1. Do Now #27 Number the lines.
Circle key WORDS, names of PEOPLE names of PLACES and dates.
Highlight or box unfamiliar WORDS, define using context clues, and replace with synonym.
Underline the author’s MAIN IDEA points, and relevant information.
As and answer “How?” and “Why?” IS THIS IMPORTANT to create a deeper meaning of the text.
Jot down the one most important thing the author is SAYING or doing in the section (paragraph)
At the END of the text, write your final impression.

2. With your partner…
Paragraph 1
Describe the living conditions of this house?
What type of house does this person live in?
Summarize what the first paragraph is about.
If you had to infer, what type of people live here? Where are they from?
Paragraph 2
What is the woman holding?
Paragraph 3
Describe how the neighborhood looked/was laid out.
Imagine you are living in the tenements, devise at least 1 plan to improve the conditions.

3. The Industrial Age

5. By 1890, the frontier was officially considered closed
1. Setting the Stage:
By 1890, the frontier was officially considered closed
Free land was no longer available to settlers moving west
Two waves of immigrants would come to settle America
d. Differences in culture as well as competition for jobs would create tension

6. Migration from farms to cities (urbanization)
2. Sources of Labor During the Industrial Age
Migration from farms to cities (urbanization)
Between 1860-­‐1915 rural population doubled, but urban pop grew 700%!
By 1915, more than 1 in 3 people living in cities came from farms: why?
Young, single women saw little futures on farms
2. Many migrants were black southern sharecroppers seeking a better life in Northern industrial cities
3. Farms were becoming larger & more mechanized which meant less human power was needed

7. b. Immigrants provided a large pool of labor for industry
Immigrants arrived in 2 large waves or periods
Wave #1 (Before 1880) = “Old Immigrants”
Almost all came from Northern and Western Europe
Ex: Great Britain, Germany, Scandinavia

9. Wave #2 (After 1880) = “New Immigrants”
More than one-­‐third came from Southern or Eastern Europe
Ex: Italy, Greece, Slavic
c. Their different languages, religions, and customs set them apart from most “old immigrants,” feeding intolerance
Contributed to a surplus of labor by mid 1880s
Became targets of discrimination, fueled by renewed attitude of Nativism among some “old immigrants”
f. Nativism: a prejudice by native-­‐born Americans against new immigrants, fueled by cultural differences & economic threat

11. a. Coal mines (boys) and textile factories (girls & women)
3. Industry Exploited Workers
a. Coal mines (boys) and textile factories (girls & women)
b. Women and children made up more than 50% of industrial workforce in 1880s
c. Workers no longer felt valued by their employers, but became
interchangeable parts in the machine of industry
Workers faced:
Low pay
Long hours
iii. Poor & unsafe working conditions
e. Felt powerless (a single worker was no match against an employer)

16. We are going to use Poll Everywhere You can text or go on the web.
Take out your phones :D
We are going to use Poll Everywhere
You can text or go on the web.

17. Going to do a close reading as a class. Then do an activity with it.

18. Write a newspaper article describing the Bisbee Deportation.
2 paragraphs
Write like you are a reporter
THEN
Create a 4 panel comic strip OR political cartoon
about the Bisbee Deportation
Be sure to reference how the industrial revolution was involved
Turn the close reading, newspaper, & comic into the bin when leaving.