Descriptive MGP EDRG 3344 T/R

This is based on Victorian England and it is for High School Seniors.

The Life I lead.

Wind whistles through the trees,
They reach toward the sky,
Looking for something unattainable.
Much like me. I want to be free
To do things my own way,
To live the life I chose.
Manners and Propriety suffocate,
Free-spirits crushed,
Molded into who they want,
Submissive, passionless, naïve,
A trophy to hold, not a person.
Chattle, property, debased
This is the life I lead
Would you like to be me?

Expository EDRG 3344 T/R

So this is what I have right now. It will have more detail to it as I am able to do more research for it.

Victorian Female Dress

The Victorian woman dresses for modesty. They are covered from wrist to ankle and never show much more skin than their hands and maybe their feet, this is the basic standard for middle class Victorian women. This unfortunately was not the case for working class women whose clothes were often times ripped and worn because they could not afford to darn their clothing.

For middle class Victorian women fashion was very important and the styles changed drastically through the mid to late Victorian era. Women went from wearing bustles to not wearing them at all. Hard Bustles were made from the same materials as a hoop skirt except it was just in the back of the dress and not all around as it once was. After a time bustles became nothing but fabric layered upon fabric which added weight to the dresses. Dressed changed to form fitting with no bustles and just a long train down the back often referred to as the Princess Line.

The undergarments are much the same as they were in the times before. Petticoats became more ornamental and more like lingerie. They came in different colors with flowers on them and more design to them. Corsets were worn because the 18 inch waist was still the ideal size, and having a synched waist was the in-style thing at the time.
 

EDRG 3344 T/R: Persuasive

This will be a brochure with pictures but for right now here is the text.

Would you allow your children to work in these conditions and be subject to this kind of punishment or back breaking labor?
*children are being beaten for poor workmanship
*they stand in one position all day
*breath in soot and fibers
*have malformations of bones because of hard labor and bending over all day
*their feet splay because they put constant weight on one foot instead of both

If you wouldn't allow this to happen to your own children why allow it to happen to someone elses children.
*fight for better working conditions for these children if they have to work
*fight for higher working ages so that the children's bones won't become malformed because of the hard work
*fight for higher wages for the parents so their children won't have to work
*fight to end child labor

EDRG 3344 T/R: Narrative

This is my first revision of my Narrative. It is a day in the life of a Victorian Woman. This was written for Seniors in High School.

My mornings start at 7 am. I awake to the bells that toll on the hour in the town square. This particular morning the floor is ice cold and I light a candle so that I can start breakfast for my husband and 3 children. The floor creaks as I make my way down the stairs to the Kitchen. I light more candles in the kitchen and get the fireplace in the kitchen going and start the stove to cook breakfast. We are unfortunately to poor to afford a kitchen servant or a servant of any kind. We are lucky enough, however, that I and my children do not have to work in those harsh textile mills like so many families here do. My name is Charlotte Bronson and I am a middle class woman living in a suburb of the City of London.

My husband Charles and I first moved here 4 years ago when he received a promotion that moved us from the small town we grew up in to Rural London. We have 3 children Edward, Mary and Matthew. Edward is 10 years old, and Mary and Matthew are 6. They are the dearest things to my heart other than my husband. Edward and Matthew favor their father and Mary favors my looks. They are very handsome children.
After breakfast is cooked, if my children and husband have not awakened, I go to their rooms and wake them. With the mention of breakfast they are quickly out of bed and head to the table. This morning we have toast with butter and jam and some sausage. After breakfast is finished and dishes washed it is time for school for my children. They are homeschooled; this is one of the many tasks that mothers are supposed to aspire to. This is one of the disciplines of the idea of Separate Spheres.

After their lessons are completed they go to play for a while outside with other children on the neighborhood. I clean the house while they are outside and they soon return for lunch. One of the ladies who live near call around 2 pm and we sit and chat about the latest gossip of the neighborhood and have tea and cakes, that I had baked earlier on in the day.

Around 6pm my husband will return from his work and I will have dinner made for him and the children, Mary assists me. This evening we make some bread and fish with small potatoes. Mary helps me mix the batter for the bread and rolls it into a large ball to bake in the oven. I boil the potatoes and cook the fish with some oil. The process of making dinner takes about 2 hours and I start it about an hour before my husband is set to return home from work. I plate the dinner as Mary sets out the plates and cups for everyone and we all join in the dining room for dinner. The children talk to their father about their day and what they learned, I ask my husband about his day at work and talk to him about what he would like for dinner tomorrow night so that the children and I can go to the market tomorrow for the food necessary to prepare dinner.

After dinner has been finished the children are sent to wash and get into bed. I read them a bed-time story, kiss them and put out their candle. After the children are in bed my husband and I sit in our small sitting room and he drinks a glass of whiskey before we head upstairs to bed. Thus is the day in the life of a Victorian Woman from the middle class.

EDRG 3344 T/R Talking in the Classroom

What would a classroom be without talking? Pretty much a prison and your kids will sit there twiddling their thumbs with the information you are spouting out goes in one ear and out the other. Talking is very important and conducive to the learning experiences of every child and teenagers. Talking improves the social abilities of every student in the classroom. This will enhance their abilities later in life by talking to people they don't know or by being able to converse with people they work with or they work for. Talking also increases language proficiency especially with younger children. With older students talking helps increase their vocabulary as well as being able to talk in a more academic and professional manner that helps once they have a job. When students are given something to talk about it makes them think and allows them to make new connections between common topics and strengthen old connections between topics. This increases their knowledge base which helps later in life because you never know when you might need the information. When students have to explain something in their words they have to reason their way through it and are more likely to remember it than if you told them how to do it. Working through math problems out loud not only helps the student but those around them because it might be in terms that they understand better. Doing group work allows students to learn from their fellow students and get new perspectives that they might not normally have gotten. They learn more about the students around them and gain new information about different cultures and experiences that others have had. I personally like doing group work because I see new ways of looking at things through the eyes of someone else and I also learn best by talking things out or explaining something to someone else. I intend to have groups and allow talking in my classroom once I begin to teach. It might get out of hand every once in a while but the benefits outweigh the disadvantages.