1877: The Grand Army of Starvation Viewer's Guide: Close Reading Worksheet
This worksheet helps students to undertake a close reading of a section (pages 4-7) of the 1877: The Grand Army of Starvation Viewer's Guide, which accompanies the 30-minute ASHP documentary of the same name.
Lessons in Looking: The Lowell Offering Worksheet
This worksheet helps students to analyze and interpret the meaning of an image that appeared on the cover of The Lowell Offering in 1845. The Lowell Offering was a monthly magazine written by the young women who worked in the Lowell textile mills [...]
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.
Farm vs. Factory: Citing Evidence Answer Key
This sheet provides answers for the classroom activity Farm vs. Factory: Citing Evidence.
"The Story of Sadie Frowne" Analysis Worksheet
This worksheet helps students to determine the main ideas in The Story of Sadie Frowne, A Brooklyn Sweatshop Girl.
"Life in the Shop" Analysis Worksheet
This worksheet helps students to determine the central ideas and information in "Life in the Shop": The Story of an Immigrant Garment Worker.
Background Essay and Worksheet on Immigrant Working Women
This is a shortened, edited version of Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars (excerpt) used in The Pay Envelope: A Role Play activity. It helps students to determine the main ideas of the text by matching summary statements to the paragraphs in [...]
Daughters of Free Men Active Viewing worksheets
These worksheets guide students as they watch the short film Daughters of Free Men.
To Strike or Not to Strike worksheets
These worksheets help students plan their characters for the role play "To Strike or Not to Strikein 1830s Lowell." Also included is a rubric that students and teachers can use to evaluate the role play as it is performed.