Lesson 2
| Every Day is Labour Day!
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Learning from Labour |
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Notes for Teachers
Students respond to one of the
topics on a post-it note. This topic
will become their inquiry focus
for the next part of the lesson.
Students gather at that anchor
chart to post their answers and
discuss.
Chart 1: The Origin of Labour Day
and the Labour Movement
• How do you generally spend
Labour Day? What do you
know about why we celebrate
Labour Day? What do you
know about the labour
movement?
Chart 2: Labour Standards Today
• What do you know about
minimum Employment
Standards and Health and
Safety regulations in Ontario
today? (If you got a part-time
job tomorrow, what would
you need to know? What are
the minimum employment
and health and safety
standards your parents work
under and are protected by?)
Chart 3: The Role of Organized
Labour
• What actions do you think
people took individually and
collectively to achieve the
labour standards we have
today?
• How do you think labour
standards have evolved over
time?
• Where is there evidence of
this?
Take a ‘language moment’ to
reflect on vocabulary in context.
• What does a word (labour,
union, agency) mean to you?
• Where have you heard the
word?
• When have you used it
before?
• What are some other ways to
use this vocabulary? What
does it mean in this context?