Monday, February 6, 2017

Feb 2017

2/6 New seating chart, final and grades on Wed. Logs due Wed
From Gilded age to the Progressive Era-  industrialization, cities, immigrants and workers: 1890-1920
Changing cities and modern school reforms in the early 1920s in the Midwest
What should be the purpose of public schools? What kinds of knowledge, attitudes and skills should be learned?
What is the relationship between society/economy and schools? American values/ideals?
Role play- public high schools during industrialization, tracking and standardized testing, competition in an unequal society
Families of Corporate Executives, Middle Class, Immigrants, Black Activists, IWW union
http://www.iww.org/content/pyramid-capitalism    http://systemicdisorder.wordpress.com/2012/09/05/there-is-no-democracy-without-economic-democracy/
Role diary- What kind of education do you hope for your children? What fears or concerns do you have about schools?
http://zinnedproject.org/materials/testing-tracking-and-toeing-the-line/    http://www.rethinkingschools.org/static/publication/rsr/rsr_role.pdf
http://www.unc.edu/depts/psychology/dthissen/531S12/weeks/week1/Terman.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3a1DEoB59k&safe=active 
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/10/goodbye-middle-class-51-percent-of-all-american-workers-make-less-than-30000-dollars-a-year.html
http://itspeoplepower.tumblr.com/post/114343146573/we-live-in-such-an-unequal-society-that
http://itspeoplepower.tumblr.com/post/110912995473/collegeandcareerready-and-oeib-40-40-20-exposed
http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/02/05/382664837/map-the-most-common-job-in-every-state
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecopro.toc.htm
http://www.businessinsider.com/a-college-consultant-that-costs-42000-will-help-your-kid-become-more-scholarly-2012-6
http://www.collegesimply.com/colleges/california/stanford-university/admission/
 
 
Assignment Log
Log 1.1  Homestead Strike A
Log 1.2 Homestead B/C
Log 1.3 Homestead Outcome
Log 1.4 Food safety
Log 1.5 T chart: progressives vs. social Darwinists
Log 1.6 Progressive Era Reforms
Log 1.7 Role diary
Log 1.8 group meeting questions


2/8 New seating chart on Fri.
Role play- Gilded to Progressive Era Changing cities and modern school reforms in the early 1920s in the Midwest
Public high schools during industrialization, tracking and standardized testing, competition in an unequal society
Negotiate, build alliances and make final changes to your position.
Speech- 1) explain who you are and your background 2) your responses and REASONS for them
Debaters- write critical questions to challenge opposing views on 4 questions
Presentation and debates: Families of Corporate Executives, Middle Class, Immigrants, Black Activists, IWW union
 
 
Assignment Log
Log 1.1  Homestead Strike A
Log 1.2 Homestead B/C
Log 1.3 Homestead Outcome
Log 1.4 Food safety
Log 1.5 T chart: progressives vs. social Darwinists
Log 1.6 Progressive Era Reforms
Log 1.7 Role diary
Log 1.8 group meeting questions
Log 1.9 speech or critical questions to opponents


2/10 New seating chart, final and grades on Wed. Turn in late logs
From Gilded age to the Progressive Era-  industrialization, cities, immigrants and workers: 1890-1920
http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2014/08/27/anthony_green_tutors_rich_kids_via_skype_through_his_company_test_prep_authority.html  
http://www.businessinsider.com/a-college-consultant-that-costs-42000-will-help-your-kid-become-more-scholarly-2012-6
Schooling today- Common Core Standards, Testing and College and Career readiness?
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/08/13/1230894/-Most-Adults-Would-Likely-Fail-This-1912-8th-Grade-Test-Try-It-VIDEO?detail=emailclassic
http://koin.com/2014/05/01/set-fail-implementing-common-core-curriculum-oregon/  
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/10/18/poor-kids-who-do-everything-right-dont-do-better-than-rich-kids-who-do-everything-wrong/  
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/10/26/standardized-tests-are-form-racial-profiling  
Critical look at standardized testing and factory schooling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/sat-scores-and-family-income/    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/education/22admissions.html   http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2013/02/portland_public_schools_studen_2.html http://www.truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/29847-a-brief-history-of-the-testocracy-standardized-testing-and-test-defying  http://www.mtv.com/news/2280344/top-tier-colleges-no-sat/

 “In our dreams, people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present education conventions of intellectual and character education fade from their minds and unhampered by tradition we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into men of learning or philosophers, or men of science. We have not to raise up from them authors, educators, poets or men of letters, great artists, painters, musicians, nor lawyers, doctors, statesmen, politicians, creatures of whom we have ample supply. The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.”  ~ First mission statement of the J.D. Rockefeller-endowed General Education Board in 1906

"We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forgo the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.”  —Woodrow Wilson, then president of Princeton University.

Comparing schooling now and in history- What is your opinion on purpose of education, testing, tracking, extracurricular activities, etc.? What kinds of knowledge, attitudes and skills? What is the relationship between society/economy and schools? What kinds of skills, attitudes and knowledge would NOT be desired for factory education? Unequal society – what kind of education? American values/ideals? 
REVIEW final and grades, TAKE OLD ASSIGNMENTS HOME, RETURN FINAL
WORK ON IMPROVEMENT FOR 2ND SEMESTER – COMPLETE YOUR WORK, CHECK IN WITH ME WEEKLY ON YOUR WORK

Assignment Log
Log 2.1 personal opinion on schools



2/14 TURN IN LATE WORK

Gilded age to Progressives, industrialization, cities, immigrants and workers: 1890-1920

Coal, industrialization, economic development and environmental and social consequences

Map of major labor struggles - Zinn- Ludlow song (Woody Guthrie) and Zinn reading- T-chart of the conflict


Class Struggle and Working class solidarity, Labor vs Capital: Woody Guthrie- who are “we” and “you”? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDd64suDz1A&safe=active
1) Who are all the people and groups on each side of the conflict and what did each do?
2) Which do you side with? Why? http://www.du.edu/ludlow/cfphoto.html
 
What are the consequences of the energy intensive global economy that began with industrialization and colonialism?
How have fossil fuels shaped the world from industrialization to the present day?
Fossil fuel revolution- fossil energy, industrialization, colonialism and global capitalist economy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM1IyIyr-Zc
 
 
 
Assignment Log
Log 2.1 personal opinion on schools
Log 2.2 Ludlow T-chart and opinion
Log 2.3 Fossil fuel revolution
 
 
2/16 TURN IN LATE WORK and trip permission slips
Fossil Fuels, Gilded Age industrialization to today: Should the govt. regulate businesses or allow free market?
What are the consequences of the energy intensive global economy that began with industrialization and colonialism?
What are the problems with coal mining, exporting and use today? Leave space to add to 2.4 later
What are the consequences of the energy intensive global economy that began with industrialization and colonialism?
How should the people and govt. respond to the ecological threats from our carbon economy?
 
What are the essential details about Climate Change: The State of the Science 
Critical temperature change, carbon budget, consequences, responsibility for emissions and remedies
 
Log 2.1 personal opinion on schools
Log 2.2 Ludlow T-chart and opinion
Log 2.3 Fossil fuel revolution
Log 2.4 Problems with Coal today
Log 2.5 Climate change essentials
 
 
2/21 Fossil Fuels from the Gilded Age and Industrialization to today - Is our economy sustainable?
What are the consequences of the energy intensive global economy that began with industrialization and colonialism?
Unconventional oil: tar sands, fracked Bakken shale, bomb trains
This Changes Everything: Climate vs Capitalism –
Explain the struggle for climate justice. Why is the problem beyond a warmer climate? How can addressing climate change be hopeful for other issues besides the environment?
Assignment Log
Log 2.1 personal opinion on schools
Log 2.2 Ludlow T-chart and opinion
Log 2.3 Fossil fuel revolution
Log 2.4 Problems with Coal today
Log 2.5 Climate change essentials
Log 2.6 Problems with New Oil
Log 2.7 Climate Justice
 
 
2/23 Fossil Fuels from the Gilded Age and Industrialization to today - Is our economy sustainable?
Climate Justice, Indigenous Resistance, Blockadias, Legal strategies
Another World Is Possible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR-YrD_KB0M  
Where do you stand on the issue of climate justice and what will you do? Are you a bystander? Why? Why not? How do you feel about it? Where do you find hope or despair? Share/discuss
 
Conflicting views about problems and solutions: radical, reformist, conservative politics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2MPY__3xHw
Industrial problems and progressive reform: How should they be resolved?
Problems and solutions- Presidential  Platform of Eugene V. Debs http:// historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5725/ http://ehistory.osu.edu/exhibitions/1912/content/GrowthSocialistVote  
Accepted? Rejected? Why?  American ideals/values? equality, liberty, democracy, opportunity, rights, etc. 
Political ideas today in the US and the world- Democratic Socialism http://www.vox.com/2015/10/14/9530787/socialism-history-explained
 
DO SELF GRADE AND TURN IN LOGS
 
Assignment Log
Log 2.1 personal opinion on schools
Log 2.2 Ludlow T-chart and opinion
Log 2.3 Fossil fuel revolution
Log 2.4 Problems with Coal today
Log 2.5 Climate change essentials
Log 2.6 Problems with New Oil
Log 2.7 Climate Justice
Log 2.8 Personal stance on climate
Log 3.1 Debs’ Platform for Reform
 
 
2/27 TURN IN LATE WORK
Foreign Policy: What role should the US play in world affairs? EXPLAIN WITH REASONS
Isolate, be neutral? Intervene or help other countries? Dominate and exploit? War? Diplomacy? Trade? What should American or national “interests” be? What is national security? Consequences? Rights of other nations and people?  
 
We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories. - Cecil Rhodes
 
Worksheet: Arguments for imperialism- Economic gain/expansion, power and control, racism, end of frontier 1890
Industrialization and markets, Monroe Doctrine, sovereignty, annexation
Video excerpts -US as World Power, Imperialism http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgYdlFI1NM8&safe=active
Watch Pt. 2 of video above for HW on Spanish American War-helping Cuba against Spanish empire? Philippines?
The US in the world today?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CesHr99ezWE
 
Assignment Log
Log 3.1 Debs’ Platform for Reform
Log 3.2 US foreign policy
Log 3.3 Imperialism worksheet

 

 


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