Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Chicago Changer, Jane Addams[pdf]

"Chicago Changer, Jane Addams" is a one page, biographical passage about Jane Addams, Chicago's first changer. She helped poor people and immigrants to find homes and learn English. It is followed by an open-ended question which requires students to provide evidence from the story; it includes underlining the most important information in each paragraph and then writing a summary of the passage using evidence from the text. This passage aligns with Common Core Anchor Reading Standards 1 and 2 requiring close reading, textual evidence, main idea, and summarizing.