Content Theme: / Industrial Revolution: A Day in the Life of an Industrial Kid /
Developed by: / Nicci Wadsworth, Granite School District
Contextual Paragraph for Resource Set:
This unit was designed to compare and contrast the lives of kids during the Industrial Revolution (specifically child labor) and the lives of kids now. Students will see how the Industrial Revolution changed the working conditions of the time and now.

Annotated Resource Set (ARS)

Resource Set

Sweeper Boy / Hine Report on quite child labor visits / Confidential Memo about Mr. Hines’ investigation / Glass Factory Workers / Newsboy / (Resource Title Here)
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Interior sugar factory, Carbonation station / Continuation school girls topping stockings in Ipswich Mills. Location: Boston, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine. / The Factory Children’s Prayer / song by B.M. Ellen Sutherland / Employees’ Poster, Pocasset Mill / Protest against child labor / Girl in Cherryville mill
http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?10010892+X-10892
http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?10010892+X-10892 / http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/nclc.03125
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Daisy Langford, 8 yrs. Old works in Ross’ canneries / Child Labor Panel Exhibit / Shucking Oysters / Group of sweepers and doffers in the filling spinning room of Glenallen Mill. The boys were smuggled out of the back window during hours by second hand. All work. Smallest boy is Francis Pagnette. Also Henry Smith. Maple Street.] Location: Winchendon, Massachusetts. / 6 yr. old Earle Holt (or Hope), 712 H St., S.W., Washington, D.C., sells papers for a neighbor boy. When I met him, within an hour he had forgotten that I had photographed him, but he didn't forget to shortchange me when I bought the paper. He goes to school in the morning and sells in the afternoon. Location: Washington (D.C.), District of Columbia. / Vance, a Trapper Boy, 15 years old. Has trapped for several years in a West Va. Coal mine. $.75 a day for 10 hours work. All he does is to open and shut this door: most of the time he sits here idle, waiting for the cars to come. On account of the intense darkness in the mine, the hieroglyphics on the door were not visible until plate was developed. Location: West Virginia.
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Inside workers shaft #6, Pennsylvania Coal Co. Location: South Pittston, Pennsylvania. / Night scene. Cumberland Glass Works, Bridgeton, N.J. Location: Bridgeton, New Jersey. / School store almost ready to open. Location: Lawton, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine. / (Resource Title Here) / (Resource Title Here) / (Resource Title Here)
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Notes/Comments:

Grade Level / Curriculum Connections / Curriculum Standards / Learning Objectives / Suggested Learning Strategies / Suggested Assessment Strategies / Links to Other Resources
Content Objectives / Thinking Objectives
5th -12th / History
Reading
Writing
Inquiry / History
7.4.a
Assess the impact of the Industrial Revolution on the United States- Investigate the changes in working conditions caused by the Industrial Revelation.
Reading
1.2
Comprehend and evaluate informational text
Writing
2.1.c
Analyze and interpret ideas, examine connections between texts
2.2.c
Use persuasive strategies including appeals to logic, emotion and ethics
Inquiry
3.1
Use process of inquiry to deepen understanding. / Enduring Understanding:
Students will compare and contrast the lives of children along with the rules and laws of labor during the Industrial Revolution and now.
Learning Objectives:
1.  How did the lives of children change with the industrial movement?
2.  What are the similarities between children working now and then?
3.  How did labor laws and rules change over time? / Students will recall events form their own lives.
Students will analyze primary sources from the Industrial Revolution time period.
Students will compare and contrast primary sources from the time period of the Industrial Revolution and current times.
Students will compose their own song to express their own feelings about working conditions. / Students will write a three paragraph essay on their own daily responsibilities and then view a PowerPoint presentation on child life during the Industrial Revolution.
Students will participate in a mill simulation, experiencing, to a degree, the life of a child laborer.
Students will read and analyze the Hine Report on child labor and the Confidential Memo and discuss the ethics involved.
Students will examine the labor laws now.
Students will read the song The Factory Child’s Prayer and read/listen to The Payer of the Children and compare and contrast the needs of children then and now. / Students will compare and contrast the Industrial Revolution time period with their own using a Venn Diagram.
Students will write a memo expressing their understanding of labor laws now.
Students will answer a brief exit sheet about how issues in the lives of children are the same and how they are different, after reading/listening to the songs.
Students will create their own song expressing the their feelings on the subject of labor. / Utah Labor Commission:
http://laborcommission.utah.gov/
The Prayer of the Children lyrics:
http://www.lyricsdownload.com/inside-out-prayer-of-the-children-lyrics.html

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