In Class

Due/Reading

1
1-18

Course Introduction

• Poverty in America: Introduction and Course Themes
• The Course & Service Projects
• Life Happens Simulation

 2
1-25

The Gilded Age and Progressive Era; 1920s

• Quiz on reading
• Lecture and Discussion
• Film: Journey to America (excerpts)
• Photos of Riis and Hine

 Ch 2 Gospel of Prevention, Progressive Style (SEE READING GUIDE)

3
2-1

• Discuss your service projects
• Film: Matewan

Matewan Study Guide

4
2-8

Great Depression and New Deal (1930-1960)

• Quiz on reading
• Lecture and Discussion
• Movie:  King of the Hill

Ch 3. Poverty in the Great Depression
Ch 4: The Early Welfare State

5
2-15

1960s: Rediscovering Poverty

• Quiz on reading
• Lecture and Discussion
• Film: Harvest of Shame

Ch 6 Rediscovery of Poverty
Excerpt: Harrington, The Other America (handout)

6
2-22

Culture of Poverty
Causes of Poverty – Debate

TEST 1 REVIEW

Ch 7 A Culture of Poverty

Handout:  Causes of Poverty (for debate)

7
2-29

The Great Society and War on Poverty

• Quiz and discussion of reading
• Lecture and Discussion
• Speech: The Great Society (Johnson)
• Video:  LBJ's Great Society
• Evaluating LBJ’s Great Society

Ch 8 Girding for War on Poverty
Ch 9 OEO Hand Up, Not a Handout

8
3-7

TEST 1

Social Welfare: Explosion and Revolution: Lecture

SPRING BREAK

9
3-21

Clinton and Welfare Reform (1990s)

• Quiz on Reading
• Lecture and Discussion
• Film: Welfare Reform: Social Impactor Ending Welfare as We Know It

Ch 15 Welfare Reform
Ch 16 The Amazing 1990s
"Welfare's Changing Face" (handout)

10
3-28

11
4/4

The Working Poor:

• Lecture/Discussion
• Movie:  Sunshine Cleaning (2008)

Chapter from Nickel and Dimed

12
4/11

Inequality and the American Dream

Collection of Articles1

13
4-16

Poverty Solutions
Movie
Conferences and work on portfolios, papers, resentations

14
4-25

SERVICE PROJECTS PRESENTATIONS

PORTFOLIOS

15
5-2 

FINAL: TEST 2

Wk

In Class

Due/Reading

1
1-19

• Poverty in America: Introduction
• The Course & Service Projects
• Mini-lecture: Poverty in Early America

I Came a Stranger, Ch 1 and 2

 2
1-26

The Gilded Age

• Quiz on reading
• Lecture and Discussion
• Film: Journey to America (excerpts)

• I Came a Stranger, Ch 3-6; also Introduction
• "Hist. Soc. Welfare,"
  I. 19th C Poorhouse; Outdoor Aid; Children's Law (handout)

3
2-2

The Progressive Era

• Quiz on reading
• Photos of Riis and Hine
• Lecture and Discussion
• Video: Jane Addams

• I Came a Stranger Ch 7-12
• "Hist. Soc. Welfare,"II
  Progressive Era, p 6-8 (handout)

4
2-9

1920s and Poverty in the Great Depression

• Quiz on readings
  
  
• Lecture and Discussion
• Primary sources: Letters to Mrs Roosevelt
  
  
• Film: Our Daily Bread; The Plow that Broke the Plains

• I Came a Stranger, ch 13-18
  
  
• "Hist. Soc Welfare", III Gr Depression and New Deal, p 9-10 (handout)
  
  
• Background on the Great Depression: From Digital History: An Online Textbook

  The Human Toll

  The Dispossessed

  President Hoover

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  The Bonus Army

  The Farmers' Plight
  

5
2-16

Dealing with Poverty: The New Deal

• Quiz on reading
  
  
• Brief Lecture and Discussion

Review for TEST 1

Background on the Great Depression: From Digital History: An Online Textbook

6
2-23

Post WWII and Urban Poverty

Lecture

TEST 1

• Amazing Grace, Chapter 1, pp 3-24

7
3-2

1960s: Rediscovering Poverty

• Quiz on reading
• Lecture and Discussion
• Film: Harvest of Shame

• Amazing Grace, Ch 2-3, 28-91
• "Hist. Soc Welfare" IV War on Poverty, p 11 (handout)
• Excerpt: Harrington, The Other America (handout)

8
3-9

1960s-1970s: War on Poverty

• Quiz on reading
• Lecture and Discussion
• Video Clips from LBJ

• Amazing Grace, ch 4-5, 95-138
• "War on Poverty" (handout)

SPRING BREAK

9
3-23

Reagan and Clinton, 1980s - Present

• Quiz on reading
• Lecture and Discussion
• Film: Welfare Reform: Social Impact or Ending Welfare as We Know It

REVIEW FOR TEST 2

• Amazing Grace, ch 5-6, p141-230
  
  
• "Hist of Soc Welfare" V, Welfare's Policy Today, p 12 (handout)
  
  
• "Welfare's Changing Face" (handout)
  
  
• "Wealth-Inequality by the Numers" (graphic - handout)

10
3-30

Current Issues: Children

1 hr 15 min:

• Discussion of article (mini-presentations)
• Film: Children in poverty: what's to be done?
• Film discussion

TEST 2

Children of poverty: The status of 12million young Americans (handout)

11 4/6

Current Issues: Working Poor

• Quiz on reading
• Lecture and Discussion
• Group Mini-Presentations
• Film: America's Working Poor or Waging a Living

• Nickele and Dimed
• http://www.workingpoorfamilies.org/
• TBA

12
4/13

Current Issues: Homelessness

• Quiz on reading
• Lecture and Discussion
• Group Mini-Presentations
• Film: No Place Like Home

• Nickele and Dimed
• "Million-Dollar Murray" (handout)

13
4-20

Current Issues: Hunger

• Quiz on reading
• Lecture and Discussion
• Group Mini-Presentations
• Film: Down and Out in America

• Nickeled and Dimed
• "Breadline USA" (handout)
• "Hunger and Poverty" (handout)

14
4-27

15
5-3

TEST 3