With Babies and Banners: Study/Activity Booklet [and] Educator's Guide.

This student booklet and teacher's guide are intended to be used in secondary school classrooms with the award-winning color documentary 16mm film "With Babies and Banners," which records the role that the women of Flint, Michigan, played in the great General Motors sit-down strike of 1937. Calling their organization the Women's Emergency Brigade, working women, wives, mothers, sisters, and sweethearts of the striking auto workers became the spearhead of the 44-day-long battle in which the strikers emerged triumphant, catapulting the new United Auto Workers to national prominence. The study activity booklet, for use by students, contains historical background reading materials and black and white photographs and suggests learning activities and projects. For example, students role play positions of women and men and workers and managers in simulated strike negotiations, investigate past and present work experiences in their community, including modern attitudes toward child care, research historic work songs, and analyze their own work goals. The teacher's guide suggests uses of the curriculum materials in different courses, outlines objectives for each activity, suggests time allotments, gives directions for implementing the program, and projects possible outcomes. (RM)