1. The Price of Nice Nails By SARAH MASLIN NIR MAY 7, 2015
In groups, discuss and write down answers to the following questions:
-What was the author’s purpose in writing “The Price of Nice Nails”? -What piece/s of information from the article impacted you the most?
-Why are you reading this article?

2. Exposing the Issues Muckrakers They needed a forum:
Investigative journalists who exposed the ills of America
newspapers, magazines, novels, photographs
Jacob Riis, Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell, Frank Norris, and Thomas Nast
They needed a forum:
McClure’s Magazine, created by Irish immigrant Samuel McClure in 1893
Published articles, images, excerpts of novels written by muckrakers
10-15 cents each
Accessible
Collier’s, Cosmopolitan – other publications
Mcclures did not start that way – sort of evolved – staff writers
Steffens described McClure as: "Blond, smiling, enthusiastic, unreliable, he was the receiver of the ideas of his day. He was a flower that did not sit and wait for the bees to come and take his honey and leave their seeds. He flew forth to find and rob the bees."

3. Tell me about: Jacob Riis Upton Sinclair
-How did they attempt to create change?
-Was one more effective than the other? Why do you think that was?