Fordlandia: Failed Jungle Utopia

Fordlandia Failure T-Chart

As you listen, add notes in the appropriate column about factors that led to Fordlandia’s failure. Record social factors in the left column, and environmental factors in the right column.

Detail/Evidence Chart

Complete the chart by finding details and evidence for each topic from the story.

Language Identification Organizer

Listen closely and check off each sentence or partial sentence as you hear it.

• building model factories and pristine villages to go with them
• it was a green hell of riot and blight
• That was the closest replication of Main Street America.
• clash of cultures between mechanized America and Ford's utopian ideals
• Ford had very particular understandings about what a proper diet should be.
• impose mass industrial production on the diversity of the jungle
• the blight that feed off of rubber are native to the Amazon
• he keeps pouring money into it after every failure
• Ford would come, kind of like Jesus or something
• hadn't cancelled the trip that perhaps he wouldn't have shuttered