Lesson Plan: Day 3

  

Grade: _11_

Unit: The Rise and Fall of a Textile Empire:  Lowell, Ma 1820-1861

 

 

Goal (enduring understanding):

 

Massachusetts has a rich history.  Among one of the many events of historical significance is Lowell’s rise as a textile manufacturing empire, leading to the birth of the American Industrial Revolution.

 

The Merrimack River’s 32-foot drop at the Pawtucket Falls provided the necessary waterpower that enabled the Boston Manufacturing Company to power their textile mills.

 

Beside the natural resources that provided waterpower, Lowell’s close proximity to the Northern New England farmlands enabled the mill owners to recruit labor.

 

 

Essential Question(s):

 

What economical, environmental, and geographic factors led to Lowell becoming a textile power?

 

Development and selection of activities and resources:

 

  • The class will finish written proposals presentation from yesterday
  • Teacher follow up lecture on the documented reasons East Chelmsford was chosen for textile factories
  • Cooperative learning exercise (Recruitment poster on Microsoft Publisher)  

 

Content:

 

  • Geography, environment of East Chelmsford
  • Building of the first mills in East Chelmsford
  • Formation of Lowell (1826)
  • Building of additional canals
  • The work force: The Mill Girls

 

Curriculum Standard:

 

Economic Growth in the North and South, 1800-1860

 

USI.26 Explain the importance of the Transportation Revolution of the 19th century (the building of canals, roads, bridges, turnpikes, steamboats, and railroads), including the stimulus it provided to the growth of a market economy. (H, E)

 

USI.27 Explain the emergence and impact of the textile industry in New England and industrial growth generally throughout antebellum America. (H, E)

a. The technological improvements and inventions that contributed to industrial growth

b. The causes and impact of the wave of immigration from Northern Europe to America in the1840s and 1850s

 

c. The rise of a business class of merchants and manufacturers

 

d. The roles of women in New England textile factories

 

History and Geography

 

5. Explain how a cause and effect relationship is different from a sequence or correlation of events. (H, C, E)

 

6. Distinguish between long-term and short-term cause and effect relationships. (H, G, C, E)

 

7. Show connections, causal and otherwise, between particular historical events and ideas and larger social, economic, and political trends and developments. (H, G, C, E)

 

Assignment:

 

It is time to go back to work for the Boston Associates.  After the excellent job you and your group did in assessing a new site for a factory the Associates has put you in charge of recruiting the laborers who will work in the textile mill.  Your assignment is to reform your group and draft a recruitment poster on Microsoft Publisher.  Use the following questions to help guide you along in your task:

Who are you recruiting?

What are you offering?

What will be their living arrangements?

What will be their salary?

 

Remember this is 1823 please use historical accuracy in drafting your poster.  Assessment will be by rubric.

 

How will the essential question be assessed?

 

  • The essential question will be assessed thru the written proposals and the poster activity due in two days

 

Multimedia Project: Mill Girl Recruitment Poster


Teacher name: Mr. Mousseau

Student Name ___________________

 

CATEGORY

4 Excellent

3 Good

2 Average

1 Developing

Attractiveness

Makes excellent use of font, color, graphics, effects, etc. to enhance the presentation.

Makes good use of font, color, graphics, effects, etc. to enhance to presentation.

Makes use of font, color, graphics, effects, etc. but occasionally these detract from the presentation content.

Use of font, color, graphics, effects etc. but these often distract from the presenation content.

Mechanics

No misspellings or grammatical errors.

Three or fewer misspellings and/or mechanical errors.

Four misspellings and/or grammatical errors.

More than 4 errors in spelling or grammar.

Originality

Product shows a large amount of original thought. Ideas are creative and inventive.

Product shows some original thought. Work shows new ideas and insights.

Uses other people's ideas (giving them credit), but there is little evidence of original thinking.

Uses other people's ideas, but does not give them credit.

Organization

Content is well organized using headings or bulleted lists to group related material.

Uses headings or bulleted lists to organize, but the overall organization of topics appears flawed.

Content is logically organized for the most part.

There was no clear or logical organizational structure, just lots of facts.

Points

13-16 = A

9-12 = B

6-8 = C

3-5 = D

 

0-2 = F