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Beaten To A Pulp
Goal: Students will gain a sense of the nature of the job of making paper and consider other related industries.
Objectives:
1) Students will analyze a circa 1905 photo of paper makers in an unidentified Fox Valley Paper Mill.
2) Students will record their observations of the photo in question 1.
3) Students will synthesize information from the photograph with their knowledge of the papermaking process (see activity # 2) as they guess what part of the papermaking process takes place in the room photographed.
4) Students will use information in the photograph to speculate about industries that might be important to or related to the success of the papermaking industry.
Study the photo taken in an unidentified Fox Valley Paper Mill ca. 1905.
1) List the people, objects, and activities you note in the photo.
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2) What part of the papermaking process do you think takes place in this room? Cite evidence to support your answer.
3) From the information provided by this photo, can you name another industry that was important to the success of the paper industry? Give a reason for your answer.
4) What questions does this photograph raise in your mind? Where might you go to find the answers to your questions?
5) Do you think this job would be easy or hard? Safe or dangerous? Fun or boring and tedious? Why?
Photograph of the interior of an unidentified Fox Valley paper mill, circa 1905.
