Learning Module 2: The Progressive Reform Era: Making America Modern[1]

 

Textbook Chapter Assignments:  Chapters 21, 22, 23.

 

Activities/Discussions:  Progressive Reform: Social Reform and Foreign Policy; Select One

·         Social Reform: Lewis Hine Argues for Social Reform

·         Foreign Policy:  Images and Censorship in World War I

 

Project on Betty Friedan: The Personal Is Political, Part I

 

Bonus Points: Students can earn up to 30 points during the semester – Due by October  5

·         The Harlem Renaissance

·         On campus activities

 

Assessment Tools: 188 pts.

  • Activity 1 and 2:  40 points.
  • Friedan Project: 28 points
  • Exam: 80 points. 50 pts/objective exam & 30 pts/exam essay
  • Attendance: 40 points.


Assignments & Due Dates

Date

Topic/ Activity

Assignment

Sept. 14

Progressive Reform Movement: Foundations, Actions, Social Justice

 

Chapter 21. Purchase Friedan biography

Sept. 16

The Worker in Industrial America

National Progressivism – TR

Election of 1912 and Woodrow Wilson as a Progressive

Distribute Act. 1 – review

Prepare for quiz and discussion / act. 1

Reading Log – Friedan Project

Sept. 21

Legacies of the Progressive Reform Movement – Domestic Reform

Distribute Act.  2. – review

Read Chapter 22

Reading Log – Friedan Project
Prepare for quiz and discussion / act. 1

Sept 23

Quiz/Discussion on Activity 1.

Causes of World War I

WWI: From Neutrality to Participation

War and the Home Front

Reading Log – Friedan Project

Prepare for quiz/activity 2

Sept. 28

WWI – From Stalemate to the Treaty of Versailles;

Quiz/discussion on Activity 2

Read Chapter 23

Sept. 30

 

WWI – Women’s Rights; Iron Jawed Angels

Distribute Study Guide for Exam 2 and Requirements for Friedan Reflection.

In-class activity – Women’s rights
Submit Reading Log – Friedan Project (Chapters 1- 3)

October 5 Return Reading Logs – Discussion
Legacies of WWI
 

October 7

The 1920s: Affluence and Anxiety.

Exam Review

Chapter 23
Prepare for Exam 

Oct. 12 Exam Review
Overview of Learning Module 3
 

Oct. 14

Exam

 

 



[1] Created: spring06; updated9/16/2009