Compare and contrast immigrant opportunities and impediments created by the mills.

Students are not able to compare and contrast the opportunities and impediments created by the mills with accuracy.

Students will compare and contrast opportunities and impediments created by the mills. Students will provide a brief summary of their findings.

Students will compare and contrast, with details, opportunities and impediments created by the mills. Students will provide a summary of their findings.

Students will compare and contrast, with specific details, immigrant opportunities and impediments created by the mills. Students will provide a detailed summary of their findings.

Describe how the mills affected life in Lowell:
-from the mill owners’ perspectives
-from workers ’ perspectives.

Students are not able to describe how the mills affected life in Lowell.

Students can provide a brief description of how the mills affected life in Lowell from both the mill owners’ and others’ perspectives.

Students can describe how the mills affected life in Lowell from both mill owners’ and others’ perspectives.

Students can provide detailed descriptions of how the mills affected life in Lowell from both the mill owners’ and others’ perspectives.

Identify and examine changes in the political structure of Lowell due to the building of the mills.

Students are not able to identify changes in the political structure of Lowell due to the building of the mills.

Students are able to identify few changes in the political structure of Lowell due to the building of the mills.

Students are able to identify some changes in the political structure of Lowell due to the building of the mills.

Students are able to identify many changes in the political structure of Lowell due to the building of the mills.

Identify how mill owners gained political power and analyze their use of this power in bringing about governmental change.

Students are not able to provide accurate details of how the mill owners gained political power

Students can provide some details of how the mill owners gained political power. Students cannot verify these reasons.

Students can provide some details of how the mill owners gained political power. Students will verify these reasons from resources.

Students can provide clear details of how the mill owners gained political power. Students will verify these details with support from primary source documents.