Thursday, September 12, 2013

Chapter 19 Enchancement Activities

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Worksheet  

  • The table on the back of your suffrage map.

Online Activities

Videos

This video, by John Green of Crash Course, gives a great overview of the time.   
The videos in this series are aimed at high school/college-aged students (and therefore contain some more mature analysis and humor, so put your mature-young-adult cap on) but they do an exciting job.
Crash Course #26: The Gilded Age
 

 
This next video is a creative reading (voice altered) of an excerpt from Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (and some questions).  Part of this is on your Jungle worksheet.  The part that's read here can be found on pages 654 & 655 of your textbook and Sinclair's entire book can be found online.
Excerpt:

 
Here's a short documentary. (Hosted off-site)

It's never too soon to start thinking about history fair.  Here is an example of a documentary project on The Jungle:

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