1.4th+Grade+U.S.+Social+Studies

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**Sub-Questions:** How does child labor help and/or harm a family? How doe it help or hurt a society's economy? **Historical Themes/Key Content Topics:** Industrialization, immigration, unions, capitalism economics **C.C.S.S.:** INFORMATIONAL TEXT and PERSUASIVE WRITING:

**Readings:** UNICEF and ILO Definitions of Child Labor; Hine's photographs and "Seeing is Believing" Cowan; historical cartoons; "Benefits of Child Labor" by Russell; "Gasp! Benefits of Child Labor" by Melnick; "Child Labor" Human Rights Watch;"Children and the Global Sweatshop" from Albion Monitor; "End Child Labor" AFT