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Teaching With Documents Lesson Plan: Photographs of Lewis Hine: Documentation of Child ... - 0 views
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This lesson correlates to the National History Standards. Era 6 -The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900) Standard 3A -Demonstrate understanding of how the "second industrial revolution" changed the nature of work and conditions of work. This lesson correlates to the National Standards for Civics and Government.
MANKIND The Story of All of Us: Industrial Revolution - 0 views
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Richard Arkwright's spinning machine turn Britain into the centre of the industrial revolution.
PANEM - THE SEAM - 1 views
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People have known about coal since ancient times. Aristotle, the Greek philosopher, wrote about it in one of his books - Meteorology - during the 4th Century B.C. By the 13th century, people in Europe were commonly using this natural resource. By the 14th century, Hopi Indians had discovered its value.
Hunger Games as a Metaphor for Youth Oppression from the Good Men Project - 0 views
Kurt Vonnegut on the Shape of Stories - 0 views
Equality in Harrison Bergeron - 1 views
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How To Use This Discussion Guide Materials Included | Begin by reading Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s " Harrison Bergeron" or in your copy of What So Proudly We Hail. Materials for this guide include background information about the author and discussion questions to enhance your understanding and stimulate conversation about the story.
Preparing to read All Summer in a Day Ray Bradbury - 0 views
Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - 1 views
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THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else.
Teaching High School Sociology - 2 views
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Creating Utopia: The thing I like about this graphic organizer is that it calls for the student's rationale -- would be nice to add that.
The Middle School Mouth: Dystopian Literature Circles - 0 views
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My school is located within a 20 minute drive of where part ofThe Hunger Games was filmed in an old mill village. Being the intelligent teachers we our, my teammate and I jumped on the excitement and interest in this book along with other dystopian novels to create a series of literature circle books.
Fresh Hell - The New Yorker - 1 views
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Rebecca Stead chose to set her children's novel "When You Reach Me"-winner of the 2010 Newbery Medal-in nineteen-seventies New York partly because that's where she grew up, but also, as she told one interviewer, because she wanted "to show a world of kids with a great deal of autonomy."
Imagining Utopia - 2 views
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A simple definition for Utopia (coined in 1516 by Thomas More and translated literally as "no-place") is hard to come by. Lyman Tower Sargent, founding editor of the journal Utopian Studies, describes the writers of utopias as "social dreamers." He explains in his article "The Three Face of Utopianism," I define the broad, general phenomenon...
Films - WE THE ECONOMY - 0 views
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The Economy. Everyone's talking about it, but who can explain it? 20 award-winning directors and 10 of our most respected economists add their voice to the chorus with a thought-provoking short-film series.
Soundcities by Stanza. The Global soundmaps project. Sounds from around the world in an... - 1 views
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Soundcities is an online database of the thousands of city sounds and soundmaps from around the world.The Global soundmaps project. The Soundcities website allows the audience the possibility to remix the hundreds of samples recorded from around the world. Soundcities is an online database of the thousands of city and urban sounds from around the world.
Portraits of Pain | Taslima Akhter - 1 views
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The look of every individual expresses their horrible memory and scream for their spoilt dreams. Dalia Amena, Mitaly, Asma and all other are the victims of Rana Plaza, a nine-story commercial building that collapsed on 24 April 2013. With more than 1134 workers' deaths and sufferings by the collapse, their lives also have fallen into a cycle of distress.
The life and struggle of Garment workers | Taslima Akhter - 1 views
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"I wanted to be an artist by drawing and making handicraft but my dream is now ruined under the niddle of machine, under the rubble and sometimes by fire"- Lija a garment worker With a dream of living a better life million of workers from villages gather in workers barrack in cities.