Muckraker Lesson – Please have your orange packets

out – Thanks!Objective – Describe historical events

from the Progressive Era by muckrakers who exposed corruption and abuses in :

•industry/business•Government

•urban conditions/ city lifeAs their duty to help others and society

Setting the stage• Name a problem, a real problem

either here at the junior high or in the community.

• Something that needs to really be fixed to help people.

• Record the item on the index card provided.

Organizing the problems

O Each side of the room share your problems on the cards.

O With the larger poster paper, work together to make catagories to sort out the problems.

O Write the names of the catagories and tape the cards onto the poster paper.

O Let’s share how and what we created.

How do people draw attention to a problem for

others to see?O Publish an articleO Create a political cartoonO Song O BoycottO ProtestO Call an elected officialO Report it to the news

Modern Political Cartoons

• What does this tell us about what voter turn out is for a political office vs American Idol voting ? Why is that ?

Page 14 – 15 in your orange packet

O Thomas Nast created political cartoons for the public. It is very popular and is a way to tell the public about corruption

O What term did we learn describes what Thomas Nast is ?

O It is 1871, does the vast majority of the public read the newspaper ?

• Who is doing the counting ? Why is he standing right there ?

Thomas Nast cartoons

Page 11 in your orange packet

O What is a muckraker ? O Let’s read over the chart of

muckrakers from this time period. O Also add to your charts any facts

that you feel you need to enrich your own facts.

Pizza Wheel thinking• You will pick a muckraker on page 11

in your orange packer. • You will complete on your empty pizza

wheel each of the catagories listed.• You will use your textbook as a

resource to help with your “ toppings”• When done, return your textbook.• You may decorate with markers and

colored pencils when done with the “ facts”

6 catagories1. Name of the muckraker

2. Corruption exposed – the type or kind3. Historical event that lead to or created the corruption or exposure

4. Principal work- how id the public find out about the corruption?

5. Result of the corruption being exposed.

6. What would you have done to expose this problem? Is there a problem

today that needs to be exposed?

Back to the beginning…

O Objective – Describe historical events from the Progressive Era by muckrakers who exposed corruption and abuses in :

O industry/businessO GovernmentO urban conditions/ city lifeO As their duty to help others and

society