Co-op in Review: August 18, 2016

This week was all about the Industrial Revolution.  The students learned about it's beginnings in England and Europe and how it moved and really caught on in the United States.  And, they also learned about how industrialization had both a big upside and an even bigger downside--the perpetuation of the practice of slavery in the United States.  The Rhetoric class made bracelets using Morse Code--which they learned about as they studied the invention of the telegraph.  The Dialectic class made a yarn weaving project--as they learned about the tedious life of a textile fabric worker during this period.  The Upper Grammar class made models of a cotton gin--and they almost work!  The Lower Grammar class made steam powered boat models.  And, the Five in a Row class read the book, "Are You My Mother?"  Then they made a cute craft of the little bird sitting in his nest--before his big adventure begins!