You say you want a Revolution?

We are going to the website Ning.com- and creating a profile

This is the website you are going to be joining - http://hsarevolution.ning.com/
You are not joining as yourself but as a leader of one of the four Rebellions/Revolutions below- here are your choices

Haitian Revolution- 1791 Toussaint L’Ouverture. A Slave uprising in Haiti
Boxer Rebellion- 1899 a rebellion in China against westerners.
Sepoy Rebellion- a rebellion in India in 1857.
Zulu Wars- 1830’s the Zulu Tribe in Africa.

Thomas Jefferson is already a member of the class groups and his profile and responses to Mr. Fulbright’s discussion questions will provide good examples to work by. You should do your research on your rebellion before you get all crazy and start creating a profile.

The Industrial Revolution...

...why it wasn't all pretty.

The Industrial Revolution created many positive changes for our society (cheaper, more widely available goods) it also had a lot of negative effects. Some examples include pollution, urban crowding, poverty and the subject of this activity- Child Labor.

As we found out in yesterday's class Child Labor still exists all over the world- it is your job to investigate this problem. You are to find 3 examples of places still using child labor, for each example you need a picture, a description of where it is occurring and what is happening. You upload each picture followed by the description to your blogger. We will review them as a class- an example follows (mine is done during "The Industrial Revolution" remember yours is to be done for "modern times")

The above picture shows children in an American Mine. They begin working in these dangerous places at early ages- sometimes 8 years old. The mines are dark, wet and dangerous with many hazards to their health. Heavy equipment, explosives and black lung (a condition of the lungs created by coal dust, can lead to death) all pose threats to the children.