As a draw from our last unit: Looking Beyond Myself, this week we are studying the lives of migrant farm workers; both how they fought for fair wages and appropriate working conditions here in the united States back in the 1960s and also how farm workers still live today in developing countries.
Here are some of the resources we have been using in class to discuss this topic:
The Life of Cesar Chavez - Nonfiction article
The Circuit (Excerpt) - Historical fiction story
Living on One Dollar (Netflix Documentary)
In rural Guatemala, four friends battle illness, parasites, and hunger as they experiment with living on just one dollar a day for eight weeks.
