Upton Sinclair Lesson Plans

1. Language Arts: The Jungle and Readers Response
LOGO - PULSE The Jungle and Readers Responnse Author: Matthew Tidwell Editor: Stephanie Nardei Time: 3 Class Periods Preparation 2 hour Time: Materials: Class copies of Chapter 14 from Upton Sinclair?s The Jungle Copy of questions for Chapter 14 Poster paper and markers Abstract poem Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle as a way to expose the atrocities that took place in the meat packing industry in Chicago. Having students read an excerpt from this piece of literature gives them insight into the wo...

2. Social Studies: EXTRA! EXTRA! Read all About It!
...rces: http://www.snowcrest.net/jmike/ progressive.html Women in the Progressive Era: http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/pwwmh/ prog.htm Digital History: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/ progressivism/index.cfm Lesson Plan on Progressive Era: http://home.earthlink.net/~gfeldmeth/ lec.prog.html Upton Sinclair: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/sinclair.htm The Bitter Cry of Our Children http://web.mala.bc.ca/davies/ H321GildedAge/Spargo.BitterCryofChildren.1906.htm John Spargo on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Spargo Immigrants in the Meatpacking Industry http://www.hsl.creighton.edu/ hsl/guides/Et...

3. Language Arts: The Editorial
...dwell Editor: Stephanie Nardei Time: 1-2 Class Periods Preparation Collection Time: of editorials from any local or national paper Materials: Class copies of at least three editorials Abstract This lesson is the first step toward the students writing a muckraking Image editorial similar to those by Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens, and Ida Tarbell. Reading several contemporary editorials and comparing their qualities will engage the students toward this project. Objectives The students will be able: 1. To recognize the similarities between several editorials. 2. To summarize and outline the arguments present...

4. CongressLink: [Other] Congress's Accomplishments: What Has Congress Done for You?
...st important to their lives today. (4th handout "Which law is most important to our lives today?") Materials: Our Nation's Archives: The History of the United States in Documents, editors Bruun, E. and Crosby, J. (Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers: New York, 1999): p. 512-excerpt of The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair (Pure Food and Drug Act); p. 722 Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (Env'tal Protection); p. 614 The Social Security Act of 1935 (Social Security); p. 730 MLK Jr.s letter from a Birmingham City Jail (civil rights act); p. 471 Darkness and Daylight by Helen Campbell (child labor) "Researching a law that...

5. "Anything We Love Can Be Saved"-A Contemporary
...t want to try some of these techniques in the next lesson when they do their own writing for action. Note: students may notice or if they don't, point it out that all of the activist writers we studied were female. While there were certainly plenty of male writers that could have been chosen (i.e.: Upton Sinclair, The Jungle , and more recently Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation ) it is important to note that writing has been a good way for the disenfranchised to be heard and that includes women and young people. Assessment: Participation in the discussion and completion of notes taken during the lesson. Bibli...

6. Industrialization of the American Landscape - Language Arts Lessons
...e reactions to the Engage Industrial slide show. Revolution with an emphasis on the meatpacking industry and respond in writing. The Jungle 1. The students 3 class and Readers will discover periods Response the conditions Week 5 Students that many will read and workers faced excerpt from during the Upton Industrial Explore/ Sinclair?s Revolution. Explain famous novel. In groups, 2. The students will students will respond to the work reading using collaboratively a jigsaw. to explain and identify key elements from Chapter 14. Conditions of 1. The students 2 class Today will use the periods Students library to...

7. “Picturing” America at the turn of the twentieth century
...period To help students appreciate how literature and history can be linked To encourage students to ask critical questions of the visual images that bombard them as consumers Teacher planning Time required for lesson 8 hours Materials/resources Resources from American Literature electronic texts; Upton Sinclair's The Jungle Hamlin Garland's ?Under the Lion's Paw? Charlotte Perkins Gilman's ?The Yellow Wallpaper? Additional electronic texts of American literature for this period: Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie Frank Norris' novels, and short stories Owen Wister's The Virginian Technology resources A compu...

8. Dr. Kathie Nunley's Layered Curriculum Web Site for Educators
...ckrakers B. Soul shakers C. Dirt Diggers D. Yellow Journalist 23. All of the following were a part of the women?s suffrage movement EXCEPT: A. Susan B. Anthony B. Lucretia Mott C. Elizabeth Cady Stanton D. Ida Tarbell 24. Name the significance of each date listed below: 1787? 1861 ? 1865 ? 1898 25. Upton Sinclair?s novel The Jungle was a scathing expose of what industry? A. Slum Lords B. Fashion C. Meat Packing D. Railroads

9. LP_SS_Int_Constitution The Preamble to the U.S. Constitution
...ernment today "provide for the common defense"? What is the point of the Uncle Sam poster? What was the response of Congress regarding the President's letter? Group 4: Promoting the General Welfare In 1906, no one was required to inspect meat that was sold to the American public. Public reaction to Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle was a major factor in the passage of the 1907 Meat Inspection Act, which established a system of meat inspection that lasted until July 1996, when the federal government announced new rules requiring more scientifically advanced methods of meat inspection. Students should read the...

10. Interdisciplinary Unit: The Progressive Era
...gle" Objectives: Students will be able to... 1. Describe the unsanitary conditions in the meat packing plants during the 1880's. 2. Define thesis. 3. Identify theses and the components of an essay from editorials in the newspaper. 4. Write an argumentative essay based on the novel, "The Jungle," by Upton Sinclair. Methods: 1. Class Discussion: Students will be asked to read selected editorials from the newspaper. From the reading, the students will identify the author's thesis statement (argument) and their supporting evidence. Students will then develop a definition of what a thesis is and the components of...