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https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/files/original/daughters-viewerguide1_837b363c33.pdf
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Viewer's Guide
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<em>Daughters of Free Men</em> Viewer's Guide
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English
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This booklet is curriculum support for the American Social History Project's 30-minute documentary <em><a href="http://ashp.cuny.edu/ashp-documentaries/daughters-of-free-men/" target="_blank">Daughters of Free Men</a></em>. The viewer's guide contains background information on issues raised by the documentary as well as additional primary source materials for use in the classroom.
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American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, 2007.
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2007
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Antebellum America (1816-1860)
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Labor Activism
Work
Lowell
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Teaching Activity
Objectives
<ul>
<li>
<p>Students will analyze how changing working conditions and decreasing pay led to strikes in the 1830s.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Students will dramatize the conflict between factory owners and factory workers over changing working conditions and pay. </p>
</li>
</ul>
Materials
1818, 1820, 1824, 1822, 1807, 1816, 1843
Historical Context
A group of Boston capitalists built a major textile manufacturing center in Lowell, Massachusetts beginning in the 1820s. The first factories recruited women from rural New England as their labor force. These young women, far from home, lived in rows of boardinghouses adjacent to the growing number of mills. The industrial production of textiles was highly profitable, and the number of factories in Lowell and other mill towns increased. More mils, however, led to overproduction, which led to a drop in prices and profits. Mill owners reduced wages and speeded up the pace of work. They also raised the rent for their boardinghouses. The young female operates organized to protest these wage cuts in 1834 and 1836.
Lesson Plan Text
<p><strong>Step 1:</strong> Divide the group into four equal groups: one group to play the factory owner, one group to play a girl who wants to go on strike, one group to play a girl who does not want to go on strike, and one group to play the talk show host. Pass out copies of the To Strike or Not to Strike worksheet describing the situation and go over the parts of the role play carefully.</p>
<p><strong>Step 2:</strong> Pass out copies of the character planning worksheets to every student, as well as the primary and secondary documents. In their character groups, students review the readings and select evidence and information they wish to include in the talk show role play. Students should consider the arguments and evidence the character would use, and how he/she would counter the arguments of the other characters. The talk show host groups should also plan for what kinds of questions they will ask the other characters. </p>
<p><strong>Step 3:</strong> Each group should choose one member to perform the role play for the class. Pass out copies of the Scene Assessment Rubric to the non-performing members of the class and go over directions for completing it as they actively listen to the role play; as students watch the talk show, they should take notes about the main points of each character and the sources the actors used to create their dialogue. </p>
<p>The designated characters present the role play to the class. </p>
<p><strong>Step 4:</strong> After concluding the role play, lead discussion of following points:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>How did factory work benefit the girls? <em>(got them off the farm, gave them autonomy, positive supervision of boardinghouses, own wages, education, cultural opportunities with other workers)</em></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>In what ways was factory work not a benefit to the girls? <em>(wage cuts, boardinghouse rent raises, strict schedule and rules, loss of independence--being "a slave", danger/discomfort of factory work)</em></p>
</li>
</ul>
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American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning
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To Strike or Not to Strike in 1830s Lowell: A Role Play
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In this activity students perform a role play of a talk show between Lowell workers and factory owners. To research their characters, students analyze primary sources. This activity is used to teach with the film Daughters of Free Men, but can be completed without the film.
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American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning
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American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, 2011.
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2011
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Antebellum America (1816-1860)
Subject
The topic of the resource
Labor Activism
Work
Group Work
Lowell
Role Play and Debate
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https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/files/original/av_daughters-of-free-men_ec49052f0e.pdf
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Worksheet
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<em>Daughters of Free Men</em> Active Viewing worksheets
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English
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American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning
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These worksheets guide students as they watch the short film <em><a href="http://ashp.cuny.edu/ashp-documentaries/daughters-of-free-men/" target="_blank">Daughters of Free Men</a></em>.
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American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, 2011.
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1813
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2011
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Labor Activism
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Active Viewing
Lowell
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<p><strong>Appleton (mill owner):</strong> . . . In this rich, young republic-we have started afresh in all things. Here on the Merrimack River we have prospered, not only because we invented a power loom. But also because we found disciplined and respectable workers, the virtuous daughters of our New England farmers. Our mills at Lowell are a kind of industrial miracle. In America, we can have manufactures without the sprawling, filth-strewn slums of England. Abundance without the degradation and poverty of the old world… </p>
<p><strong>Obadiah Smith (overseer):</strong> Watch out, Harriet Dearie. Or you can leave right now and not come back. Don't need all of you anyway. People aren't buying so much cloth these days. The Boston partners-Appleton and the rest-they can't sell what they got already. You better quiet down and be sensible like little Lucy here</p>
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<em>Daughters of Free Men</em> Script Excerpts
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The following excerpts are taken from the script for <em><a href="http://ashp.cuny.edu/ashp-documentaries/daughters-of-free-men/" target="_blank">Daughters of Free Men</a></em>, which was written by the American Social History Project.
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1808, 1816
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2011
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Antebellum America (1816-1860)
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Lowell
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https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/files/original/daughtersscriptexcerpts_d92352b229.pdf
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An account of the resource
The following excerpts are taken from the script for <em><a href="The following excerpts are taken from the script for Daughters of Free Men, which was written by the American Social History Project. " target="_blank">Daughters of Free Men,</a></em> which was written by the American Social History Project.
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2011
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Antebellum America (1816-1860)
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Lowell
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https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/files/original/to-strike-or-not-worksheets_de988e2f44.pdf
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Worksheet
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To Strike or Not to Strike worksheets
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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.
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American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, 2011.
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2011
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Antebellum America (1816-1860)
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Labor Activism
Work
Lowell
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Teaching Activity
Objectives
<ul>
<li>
<p>Students will understand different aspects of life and work among the young women who worked in textile factories in Lowell, Massachusetts, during the 1830s and 1840s</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Students will understand how to analyze and gather evidence from different types of primary sources</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>This activity aligns to Common Core Literacy Standards in History/Social Studies:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>RHSS.6-8.6. Identify aspects of a text that reveal an author's point of view or purpose.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>RHSS.6-8.1. Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources. </p>
</li>
<li>
<p>WHSS.6-8.1 Write arguments focused on discipline-specific content.</p>
</li>
</ul>
Materials
1986, 1821, 1822, 549, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993
Historical Context
When the first American factories were built in places such as Lowell, Massachusetts, many of the workers were young women from New England farms. The opportunity to earn wages, live independently, and experience community with other young women was appealing. But unlike farm work, factories were governed by long hours, strict timetables, loud machines, and repetitive work. The transition from a largely farm based economy to one where many worked for wages in factories began with these early textile mills and proceeded to transform American society.
Lesson Plan Text
<p><strong>Step 1.</strong> Hand out the cover illustration from <em>The Lowell Offering</em>. Ask students to complete the Lessons in Looking: <em>The Lowell Offering</em> Worksheet.</p>
<p><strong>Step 2.</strong> After students have completed the worksheet, discuss the image from <em>The Lowell Offering</em>.</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>What was <em>The Lowell Offering</em>? </p>
</li>
<li>
<p>What are some of the details you see in the picture? What do they stand for or represent? </p>
</li>
<li>
<p>What do you think was the artist’s point of view about what it was like to work in the Lowell textile factories? Positive or negative?</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Step 3.</strong> Hand out the Farm vs. Factory: Constructing a Paragraph Worksheet. Working in groups, students should arrange the sentences provided into a paragraph that interprets the meaning of the <em>Lowell Offering</em> picture. They can cut out the sentences provided and paste them into the correct order (Claim/Counterclaim, three details, Conclusion/Summary), or they can use the oversized sentences and move around the people holding them into the correct order, or they can paste the oversized sentences in order on the board or large sheets of butcher paper.</p>
<p>After students have finished putting the sentences in order, review an example or two as a group. Students will probably have put the supporting details in different orders, which is fine. Ask students to explain how they decided which sentence was Claim/Counterclaim and which sentence was Conclusion/Summary.</p>
<p><strong>Step 4.</strong> Explain to students that now they will get to see evidence for a more negative view of factory life. Hand out A Mill Girl Explains Why She is Leaving Factory Life, A Former Mill Girl Remembers the Lowell Strike of 1836, and Farm vs. Factory: Finding and Citing Evidence Worksheet. Working individually or in small groups, students should read the two documents and fill in the Finding Evidence portion of the worksheet.</p>
<p>Briefly discuss the evidence they found for why Sarah Rice and Harriet Robinson had a negative view of working in the textile factories.</p>
<p><strong>Step 5.</strong> Now students will write their own paragraph interpreting the evidence from Sarah Rice and Harriet Robinson. Have students complete the Citing Evidence and Writing a Paragraph sections of the worksheet.</p>
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Farm vs. Factory: Citing Evidence
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This activity asks students to analyze three primary documents about the experiences of young women who worked in textile factories in New England during the 1830s and 1840s. It provides worksheets to guide and support students in writing a paragraph that cites evidence about the documents.
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2
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2012
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Antebellum America (1816-1860)
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Gender and Sexuality
Work
Common Core Writing
Lessons in Looking
Lowell
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<p>This worksheet aligns to Common Core Literacy Standards in History/Social Studies:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>RHSS.6-8.6. Identify aspects of a text that reveal an author's point of view or purpose.</p>
</li>
</ul>
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Lessons in Looking:<em> The Lowell Offering </em>Worksheet
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This worksheet helps students to analyze and interpret the meaning of an image that appeared on the cover of <em>The Lowell Offering</em> in 1845. <em>The Lowell Offering</em> was a monthly magazine written by the young women who worked in the Lowell textile mills and published from 1840 to 1845.
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2
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1986, 1989
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2012
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Antebellum America (1816-1860)
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The topic of the resource
Gender and Sexuality
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Lowell
Reading Supports
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<p>This worksheet aligns to Common Core Literacy Standards in History/Social Studies:</p>
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Farm vs. Factory: Constructing a Paragraph Worksheet
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This worksheet helps students to understand the component parts of a paragraph (claim/counterclaim, supporting details, conclusion/summary) using a paragraph about a cover image from <em>The Lowell Offering</em>. <em>The Lowell Offering</em><span> was a monthly magazine written by the young women who worked in the Lowell textile mills and published from 1840 to 1845.</span>
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2
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1989
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2012
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Antebellum America (1816-1860)
Common Core Writing
Lowell
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https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/files/original/6e6a3705308d7eac4c37f542b501aaac.pdf
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<p>This worksheet aligns to Common Core Literacy Standards in History/Social Studies:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>RHSS.6-8.1. Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>WHSS.6-8.1 Write arguments focused on discipline-specific content.</p>
</li>
</ul>
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Farm vs. Factory: Finding and Citing Evidence Worksheet
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An account of the resource
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.
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2
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2012
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Antebellum America (1816-1860)
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Common Core Reading
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Lowell