INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

 LESSON PLAN

NAME OF THE COURSE: English History

TOPIC:Industrial Revolution

TARGET AUDIENCE: Students of the department of linguistic, translation and interpreting and English language and literature.

Description

This course adopts a global perspective in surveying the great transformation in history known as the “Industrial Revolution.” Briefly defined, the Industrial Revolution represented a new way of organizing work and making things. The British commentator, Sir Thomas Carlyle, appropriately called it “a mechanical age” because the invention and use of self-acting machinery became one of its most striking characteristics. It was a time when hand tools and craft methods began to give way to water and steam-powered factories, canals, steamboats, and railroads. It also witnessed a “communications revolution” (led by high speed printing presses and telegraphy) that touched the lives not only of industrial workers but entire populations. This class seeks to place these themes in a broad global perspective by examining various outcroppings of industrialization in Great Britain, France, the United States, Germany, Scandinavia, Russia, Japan, China, India, and South America from the mid-18th century to the mid-20th century. Among other things, we will examine contrasting processes of invention and technological development, the role of the private entrepreneur as well as the state in these developments, and how the deployment of the new mechanical technologies of the Industrial Revolution impacted working people around the globe.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES/AIMS:This lesson plan on the Industrial Revolution permits you to help students make connections between the first inventions of the 19th century and the major social changes that affected slavery and imperialism.

-During of this lesson, students will be able to do the following:

• Identify the technological advances that made the Industrial Revolution possible
• Analyze the changing conditions created by the Industrial Revolution in both Europe and the United States as developed countries
• The process of the emergence of the Industrial Revolution
• The effects of the Industrial Revolution on people

Outcomes:

By the end of the course;

• Students will learn that The Industrial Revolution transformed economies
• Students will have ideas about effects and results of the Industrial Revolution
• Students will be able to compare the positive and negative sides of the industrial revolution

The interface is used for the course: Blogger

Length

• 50 minutes,plus 1 hour
• Method of Instruction:

The course will be conducted in the form of online class and all class discussions are supported by the materials I sent you.

Course requirements

Students are fully responsible for doing homework and participating in online classroom discussions. Participation in discussions is highly encouraged.