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These quotes are ones which Studs Terkel uses in the beginning of his book Working.
After everyone had an opportunity to respond to this prompt, we discussed students' responses to these quotations.
I then introduced Studs Terkel's book Working from 1972 which uses interviews to explore the working world and perspectives of everyday people. We'll be looking at interviews from this book and interviews from the book Gig from 2000. We will be reading and analyzing an interview for the same job from each book.
Everyone was able to choose one of the following occupations to read about:
Flight Attendant
Auto-Plant Worker*
Professional Hockey Player
*The interviewee for the autoplant text is also the local union president. This means that the focus isn't just on work at the autoplant, but also on what it is to be in a union. This was a large part of the auto industry in the 1970s. In class, we took some time to talk about the role of unions in the work place and what unions looked like in the 1970s.
Everyone got a copy of reading questions to guide their reading and one of the texts above (see handouts below for extra copies). We reviewed the pre-reading, reading, and post-reading questions. I explained the reading question 3 using the beginning of the professional hockey player text as an example. Underlining facts and bracketing opinions/perspective can look like this:
Everyone then had the rest of the period to begin working with this material.
Handouts:
Reading questions for Working texts
Flight attendant reading (from Working)
Autoplant worker reading (from Working)
Hockey player reading (from Working)
Homework:
Finish reading about the occupation you selected from Working and respond to questions 1, 2, and 3 on the reading sheet. We will wrap up our work with this text next class and then look at the same occupation 28 years later in 2000.
Prepare for the set 15 roots and prefixes quiz on Friday.
Set 15 Roots and Prefixes - Word List
Set 15 Roots and Prefixes - Practice
If you have not yet done so, finish section three of your occupations project.
I will be assessing this section and revisions to sections 1 and 2 this weekend.
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Professional Hockey Player
*The interviewee for the autoplant text is also the local union president. This means that the focus isn't just on work at the autoplant, but also on what it is to be in a union. This was a large part of the auto industry in the 1970s. In class, we took some time to talk about the role of unions in the work place and what unions looked like in the 1970s.
Everyone got a copy of reading questions to guide their reading and one of the texts above (see handouts below for extra copies). We reviewed the pre-reading, reading, and post-reading questions. I explained the reading question 3 using the beginning of the professional hockey player text as an example. Underlining facts and bracketing opinions/perspective can look like this:
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Handouts:
Reading questions for Working texts
Flight attendant reading (from Working)
Autoplant worker reading (from Working)
Hockey player reading (from Working)
Homework:
Finish reading about the occupation you selected from Working and respond to questions 1, 2, and 3 on the reading sheet. We will wrap up our work with this text next class and then look at the same occupation 28 years later in 2000.
Prepare for the set 15 roots and prefixes quiz on Friday.
Set 15 Roots and Prefixes - Word List
Set 15 Roots and Prefixes - Practice
If you have not yet done so, finish section three of your occupations project.
I will be assessing this section and revisions to sections 1 and 2 this weekend.
Occupations material/handouts:
The research project:
Interviews:
Outlines:
Using your research:
Research and Set Up:
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