Lesson 13: The Market Revolution Primary Source Lesson
Duration of Days: 1
Lesson Objective
Students will read 2 primary source documents to evaluate the effect the market revolution had on women.
In what ways did the experience of moving west alter traditional expectations of women's roles?
Why does the female factory worker compare her condtions with those of slaves?
What doe these documents suggest about how different kinds of women were affected by econoimic change in the first part of the nineteenth century?
HS.SS.2C - 2C. Assess options for individual and collective action to address local, regional, and global problems by engaging in self-reflection, strategy identification, and reasoning.
Students will read an excerpt from "Recollections of Harriet L. Noble" and "Factory Life As It Is, By an Operative" and analyze their influence on women.
DOK 2.
Students will be guided through this excercise by the teacher.
Class discussion
Two readings in Foner.