WEEK: 9 DATE: UNIT: Reconstruction to 1914

Weekly Topic Rise of Big Business and Organized Labor
Classtime	A History of US An Age of Extremes (8) “Carnegie” “A Bookkeeper..Rockefeller” “Powerful Pierpont” A History of US Reconstruction & Reform (7) “Huck, Tom & Friends” If You Lived … the Great San Francisco Earthquake (K-4 Classtime this week)	A History of US An Age of Extremes (8) “Monopoly- Not Always…” “Producing Goods” “Harvest at Haymarket” Story of the World, Vol. 4 Ch. 16 (The Expanding U.S.) sect. “Stocks, Philanthropists, and Outlaws ”	A History of US An Age of Extremes (8) “Workers, Labor…” “Telling It Like It Is” “Bread and Roses, Too”
Readers K-2	Mark Twain (Troll Easy Biography Series)
3+	Tom Sawyer
5+	Tom Sawyer p 1-143
Family Read Aloud	Old Sam and the Horse Thieves* p 150-198
Map/Timeline	(1885) Twain’s Huckleberry Finn published		(1871) The Great Chicago Fire
Writing Ideas		Grammar: You lived through the San Francisco Earthquake. Write a letter to your grandmother decribing what happened.	Logic: Choose one of the industrialists to research further. What was his attitude toward wealth? What did he do with his wealth?
Optional Fiction and Resources	* If you’ve chose to read just Dakota Trotter, read p 79-101 this week.	Trailblazer series for 3+: Journey to the End of the Earth (William Seymour)	Kingfisher History 1993 p 594-95 Food/Farming