Begin Unit 5 Notebook - print out this Table of Contents

Work on The West Map and Legacy of the West Mural - due next week

The West Introduction - use this voicethread - http://voicethread.com/share/863372/

Complete “So You Wanna Be a Cowboy?” for Tuesday using handout DOC PDF and http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ranchhouse/history.html

Finish up "The Cowboy" - use this voicethread

For Thursday - read Homesteading handout, take this quick online quiz from PBS' Frontier House, note the main idea from the reading, and pick your crops - instructions on this voicethread!

For Friday - read 19-3 Life on the West using reading guide and complete 19-4 Farmers and Populaism using this reading (print and highlight) and this short video

Complete 19-2 Native Americans Fight to Survive DOC PDF for Tuesday

Watch How Hollywood stereotyped the Native Americans  and read ONE of the following articles

• "Wisconsin Stories: More Than a Game"
•  What's in a Name?  
• The Fight Over the Redskins Trademark and Other Racialized Symbols

Reshaping the West Online Quiz - open note, open book alone - done by Friday 8:15 AM

Complete "The Growth of Industry" graphic organizer using pp. 585-586 in Creating America

Read over "Steel Empire" handout to prepare for Monday's game

Complete 20-3 The Rise of Big Business DOC PDF for Tuesday

Complete 20-4 Workers Organize DOC PDFfor Thursday

Labor and Managament Talk It Out - Thursday in class

If you get the chance ... read Chapter 21-1 and 21-4 - big city life!

Don't forget Tying the Past and Present Together! - an old example and rubric

Read 21-2 about immigration - add to notes from class, and strat thinking about opposition to immigration - want to learn about Ellis Island and immigrant processing of the time?

The Industrial Era quiz - Friday, February 19