HERB: Resources for Teachers

Active Viewing Worksheet: Dr. Toer's Amazing Magic Lantern Show

This worksheet helps students take notes as they watch the Dr. Toer's documentary on the progress and problems experienced by freed slaves during Reconstruction.

Tags: Active Viewing, Reading Supports, Reconstruction
Item Type: Worksheet
Date: 2013

World War I Veterans March in Washington (with text supports)

After World War I, Congress passed a bill promising each military veteran of that war a cash bonus that would be paid in 1945. In the summer of 1932, facing unemployment and poverty because of the Great Depression, veterans began demanding that the bonuses be distributed immediately. Nearly 20,000 veterans marched to Washington and camped out in…

Tags: Great Depression, Reading Supports
Item Type: Newspaper/Magazine Article
Date: 1932

The NAACP Challenges Social Security (with text supports)

President Roosevelt sent his Social Security bill, named the “Economic Security Act,” to Congress in January 1935. Congress held committee hearings on the bill. Here, a representative of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a group dedicated to advancing the rights of African Americans, testifies before…

Tags: New Deal, Reading Supports
Item Type: Government Document
Date: 1935

"A Mad Tea Party" Analysis Worksheet

This worksheet helps students undertake a close reading of the 1936 cartoon "A Mad Tea Party," about President Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal. It also asks them to write a paragraph explaining the cartoon's argument.

Tags: Common Core Reading, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, New Deal, Reading Supports
Item Type: Worksheet
Date: 2013

Timeline of Selected New Deal Legislation Close Reading Worksheet

This worksheet helps students undertake a close reading of a timeline of New Deal programs and write a paragraph explaining one of them.

Tags: Common Core Reading, New Deal, Reading Supports
Item Type: Worksheet
Date: 2013

Differing Federal Responses to the Great Depression Close Reading Worksheet

This worksheet helps students undertake a close reading of letters from President Herbert Hoover and President Franklin Roosevelt and summarize their different ideas about the role of government during an economic crisis.

Tags: Common Core Reading, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Great, Herbert Hoover, New Deal, Reading Supports
Item Type: Worksheet
Date: 2013

John Parker Describes the Challenges of Running Away (with text supports)

John Parker was born in Virginia in 1827, and was the son of a wealthy white man and an enslaved woman. He spent the first 18 years of his life as a slave and earned a reputation as a troublemaker for regularly trying to escape. In 1845, he purchased his freedom and a few years later settled in Ripley, Ohio. Located along the Ohio River, across…

Tags: Reading Supports, Slavery and Abolition
Item Type: Biography/Autobiography
Date: 1880

Black Workers Call for a March on Washington Worksheet

This worksheet helps students undertake a close reading and analysis of a pamphlet calling for a March on Washington in 1941.

Tags: Common Core Reading, March on Washington Movement, Reading Supports
Item Type: Worksheet
Date: 2013

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 and published from 1840 to 1845.

Tags: Gender and Sexuality, Lowell, Reading Supports, Work
Item Type: Worksheet
Date: 2012

A Mill Girl Explains Why She Is Leaving Factory Life (with text supports)

Born on a Vermont farm, Sarah Rice left home at age 17 to make it on her own. Eventually she journeyed to Masonville, Connecticut to work in textile mills much like those of Lowell. Rice's first letter was written after she had been weaving in the factory for about four weeks. Her second letter was written after about nine months of mill life.

Tags: Reading Supports, Work
Item Type: Diary/Letter
Date: 1845

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