Bread+and+Roses+Reading

//Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream// by Bruce Watson February 24, 2010, 3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m., Reading Memorial High School

**Resources**

[|Bread&RosesGuidedReadingQuestions.doc]
 * Guided Reading Questions **

**Instructions for Posting to the Discussion Prompt** [|InstructionsforBookGroupPostingFebruary.doc] //In the "Discussion" Forum Please Respond to __**One**__ of the Following Prompts:// On page 13 Watson quotes extensively from a description of what a mill worker’s life was like as found in the trade journal Fibre and Fabric. Provide your own description of a mill worker’s life of roughly equal length to the "Fibre and Fabric" one. //__**Or**__// As we did with //Sarah’s Long Walk//, pick from among the many characters that populate Watson’s book and describe one activity in which you would teach his/her biography in your classroom. In so doing briefly highlight that person’s role in the strike and how his/her role affected the strike’s outcome.