Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Women and the Labor Movement

Agenda 2/5 and 2/9:
  1. Students learned about women organizing a union in a turn of the century glove making factory. They discussed the goals and purposes of unions.
  2. Students learned about the Triangle Factory Fire. They  viewed a series of images [below], read a radio script and watched the last 20 minutes of the documentary Triangle Fire. 
  3. Students discussed this news story about the treatment of male characters in the film Frozen.
  4. Students began learning about women activists from the 19th and 20th centuries. They became an expert on one person and shared their findings with their classmates.
Triangle Fire Images:


Triangle Fire: