1. End Four Minutes First Four Chart Date & label your work
2/5/18
Identify a new technology & explain how it has changed American life.
What downside could there be from this new technology? In other words, have we lost something in gaining the technology?
Keep this with all of your other First Four work.
Four Minutes
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2. Questions for Discussion
4 Minutes – silent work
Read your question
Think of the impacts, not just on individuals, but on society as a whole.
Write your individual response.
Four Minutes – Group Discussion
Discuss your thoughts & see if you can agree on a conclusion or a response.
Write your group’s conclusion
Be prepared to share with the class.

3. Group Discussion Questions
Can some people be too rich?
Can a business be too big?
What role should the government play in regulating the economy, if any?
Should the US limit immigration?
What are the benefits of technological progress? What might be some of the costs?
Should the US government regulate moral behavior – alcohol, obscenity, movies, sexual conduct, gambling, etc.

4. Group Discussion Questions
Why are these questions so hard to answer?
What core values of “America” do they challenge?
Freedom?
Equality?
Order?

5. The Gilded Age & The Progressive Era
Unit Questions:
What is the cost of progress?
What do we value?
GQ#1 – Why were the 1870s & 1880s decades of rapid industrialization?

6. What do you see? What is the message?

7. Documents Read the poem, “The New Colossus.”
What is this about?
What values does it represent?
Read the Chinese Exclusion Act
How does it compare to the poem?

8. Why were the 1870s and 1880s decades of rapid industrialization?
Civil War
Land
Transportation
Population
Role of Govt
Technology
Business Innovations
What vocabulary, examples & descriptions could you use with each?
Groups investigate & report to class.

9. Character Studies John D. Rockefeller JP Morgan Andrew Carnegie
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Thomas Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
Gustavas Swift & Phillip Armour

10. Paper 1 Part B Rubric & Examiner’s Report Evaluate your work
What did you do well?
What could you improve?
Exemplar Paper