US History: Textbook Jigsaw

US HISTORY Textbook Jigsaw

• With your group, you will be making a chapter review of our textbook

by developing a Pages Poster (like a one/two page PPT)

In order to prepare us for our NEXT CREATIVE PROJECT on the Great Depression and the New Deal we need to have the following topics understood.

Chapters we will Jigsaw (you are only responsible for one chapter):

INSTRUSTRIALIZATION (chapter 5, 180-211)

• Section 1—Rise of Industry
• Section 2—The Railroads
• Section 3—Big Business
• Section 4—Unions

URBAN AMERICA (chapter 6, 212-257)

• Section 1—Immigration
• Section 2—Urbanization
• Section 3—The Gilded Age
• Section 4—Populism

THE JAZZ AGE (chapter 10, 360-397)

• Section 1—The Politics of the 20s
• Section 2—A Growing Economy
• Section 3—A Clash of Values

THE GREAT DEPRESSION BEGINS (Chapter 11, 398-419)

• Section 1—Causes of Great Depression
• Section 2—Life During the Depression
• Section 3—Hoover Responds to the Depression

Sequence of Study—Class Periods

• February 26: Skinny Day Preview of Workload and Expectations
• 29/Mar 1: Tearing through Chapter and Taking Notes
• March 2/3: Tearing through Chapter and Answering Questions (NOTEBOOK GRADE)
• March 7/8: Creating Pages Poster with help from minimal Internet Research
• March 9/10: Project is due to Ned by end of class (PROJECT GRADE)

How To:

1. Preview Section Review at end of your section
2. Read Chapter by yourself or with buddy making note of questions/vocab
3. Use notes to compose answers/responses to all section review questions except for Organizing
4. Find a primary source quote about a topic from your Section’s main ideas
   1. Explain in your own words
5. Find a political cartoon about a topic from your Section’s main ideas
   1. Explain in your own words
6. Create a poster in the application Pages (on all Mac computers) with
   1. The vocab and answers for questions from your Section Review
   2. Photos of topics from your section
   3. The primary source and an explanation of its significance
   4. The political cartoon and an explanation of its significance

Here’s an example

Native American Exemplar