Resource: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Disaster
Media Type:
QuickTime Video
Length: 6m 01s
Size: 16.8 MB
This video segment from the documentary The Jewish Americans outlines the story of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire in New York City. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory was owned by Max Blank and Isaac Harris, ambitious Russian Jewish immigrants. Their company employed Jewish immigrants who worked in sweatshop conditions. On March 25, 1911, a fire started on the eighth floor. The exits were locked, and fire truck ladders only reached to the sixth floor, so there was no escape for the workers trapped inside the burning building. One hundred forty-six workers were killed. Although Blank and Harris were tried for manslaughter, they were acquitted.
Teachers' Domain, The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Disaster, published August 26, 2008, retrieved on ,
http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/vtl07.la.rv.text.triangle/
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Print Frame and FocusThe following suggestions are best suited for middle school students using this video in an English language arts or social studies lesson. Be sure to modify the questions to meet your students' instructional needs.
Frame (ELA) What are the major elements of any story? What does each element contain?
Focus (ELA) As you watch the video, determine the main characters, setting, major events of the plot, and climax of the story.
Frame (SS) What is a sweatshop? In what time period did they primarily exist? Describe the people who might have worked there.
Focus (SS) As you watch the video, determine the aspects of the sweatshop that made it so detrimental to the workers.
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Source: The Jewish Americans: "They Came to Stay"
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