Rise of Industrialization

Name: Gary Berthiaume School: Centennial High School

Content Area Standard: / 11.2 Rise of Industrialization
Literacy Standard: / 2.0, 2.1 Reading Comprehension
Analyzing different type of public documents
Instructional Objectives
·  Definition of what is to be taught and learned / Students will understand the Industrial Revolution and its consequences
Curriculum
·  Lesson Content / Industrial Revolution Unit/Progressive Unit
American Odyssey Ch. 5 & 6
Instructional Delivery
·  Procedures
·  Strategies / Read the letter from “The American Mine Door Company” (independent)
Divide class into small groups.
Look at image of (small group)
·  postcard showing boys on mules titled “After working hours at the mine”
·  Two images of trapper boys at work
2nd reading of “The American Mine Door Company” letter (small group #1)
·  Include 2nd copy of letter with marked vocabulary and sheet of definitions.
Group discussion of vocabulary
2nd viewing of postcard and two trapper boy images (independent/small group #1)
·  Students ask themselves: What do I see? What don’t I see?
·  Write answers on corresponding sheet
Hand out Role Cards of the following:
·  Catholic Priest
·  Newspaper Reporter (Muckraker)
·  Mother of Trapper Boy
·  Labor Organizer
Regroup class with like role cards sitting in new groups (called groups #2)
In new groups, have students focus on the following:
·  What does it say? What doesn’t it say? From perspective of role card (small group)
·  Discuss likely answers
·  Write answers on corresponding sheet
From the perspective of the role card, have students write a letter to M.M. Cochran, Superintendent of the coal mine in Dawson Pennsylvania.
·  First, have students brainstorm possible reasons their character would have in asking the superintendent to buy or not buy the Automatic Trap door.
·  The students should attempt to persuade the superintendent to buy or not buy the Automatic Trap door based on the roles they have been assigned.
Once letters are completed (can be assigned as homework), regroup students in original groups #1
·  Read letters aloud or share silently
·  Discuss:
Ø  Which author has the most compelling argument to buy or not buy a mine door?
Ø  Which letter would persuade the Superintendent?
Extension:
Ø  Write a letter to The Automatic Trap Door Company, explaining why your coal mine is or is not going to buy the automatic trap door.
Ø  Debate as a class, whether or not the automatic trap door should be purchased or not.
Ø  Moral Dilemma: As a mother whose husband is deceased, your son has been hired as a trapper boy. He took the work to feed you and his five other brothers and sisters. His first day of work is in the morning and if he is late he will be fired. Knowing the dangers of working in a coal mine but also knowing your family needs to eat, do you wake him up in the morning to go to work?
Ø  Show of clip of coal mining from the movie Matawan.
Evidence/Assessment / Students will write letters taking a position based on specified roles.
Accommodations
·  Reading difficulties
·  Advanced learners
·  English learners / Individual work/group work
Text
Instructional Materials / Textbook
Primary source “American Mine Door Company” letter
Gallagher forms: “What you see” and “What you don’t see”
“What it says” and “What it doesn’t say”
See images below.

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