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The Labor Art project was created after we finished reading A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. We wanted you to try using art, in this case poetry and songwriting to: raise awareness, inform the public, and inspire action on social issues. We want you to focus on the discrepancy between the haves and the have nots. We want you to take a close look at labor and class. Who builds the building we inhabit? Who profits? Who builds our goods? Who sews our clothes?

After doing research on global and local labor laws, rights and conditions you will write a song or poem addressing the information you discover. Although this appears to be a writing assignment, you are actually being assessed on your ability to use resources, sort information, and determine appropriateness of both sources and information.

The Benchmarks being assessed during the research phase are as follows:

• Use a variety of resource materials to gather information for a research topic
• Organize information and ideas from multiple sources in systematic ways
• Determine appropriateness of an information source for a research topic

1. Use the levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy below to explain how you could show evidence that you can:

• Use a variety of resource materials to gather information for a research topic
• Organize information and ideas from multiple sources in systematic ways
• Determine appropriateness of an information source for a research topic

Knowledge: arrange, define, duplicate, label, list, memorize, name, order, recognize, relate, recall, repeat, reproduce, state.

Comprehension: classify, describe, discuss, explain, express, identify, indicate, locate, recognize, report, restate, review, select, translate,

Application: apply, choose, demonstrate, dramatize, employ, illustrate, interpret, operate, practice, schedule, sketch, solve, use, write.

Analysis: analyze, appraise, calculate, categorize, compare, contrast, criticize, differentiate, discriminate, distinguish, examine, experiment, question, test.

Synthesis: arrange, assemble, collect, compose, construct, create, design, develop, formulate, manage, organize, plan, prepare, propose, set up, write.

Evaluation: appraise, argue, assess, attach, choose compare, defend estimate, judge, predict, rate, core, select, support, value, evaluate.

See examples here at our wiki. We will also assess one writing and one presentation benchmark.
You will brainstorm essential you want to answer through your research. We will use Bloom’s Taxonomy to make sure you critically look at this entire process.

1. How effective are the questions you are trying to answer?

Take a look at the list of questions you have brainstormed.

• Put them in order of most important to you to least.
• Label the questions using labels like political, class, personal etc…
• Review your list and identify five questions you would like to answer
• Explain why you think the answers to these questions will make for good material for a poem.

We will now start our research and start thinking about our poems. We will continue to listen to a song or two, which deal with social issues. We have listened to Bob Dyaln, Bob Marley, and Rage Against the Machine so far.

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