In Search of Justice

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• Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges: Critical Discussion of Social Issues - Students are invited to confront and discuss issues of injustice and intolerance reading a variety of texts, from Young Adult literature to picture books.
• Child Labor: Giving Voice to the Industrial Revolution Through Monologues - Students explore child labor conditions during the Industrial Revolution in England and the United States. Researching relevant websites, each student prepares and delivers a monologue in the "voice" of someone who lived during the Industrial Revolution. In journals, students reflect on social injustices.

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• Lyddie by Katherine Paterson - Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.

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