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Ten Ways to Use Annie’s Stories to Teach History 1.
 
Study literature of the early twentieth century. a.
 
Categorize popular fiction by genre.  b.
 
Discuss why L. Frank Baum’s
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 
 was so  popular and contrast it with other children’s literature of the times. c.
 
Talk about what the differences in what woman preferred to read and what men chose. 2.
 
Study the beginnings of Wall Street and what the economy was like in that era. a.
 
Talk about the financial schemes of the era and how the ponzi scheme existed earlier than when Charles Ponzi made the technique known in 1920.  b.
 
Talk about the options people of this era had for investing money. c.
 
Discuss the abyss between the rich and the poor at the turn of the twentieth century. d.
 
Read books and/or novels that illustrate the challenges people were facing, such as
The House of Mirth
 by Edith Wharton. e.
 
Study the role of bankers like J. Pierpont Morgan in the expansion of  business trusts run by Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. 3.
 
Learn about housekeeping at the turn of the twentieth century. a.
 
Try some recipes mentioned in
 Annie’s Stories
: http://cindythomson.blogspot.com/2014/07/early-20th-century-recipes-from-annies.html#.U9fVQ41dWmc  b.
 
Explore the ways people of this era shopped such as street venders, trade shops, department stores. c.
 
Learn about everyday chores: http://www.tenement.org/encyclopedia/housing_keeping.htm 4.
 
Learn about Irish storytellers. a.
 
Read books such as
The Last Storyteller 
 by Frank Delaney.  b.
 
Study the art of Irish storytelling. http://youtu.be/BzP4FM3WqwY c.
 
Put on a performance. d.
 
Learn about some famous Irish authors like W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, and others. 5.
 
Learn about immigrant aid societies, children aid societies, and other charities of the era. 6.
 
Explore genealogy through Ellis Island. a.
 
http://www.ellisisland.org/genealogy/index.asp  b.
 
http://genealogy.about.com/od/ellis_island/tp/search_tips.htm 7.
 
Find out about the history behind the fictional author’s mark in
 Annie’s Stories
. a.
 
http://cindythomson.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-history-behind-fictional-authors.html#.U9fYbo1dWmc 8.
 
Learn about the Magdalene Laundries and other institutions. 9.
 
Learn about memorial libraries like the one Annie Gallagher hoped to build. Find one in your area to research and find out why someone decided to build it. 10.
 
Study immigration of the era and list which countries were represented. Choose a country to learn more about it and why people were fleeing at that time.
 
 

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