The House that Jane Built

A group of people living in the same area.

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• Convince

• Community

• Generous

To give help to others.

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• Generous

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Persuade or cause someone to believe.

• Convince

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• Transformed

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Giving or kind towards others.

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• Generous

Changed or made very difficult.

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• Transformed

• Generous

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What happened that made Jane Addams want to help people?

• She felt lost after school was over

• She grew up in a poor neighborhood

• She saw people begging for spoiled food

• She was denied an education because she was a woman

How did Jane Addams get the idea for the Hull House?

• She saw a settlement house in London

• She read about settlement houses in a book.

• She lived in a settlement house as a young girl.

• She learned about settlement houses from her father.

How is a settlement house different from other houses for the poor?

• It does NOT offer classes to people

• It gives shelter to families with children

• It provides people with food and clothing

• It offers poor and well-off people a place to live together

What did Jane do when a man broke into Hull House?

• She gave him a job

• She called the police

• She gave him some money

• She started locking the doors

The selection says that Jane was generous. What does generous mean?

• Doing creative things

• Having a lot of money

• Not willing to give up

• Showing kindness to others