Flannery O’Connor, American author, born

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  Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find": Who's the Real Misfit?

  Known as both a Southern and a Catholic writer, Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) wrote stories that are hard to forget. In this lesson, students will explore these dichotomies—and challenge them—while closely reading and analyzing "A Good Man is Hard to Find."

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  Launchpad: Flannery O'Connor's South

  Today's starting point? Atlanta. Destination? Florida. Although the family in "A Good Man is Hard to Find" lives in Atlanta, their journey to Florida takes them along the relatively new highways of the 1950s, including rural country roads.

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York

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  The Industrial Age in America: Sweatshops, Steel Mills, and Factories

  About a century has passed since the events at the center of this lesson-the Haymarket Affair, the Homestead Strike, and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. In this lesson, students use primary historical sources to explore some of the questions raised by these events, questions that continue to be relevant in debates about American society: Where do we draw the line between acceptable business practices and unacceptable working conditions? Can an industrial-and indeed a post-industrial-economy succeed without taking advantage of those who do the work?

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The colony of Maryland is founded by Catholic and Protestant settlers sent by Lord Baltimore