1) Students will learn about an important person in the early days of American industry through an examination of primary sources. 2) Students will have an opportunity to consider multiple points of view and how conflicting interpretations of history can be understood and synthesized to make sense of the past. 3) Students will distill a complex story into just six words. As a group, students will subsequently take their sentences and create one 250-word synopsis analyzing an important figure.
Recommended level: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
1. Samuel Slater: Hero or Traitor?