Pre-teach vocabulary words and activities, completing steps 1-3 before doing lesson plans.

Literacy Based Lesson Plan

Kids on Strike

Cooperative Learning Lesson Plan

Objective:      Students will learn about various child labor strikes.

                              Sub-Objective: 

Standard Addressed:      Strand:           U.S. History

                                      Sub-Strand:    Reshaping the Nation and the Emergence of Modern America 1877-1916.

                                      Standard:       The student will analyze the transformation of the American economy and the changing social and political conditions in response to                                                            The Industrial Revolution.

Resources: Book: Kids on Strike by Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Strike Sign assembled from poster board and wooden stick, Markers, Kids on Strike Research Worksheet

Procedures:

Prior Knowledge:  Students will have participated in vocabulary lessons completing steps 1-3. (Kids on Strike-Vocabulary Activities)

Students will also watch the following video on child labor before reading their chapter in their book.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2M9i1Wy6IU

Clarify Goals and Establish Set:  Today we are going to start a project from our book, Kids on Strike.  I will be splitting the class into six groups.  Each group will be assigned a chapter to read from the book.  You will also be given a research paper to complete on your chapter addressing certain questions in your book.  When we have all completed our research you will make your own strike sign.  On your strike sign you will put a statement pertaining to your strike that you researched.  On the back of the strike sign you will put main parts of your chapter that you want your classmates to learn about from the strike you researched.  When this is completed we will participate in a jigsaw activity where we will again be placed into groups and go around to the different stations and learn about every ones chapter.

Establish Groups and Protocols:  The class will be divided into groups six groups.  The teacher will assign the groups being careful to equally distribute students according to gender, learning abilities, and personalities.

Present Information:

1.  Six groups will be established and assigned a chapter in the book, Kids on Strike.  The groups will be:

     #1:  Chapter One:  "A Devil in Petticoats", Young Mill Workers Rebel Lowell, Massachusetts (1836)

     #2:  Chapter Two:  "Stick Together and We'll Win", Messenger, Bootlack, and Newsie Strike Fever New York City (1899)

     #3:  Chapter Three:  "Dear God, Will It Ever Be Different?", Pauline Newman and the New York City Rent Strike (1907)

     #4:  Chapter Four:  "I'll Be A Johnny Mitchell Man", The Anthracite Coal Strikes Pennsylvania (1877, 1900, and 1902)

     #5:  Chapter Five:  "We Ask You, Mr. President", Mother Jones and Her Industrial Arm Philadelphia (1903)

     #6:  Chapter Six:  ""Build Up Your Union", Agnes Nestor and the Garment Workers' Strike Chicago (1897), New York City, and Philadelphia (1909-1910)

2.  Each group will be given

     *poster board for their strike sign

     *wood stick for assembling their strike sign

     *worksheet with questions needed to be researched and answered Kids on Strike Research Paper.docx

     *Kids on Strike book

     *students will be asked to bring their pencil boxes, markers and colored pencils

3.  Students will be told that each group is responsible for reading the chapter together as a group and answering the questions on their research worksheet.

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Small Group Skills:  Students will be divided into six groups consisting of 4-5 students per group.  Students will be assigned roles within the group.  These roles will consist of:  note-taker-responsible for writing group responses on the worksheet;  poster designer-responsible for transferring written material on worksheets to poster; illustrator-students will be responsible for designing their strike posters with facts about their strike that they will share with the class.  Individual needs and learning styles will be taken into consideration when assigning roles to students.

Positive Interdependence:  Students will be responsible for compiling research facts about their strike, transferring it over to their strike sign, and participating in the final jigsaw activity.

Face to Face Interaction:  Stations will be set up around the classroom for the students to rotate around and learn about each chapter/strike in the book.  Students will be placed into new groups, one student from each previous group, and at each station the student that participated in that particular strike will tell the other group members what they learned.

Individual and Group Accountability:  Rubric (attach link)

Group Processing:  Students will have a grid to complete at each station addressing certain questions about each strike.

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