Unit Organizer

Last Unit: Origins of Climate

Change: The Industrial
Revolution

Current Unit: The Haves and the Have

Nots: Inequality, Then and Now

Unit Schedule
Week 1
Why did egalitarian
ideologies emerge during
the industrial period?
Week 2
How were egalitarian
ideologies reconciled with
the capitalist economic
system?
Week 3
Why did Marxism rise and
fall?
Week 4
Inequality Today
Mr. Orejel
E-mail:
eorejel@collegeready16.or
g
Website:
www.mrorejel.info
Tutoring:
By appointment

Next Unit: Biological and Pathogen

Diffusion: How diseases spread

Skills & Concepts

Reading
Citing textual evidence to support analysis
Determining central ideas of primary and secondary sources
Evaluating various explanations for actions and events
Sourcing primary and secondary texts
Integrating multiple sources of information presented in various formats
Writing
Conduct short research project to answer a question
Draw evidence from informational text to support analysis, reflection, and
research.
Students will become familiar with the following concepts:

Income Inequality
Utopian
Laissez Faire
Strike

Utilitarianism
Unions
Collective Bargaining

Socialism
Communism
Capitalism

STANDARDS
Content:

Historical
Thinking:

10.3.4. and 10.3.6.

Trace the evolution of work and labor, including the demise of the slave trade
and the effects of immigration, mining and manufacturing, division of labor, and
the union movement.
Analyze the emergence of capitalism as a dominant economic pattern and the
responses to it, including Utopianism, Social Democracy, Socialism, and
Communism.

-Change and
continuity
-Cause and
consequence

Essential Unit Question(s):

Were egalitarian ideologies always destined to fail?
Why do people accept inequalities in society?

 Is capitalism, the dominant global economic model, making inequality worse?

The Haves and Have nots refers to people that do and do not have social, political, and financial resources.
Today, this is best captured by income inequality, which is the extent to which money is distributed in an uneven manner
among a population. In the United States, income inequality, or the gap between the rich and everyone else, has been
growing, by every major statistical measure, for 30 years.