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Wednesday 10 April 2019

Child labour Research task

Here is a research task I have been given-

Who was involved/Included in child labour?
Around 152 million children are involved in child labour, it was said to be around 88 million of them are boys and 64 million of them are girls. 48% are aged 5-11 years of age. Almost half of the children/child workers are in Africa- 72.1 million kids, and the other 41% of children are in Asia and the Pacific -62.1 million. Almost half of the workers, work in the most hazardous child labour ever - 73 million. 

How were these kids involved, and how did they get involved?
More than 2/3 of all the children in child labour work as contributors family labourers on farms or in families- 69.1%. Some parents or families also sell their kids to pay off any debts, they cannot afford on time. Some kids who are given away to work can be gone from home for months to even years, it is a long period of time until they have worked off the debt, and sometimes the parents pay the rest, so their kid doesn't need to work longer.

Where is child labour, what areas of the world is child labour?
There are so many countries in the world that have child labour so I am just naming the top ten-
10-Somalia
9-Pakistan
8-Nigeria
7-Myanmar
6-Liberia
5-India
4-Ethiopia
3-Dr Congo
2-Chad
1-Bangladesh

What are the reasons for child labour?
The people behind it earn a large amount of money each year, roughly $150 billion dollars in illegal profits- This comes from what the forced labour generates.

Facts-
- 71% of child labour takes place in agriculture, for example, things such as-
Livestock herdings, Brick making, aquaculture, fishing, forestry, mining for gold, silver, diamonds and so much more hazardous jobs.
-19% of children who are in child labour, are in low-income countries and around 2 million victims live in high-income countries, but still, get paid lower than the minimum wage- illegally.
-More than 1/4 of children that work in hazardous are done by children under the age of 12, that's- 19 million.
- Some children in child labour are forced to work for other people as a way of paying a debt, for example, their family would have to give their kids to them, and the children would have to work until the debt is paid, this could take from months up to years.
- Some children willingly do it because they're scared of their families getting slaughtered if they don't.
-Children who try to escape from working would usually get a really bad punishment, and the ones who had escaped successfully would've eventually been caught, or in really bad trauma.



Thursday 4 April 2019

All summer in a day- Ray Bradbury

Here is a link to the story my class read together, and here are some questions and answers.
STORY LINK

Find 3 words you don't know the definition to, look them up and write the definitions in your words.
tumultuously, Apparatus & tremors.

Tumultuous- When an unintentional noise happens and you have many ideas on what could've made that sound, or just a loud noise like applause.

Apparatus- Any machinery or equipment needed for a project or to create a structure of some sort.

Tremors- Shaking of some sort, or small shakes for example- Mini earthquakes.

Discuss the Exposition of the story -- what are the characters, setting, and mood?
Margot, students, William and the teacher.
The setting- On Venus
The dark, gloomy and dreary.

List and label one metaphor, one simile, and one example of sensory language from the story.
Metaphor- "The children lay out laughing on the jungle mattress"
Simile- "The sun is a flower, that blooms for just one hour".
Sensory language- {They were taking off their jackets letting the sun burn their arms}

List and label an example of show not tell from the story.
"It was the colour of flaming bronze and it was very large" - The sun
"The sky was a blazing blue tile colour". - The sky colour description





Child soldiers.

Here is a map I have created on where child soldiers are mostly made and are a large amount.
The information on it is about what other types of labours take place there.
I have ordered the countries in line, on the mildest labours to the most extreme, starting from Somalia to Yemen.


What is a child soldier?
A child soldier is literally what the name is, It is a kid who has either been taken or chosen to leave their homes and go away to learn how to fight, cook, clean, kill and so on. These kids can be turned into a bad army, they go around killing or having wars with other armies, sometimes innocent people.

Here is also a S.E.E.L paragraph I have created on Child soldiers-

Children are used in wars and armies because they are captured at a young age, some have a will to join to avenge their families death and are easily manipulated by warlords and recruiters. Child soldiers have no human rights or freedom because they are controlled by warlords who deny advantages. For example, child soldiers in Somalia are used for either sexual entertainment or as messengers, porters, spies and even cooks, they are very easily manipulated, have chosen too, or have grown into the army. The ones that have chosen to join the army may have done so because they have either lost their families and want to get revenge for their deaths, come from poor families, are homeless or have trauma and are too scared that if they don't join, they will get slaughtered along with their families. Most of these child soldiers are sold to other armies for sexual use, or as slaves.