7 M2A - Working Conditions Then and Now

Lyddie

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When Lyddie and her younger brother are hired out as servants to help pay off their family farm's debts, Lyddie is determined to find a way to reunite her family once again. Hearing about all the money a girl can make working in the textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts, she makes her way there, only to find that her dreams of returning home may never come true.

Author: 
Katherine Paterson
Grade Level: 
Middle
Lexile: 
860L
Length: 
07:15
Lyddie

The Beet Fields: Memories of a Sixteenth Summer (Unabridged)

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For a 16-year-old boy out in the world alone for the first time, every day is an education in the hard work and boredom of migrant labor; every day teaches him something more about friendship, or hunger, or profanity, or lust - always lust. He learns how a poker game, or hitching a ride, can turn deadly.

Author: 
Gary Paulsen
Grade Level: 
High
Lexile: 
1070L
Length: 
03:19
The Beet Fields: Memories of a Sixteenth Summer (Unabridged)

The Circuit (Unabridged)

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Francisco Jiménez writes of his childhood growing up in an immigrant Mexican family. His narrative is simple, as from a child's point of view, but that same simplicity packs the power of a highly skilled storyteller.

Author: 
Francisco Jiménez
Grade Level: 
Middle
Lexile: 
880L
Length: 
02:59
The Circuit (Unabridged)

A New Economy (2005)

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The American economy headed in a different direction in the late 20th century. Why did this happen? What did it mean? Public policy, the effects of technology, the changing nature of work and the workforce, and the decline of organized labor are examined.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
00:30
A New Economy

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