Bell
Ringer
16 September 2009
Progressive Era
History Level:
- 8th Grade U.S. History
- 11th Grade American History
Teaching Objectives: To help the students see the
complexities and changes during the turn of the century. Lead-ins: Begin by
noting the collapse of reconstruction (1875) the industrialization of American
Cities, and waves of immigrants. These complexities have shaped what America
is to day and must be tied together.
Idaho: US2 1.1 / 1.2 / 1.4 / 3.2
Utah: US2 2 / 3
Concepts/ Topic to Teach: The Progressive Era, Turn of the
Century around 1900 to1914
Materials needed:
- Clips form Ragtime the Musical Prologue
- Work sheets for each group or lead as a class
Objective Concepts Taught:
- Students will be introduced to several themes of the Progressive Era, mainly social status, Immigration, Labor/ industrialization, racism, and the reforms that would eventually come
Questions for discussion:
- What themes are talked about in the Ragtime prologue?
- Why are these important?
- What became of these?
The Ringer: The Teacher plays the Prologue from Ragtime the Musical and then discusses
the themes of the clip. The class will then break into small groups and work
through the worksheets and discuss as a class.
Resources: Digital
History.com http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/progressivism/index.cfm,
15-Sep-09Ragtime the Musical, prologue COMPOSER, Stephen Flaherty; LYRICIST, Lynn Ahrens LIBRETTIST, Terrence McNally
What
do you think? Life in the Early Progressive Era
|
||||
| 1860 |
1900
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|||
| Number of Cities | ||||
| 100,000-499,999 |
7
|
32
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||
| 500,000 or more |
2
|
6
|
||
Percent of Total Population
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||||
100,000-499,999
|
4
|
8
|
||
500,000-or more
|
4
|
11
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||
Deaths per 100,000 Boston,
New York New Orleans
and Philadelphia
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|||||
Tuberculosis
|
Intestinal Disorders
|
Diphtheria
|
Typhoid Typhus
|
Smallpox
|
|
1864-1888
|
365
|
299
|
123
|
66
|
53
|
1899-1913
|
223
|
196
|
58
|
19
|
25
|
1. Why were death rates so high in 19th century cities?
2. What factors contributed to a decline in urban death rates?
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Concentration of Immigrant Groups
in Cities 1890
|
|
Percent in Cities of 25,00 or more
|
|
Native Born Americans
|
18
|
Chinese
|
40
|
Germans
|
48
|
Irish
|
56
|
Poles
|
57
|
Russians
|
58
|
Italians
|
59
|
Lyrics to: Ragtime: Prologue (partial)
[THE LITTLE BOY]
In 1902 Father built a house at the crest of the Brodview Avenue hill in New Rochelle, New York, and it seemed for some years thereafter that all the family's days would be warm and fair.
[PEOPLE OF NEW ROCHELLE]
The skies were blue and hazy, Rarely a storm. Barely a chill
[WOMEN]
La la la la...
[PEOPLE OF NEW ROCHELLE]
The afternoons were lazy, Everyone warm. Everything still.
[MEN]
La la la la...
[ALL]
And there was distant music, Simple and somehow sublime, Giving the nation A new syncopation- The people called it Ragtime!
[FATHER]
Father was well-off. Very well-off. his considerable income was derived from the manufacture and sale of fireworks and other accoutrements of patriotism. Father was also something of an amateur explorer.
[MOTHER]
The house on the hill in New Rochelle was Mother's domain. She took pleasure in making it comfortable for the men of her family and often told herself how fortunate she was to be so protected and provided for by her husband.
[YOUNGER BROTHER]
Mother's Younger Brother worked at Father's fireworks factory. He was a genius at explosives. But he was also a young man in search of something to believe in. his sisterwondered when he would find it.
[GRANDFATHER]
Grandfather had been a professor of Greek and Latin. Now retired and living with his daughter and her family, he was thoroughly irritated by everything.
[PEOPLE OF NEW ROCHELLE]
The days were gently tinted Lavender pink, lemon and lime.
[MOTHER]
Ladies with parasols
[YOUNGER BROTHER]
Fellows with tennis balls
[FATHER]
There were gazebos, and... The were no negroes.
[PEOPLE OF HARLEM]
And everything was Ragtime! Listen to the Ragtime!
[COALHOUSE]
In Harlem, men and women of color forgot their troubles and danced and reveled to the music of Coalhouse Walker, Jr. This was a music that was theirs and no one else's.
[SARAH]
One young woman thought Coalhouse played just for her, Her name was Sarah.
[PEOPLE OF HARLEM]
Ooooh...
[BOOKER T. WASHINGTON]
Booker T. Washington was the most famous Negro in the country. He counselled friendship between the races and spoke of the promise of the future. he had no patience for Negroes who lived less than exemplary lives.
[PEOPLE OF NEW ROCHELLE]
Ladies with parasols, Fellows with tennis balls. There were no Negroes And there were no immigrants.
[TATEH]
In Latvia, a man dremed of a new life for his little girl. It would be a long journey, a treeible one. He ould not lose her as he had her mother. His name was Tateh. He never spoke of his wife. The Little Girl was all he had now. Together, they wouuld escape.
[LITTLE BOY]
Houdini! Look it's Houdini! (CUT)
[PEOPLE OF NEW ROCHELLE]
And there was distant music Changing the tune, changing the time,
[PEOPLE OF HARLEM]
Giving the nation A new syncopation:
[ALL]
La, la, la.
[MEN]
La, la, la...
[J.P. MORGAN]
Certain men make a country great.
[HENRY FORD]
They can't help it.
[MORGAN]
At the very apex of the American Pyramid-
[FORD]
-That's the very tip-top!-
[MORGAN]
Like Pharoahs reincarnate, stood J.P. Morgan.
[FORD]
And Henry Ford.
[MORGAN]
All men are born equal.
[FORD]
But the cream rises to the top!
[EMMA GOLDMAN]
Let me at those sosn of bitches! These men are the demons who are sucking your very souls dry! I hate them!
[MORGAN]
Someone should arrest that woman!
[EMMA GOLDMAN]
The radical anarchist Emma Goldman fought against the ravages of American capitalism as she watched her fellow immigrants' hopes turn to despair on the Lower East Side.
[EVELYN NESBIT]
La la la
La la la la
Whee!
[EMMA]
But America was watching another drama. (CUT)
[ALL]
And there was music playing, Catching a nation in its prime... Beggar and millionaire Everyone, everywhere Moving to the Ragtime!
[ALL]
And there was distant music Skipping a beat, singing a dream.
[WOMEN]
La la la la
[ALL]
A strange, insistent music Putting out heat, Picking up steam.
[MEN]
La la la la
[ALL]
The sound of distant thunder Suddenly starting to climb... It was the music Of something beginning, An era exploding, A century spinning In riches and rags, And in rhythm and rhyme. The people called it Ragtime... Ragtime! Ragtime! Ragitme!
In 1902 Father built a house at the crest of the Brodview Avenue hill in New Rochelle, New York, and it seemed for some years thereafter that all the family's days would be warm and fair.
[PEOPLE OF NEW ROCHELLE]
The skies were blue and hazy, Rarely a storm. Barely a chill
[WOMEN]
La la la la...
[PEOPLE OF NEW ROCHELLE]
The afternoons were lazy, Everyone warm. Everything still.
[MEN]
La la la la...
[ALL]
And there was distant music, Simple and somehow sublime, Giving the nation A new syncopation- The people called it Ragtime!
[FATHER]
Father was well-off. Very well-off. his considerable income was derived from the manufacture and sale of fireworks and other accoutrements of patriotism. Father was also something of an amateur explorer.
[MOTHER]
The house on the hill in New Rochelle was Mother's domain. She took pleasure in making it comfortable for the men of her family and often told herself how fortunate she was to be so protected and provided for by her husband.
[YOUNGER BROTHER]
Mother's Younger Brother worked at Father's fireworks factory. He was a genius at explosives. But he was also a young man in search of something to believe in. his sisterwondered when he would find it.
[GRANDFATHER]
Grandfather had been a professor of Greek and Latin. Now retired and living with his daughter and her family, he was thoroughly irritated by everything.
[PEOPLE OF NEW ROCHELLE]
The days were gently tinted Lavender pink, lemon and lime.
[MOTHER]
Ladies with parasols
[YOUNGER BROTHER]
Fellows with tennis balls
[FATHER]
There were gazebos, and... The were no negroes.
[PEOPLE OF HARLEM]
And everything was Ragtime! Listen to the Ragtime!
[COALHOUSE]
In Harlem, men and women of color forgot their troubles and danced and reveled to the music of Coalhouse Walker, Jr. This was a music that was theirs and no one else's.
[SARAH]
One young woman thought Coalhouse played just for her, Her name was Sarah.
[PEOPLE OF HARLEM]
Ooooh...
[BOOKER T. WASHINGTON]
Booker T. Washington was the most famous Negro in the country. He counselled friendship between the races and spoke of the promise of the future. he had no patience for Negroes who lived less than exemplary lives.
[PEOPLE OF NEW ROCHELLE]
Ladies with parasols, Fellows with tennis balls. There were no Negroes And there were no immigrants.
[TATEH]
In Latvia, a man dremed of a new life for his little girl. It would be a long journey, a treeible one. He ould not lose her as he had her mother. His name was Tateh. He never spoke of his wife. The Little Girl was all he had now. Together, they wouuld escape.
[LITTLE BOY]
Houdini! Look it's Houdini! (CUT)
[PEOPLE OF NEW ROCHELLE]
And there was distant music Changing the tune, changing the time,
[PEOPLE OF HARLEM]
Giving the nation A new syncopation:
[ALL]
La, la, la.
[MEN]
La, la, la...
[J.P. MORGAN]
Certain men make a country great.
[HENRY FORD]
They can't help it.
[MORGAN]
At the very apex of the American Pyramid-
[FORD]
-That's the very tip-top!-
[MORGAN]
Like Pharoahs reincarnate, stood J.P. Morgan.
[FORD]
And Henry Ford.
[MORGAN]
All men are born equal.
[FORD]
But the cream rises to the top!
[EMMA GOLDMAN]
Let me at those sosn of bitches! These men are the demons who are sucking your very souls dry! I hate them!
[MORGAN]
Someone should arrest that woman!
[EMMA GOLDMAN]
The radical anarchist Emma Goldman fought against the ravages of American capitalism as she watched her fellow immigrants' hopes turn to despair on the Lower East Side.
[EVELYN NESBIT]
La la la
La la la la
Whee!
[EMMA]
But America was watching another drama. (CUT)
[ALL]
And there was music playing, Catching a nation in its prime... Beggar and millionaire Everyone, everywhere Moving to the Ragtime!
[ALL]
And there was distant music Skipping a beat, singing a dream.
[WOMEN]
La la la la
[ALL]
A strange, insistent music Putting out heat, Picking up steam.
[MEN]
La la la la
[ALL]
The sound of distant thunder Suddenly starting to climb... It was the music Of something beginning, An era exploding, A century spinning In riches and rags, And in rhythm and rhyme. The people called it Ragtime... Ragtime! Ragtime! Ragitme!
Had issues copping form my original copy but all of the parts are there you will need to find the actual music to make it more meaningful
