ReadWriteThink: Lesson Plan: Child Labor: Giving Voice to Child Laborers Through Monologues - 0 views
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Wendy Windust on 03 Mar 09Unit 1
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Wendy Windust on 03 Mar 09Students learn about child labor, as it occurred in England and the United States during the Industrial Revolution and as it continues around the world today. Selected websites describe the conditions under which children worked during the Industrial Revolution. Each student gathers information at these websites and prepares and presents a monologue in the "voice" of someone involved in the debate over child labor in England. After dramatically assuming that person's point of view on the issue, he or she responds to audience members' questions. Students then explore and discuss the conditions of contemporary child laborers and compare them to those of the past.