Teacher's Guide


Download a comprehensive Curriculum Links Guide for teaching COUNTING ON GRACE to all ages and across all disciplines.

Searching For Addie: The Story Behind a Famous Photograph (PDF)

Here I am at the mill site with a class of Sixth Graders from the Long Trail School who travelled down from Dorset, Vermont to see the setting that inspired COUNTING ON GRACE.



ON CHILD LABOR

http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/98/labor/plan.html
A lesson plan on Child Labor in America from the Library of Congress

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor
This website features the original captions written by Lewis Hine for his photographs.

hhttp://www.childlabor.org/frames.html
A website which helps children in your school get involved in working to eradicate child labor around the world. Includes many resources for the classroom. You can also read a NPR Marketplace report on child labor in other countries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_labor
Includes much information on the history and economics of child labor.

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/vc004894.jpg
You can see here one of Hine's original reports on child labor in the Mississippi Cotton Mills in April and May 1911.

ABOUT LEWIS HINE

http://memory.loc.gov/
The photographs that inspired COUNTING ON GRACE.

http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/speccoll/hineimages/
All Hine photographs in University of Maryland Kuhn Collection including Hine's original captions.

http://www.photocollect.com/bios/hine.html
A biography of Lewis Hine.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRhine.htm
Further information on Hine including links to child labor, The National Child Labor Committee and documentary photography.

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org
The New York Public Library's Hine collection.

http://www.nhhistory.org/hineexhibit.html
Hine's pictures taken in neighboring New Hampshire.

FRENCH CANADIAN IMMIGRATION

http://www.flowofhistory.org/
An overview of French Canadians coming to Vermont.

TEACHING SOCIAL STUDIES IN THE CLASSROOM

http://www.vermontsocialstudies.org/vssp/ElementaryClassroom.html