The Great Chicago Fire

A Colossal Disaster in American History

69 total reviews for this teacher

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Completed by 19 learners

55 minutes

per class

Meets once

11-15

year olds

3-8

learners per class

per learner

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Description

Class Experience

The Great Chicago Fire was one worst disasters to befall an American City. How and why did it happen? What events led to this disaster, and what can we learn from it today. And why do we blame Mrs. O'Leary's Cow for starting the fire? 

Told through the eyes of people close to these events, including the O'Leary Family, and based on the Jim Murphy's Scholastic book, The Great Fire (1995). 

I. A City Ready to Burn
II. Everything Went Wrong
III. The Dogs of Hell Were on the Housetops
IV. A...

This class is taught in English.

This course presents an overview of the events of the Great Chicago Fire. My courses follow an interactive, question-and-answer format, with lesson slides and a Kahoot Quiz at the end to reinforce the material covered.

No preparation is needed to take this class, and no homework will be required. I base most of my classes on youth history books, and I recommend that students read Jim Murphy's, The Great Fire. I provide some overview materials in the classroom so students can get a general idea about the topic beforehand.

  1 file available upon enrollmentRecommended readling:

Murphy, Jim. The Great Fire. New York: Scholastic Inc, 2006.

In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:Kahoot

The Kahoot quiz aims to increase student retention, but otherwise no grades are given.

55 minutes per week in class, and an estimated 0 - 1 hours per week outside of class.

Fire is destructive by nature, and many people died as a result of the fire, but the class will not dwell deeply on injury and death.

History.com Short Film 
https://www.history.com/topics/19th-century/great-chicago-fire

Encyclopedia of Chicago Fire Limits 
http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/3890.html

Encyclopedia Britannica Infographic
https://www.britannica.com/event/Chicago-fire-of-1871#/media/1/110459/214926

Mrs. O’Leary and Her Cow Cleared of Starting Chicago Fire
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1997-10-06-9710070022-story.html#share=email~story

Web of Memory
https://www.greatchicagofire.org/item/ichi-51522/

Teacher

Mr. Marshall M.A.

🇺🇸

Lives in the United States

History Buff

69 total reviews

116 completed classes

About Me

Before joining Outschool, I taught a U.S. History and Culture Overview to High School Students visiting from China at UCLA. Before that I taught U.S. History at Marymount California University for three years.
 
I studied history at Pepperdine...