rest. The more you repeat that word, the bigger it will appear.
Also, when you’re done with your wordle, you can always take a screen shot by holding down the apple, shift, and 3 keys, and you will have an image of your wordle, like mine below.
American Ideals Wordle
U.S. History II Students,
Let’s explore these Progressives. Who were they? What ideals and goals did they stand for? Check out the links below and then post a comment telling about what you’ve learned from these sites. How did these links help you better understand the Progressive Era?
Unions: IWW WTUL Homestead Strike Homestead Strike
Women’s Suffrage: Timeline Click on the quote on the left! 19th Amendment
Muckrakers: Ida Tarbell Lincoln Steffens Muckrakers
Temperance Movement: Temperance Song Temperance Document Temperance Story 18th Amendment
Mrs. Gregory | 
11 18th, 2009| 