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Questions for Investigation

Essential Question: How did work affect the American child within a rapidly growing industrial society between 1880 and 1920?

  1.  Choose one reading from Resources for Enrichment. Write your team's choice below:

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  1. Read the article thoroughly, highlighting any information that is new or of particular interest to you.
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  3. Discuss your article and originate three important questions that you want to investigate to understand more about child labor and early industrialization in America.

 

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  1. Complete What Search Terms to Use? to begin building a plan for investigating answers to your questions online.

 

 

 

 

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