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Chapters 1-11

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Moore, Kate. The Radium Girls: The Dark Side of America's Shining Women. Sourcebooks, 2017. Print.

• The prologue, “Paris, France, 1901,” presents the fact that a scientist received a small amount of radium from the Curies for his lectures.

• He forgot about the small vial in his jacket pocket, only remembering its presence when he developed a painful apparent burn on the area of his body behind the pocket.

• This incident is used by the author to indicate that people were well aware of the dangers associated with radium around the turn of the century.

• Chapter 1, titled "Newark, New Jersey, United States of America, 1917," began Part 1: Knowledge, with a description of Katherine Schaub, an ambitious 14-year-old girl who secured herself a position painting dials at the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation.

• Her attraction to the job partly...

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