February 12, 2013

Grammar Focus: complete the evens on p. 14…

Child Labor Photo Analysis

Observe• What do you notice first?• What people and objects

are shown?• What is in the center of the

picture?• What is in the background?• What, if any, words do you

see?• What other details do you

notice?

Reflect• What is happening in this

image?• How old do you think the

child or children were?• What were working

conditions like for this child or group of children?

• When do you think the picture was taken?

Inference: Based on (details), I can infer ____________.

Bathroom Break!

“All these children worked in the North Pownal Cotton Mill in 1910. Addie, the girl in the photograph on the book jacket, on the title page, and on page 222, is in the front row. She’s leaning on the girl to her left,

probably her older sister, Annie.”

Photograph by Lewis Hine.

“Anemic little spinner in North Pownal Cotton Mill, 1910”

Photograph by Lewis Hine

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17673213

Lewis Hine is most famous for his photographs of the construction workers who helped build the Empire State Building in 1930. But in the years before he celebrated the heroic labour of these men working high above Manhattan, Hine used his photographs to campaign for social reform. In 1908 the then-sociology professor was hired by the National Child Labor Committee to document how children as young as seven were working in cotton mills and coal mines.

Over a decade he took thousands of photographs that helped convince US lawmakers to introduce new industrial regulations to protect children.

http://animoto.com/play/Vlar8GV1lZPkofdQkhX60g

http://video.scholastic.com/services/player/bcpid858992059001?bctid=1218969136001

Choral Read the play.Purpose to read: notice unusual words and sentence structure. What is the author trying to convey with words?

Answer questions on the worksheet. Use text evidence and write in complete sentences!