Images and short text help to make Industrial revolution: Child labor (Ev3rla5ting, Sept. 17, 2009) comprehensible to middle school students - even those with a limited English language proficiency. The song playing in the background, with lyrics that are quite appropriate to the context, can be ignored because all the important content is in type. Students can pause the video and take time to digest the words. Some of the images are from a book referenced in a prior blog [Kids at work (Freedman, 1998)], so I would introduce the students to this video first. It can serve as a pre-reading activity to pique interest and build background knowledge. Students would be asked to take note of the details of the images (perhaps aided by a reading/view guide). They would also be asked to come to class with their opinions of what they saw, which could lead to an interesting discussion because of the different cultural views.
Ev3rla5ting. (2009, Sept. 17). Industrial revolution: Child labor [Video file].
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