1. Daily Goals Content Goals: Literacy Goals: Social Goal:
Understand the effects of industrialization on the workers
Literacy Goals:
Understand the terms “industrialization” and “labor.”
Practice writing effective essays.
Social Goal:
Work in partners to evaluate the quality of an essay.
Focus conversation into partnered and class discussion.

2. Essay Writing Workshop
Look over rubric.
Take your first outline and turn it into a short essay.
Partner up. Swap Essays.
Grade your partner’s first essay using the rubric.
Then, look over your own essay and grade it using rubric.
Discuss the differences with your partner

3. Muckrakers Journalists helped reformers by exposing corruption
Muckrakers wrote about problems that were hidden and exposed them
They “Raked the Muck” or cleaned up the dirt and corruption in the world.

4. Famous Muckrakers
Lincoln Steffens – Exposed corrupt machine politics in NYC, Chicago, and other cities
Ida Tarbell – Described the unfair practices of the oil trust

5. Upton Sinclair
Sinclair was a muckraker who wrote a book about the meatpacking industry
Sinclair wanted to show the public how the workers were mistreated

6. Sinclair
Instead, he uncovered disgusting truths including, meat falling on the ground, rats and other rodents being grounded into the meat, and mislabeling the products.
Congress responded by passing the Meat Inspection Act in 1906, along with the Pure Food and Drug Act, banning the sale of harmful food