World History · Week 11 · The Industrial Revolution
Workers Speak Together
Students learn how early unions organized for shorter hours and safer workplaces and practice voicing a shared need respectfully as a group.
- Students will
- Students explain how early unions organized for shorter hours and safer work, and analyze why collective action sometimes succeeds when one voice cannot.
- SEL skill
- State a shared need respectfully so a group can be heard
- What it looks like
- Students practice voicing a shared need respectfully as a group.
- Content focus
- Workers speak together
- Format
- Role play
Relationship skills
Relationship skills are the ways we communicate, listen, cooperate, and work through disagreements to keep healthy connections. More relationship skills activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- 10.3.4: CA History Social Science Content Standard, Grade 10: World History, Culture, and Geography: The Modern World (standard 10.3, item 4)
- CA HSS Analysis Skill: HI4 Understand the meaning and impact of historical events and recognize that events could have taken other directions. (Historical Interpretation)
- C3 Framework (national): D2.Civ.14.9-12 Analyze historical, contemporary, and emerging ways people change societies, promote the common good, and protect rights.
- Literacy in history: RH.9-10.8 Assess the extent to which the reasoning and evidence in a text support the author's claims.
Fits these textbook chapters
- Modern World History, An Age of Democracy and Progress
- History Alive! World Connections, Lesson 16: The Industrial Revolution
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RoseThread Connect activities are drafted with the help of AI and shaped by educators. Students never have to share anything personal. Our five SEL skills are informed by CASEL's SEL Framework; RoseThread Learning is not affiliated with or endorsed by CASEL.