This week we have carried on with the Industrial Revolution. We will wrap up the unit on Friday. There will also be a 10 mark quiz to sum up the unit.
Monday: we finished up our urban drawings and made conclusions about urbanization and the Industrial Revolution. We started talking about child labour including reading the section on child labour in the text book.
Tuesday: We continued on our theme of child labour. Students learned about historical perspective and it's importance when examining and learning about history including watching a video. We started a documentary about the chocolate industry and child labour. We finished up the class examining some political cartoons on the topic of child labour and looking at some quotes to help us with understanding the perspectives of different classes and roles in society.
Link for documentary on chocolate, we watched the first 20 ish minutes.
We also did a lesson on historical perspective. Here is the video that went with it.
Historical Perspective:
Without an understanding of how people in the past saw themselves, we have a simplistic view of the past—seeing events through the lens of our own values today leads us to be insensitive to the realities of another time. We must understand past actions in their historical context.
Thursday:
Today we reviewed historical perspectives. Completed the chocolate documentary and discussed. Students received a hand out on child labour and then completed a sheet on perspectives of this time period on child labour (talking heads sheet). We then examined working conditions, workers and lives of men and women of the time period and completed some questions on the reading and tables/charts. From here we learned about capitalism and socialism by doing a short reading, playing a game and concluding and summarizing our knowledge in a couple of charts.
Friday 10 on Friday!
