Spilman

**Day 1**  **Materials** : Double Entry Journal pages (1 per student), PowerPoint with text for students to read.

**Objective** : Making Connections (Text-To-Self)

**Quick Write** : Write for 45 seconds about how you would see this school if you were a new student starting today. What are some things that you might notice as a new student that you aren’t normally aware of? What might you like, what might cause you anxiety?

**Reading with Purpose** : Using your double entry journal, record at least two quotes from you reading today that you can make a connection with. In the left column record the quote and in the right column, record the connection. The connection could be a connection to yourself, something else that you have read or seen, or something that you know is going on in the world.

**Mini Lesson (Making Connections, Focusing on Text-To-Self):**  Use the following passage to model making connections. <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Friday (3/25) was the 100 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 6.6pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">th <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> anniversary of the fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. The following passages describe some of the working conditions in the factory.

<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> They were climbing the narrow staircase, flowing upward by the hundreds – girls, women, a sprinkling of men and boys, but mostly teenaged girls. <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This makes me think of the halls when the eight o’clock bell rings, and the way that the students come rushing down the halls. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In their tailored white shirtwaists and long dark skirts, with hair braided or knotted under big picture hats, they looked like students rushing to class, but it was work they were rushing to. Machines awaited them, along with the time clock and the bosses. They had to do their talking now, because once they were inside all talk was forbidden – they could be fined for talking, joking, laughing, or singing. <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This part makes me think of my days as a student, and how we weren’t allowed to talk. It was so hard not to talk to people, and I remember getting in trouble in 8 <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 6.6pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">th <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> grade science for talking and not paying attention. What would it be like to not be able to talk for an entire day? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They would talk all the same, of course they would, but softly and warily, their heads turned to one side. What girl of sixteen or eighteen can do a full day’s work without once opening her mouth? <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This makes me think of the notes that students used to pass to each other in class, when I was a student and when I first started teaching. This year, I never find notes. Where have those notes gone? Are students now texting because they are not allowed to talk as much as they would like? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> When they reached the eighth floor they moved in single file to the time clock. They punched themselves in, glad to have made it in time; being five minutes late meant the loss of half a day’s pay. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> -We Shall Not Be Moved by Joan Dash (p. 1)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Read the following two paragraphs, stopping between them. Ask students: What connections can you make to your own life? Share with the person sitting next to you. Ask students to share as a class the connections that they have found.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> There was a rush season and a “slack” season; this nature of the shirtwaist trade. During rush season workers put in eighty-hour weeks, but at the same rate of pay. A bakery in the garment district made little apple turnovers, and these were what the workers got instead of overtime pay. At other times business was slow and there was no work at all, meaning no pay, but everyone still had to report each morning to the eighth floor of the factory. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> In the course of the day one worker or another would have to leave her machine to go to the restroom; the supervisor would follow, rapping on the door to make her hurry. If she took too long she’d be fined, so she did hurry – out of the dark and tiny restroom, whose single toilet stank and sometimes overflowed, and back to the machine. A factory worker named Pauline Newman recalled the time when noiseless rubber heels appeared. “Our employers were the first to use them; you never knew when they would sneak up on you, spying to be sure you did not talk to each other during work hours.” <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> -We Shall Not Be Moved by Joan Dash (p. 4)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Days 2, 3 and 4** <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> **Material** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Printout of Triangle Shirtwaist Fire article (1 per student), Triangle Fire Article Notebook file - containing quick write questions and photo, and text of article to cross off.

<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Objective** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Determining Importance and Summarizing

<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Quick Write (Day 2)** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Write for 1.5 minutes about the following question. What do you think life was like for the children in this photo? (Photo of child laborers.)

<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Quick Write (Day 3)** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Write for 2 minutes about the following questions. How would your life be different if you were working now instead of in school? What would be better about your life? What would be worse about your life?

<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Quick Write (Day 4)** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Write for 2 minutes about the following question. What connections can you make between this cartoon and the fire we have been reading about? What do you think the author is trying to say? Why do you think that?

<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> **Reading with Purpose (Day 2)** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Using your double entry journal, record at least two quotes from you reading today that you can make a connection with. In the left column record the quote and in the right column, record the connection. The connection could be a connection to yourself, something else that you have read or seen, or something that you know is going on in the world.

<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Reading with Purpose (Day 3)** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Write a one to two sentence summary of what you read today. The summary should be understandable to someone who has not read the book.

<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Reading with Purpose (Day 4)** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Write a one to two sentence summary of what you read today. The summary should be understandable to someone who has not read the book. OR give one connection to something you read today, it could be text-to-self, text-to-text, or text-to-world.

<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Mini Lesson (Determining Importance and Summarizing)** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - Quickly review information from lesson in Day 1. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - Use the following passage to model summarizing. First summarize each paragraph by crossing off any words that are not important. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> -Give handout of following article to each student. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> -Begin crossing off, discussing with class what should be crossed out, and what should not be. Focus on whether the details are important and whether they are redundant.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> -After first two paragraphs, have students work in pairs to continue to cross off unnecessary words. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - Each group should take one paragraph only. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> -When they are done crossing off, students should try to summarize each paragraph with one sentence, making it as brief as possible. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> -Work on the first sentence as a class, then have students work in pairs. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> -Have pairs share sentences with the group. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> -Individual students should come up with a one or two sentence summary of the entire article.Share out in their groups to make one for the group. Then share out as a class to make one for the class.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">//**Mar 25, 1911:**//

==<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Triangle Shirtwaist Fire in New York City == <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In one of the darkest moments of America's industrial history, the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> New York City burns down, killing 145 workers, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">on this day in 1911. The <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> tragedy led <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> development <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of a <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> series <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">laws <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> regulations <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">that <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">better protected <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">safety <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">factory workers.

<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Triangle <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> factory, owned <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Max Blanck <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Isaac Harris, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">was <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> located <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> top three floors <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">10-story Asch Building <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in downtown Manhattan <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It was a <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> sweatshop <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in every sense of the word: a <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> cramped space <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">lined with <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> work stations <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and packed with <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> poor immigrant workers, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">mostly <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> teenaged women <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">who <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> did not speak English. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the time of the fire, there were <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> four elevators <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">with access to the factory floors, but <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">only one was fully operational <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and it <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> could hold only 12 people <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">at a time <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There were <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> two stairways down to <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> street, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">but <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">one <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">was <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> locked from <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> outside <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> prevent theft by <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> workers <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> other opened inward only. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> fire escape <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, as all would come to see, was <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> shoddily constructed, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> could not support <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> weight of more than <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> few women <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">at a time <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/triangle-shirtwaist-fire-in-new-york-city__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Day 5** <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> **Materials** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Printouts of Child Labor Article (1 per student)

<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Objective** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Making Connections

<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Quick Write** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Write for 2 minutes about the following question. How do you think kids in other countries view school differently than kids in America?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> What is the worst thing about your life? How do you think that your perspective will change as you get older?

<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Reading with Purpose** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: What was the most important thing that you read today? Why do you think that it was important? In your double entry journal record the important passage on the left, then give your reasoning on the right.

<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Mini Lesson (Making Connections)** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Read the article “Child laborers toil in Thai seafood factories” as a whole class. Give examples of connections from the first paragraph. Then have pairs of students work on finding connections in the rest of the article. Stress that not all pairs will find a connection in every paragraph. They shouldn’t force connections. Just give connections that are real to them. Remind could be connections to self, text, or world.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> It is 7:30 in the evening and an excited chatter fills the room as 11-year-old Nampeung and her friends get their work checked before clearing their desks and heading home. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> But this is no scene from the end of a school day. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Nampeung is an ethnic Mon girl from military-ruled Myanmar who has been working in a seafood factory in central Thailand for nearly three years. <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The desks are the metal tables where she spends six days a week <span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">this makes me think of the article about the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, and how the workers there worked 7 days a week <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> shelling shrimps and her work is measured by the kilogram. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Of the 200 people working in the barn-like factory during an unannounced visit by Reuters, nearly half appeared to be in their early teens or younger -- clear evidence of child labor in an industry worth $2 billion a year in exports. <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Half Thailand's exported shrimps go to the United States, where they end up on the shelves of retail giants such as Wal-Mart <span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">saying that I shop at Walmart is a superficial connection, but a lot of my family refuses to shop at Walmart because they don’t think that it is an ethical business. I have worried about whether or not I should shop at Walmart. This makes me think again about whether or not I should shop there. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and Costco, according to Poj Aramwattananont, president of the Thai Frozen Foods Association. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Japan and Europe each account for another 20 percent. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Even though she can only dream of going to school, Nampeung is one of the lucky ones. She makes up to 300 baht ($9) a day -- more than the province's minimum wage -- and sees nothing wrong with children her age working. <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> "The old people are so slow," she said with a broad smile, sitting demurely on the floor of the concrete hut next to the factory, which she shares with her mother, father and three siblings. <span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I think about how this compares to my own home. Her home sounds small and bare and crowded, very different from the conditions that I live in.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/04/24/us-thailand-childlabour-idUSBKK26683020070424?pageNumber=1 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another article to use: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[]