Farm vs. Factory: Finding and Citing Evidence Worksheet
This worksheet helps students to gather evidence from two primary documents from young women who worked in the textile factories of Lowell, Massachusetts, during the 1830s and 1840s, and use that evidence in a paragraph.
This worksheet aligns to Common Core Literacy Standards in History/Social Studies:
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RHSS.6-8.1. Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.
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WHSS.6-8.1 Write arguments focused on discipline-specific content.
Creator | American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning
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Cite This document | American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, “Farm vs. Factory: Finding and Citing Evidence Worksheet,” SHEC: Resources for Teachers, accessed September 25, 2023, https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/1992.
Rights | Copyright American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.Item Type | Worksheet
Cite This document | American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, “Farm vs. Factory: Finding and Citing Evidence Worksheet,” SHEC: Resources for Teachers, accessed September 25, 2023, https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/1992.
