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Read Write Think: Giving Voice to Child Laborers Through Monologues Lesson PlanRead Write Think: Giving Voice to Child Laborers Through Monologues Lesson Plan
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ReadWriteThink
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6th - 8th
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Read Write Think: Giving Voice to Child Laborers Through Monologues

Curated by ACT

Contains plans for eight 45-minute lessons that ask students to write monologues from different perspectives in the child labor debate. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contains links to PDF handouts and links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and reflection activities.

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Concepts

child labor

Additional Tags

child laborers, child labour, write monologues, ncte, readwritethink

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

Common Core

RH.6-8.6

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