Lesson Overview
During this SmartARTS lesson, students will learn what life like during the early South Carolina Textile Mill Era. Students will analyze photographs and close read a poem in order to gain information and use visual literacy skills. Students will also create a metaphor and draft a short informal poem/story. Language arts vocabulary includes setting, character, dialect, line, and metaphor. This lesson provides a strong foundation for research.
Concepts: Visual literacy, Elements of poetry, Textile Mill Era, Writing Process, Research
Essential Question
1. What was life like during the early South Carolina Textile Mill Era? (1890 - 1938)
2. How can I close read a photograph?
3. What can I learn from a poem?
4. How can I respond through creative writing?
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5, 8
An electronic device for viewing photographs and reading poems.
Students will need a pencil and paper.
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- I Inquiry-Based Literacy Standards
- 5-3 The student will demonstrate an understanding of major domestic and foreign developments that contributed to the United States becoming a world power.
- 8-5 The student will understand the impact of Reconstruction, industrialization, and Progressivism on society and politics in South Carolina in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- Grade 6: Acquire and use general academic and domain-specific words or phrases that signal precise actions, emotions, and states of being; demonstrate an understanding of nuances and jargon.
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Lesson Partners: ABC (Arts in Basic Curriculum)