Every Day is Labour Day!

 

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Lesson 2

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Learning from Labour

Task Component

Instruction

Assessment Focus 
Look Fors

Notes for Teachers

Extension: 

Role play: Students take on 
different roles to explore 
viewpoints, illustrate experiences 
or gain insight into the thoughts 
and feelings of the people who 
lived the labour situations 
discussed this lesson.

See Revised ETFO Arts, p. 28

Reflection

In a reflective journal, students can be asked to respond to the following: “Since every day is a labour day, 
choose the most significant ideas, persons, events or developments from this lesson that have had an impact 
on the society in which you live and the working life of your family. Justify why you chose those three.”

Next Steps

Using their knowledge of the historical, organized labour or standards aspects of ‘labour,’ students may create 
media texts to participate in national contests.

1. The One Minute Message Contest held by the Canadian Labour Congress has educational and 

entertaining videos. These can serve as models for students’ own submissions. https://www.youtube. 
com/user/canadianlabour

2. The annual Kayak Kids Illustrated History Challenge invites Canadian children between the ages of 7 

and 14 to create an illustrated story or comic strip based on any element of Canada’s past they find of 
interest. http://www.canadashistory.ca/Kids/Contests/Kayak-Illustrated-History-Challenge

POST-LESSON TEACHER REFLECTION

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 Please jot down notes throughout the observation.

Reference Bibliography

Brockmann, B. (2016). It Starts With The Story: Collecting Family Oral History in, Kristina Llewlyn and Nicholas-Ng-A-Fook (eds.) Oral 

History and Education: Theories, Dilemmas and Practices. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.

Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO). (2014). Revised ETFO Arts. Toronto, ON: ETFO.

Heron, C. (1996). The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History. Toronto, ON: Lorimer Press.

Solski, R. (2006). Labour Day in Big Book of Canadian Celebrations. Napanee, ON: On the Mark Press.