Thursday, March 24, 2011

A Worker's Life (Part 2): March 24, 2011

This is a short period due to a two-hour early dismissal.
Objective
  • Describe changes in production and economics that impact workers.
  • Predict how workers might react to these changes.

Agenda

  1. Warm up #20: Your warm-up for today is to do two tasks
    1. Print out any warm-ups you have not yet turned in and check your grades for missing work. Remember you can only print two pages at a time due to a bug in Office 2010.
    2. Create a new journal document. Set your first entry as #21, which will be the first graded warm-up of the new term next week.
  2. Video: Modern Times
    1. Discuss how the assembly line & mass production impacted workers' jobs
  3. Primary Source: Working Conditions
    1. Answer the questions with each reading in your journal.
    2. Share responses with the class
  4. CNN Student News