August 3, 2020

Local Cemetery Stories - Mr. Charles Hackley

Jennifer Fairweather

By reading the short article from Muskegon’s Hackley Library, you can read about how Mr. Hackley’s generosity helped to create Muskegon’s downtown learning locations.

Career Focus: General Class Subject: ELA & Literacy Social Studies Cost: Free Grade: 3rd 4th 5th 6th Instructor: Jennifer Fairweather Location: Indoors Online Tools & Materials: Laptop or tablet
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Learning Objectives: 

  • Community Awareness
  • Philanthropy
  • Civics
  • Language Arts
  • Social Studies
  • Math

Materials:

  • Paper

Tools:

Steps:

  1. Read the article from the Hackley library that shares a short biography of Mr. Charles Hackley.
  2. Study and make observations of the picture of Mr. Hackley's mausoleum (below) for symbols.
  3. Write 3-5 ideas about who you would share/donate money with and why that would be important to you.

Hackley mousoleum with statue holding book at top, flower details, and columns.