First Reading Assignment…
(Prompt A)
Visit the website Remembering the Triangle Factory Fire (Links to an external site.) to read the first-person narratives. (The article selections are listed below.) Click Continue at the bottom of each page to move through the online exhibit.
Take notes of each document you read. Identify the author’s point of view and the two most important points the author makes about the causes, course or consequences of the fire.
Prompt A: Articles
In the section, “Sweatshops and Strikes Before 1911,” read the primary article and at least one of the following:
Pauline Newman’s Letter
Life in the Shop, by Clara Lemich
The Cooper Union Meeting, The Call
Song: The Uprising of the Twenty Thousand
In the section, “Fire!,” read the primary article and at least one of the following:
141 Men and Girls, New York Times, March 26, 1911
NY Fire Kills 148, Chicago Sunday Tribune, March 26, 1911
Eyewitness at the Triangle, by William Shepherd
Notice of Fire, Ladies’ Garment Workers, April, 1911
In the section, “Mourning and Protest,” read the primary article and at least one of the following:
What is to be Done, by Martha Bensley Bruere
We Have Found You Wanting, by Rose Scheiderman
Hostile Employers, American Federationist, May 1911
In the section, “Investigation