Learning to Give, Philanthropy education resources that teach giving and civic engagement
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Duration:
Two Forty-Five Minute Class Periods
Objectives:
The learner will:
- express why Jane Addams is a model of philanthropy, showing good character and civic virtue.
- evaluate efforts to solve current community's problems and formulate ways that voluntarism can serve the common good.
Materials:
- Jane Addams Chronology Attachment One
- Hull House Firsts Attachment Two
Instructional Procedure(s):
- Anticipatory Set:
Jane Addams is listed as a "reformer of the Progressive Era" and spent her life trying to make changes in all areas of life. Review some of the reforms of the Progressive Era.
- Look at the Jane Addams Chronology (see Attachment One) and/or the Hull House Firsts (see Attachment Two). Note the various activities Miss Addams engaged in besides the work at Hull House, such as organizing the Women's Peace Party or serving as the First Vice President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Discuss whether or not Jane Addams and Hull House could have been as effective without "spreading their wings" into many areas. Note that some of the "firsts" shown on the Hull House list occurred many years after the death of Jane Addams. What does this tell us about the endurance of Hull House even today? Ask students to judge in what way Jane Addams is a model of philanthropy.
- Discuss in what ways Hull House represented changes in the way Americans viewed social problems and the means to address them. Use the following information to provide background information on its current work:
- The Hull House Association serves 225,000 children, families and individuals each year.
- It operates nearly 100 programs of self-reliance, including foster care, childcare, job training, advocacy, counseling, home-delivered meals, and literacy programs.
- It has six community centers and 35 other locations in Chicago.
- Divide the class into small groups and direct them to make a list of three significant areas needing improvement in the community. Have students look at what efforts are currently in place to address those needs and assess their effects on the problem. Once this is done, ask students to recommend how volunteerism could add a new dimension to solving those problems.
Assessment:
- Ask students to make a decision on whether or not Jane Addams contributed to the common good as a model of philanthropy, showing good character as well as civic virtue. Rubrics for the question are as follows:
- Students should make a clear statement of their opinion.
- Students should support their opinion with at least three examples from her life and work
- Students should explain how her actions contributed to the common good.
- Students should evaluate the work of Hull House and explain how current problems could be solved or eased by the addition of volunteerism.
- In one paragraph students should describe the work of Hull House and the types of problems it attempted to solve.
- In the first paragraph, students should make a judgment as to the effectiveness of the Hull House program.
- In a second paragraph, students should name two current problems of society and formulate a statement for each on how volunteerism could improve those situations.
- 4 - Writing applies all three of the bulleted requirements above.
3 - Writing applies to two requirements.
2 - Writing applies to one of the requirements.
1 - Writing does not demonstrate understanding of any of the requirements.
0 - No attempt.
Cross-Curriculum Extensions:
- Visit the Hull House Web site at http://www.hullhouse.org/ and research present day Hull House activities.
- Jane Addams shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nicholas Murray Butler in 1931. She won for her work as International President of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. He won because of his promotion of the Kellogg-Briand Pact. Visit the Nobel Prize Internet Archive at http://nobelprizes.com/nobel/peace/1931a.html to find out about them and other winners.
- Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize from 1901-1998 are listed at http://www.almaz.com/nobel/peace/peace.html Review past winners and select another American woman to research for her contribution to peace.
- Research Ida B. Wells and the Negro Fellowship League Room and Social Center, her anti-lynching efforts, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the National Association of Colored Women and the Alpha Suffrage Club.
- Allow students to plan a service project for the community that will serve the common good and provide an opportunity for involvement on their behalf.
Bibliographical References:
- Addams, Jane. Twenty Years at Hull-House. New York: MacMillan, 1910.
- Bahmueller, Charles F., ed., Civitas: A Framework for Civic Education. (Calabasas, CA: National Council for the Social Studies Bulletin, 1991), 86.
- Ellis, Susan J., and Katherine H. Noyes. By the People: A History of Americans as Volunteers. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1990.
- Felder, Deborah G. The 100 Most Influential Women of All Time: A Ranking Past and Present. New York: Citadel, 1996.
- Kerber, Linda K., and Jane Sherron De Hart. Women's America: Refocusing the Past, 3rd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
- Marlow, Joan. The Great Women. New York: Galahad Books, 1979.
- Munro, Petra. "Educators as Activists: Five Women from Chicago," Social Education, 59 (5), 274-278.
- "Philanthropy in American History: The Elite Experience, 1980-1940." http://www.philanthropy.org/publications/curriculum_guides/09.html#toc
- Weinberg, Arthur, and Lila Weinberg. Some Dissenting Voices: The Story of Six American Dissenters. New York: The World Publishing Company, 1970.
Lesson Developed By:
Cythia MilesMt. Pleasant Public Schools
Mt. Pleasant High School
Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858
Handouts:
Handout 1Print Handout 1
Jane Addams Chronology
1860 Born in Cedarville, Illinois1877 Enters Rockford Female Seminary
1881 Graduates from Rockford
1881 Visits Toynbee Hall in London, England
1889 Founds Hull House, a social settlement in Chicago, with Ellen Gates Starr
1894 Helps found Chicago Federation of Settlements
1895 Becomes garbage inspector for 19th Ward, Near West Side
1903 Becomes vice president of National Woman's Trade Union League
1905-1908 Serves as member of Chicago Board of Education
1909 Helps to found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Elected first woman President of National Conference of Charities and Corrections
(later National Conference of Social Work)
1910 Mediator in Chicago Garment Worker's Strike
Publishes Twenty Years at Hull-House
1911-1914 First Vice President of national American Woman Suffrage Association
First head of national Federation of Settlement and Neighborhood Centers
1912 Seconds Theodore Roosevelt's nomination at Progressive Party convention
1913 Attends Conference and Congress of International Woman's Suffrage Alliance, Budapest, Hungary
1915 Helps organize Woman's Peace Party, elected First Chairman
Presides at International Congress of Women at the Hague, Netherlands
1919 Founds Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; serves as President 1919-29
1920 Helps found the American Civil Liberties Union
1928 Presides over conference of Pan-Pacific Women's Union in Hawaii
1931 First American woman recipient of Nobel Peace Prize
1935 Dies in hospital in Chicago and is buried in Cedarville, Illinois
* Source: Jane Addams' Hull-House Museum
The University of Illinois at Chicago
800 S. Halsted Street, Chicago, IL 60607-7017
Handout 2Print Handout 2
Hull House Firsts
- First social settlement house in Chicago
- First public swimming pool, kitchen and playground in Chicago
- First free art exhibits and painting loan program in Chicago
- Investigations that led to the creation and enactment of the first factory laws in Illinois
- Creation of the first four labor unions: Women's Skirt Makers, Women Cloak Makers, Dorcas Federal Labor Union, Chicago Women's trade Union League
- First investigations resulting in laws relating to truancy, sanitation, child labor, public school curriculum
- First private venture capital fund in the U.S. targeted toward neighborhood business development
- First domestic violence court in Chicago in conjunction with the Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women's Network (Domestic Violence Court Advocacy Program)
- First on-site emergency medical team in a Chicago public housing development (First Aid Care Team)
- First infant care facility in a Chicago high school (Orr Infant and Family Development Center)
- First community-based foster care program of its kind in the country (Neighbor to Neighbor)
- Hull House Web site http://www.hullhouse.org/
Unit Contents:
Overview:Social Reformer—Jane Addams Summary
Lessons:
- 1.
- Jane Addams—Philanthropist in Action
- 2.
- Neighbors Helping Neighbors
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