Book for this class: What Was the Chicago Fire?
Lesson 1
Homework
Read Chapters 1 & 2
Vocabulary
- Benjamin Franklin
- Catherine O’Leary
- Horse College (Detroit)
- Watchman
- Bucket Brigade
Map It
Chicago
Detroit, MI
Cincinnati, OH
Williamsburg, VA
Videos
Fighting Fire Fighters
Old Lady Leary Song
Lesson 2
Homework
Read Chapters 3, 4 & 5
Vocabulary
Daniel “Peg Leg” Sullivan
Chicago Tribune
Chemical Fire Extinguisher
Telegraph
Silo
Stockyards
Sophisticated
Spires
calamity
Saloon
immigrants
laborer
Chicago Nicknames
Garden City
Gem of the Prairie
Windy City
Map It
Gulf of Mexica
Mississippi River
Hudson River
Erie Canal
Chicago River
Lesson 3
Homework
Read Chapters 6, 7 & 8
Vocabulary
Chicago Times
Steeple
lumberyards
magnificent
cinders
Stockyards
Lesson 4
Homework
Read the rest of the book
Vocabulary
- Major General Philip Sheridan
- Peshtigo Fire
- “Chicago’s Little Fire”
- Columbian Exposition (Fair)
- Chicago Fire Academy
- martial law