Author: Joshua Ehret

Course:8th Grade U.S. History Chapter 10 Section 1

Objective:Benchmark 1, Indicator 6: The student explains how the Industrial Revolution and technological developments impacted different parts of American society (i.e., interchangeable parts, inventions, cotton gin, railroads, steamboats, canals)

Time / Content / Process / Examples
Pre-Instruction Focus 5 min / Review the impact and the effects that the Industrial Revolution had on the United States. / Have students share out about what they have learned about the factory work and life during Industrial Revolution from their textbook reading. / Bell work that spirals curriculum
Readiness
Activity
10-15 minutes / Make connections and activate prior knowledge about employment as an adolescent. / Ask students to share out about their past or current work history? Take a survey on how many students currently have job? Discuss pros and cons to having a job. Lead discussion to Child Labor laws.
Have the students predict about what they think having a full time job at their age would be like and what do they think about if they had no choice but to go to work full time. / Making predictions/think ahead
Strategies that involve artifacts or manipulatives
Graphic organizers that are teacher or student generated
Acquisition of related knowledge and vocabulary
Think aloud
Coaching
Learning Activities
20-25 minutes / Understand the difficulties that were associated with living during the Industrial Revolution.
Develop an idea of what life was life by studying character traits and photographs.
Learn about how child labor still exists today in different parts of the world. / Read the chapter Looking for Work pages 5-13 while kids follow along with pages displayed on document camera.The Factory Girl by Barbra Greenwood.
Reflect on reading and how Emily’s situation is different than their own, etc.
Questions for discussion:
Can you list three jobs Emily had tried to get a job at?
What can you infer about Emily’s personality judging by her reaction to the eviction?
How is the character Emily feeling when she goes to class to talk to Miss Henderson?
What choice would you have made if you were in Emily’s shoes after hearing the job descriptions? Explain.
Show pictures of Kids at Work by Russell Freedman with the document camera to show what working conditions were like in factories for young women and children.
Ask students to make a prediction on if child labor still exists.

Show The Challenge to Make Chocolate Child Labour Freevideo from YouTube.

/ Connect new knowledge
Multiple meaningful exposures to related vocabulary
Directed notes
Use of text structures and clues
Periodically summarizing/note taking
Evaluate understanding
Guided practice with feedback
Strategies that involve artifacts or manipulatives
Non-linguistic representations
Modeling and Coaching
Checking for Understanding
Differentiated Activities
15-25 minutes / Discover what life was like for young children of the Industrial Revolution. / If no document camera is available you can show a video called,Children of the Industrial Revolution
For younger grades the fictional “The Bobbin Girl” by Emily Arnold McCully could be read. / Differentiated learning stations
Use of differentiated materials to reinforce objective/learning goal
Evaluate understanding
Options for demonstrating understanding
Writing for various purposes
Coaching
Reflecting Activities
5-10 minutes / Reflect on the past and present problems of child labor. / Avid Quickwrite:
First have students write a list of ideas about the topic. Have students share the responses with the class. Next, have students write freely in a paragraph about their ideas.
Share out. / Personal reflection journaling
Paired or small or whole group reflective dialogue
Relevancy to self/future, subject, other content areas, the world
Notes:“Factory Girl” Barbara Greenwood, The Bobbin Girl” by Emily Arnold McCully, “Kids at Work” by Russell Freeman
All books available from downtown USD 259 LibraryResourceCenter or through Wichita Public Library.
Materials: Document Camera, Computer, LCD Projector, Internet, Paper, Pencil
“Factory Girl” Barbara Greenwood and “Kids at Work” by Russell Freeman
Optional: The Bobbin Girl” by Emily Arnold McCully,

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