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Upton Sinclair “The Jungle”

Directions: Watch the video (located on Unitedstreaming Video Great Books: The Jungle (27:00)) and complete the graphic organizer located below. Complete the needed readings and definitions before reading the text. Answer all needed questions focused on the reading and fill in the necessary Think Alouds. A blog will follow.

Great Books: The Jungle (27:00) - Upton Sinclair’s groundbreaking exposé of Chicago’s meatpacking industry was a horror story of unsanitary conditions, food poisoning, and child labor abuse. Learn what led Sinclair into this turn-of-the-century “urban jungle” and how his book prompted Congress to pass the first food safety laws. Produced by DiscoveryChannelSchool. © 2002 Discovery Channel School -

List two facts from the beginning, middle, endGenerate three questions and answers

What two moments stood out to you and whyGenerate an image with symbolism

Upton Sinclair (1878-1968), an ardent Socialist, used fiction to work for industrial reform. His novel TheJungle (1906) argued passionately for the need to transform production from monopoly ownership to control by the workers, but most readers ignored the Socialist message in their outraged reaction against Sinclair's brutally graphic depictions of the unsafe practices of the meat packing industry. Sinclair (right) is shown here in May, 1914, picketing The Rockefeller building in New York City - © 2005 IRC

Define Upton Sinclair:

Define The Jungle:

Define Socialism:

Define Communism:

Workers in a Chicago meat packing plant in 1905. When the revelations of unsanitary conditions in the meat packing industry in Upton Sinclair's novel theJungle (1906) shocked Americans into demanding regulation of the food industry, Theodore Roosevelt played a key role in the fashioning of a Pure Food and Drug Act, and a Meat Inspection Act, both in 1906. Reformers had been demanding federal regulation of patent medicines and processed meats for some time. Theodore Roosevelt worked with the largest meat packers to design compromise legislation under which government inspectors were allowed into the packing houses, but meat packers could appeal their decisions in court - © 2005 IRC

Define Theodore Roosevelt:

Define Pure Food and Drug Act (Date - ):

Define Meat Inspection Act (Date - ):

A hog line in a meatpacking plant in Chicago. Swift introduced more efficient techniques into his packing houses, reducing the skills needed, by dividing the process into many repetitive jobs done while the carcasses were moving from one worker to another on a conveyor belt. His workers were often recent immigrants - © 2005 IRC

Define Assembly Line:

Define Factory System:

Define Mechanized:

Questions for The Jungle:

  1. What was the main theme of the assigned pages?
  1. What images did you envision when reading the assigned pages?
  1. Generate a (self-knowledge) question and answer:
  1. Generate a (application) question and answer:

Think Alouds – focused on the assigned pages

Predict / Anticipate Summarize / Conclude

“I wonder if . . .” “The most important thing(s) I’ve learned so far is . . .”

Two moments that stood out to you were . . .Draw an image with three points of symbolism

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