8.7.1+Cotton

http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/score_lessons/cotton_gin/pages/reading.html http://www.clover.okstate.edu/fourh/aitc/lessons/upper/cotton.pdf
 * 1. || How does the cotton gin work? ||
 * 2. || What products are made from cotton? ||
 * 3. || How do you think this cotton gin affects the slaves? ||
 * 4. || How do you think this cotton gin helps the plantation owners? ||
 * 5. || Do parts of this machine look like other inventions or tools that are known to you? (example-wire teeth look like a comb) ||
 * 6. || What would happen if this would never have been developed? How would it have changed life then and now? ||
 * 7. || Could society use it in other ways than intended? ||