Teacher's Guide for COBBLESTONE ^® Jane Addams

Objective: Reading for information and fact-gathering. Building of a time-line based on information gathered in the articles

Method: Assign articles to small groups of students who will read their article aloud or silently and jot down salient facts/achievements relating to Jane Addams. Each group will then share information with the whole class and build the time-line (activity on pages 39-41) including, but not limited to, the items listed on these pages. Students should do additional research visiting the various web sites mentioned on page 44, or read other materials available in the school library.

Other Activities::

• Suppose Jane Addams were still alive and visited your community. Looking at your community as it is today, have students write a short speech she would give. What local needs would she address, what causes would she espouse, or what concerns would she raise?
• Ask students to name one person, locally, nationally, or internationally, who in their opinion comes close to following in Jane Addams footsteps in recent years, and why.
• After reading one or more articles, have students write a fictional journal entry titled: "One Day in the Life of Jane Addams."
• If appropriate for your class, implement the project on pages 24-25: "Sponsor a Food Drive."
• After students have completed the activity on page 35, have them give their interpretation of the quote "Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt."

Possible Homework Assignments:

• After reading the article, "Protector of Children," remind students that a lot remains to be done throughout the world related to child labor. Two web sites provide information: www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/victorian/history/hist8.html and www.unifecusa.org/issues97/jan97/labor.html. Other sites are also available by searching "child labor." Students could make a poster or write an article to attract attention to this still prevailing problem.
• Jane Addams was involved in many organizations and events. Ask students to pick one to research and present to the class. Examples: 1894 Pullman Railway Strike, American Civil Liberties Union, League of Women Voters, International Congress of Women, etc.
• Have students research other settlement houses in the country.

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