The Good Old Days--They Were Terrible!

Author Deborah Pellikan
School

Length of Lesson

55 minutes
Abstract This lesson is based on a wonderful collection of muckraking photographs and illustrations, “The Good Old Days-They Were Terrible!” by Otto L. Bettmann. Participating in this jigsaw strategy, your students will enjoy learning amazing information on their topic which they will later use to inform another group of students. The richness of the notes students take on these interesting topics makes the follow-up writing assignment easy and rewarding.
District Fort Bend ISD
Historical Time Period
  • Gilded Age
Historical Themes
  • History
  • Economics
  • Culture
Grade
  • Eleven (11)
  • AP

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