Lesson 2: Socio-Economic Inequity and Global Labor Markets
Duration of Days: 5
Lesson Objective
Students will synthesize diverse viewpoints to defend an ethical stance on international labor practices in an argumentative essay.
What responsibility do consumers have for the labor conditions of foreign workers? How can economic policy balance corporate profit with worker rights?
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.11-12.1; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.11-12.4; MBL Standard 2C.
Day 71: Outsourcing and its effect on domestic and foreign labor markets.
Day 72: The ethics of sweatshops and the fair-trade movement.
Day 73: Multinationals vs. local economic autonomy.
Day 74: Drafting an argumentative essay on economic consumer ethics.
Day 75: Peer critique and publishing financial literacy blogs.
Students engage in an in-class writing lab, utilizing texts concerning global corporate labor practices to argue for or against corporate regulations on imported goods.
Purpose & DOK Level: Ethical synthesis and formal writing; DOK Level 4.
Essay outlines with embedded sentence models; extended time parameters.
Argumentative Global Economy Essay.