1. READING CRITICALLY (20 minutes)
Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, in 1835. His family was poor and not very educated, but enjoyed a love of books and literature. His father was a skilled handloom weaver, but advances in the mechanical loom started pushing out small hand weavers.With Scotland facing increasing poverty, the Carnegie family moved to Allegheny,Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh, when Andrew was 13 years old.
Andrew was an industrious young man, and he got a job in Pittsburgh as a bobbin boy,responsible for changing the spools of thread in the machines in a cotton factory. The hours were exhausting: he worked 12 hours a day, six days a week. His father worked in a cotton mill too and would earn extra money weaving linens. His mother worked making shoes. Andrew saw from the youngest age the value of hard work, and he pushed himself to work ever harder
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