Lesson 9
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What’s Next for the Labour Movement?
Examining Union Websites to Determine Next Steps
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Learning from Labour |
Intermediate ETFO Resource
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Task Component
Instruction
Assessment Focus
Look Fors
Notes for Teachers
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Differentiation
(Modifications/
Extensions)
10 minutes
Provide students with electronic or
hard copies of the handout.
Allow students opportunities to
work in groups.
Provide opportunities to create
questions orally.
Reflection
In their history journal, have the students reflect back on the inquiry questions that they developed
at the beginning of the series of lessons. Ask them to self-evaluate the questions they wrote and what
improvements they could make in writing questions for the future. Also, if there were any unanswered
questions, what were they and how could they seek out the answer independently?
Next Steps
Using the list of rights that the labour movement continues to fight for on behalf of workers, create a poster,
radio commercial or other media text that could be used by a union in a public relations campaign.
Provide students with various posters, radio commercials or other media texts, have student deconstruct the
media conventions used and discuss who the target audiences for each might be.
Create a website or brochure which highlights the most important events in labour movement history.
POST-LESSON TEACHER REFLECTION
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Please jot down notes throughout the observation.
Reference Bibliography
Coates, M. L. (2013). Is There a Future for the Canadian Labour Movement? Queen’s University Industrial Relations Centre.
Littlemore, R. (n.d.). Do unions have a future? Retrieved June 5, 2015 from http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-
magazine/do-unions-have-a-future/article10310754/?page=all
Canadian Foundation for Labour Rights. Unions in society. (n.d.). Retrieved June 5, 2015 from http://labourrights.ca/issues/unions-
society
Canadian Labour Congress. (2015, June 5). Canada’s Union Advantage. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://canadianlabour.ca/why-unions/
union-advantage-young-workers/canadas-union-advantage