8th-Sem 2-SOCIAL STUDIES Activity 4-Video
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INSTRUCTIONAL SCRIPT P.E.O.P.L.E. MIDDLE SCHOOL U.S. HISTORY
ACTIVITY 4: On the Scene – Inside Factory Life
ACTIVITY 4: On the Scene – Inside Factory Life
- FILMING LOCATION: We’re standing outside of the UW-Madison power plant, today, because this week’s blog post is an on-the-scene story on the topic of Factory Life! Back in my newspaper reporter days, an on-the-scene story was one in which “something” happens and you go to that location to interview and find out the 5 W’s and H (Who, What, Where, When, Why and How). While the power plant is not an actual “factory,” its size and presence hopefully helps you imagine what the very first factories might have been like more than 150 years ago.
- Review the semester-long project goal: Remember, today’s activity could become one of the two news reports that will become your semester project – whether they’re written stories or TV-style news stories. Your job is to read this week’s history text, and then use that information – and your imagination – to identify individual voices and people who were impacted during this historical time period. Pretend that you are a reporter who is there in the 1840s as this is happening, and you are interviewing people. Who would you interview, and what do you think they would say?
- Today’s focus is on: The INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (1820-1870) period of American history. As the enrichment text explains, this was when a MAJOR shift happened in how products were made. It went from handmade products in a person’s home, to machine-made products in a factory. This shift radically changed nearly every aspect of people’s lives living in America during the mid-1800s as the country moved from a farming-based (rural) economy to an urban-based (city) economy.
- When you view the text, be sure to look for: As you skim over the enrichment text, dig deeper and search for THE PEOPLE impacted by the Industrial Revolution.
- The goal is for you to be able to: Use your imagination to create an “incident” that would cause you to go out and conduct interviews for a story. The incident can be something bad – like a factory accident that injured a worker or a farm family losing their land – OR the incident can be something good – a farming family succeeds in their move to the city for factory work – OR some other idea inspired by events connected to the Industrial Revolution (it doesn’t have to be mine). Imagine and then interview at least THREE DIFFERENT voices of people impacted by your “incident”. With each person, be sure to identify their gender, social status, and any other characteristics that might influence their opinions. For example, if you’re interviewing a family, a 19th Century husband’s perspective will be very different from a wife’s perspective which will be different from the perspectives of their small children and teenagers. Your activity sheet works like a news reporter’s note pad, reminding you of key information to find out. Be sure to write down and submit your work so I can give you feedback on it by next week.
- Remember, the tutor or PEOPLE staff person working with you is a student just like you during social studies enrichment. Work together to complete the activity and place all work in the submission folder before leaving home base.
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