Ch. 13 Section 2, The Growth of the Cattle Industry
Objectives
1. To trace the development of the cattle industry.
2. To describe the myth and the reality of the American cowboy.
3. To explain the end of cattle ranchign on the open plains.
Focus & Motivate
What are your images of cowboys?
How have movies and novels influenced those images?
How true do you think those images are to the reality of life on the open plain.
Objective 1: Instruct
The Cattle Industry Becomes Big Business
Discussing Key Ideas
Spanish explorers introduce horses and cattle into the Southwest.
Many aspects of cowboy culture--food, clothing, vocabulary--are borrowed from Spanish ranchers in Mexico.
The growth of the railroads provides a market for the booming cattle industry.
Objective 2: Instruct
The Truth About Cowboys
Create a chart listing myths and truths about cowboys. Your chart may include:
Myth Truth
Good guys wore white hats. Cowboys wore hats of different colors
Discussing Key Ideas
The ordinary cowboy's life differed greatly from the popular conception of it.
Cattle herds were rounded up in the spring and were driven many miles to railroad shipping centers.
Objective 3: Instruct
The End of the Cattle Frontier
Starting With the Student
Which events might cause major physical changes on the earth or social changes in people's ways of life?
Perhaps to be mentioned are: severe weather, diseases, migrations, immigration, depletion of natural resources, and technological inventions.
Discussing Key Ideas
Overgrazing combined with a series of natural disasters brings an end to the cattle frontier.
The invention of barbed wire transforms the open plains into fenced-in ranches and farms.
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HW p. 393, #4. Some students had difficulty understanding the concept of monologue. This is a definition of the word from dictionary.com.
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mon·o·logue also mon·o·log P Pronunciation Key (m n -lôg , -l g )n. 1. a. A dramatic soliloquy. b. A literary composition in the form of a soliloquy. 2. A continuous series of jokes or comic stories delivered by one comedian. 3. A long speech made by one person, often monopolizing a conversation. v. mon·o·logued, also mon·o·logged mon·o·logu·ing, mon·o·log·ging mon·o·logues, mon·o·logs v. intr. To give or perform a monologue.v. tr. To address a monologue to. [French : Greek mono-, mono- + Greek -logos, -logue.] mon o·log ic (-l j k) or mon o·log i·cal (- -k l) adj. mon o·logu ist (m n -lôg st, -l g -) or mo·nol o·gist (m -n l -j st, m n -lôg st, -l g -) n.
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Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth EditionCopyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
monologue
n 1: speech you make to yourself [syn: soliloquy] 2: a long utterance by one person (especially one that prevents others from participating in the conversation) 3: a (usually long) dramatic speech by a single actor