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Learning Objectives

  • (-) oral communication (2)
  • collaboration (6)
  • Comprehension (5)
  • critical thinking (9)
  • inquiry / research (3)
  • literary analysis (5)
  • Media literacy (3)
  • metacognition (3)
  • multicultural awareness (3)
  • multimodal literacy (5)
  • reading genres (1)
  • writing genres (4)
  • writing process (5)

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Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Giving Voice to Child Laborers Through Monologues
Students present monologues in the "voice" of someone involved in child labor in England, respond to questions, and then discuss contemporary child laborers and compare them to the past.
Crit Lit for Kids: From Critical Consciousness to Service Learning
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Crit Lit for Kids: From Critical Consciousness to Service Learning
Students take their ideas from the classroom page to the community pavement when they participate in a service-learning project based on their multimedia presentations.

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