How the Other Half Lives teacher pack
Five weeks of lessons on How the Other Half Lives for ages 14 to 18: a plan, a worksheet and the answers for each week, a final essay with a marking guide, and a reading certificate to print. Free to use in class.
Five weeks, week by week
- Week 1Chapters 1 to 5
The opening accounts trace tenement growth and failed reforms, asking how public neglect and private profit shape dangerous housing.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 2Chapters 6 to 10
Accounts of immigrant exploitation, the Bend, and cheap lodging expose dependence while inviting scrutiny of the narrator's hostile judgments.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 3Chapters 11 to 16
Workshops, unequal rents, and children's hardship show how housing and labor conditions restrict health, security, and opportunity.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 4Chapters 17 to 21
Care for abandoned children, support for homeless boys, gang pressures, and women's organizing raise questions about protection and independence.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 5Chapters 22 to 26
The closing accounts connect dependence and violence with housing injustice, then present sustained care and fair investment as practical reforms.
Plan · worksheet · answers
Assessment
Final essay
Three questions to choose from, 800 to 1,200 words, with a marking guide in four bands.
Quiz bank
The 30 questions and 40 flashcards online, for homework or a quick check in class. Open the quiz
Discussion
Questions for small groups, meeting by meeting. The book club kit
Reading certificate
Certificate of reading
Student's name
has read
How the Other Half Lives
by Jacob A. Riis
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