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A woman sells her son to a chimney sweep.
Chim-Chimney
Chim-Chimney
A large number of chimney sweep children were purchased from their desperately poor parents, this means that they were effectively owned by their boss. As you can imagine, these bosses didn't really treat them well. They were just there to do a job.
The chimney-sweep job was perfect for small children because they could squeeze up the tiny space to clean off lumps of soot, which could lead to a chimney catching fire if they weren't cleaned off. This meant that children as young as three were sent up chimneys to clean them.
The work was hard and led to many injuries. Sometimes children would get stuck up a chimney for hours breathing in the toxic dust. They even had a form of cancer named after them because it was so common for a chimney sweep to die from the disease. Not many chimney sweeps lived long enough to reach their 30's.
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Questions you will need to cover
Questions you will need to cover
Decide on your name and age. Introduce yourself on your project. Think of a back story for your character.
Where do you live?
What do you do at work? Describe the average day.
What are some of the health problems you face as a chimney sweep? (Come up with four)
Some good things about my job.
Some bad things about my job.
What is an interesting fact/statistic about chimney sweeps?
Links that will give you more information
Links that will give you more information
Chimney SweepResearch doc students can complete to answer the above questions
Presentation PlanningPlanning doc contains a marking schedule to mark students work.
IMPORTANT: Recording your work
IMPORTANT: Recording your work
The above questions need to be written and answered as part of your project. Each question needs full answers. The work must be your own or that is what we call plagiarism (fancy word for stealing/cheating) and through high school you will fail if you plagiarise. So no copy and paste.
Whether you present this work as a document or a slide or poster. Your choice. BUT! It must look good!
Here is a good video which will give you some ideas: Tips on making a nice Google Doc
Remember you can present this in many ways, not just a doc. Talk to your teacher if you are unsure.
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