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Four Minutes. First Four Chart Date & label your work 2/7/17 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?

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Four Minutes

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  1. Four Minutes • First Four Chart • Date & label your work • 2/7/17 • 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. End

  2. Four Minutes • First Four Chart • Date & label your work • 2/26/16 – “Gospel of Wealth” • Identify the thesis. • What are the main points of Carnegie’s argument? • Keep this with all of your other First Four work. End

  3. Questions for Discussion • Read your question with your group. • Think of the impacts, not just on individuals, but on society as a whole. • Discuss your thoughts & see if you can agree on a conclusion or a response. • Be prepared to share with the class.

  4. 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. • What should the government do, if anything, to maximize our freedom but also to protect equality?

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

  6. The Gilded Age & The Progressive Era • Unit Questions: • What is the cost of progress? • What do we value?

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

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

  9. Why were the 1870s and 1880s decades of rapid industrialization? What vocabulary, examples & descriptions could you use with each? Groups investigate & report to class.

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

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