home school compact

Home school compacts were sent home today. Please read, sign, and return the compacts with your child. Home school compacts are legal documents and must be returned by all parties involved. Thanks!

Industrial Revolution

Our studies of the Industrial Revolution have beugn. The underlying topics in this chapter are very current for today, as we discuss capitalism, the stock market, socialism, and the effects of the Industrial Revolution on the climate. In this section we have two great movies to watch in class, "Capitalism" and "Sicko" both by Michael Moore. But, before we can get there, we have to know the basic vocab terms:

Industrial revolution

factors of production

entrepreneur

urbanization

middle class

stock

laissez faire

capitalism

socialism

communism

french revolution and napoleon debate topics

• Revolutions are good for countries
• everyone should be considered equal
• we need a strong ruler like napoleon
• we need a committee of public safety

more web sapce

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french revolution

PREZI

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