Lessons Resources for the Industrial Revolution and Child Labor

Child Labor in America (Lesson Plan)
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/lessons/child-labor/procedure.html


Activity Ideas

(1) Giving Voice to Child Laborers Through Monologues

Lesson Plan
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/giving-voice-child-laborers-289.html

(2) Individually or with a partner, students could create a one or two minute spoken word poem about the social issue.

Example Spoken Word Activity
http://ourworldclass.tigweb.org/upload/speakyourpeacespokenword.pdf

Child Labor, Selections from Chicago Poems by Carl Sandburg
http://www.nps.gov/carl/learn/historyculture/child-labor.htm

Poetry Writing Resources
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/abcs-poetry-988.html


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