Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Lesson on Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Aim: To what extent did individualism, new religious sects, abolitionism, and women’s rights (as the movement was called in the nineteenth century) change American culture between 1820 and 1860?

Bell Ringer: Grade & Review Thinking Like a Historian 11

Agenda:

  1. Urban Popular Culture: Commercialized sex (By 1860 New York City had a population of 1,000,000 with 500 brothels,)
  2. View Illustrations of Bowery Boys. Consider how these men represented a challenge to conventional nineteenth-century ideals of "respectable" behavior.   https://lostmuseum.cuny.edu/archive/exhibit/bowery/
  3. Minstrelsy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXlXcAQFy90 / By caricaturing blacks, the minstrels declared the importance of being white and spread racist sentiments among Irish and German immigrants. (8 min) 
  4. Rampant Racism p. 357, analyze the source. 
  5. Black Social Thought (p. 360): American Anti-slavery society "great postal campaign", the Underground Railroad, Grimke Sisters "What is the actual condition of the slaves in the United States?"
  6. Journal 61 - How did the ideology and tactics of the Garrisonian abolitionists differ from those of the antislavery movements idscussed in Chapters 6 and 8? (10 min)





Home Learning: 

  1. Minstrelsy Today  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw0ewOVjT5w
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    2. Begin reading Chapter 12 and begin working on Chapter 12 IDs, due Friday, December 8, 2017. 

    3. Chapter 11 Vocab. Quiz on Thursday, December 7, 2017

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