7 M2A - Working Conditions Then and Now

Seventh Grade - Seventh ELA - 7 M2A - Working Conditions Then and Now

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	1984 Cesar Chavez Address to the Commonwealth Club of California 1984 Cesar Chavez Address to the Commonwealth Club of California Address by Cesar Chavez, President United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO The Commonwealth Club of California November 9, 1984--San Francisco
	A New Economy 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.
	Lyddie 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...
	Lyddie "The first step to freedom is schooling," a runaway slave tells Lyddie Worthen. It's the mid-1800s and the working conditions in the Storemont cotton factory are horrific. Lyddie is willing to endure those conditions to earn enough money to bring her family back together. When another worker,...
	Mill Times Mill Times is based on the popular and widely-acclaimed book, Mill, by author-illustrator David Macaulay. Mill Times continues the unique live action/animation format of the previous Macaulay specials. This animated program centers on a small...
	Statement at Pacific Lutheran University Speech by Cesar Chavez César Chávez, “Statement at Pacific Lutheran University,” speech given in March 1989. (Alternative to Commonwealth Club Address) * The Cesar E. Chavez Foundation is the intellectual property owner of Cesar's name, voice, image, and likeness, speeches and writings. Permission to...
	The Beet Fields: Memories of a Sixteenth Summer (Unabridged) 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...
	The Circuit (Unabridged) 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. Beautifully and authentically rendered by actor and playwright Adrian...
	Working Cotton This child’s view of the long day’s work in the cotton fields, simply expressed in a poet’s resonant language, is a fresh and stirring look at migrant family life. “With its restrained poetic text and impressionist paintings, this is a picture book for older readers, too.”--Booklist
	Wrath of Grapes Boycott Speech by Cesar Chavez Chavez delivered this speech at various times and places kicking off an entire campaign in May 1986 to promote consumer awareness of pesticide use.

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