My hair wakes up stupid. ~ Tony Johnston, Any Small Goodness (2003)

1. Make a bullet point list of all you notice about the above sentence. My hair wakes up stupid.~Tony Johnston, Any Small Goodness (2003) Invitation to Notice:

2. Make a bullet point list of all you notice about the above sentence. My sweat smells like peanut butter.~Wendy Mass, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life (2006) Invitation to Notice:

3. Make a bullet point list of all you notice about the above sentence. Simile? My sweat smells like peanut butter.~Wendy Mass, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life (2006) Invitation to Notice: • Who or what smells like peanut butter? • What does the subject—my sweat—do?

4. It’s time to play: Is It or Isn’t It? The game where you can decide what’s a sentence and what’s a poser… Work with a partner to make a stack of sentences and posers. Invitation to Edit:

5. Listening Skills with Dragonwings Follow along on p. 105 in your book. Listen really well!! You will not be allowed to use the book for the next part of this assignment!

6. Child Labor Open your SS compostion book to the child labor section and be prepared to start a study in character traits and complete a paired text assignment. You will need everything I give you today for a final writing assignment. You need a glue stick, scissors, one sticky notes, and highlighter.

7. Child Labor “I remember watching two breaker boys fall into a coal chute, and little oyster shuckers with swollen bleeding fingers. I remember a young spinner with a mangled hand, and so many others.” Worked to the Bone, Scholastic Scope, Mack Lewis, October 31, 2011 Which of the following character traits about Lewis Hine could be supported with the above quote? Pick two. Unappreciative Haunted Melancholy Courageous Selfish Shy Explain your answer on a sticky note.

8. 11 April 2012 Last updated at 22:59 ET Lewis Hine: The child labour photos that shamed America http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17673213

9. http://animoto.com/play/Vlar8GV1lZPkofdQkhX60g

10. “In my early days of my child-labor activities I was an investigator with a camera attachment ... but the emphasis became reversed until the camera stole the whole show.” Lewis Hine, 1908 He was known for more than exposing child labor… http://video.scholastic.com/services/player/bcpid858992059001?bctid=1218969136001

11. Poetry… What is the author’s purpose for writing this poem? How do you know? Underline three phrases/lines in the poem that support your thinking. As you read the poem, circle the three stanzas that are repeated. Why do you think they are repeated? Highlight phrases that depict the evil and unfairness of child labor. Hold onto the poem…you will need it!

12. Paired Text: Photographs and Poetry Choose 6 pictures and cut them out. Use the poem with the pictures to answer the following question: Which of the lines from the poem might Lewis Hine have chosen as a caption for one of his photographs?

13. Child Labor Vocabulary Review

14. REGULATE To control or adjust to a specific standard or rule

15. TENEMENT What is a run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section if a large city?

16. malnourish Suffering from lack of nutrition

17. Progressive Era A period of social activism and political reform in the U.S. Between the 1880s and about 1920

18. Charles Dickens Helped publicize the evils of child labor with his novel Oliver Twist

19. National Child Labor Committee Organized in 1904 in the U.S. by socially concerned citizens and politicians to regulate child labor laws.

20. factory Any place that produces a uniform product (one place might produce parts for an airplane while another might produce towels)

21. Lewis Hine He was a photographer in the early 1900s and he used his photographs to help change the U.S. child labor laws

22. Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916 This banned the sale of products from any factory, shop, or cannery that employed children under the age of 14