Lesson 8
| Women and Labour
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Learning from Labour |
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Task Component
Instruction
Assessment Focus
Look Fors
Notes for Teachers
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Further Extensions:
Students can use the writing
process to develop their collecting
oral history story and apply
historical thinking to the raw
data of the interviews: what
does the family member’s labour
experience reveal about continuity
and change, or about any of
the labour concepts presented
throughout the unit?
Prepare students for the possibility
that while some people may
answer questions directly,
others may veer off on tangents,
revealing unexpected but relevant
information.
Share the stories among
classmates afterwards.
Discuss what the stories reveal
specifically about human
experience and generally about
our society.
This is an important way to
contextualize and personalize the
ideas presented in the unit.
Reflection
For their Reflective History Journal, ask students: “Which Living Tableau do you feel had the most impact on
our society? Which other Living Tableau had the most impact on you personally? For both of these Living
Tableaus: (1) justify your selection; and (2) explain what challenges these women faced and what agency they
had to demonstrate to meet these challenges.”
Next Steps
Ask students to use one or more of the websites to research the working conditions of early Canadian
teachers.
Next, have the students interview one of the female teachers in your school.
Have students consider the following questions in their report:
1. What are some of the challenges of teaching in present day schools?
2. How have the working conditions of Canadian teachers improved over time?
Post-Lesson Teacher Reflection
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Please jot down notes throughout the observation.