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Active Viewing: The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
In this activity, students watch film clips from the documentary The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter, decode a propaganda poster, and analyze statistics about working women during World War II. Parts of this activity can be completed without [...]
The Pay Envelope worksheets
These worksheets help students complete "The Play Envelope: A Role Play." The worksheets set up the role play, help students organize their characters' talking points, and help students assess the success of the final role play as it is performed.
Analysis Worksheet: “I’m Proud...My Husband Wants Me to Do My Part”
This worksheet helps students analyze a poster created by the U.S. government during World War II that encourages women to take factory jobs.
By the Numbers: White and African-American Women Workers
This worksheet helps students analyze statistics about the labor force participation of white and African-American women in the decades before, during, and after WWII.
Active Viewing: Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl "Setting the Scene" worksheet
This worksheet is designed to help students focus on the information presented during the first two minutes of the Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl documentary.
"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.
Active Viewing: Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl
In this activity, students watch the documentary Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl in sections, with documents and exercises designed to support and reinforce the film's key concepts: workers challenging the effects of industrial capitalism, the [...]
Immigrants by the Numbers
In this activity, students work with quantitative data (charts, graphs, and tables) from the 1910 census and the 1911 Dillingham Commission Report to understand the lives of immigrants in the Ellis Island era. The activity includes an option [...]