Industrialization Test - Monday January 26th.

This will help you with your test.  Please make sure you know that Mexicans are not a group that would have immigrated to the US at this time.

Test will be MC, T or F, matching, and 1 written response for you to choose

First some "random" trivia that may help you, wink wink.

1) Textile mills were a driving force for immigrants coming to Charlotte during this time.
2) During this time period we talked about child labor started around the ages of 10-15 but children could begin work as early as age five.
3) Frances Perkins was responsible for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union
4) Thomas Edison created the lightbulb, kind of.  He had one of the first four power plants in the world and in 1892 formed what would become General Electric (GE).
5) The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in NEW YORK had a fire which brought safety codes to the attention of the public.  In occurred March 25, 1911 and 146 people died as a result of the employers chaining the exits (they did this to prevent people from taking unauthorized breaks).  Think about all the EXIT signs in our school.  People died to get those put there.
6) There are 4 major time zones in the continental United States.

What should I focus on?

Captains of Industry/Robber Barons
1) Who were they?
2) What did they control?  What main industries (steel, oil, railroads)
3) How did they make their money?
4) Vertical vs. Horizontal integration
5) Increased efficiency - Taylorism and the Assembly Line (and it's effect on Ford's production, wink wink).

Trusts vs. Monopolies

The Need for Labor Unions
1) Names of the main unions
2) Strikes, Lockouts, and Scabs Oh My
3) Karl Marx influence

Labor union leaders - 

-who was the leader of what Union
-how did the leaders of these unions differ from each other (Debs and Gompers for example)

List all 5 reasons the US industrialized.

1) Better Transportation–Railroad

2) New Inventions

3) Access to Raw Materials

4) More labor–immigrants

5) Mass production

Industrial Revolution (IR) and its effects

1) What is the Industrial Revolution in a quick sentence?  Meaning what did it do for mankind?  

2) How did the IR change life in America?

Immigration

1) Who immigrated?  (Hint! not the Mayans)

2) Where did they go?

3) What struggles did they have and why?

4) What did people here blame on them?

5) What did people here do to try and help immigrants?

6) Push/Pull Factors

 Social Darwinism and the Response to it.

Why People Choose to Unionize and the Federal Poverty Level

Go to AFL-CIO

Then follow directions and write your answers on a piece of notebook paper with your name and date at the top.  Remember it's 2015.

Note: All CEO hourly pay is based on a full year (52 week) 40 hours a week workweek.  So that's working everyday except weekends for 8 hours a day.

1.
a.  What does the AFL-CIO stand for and what is it's purpose?
b.  The average worker makes how much per hour?

2. Click on one of the CEO's and write their name, their total salary and the name and amounts of each of their compensation.

For Example.  R.W. Tillerson (Exxon Mobile) has a salary of $2,717,000.  He gets a bonus worth $3,670,000, stock awards of $21,254,625 and other compensation at $496,704.

3. After doing number 2 scroll down one page and 2013 CEO To Worker Pay will come up.  What is it?  What is CEO: Minimum Wage Worker ratio?

4.  What is the average salary of production and nonsupervisory workers?

5.  What is the average salary for a full time worker on minimum wage?

6. One argument against raising wages is that the companies can’t afford it.  What does the AFL-CIO say happened over 5 years?

7. Scroll again.  How many hours would it take for a full-time min wage employee have to work to make what Michael Duke of Walmart makes in 1 hour?

8. What percentage of workers are working at min wage are 25 or older?

9. These questions are regarding Tiffany who works at Wal-Mart
a. How long has she been working as a customer service manager?
b. How many children does she have?  Is she married?
c. How much did she earn last year as a full-time employee?
d. Because of this amount what does Tiffany say she receives? 
e. What does she say about Wal-Mart?
f. Why Was Colby Harris fired?

Demographics of Minimum Wage Workers

10. Looking at the graph - which 2 groups are represented the most?
11. Do you think education has an effect on how much people make? Yes or no?
12. Now click on the education tab - are any of these surprising to you? Why? or Why Not?
13. Now click on region - which region is the most represented?
14. Now look to the right - Are CEO’s mostly men or women?
15. What is the racial breakdown of CEOs?
16. Do you believe that Asians, Blacks, and Latinos are less capable at running a company?
17. Why do you think that whites far outnumber other races at the top of companies?

18. Now scroll twice - to the Darden Worker: Sissy

a. How old is the restaurant worker?  
b. Darden restaurants own what restaurants?
c. When did Darden worker start in the restaurant world?
d. How much did they earn and was it enough to live on?
e. So what did Darden worker do about it?
f. What was the problem?
g. How many years after 1975 did he land the “best job in the industry” and what was it?
h. What did the job promise?
i. What was his wage?
j. Did he have money for profit sharing or retirement?
k. What does he find ironic? 

Now scroll to the real value of minimum wage chart and scroll over the chart to see how min wage did against inflation over the years.

19. In 1970 - what would Minimum wage be if it kept pace with the 1%? 
20. In 1970 - what would minimum wage be if it kept pace with average wages?
21. In 1970 - what is the actual value of minimum wage?





Do the same thing that you did in 19-21 for the years 1986, 2001, and 2013.

22.  What are some issues with raising the minimum wage that you can think of?  What would happen if it was raised to $10.10 like this site suggests?

23.  These questions relate to Tobacco Worker Fernando.

a. When did he come to the US? 
b. Is Fernando a citizen? 
c. Why did he come to the U.S.?
d. How many children does he have?
e. What does he do?  Dangers? -
f. How much does he make?
g. What is Green Tobacco Sickness? 
h. If he doesn’t go to work does he still get paid?
i. What happened to his arm and hand and how many days off did he get?

Scroll to next and click on View all Ceo by state then click S&P 500 - Then click on North Carolina.

24.What’s the average worker pay in NC? 
25. What’s the average CEO Pay?

Then click on view the state’s CEO Pay in the NC tab.

26. Find the CEO Of Bank of America located in CHarlotte.  What is his name?  How much does he make?

Then Scroll to T-Mobile worker - Ellen

27.  These questions relate to Ellen the T-Mobile Worker

a. What does she do for T-Mobile?
b. How long has she worked for them and how much does she make? 
c. Does she have children?  is she married?
d. Does she get government assistance?  what is it?
e. How many seconds does she have to solve a problem?  If she doesn’t what happens?
f. What does she say about what can happen to pregnant women at work?
g. Is there a Union for T-Mobile Workers?

28. These questions refer to Kevin the Kellogg's Worker

a. How long has he worked for Kellogg Co.?
b. How much and what cereal/s does he help produce a year?
c. What did Kelloggs do 6 months ago that affected Kevin? 
d. What is a “28-and-two schedule”?
e. It costs Kelloggs 37 cents to do what?
f. On average how much do they sell a box of cereal for?
g. How much of a raise did the CEO of Kelloggs make?


29. According to this website things don't appear equal.  Do you think this is a clear picture of the situation?  What information do you think is missing?  What can be done to make the playing field more equal?  Is it reasonable to assume that we can work toward better financial equality?

Mock Trial Permission Slip

Mock Trial Permission Slip

Opening Statements and Closing Statements

Opening -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05uaOrBdtbE

Closing -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf0ABRnvXg0

HINT: How to get a good grade on your Night of the Notables Paper

In the introduction to your paper you MUST...

Summarize the main points of your paper which are (as I gave them to you in the project overview)

1) Giftedness/Abilities - (that helped them achieve step 2)
2) Their Impact (Historical, cultural, etc..)
3) Comparison to another person

Your last sentence in your introduction should say something that addresses the things above.

Your paper should be organized in this way!


Remember you can attempt to share them with me and if I have time I will look at them - first come first serve.

Those that have shared them and made the necessary improvements and shared them again are very likely getting GREAT GRADES!

Current Events

8TH GRADE

This Friday (December 5) I won't see you and we have the School Spelling Bee so you do NOT have Current Events due.

Next Thursday is Night of the Notables. Next Friday (December 12th) is Mock Trial. 

It is a busy week where you should be preparing for both events so you will NOT have current events due December 12th either.


December 5th - No current events
December 12th - No current events

Next current event due is December 19th, 2014.   That is the day before our winter break.

National History Bee

Hi All

Everyone will be taking the The National History Bee.  It is an academic competition for elementary and middle school students that tests knowledge of a wide range of historical topics.  The competition is divided into three distinct stages and you will move on if you qualify.   Everyone will do the preliminary test stage.  It will be given during a period at some point after our long break in December and January.  The top 5 student finishers will take the Online Regional Qualifying exam to see if they will move to the next stage. 

Here are some materials to help if you are interested.

History Bee Study Guide

Practice Tests

Written Test Sample

Here are some websites to help prepare...

http://www.neok12.com/

This is a great site that has thousands of educational videos and interactive quizzes organized by category.  The history section has more than 20 sub-categories with hundreds of videos and quizzes.

http://www.khanacademy.org/#history

Khan Academy is an amazing site that offers short video lessons for students on a variety of topics.  Its history selection is relatively limited (though still worthwhile), but it’s growing rapidly.

 

http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthemove/index.html

This is an interesting site from the Smithsonian that traces the changes in transportation over the course of history and how these changes affected the daily lives of Americans.

 

http://www.nps.gov/civilwar/customcf/timeline.html

This site is a great interactive timeline tracing the Civil War from its earliest causes to its resolution.

 

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/es/index.php

A wealth of interesting information about the history and geography of each of the fifty states

 

http://www.digitalvaults.org/

This site from the National Archives allows you to view hundreds of original documents, photographs and films important to the history of the United States.

http://americanhistory.si.edu/presidency/home.html

This site from the Smithsonian allows you to explore information about America’s presidents.

 

http://americanhistory.si.edu/timeline/

This interactive timeline allows you to explore history both chronologically and thematically

http://www.history.com/interactives/citizenship-quiz

Test your knowledge of US government and history by taking this citizenship quiz from our friends at the History Channel.

 

http://juris.nationalparalegal.edu/ChecksAndBalances.aspx.
Suggested by the students of the Goodwin Community Center!

 

EUROPEAN HISTORY

 

http://www.multcolib.org/homework/eurohist.html

This is a great site that catalogs hundreds of sites relevant to European history by category.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/vikings/

This is a great site about the Vikings by the BBC.  The site is designed with students in mind and has a multitude of photographs and videos and even a web game that puts you in the role of an archaeologist.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/middle_ages/

This is a very informative site that outlines the major events and people of the Middle Ages.

 

http://www.learner.org/interactives/renaissance/

This site outlines the basic causes and consequences of the Renaissance.  It also links to some interesting sites that go into more specific detail.

 

http://www.pbs.org/empires/martinluther/

This site from PBS tells the story of Martin Luther and his role in sparking the Protestant Reformation.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/tudors/

This is great site to explore to learn about Britain’s Tudor dynasty.

 

 

http://library.thinkquest.org/C006257/default.shtml

This is a compact but useful site that tells the basic story of the French Revolution

 

http://www.alexanderpalace.org/

This is a nice collection of resources on various aspects of Russian history.  It’s particularly strong on information about the Revolution.

http://www.pbs.org/opb/conquistadors/home.htm

This PBS site is designed as a resource to teachers and students learning about Spanish exploration of the New World.

 

ANCIENT HISTORY

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/romans/

This is a great site about life in ancient Rome created by the BBC.  The site is designed with students in mind and has a multitude of photographs and videos and even a web game that puts you in the role of an archaeologist.

 

http://www.arwhead.com/Greeks/index.html#Athenian art

This is a small but informative site about the contributions of the Ancient Greeks.

http://www.ancientgreece.co.uk/

This is a wonderful site about ancient Greece designed by the British Museum.  The information is very well-organized, making it easy to navigate and explore.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/ancient_greeks/

This is a great site about life in ancient Greece created by the BBC.  The site is designed with students in mind and has a multitude of photographs and videos and even a web game that puts you in the role of a Greek hero.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/indus_valley/

This is a great site about the Indus Valley civilization created by the BBC.  The site is designed with students in mind and has a multitude of photographs and videos and even a web game that puts you in the role of a trader

 

http://www.wingedsandals.com/

This is a great site that introduces students to the basic stories of Greek mythology.  Filled with beautiful graphics and animated videos, it’s both fun and informative.

 http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/

This is an interesting site from the British Museum with information about the beliefs and daily lives of the cultures of ancient Mesopotamia.

http://www.eyelid.co.uk/Egyptian_Videos/Egyptian_Videos.html

This site has some great information, but what really makes it worthwhile are the links to more than 40 videos about ancient Egypt

http://www.eternalegypt.org/EternalEgyptWebsiteWeb/HomeServlet?ee_website_action_key=action.display.home&language_id=1

A fabulous interactive site designed in part by IBM.  This site has a wealth of information, including some wonderful multimedia features.