A Guide to Primary Resources for U.S. History : Jane Addams and Hull House University of Virginia, American Studies Jane Addams' Twenty Years at Hull House is available in full from the University of Virginia. Located in Chicago, Hull House, which Addams founded, worked toward urban improvement and was indicative of many Progressive era reforms. Brainstorm: Who is Jane Addams? What was the Hull House? Ask students to compare the difficulties of blacks, whites, Indians. Then, read the accounts. Describe how you would define social work today? What does it mean to design a program to help people progress in the world? Read Chapter Six and describe the motivations for Hull House and its goals. Were these valid ideas? Do we have anything similar today? Read Chapter Fifteen and compare the students to today. How were there interests and opportunities different? Why might this be? How did Hull House change things for them? Compile different pictures and have students inductively discover what life may have been like at Hull House. Was this a good place or a bad place, and why?

Jane Addams and Hull House
University of Virginia: American Studies

Description: Jane Addams' Twenty Years at Hull House is available in full from the University of Virginia. Located in Chicago, Hull House, which Addams founded, worked toward urban improvement and was indicative of many Progressive era reforms.

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Brainstorm: Who is Jane Addams? What was the Hull House?
Ask students to compare the difficulties of blacks, whites, Indians. Then, read the accounts.
Describe how you would define social work today? What does it mean to design a program to help people progress in the world?

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Read Chapter Six and describe the motivations for Hull House and its goals. Were these valid ideas? Do we have anything similar today?
Read Chapter Fifteen and compare the students to today. How were there interests and opportunities different? Why might this be? How did Hull House change things for them?
Compile different pictures and have students inductively discover what life may have been like at Hull House. Was this a good place or a bad place, and why?