The Labour Day Critical Design Challenge |
Lesson 3
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Learning from Labour
Task Component
Instruction
Assessment Focus
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Notes for Teachers
Follow the stages of the Proposal
Planner in order to:
• A) Identify your Target
Audience
• B) Develop your knowledge
by reading from the selected
websites and make selections
of the most significant
aspects, people, events and
developments of labour to
be acknowledged in four
categories.
• C) Present your knowledge
to your audience. Be sure to
explain the connections and
rationale of your vision.
Following are some examples:
• Group A decides that to
acknowledge the long hours
for labourers in the 1870s,
events will only begin after
noon to allow citizens to get
more sleep and rest.
• Group B decides to hold
a re-enactment parade to
educate citizens about the
effectiveness of the working
men’s demonstrations in the
parades of April 15, 1872 in
Toronto and September 3,
1872 in Ottawa.
• This would involve a parade
of workers and marching
bands (as per the Toronto
demonstration) yet take
place at night by torchlight,
carrying the Prime Minister
from his house to the steps of
City Hall (as per the Ottawa
parade)!
There, the Prime Minister will
make a statement that legislation
will be introduced to support
workers, as Sir John A. Macdonald
did on the night that is being
commemorated.
Group C has focused their reading
and research on the dangerous
working conditions in the past and
the work that unions have done
to ensure the Labour standards
of Health and Safety regulations
today.