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Objectives: | Students will:
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Time Required: |
This is a long-term investigation. Students should receive an introduction to the unit early in the course, pursue completion of the project components throughout the course and share final projects with peers and teacher at the project's end. |
Recommended Grade Level: |
Grades 7/8; adaptable for use in grades 6 - 12. |
Curriculum
Fit: |
Social Studies, Humanities, Language Arts, Information Technology, Industrial Arts |
Standards | McREL 4th Edition Standards & Benchmarks Historical Understanding Language Arts US History |
Resources Electronic |
American Memory Collections: American
Life Histories, 1936-1940 California As I Saw It: First Person Narratives, 1849-1900 Taking the Long View, 1851-1991 Touring Turn-of-the-Century America, 1880-1920 Words and Deeds in American History Other Web resources: A Curriculum of United States Labor History for Teachers Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938: Maximum Struggle for a Minimum Wage |
Text | Blumenthal,
Shirley. Coming to America; Immigrants from Eastern Europe. New
York: Delacorte, 1981.
Blumenthal, Shirley and Jerome S. Ozer. Coming to America: Immigrants from the British Isles. New York: Delacorte, 1980. Brimner, Larry Dane. A Migrant Family. Minneapolis: Lerner, 1992. Cahn, Rhoda. No Time for School: No Time for Play. New York: Julian Messner, 1973. Cole, John Y. On These Walls: Inscriptions and Quotations In the Buildings of The Library Of Congress. Washington D.C.: Library of Congress, 1995, pp. 28-30. Foner, Moe. Images of Labor, A Bread and Roses Book. Pilgrim Press, 1981. Freedman, Russell. Immigrant
Kids. New York: Freedman, Russell. Kids At Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor. New York, Clarion Publishing, 1994. Holland, Ruth. Mill Child: The Story of Child Labor in America. New York: Crowell, Collier, 1970. Kraft, Betsy Harvey. Mother Jones: One Womans Fight for Labor. New York: Clarion, 1995. Lewis Hine: Photographs of Child Labor in the New South. John R. Kemp, ed. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1986. Markham, Edwin, Benjamin B. Lindsey, George Creel. American Labor: From Conspiracy to Collective Bargaining. New York: Arno and the New York Times, 1969. Massie, Larry B. and Peter J. Schmitt. Kalamazoo, The Place Behind the Products. Kalamazoo: Windsor, 1981. McCutcheon, Marc. The Writers Guide to Everyday Life in the 1800s. Writers Digest, 1993. Morris, Richard B. The U.S. Department of Labor Bicentennial History of The American Worker. Washington, DC Sandler, Martin W. Immigrants. New York: Harper Collins, 1995. Spahr, Charles B. Americas Working People. Longmans, Green & Co., 1900. Who Built America? Working People and the Nations Economy, Politics, Culture and Society. Volume Two. New York: Pantheon, 1992. |
Visual Aides | Child Labor: DPA poster series: Documentary Photo Aids, Box 956, Mount Dora, Florida 32757. |
Course Materials: |
Handouts and reference information are available on the Procedure page and for quick download on the Course Materials page. |
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