Today we finished the handout that went with our reading of chapters 17 and 18. We then worked in cooperation to develop a common definition of Progressive Era. We used this worksheet for our work on the common definition.

Today we read and answered questions about chapters 17 and 18. The questions can be viewed from this link.


Below are some of the Muckraker Newspapers -
The New York Muckraker
The Muckrakers
Muckraker Articles
Problems in Our Country Revealed
20th Century Issues
The Brenoliaren Times
The Daily News
The Global Gazette
The Other Side of Happy
Current News
The Muckraker's Edition
The Truth
The Daily Find

Today we took another one question test at the very start of class.

Afterwards, we looked at some of the groups newspapers from the project. There were a number of groups that did not complete the project or did it incorrectly and will need to finish and/or correct their papers. the instructions for the project can be found at this link. Groups choosing to follow a format different than was outlined will need to make certain they print their own work.

After a review of our newspapers we watched another segment of the Jim Crow documentary.

Mr. Williams is still sick and struggling with keeping all things going. As a result this post is late.

In class we used our notes on the images and text we collected for our muckraker articles as we we determined if these events were examples of success or failure of one of the ideals. For each situation we choose an ideal and created lists of examples of both failure and success of that ideal so we could determine which we thought it was. We worked in our newspaper group to discuss our views and then shared them as a whole class.

We also discussed how we think these problems will be resolved. We added our predictions to the ideals success/failure notes and turned them in.

We then had fifteen to twenty minutes to continue working on our newspaper assignment.

Today we finished with the collection of information about life in the early twentieth century (see blog post from last Tuesday and Thursday). We then were assigned a project in which we will work cooperatively with a few classmates to create a newspaper.

This assignment is outlined here.

We worked on this assignment in class today. We will need to work outside of class to complete this assignment by Thursday evening.

Today we continue the investigation of the problems of the early twentieth century.

The images we used for this can be accessed from this link. This is a continuation from Tuesday.