In order to prepare for the chat, in class we did a number of
things to get us ready. First, we did a
website investigation. We explored the website reading all of the information
that was provided for us and examined the pictures that were offered to us. The
second thing we did to prepare ourselves is watch a video which was created by
Jamie. Within the video, he talked about the different machines and what they
did and how they worked. After watching his video we then had to define some of
the words he used in the video. We had to define the words using our google
keyword search skills. Some of the words we had to define were slubbing, power
loom, sliver, and drawing frame. Finally, we drafted questions to ask Jamie the
day of the chat.
I learned a lot of interesting things from the video chat
with Jamie. One thing that I learned that I did not know before was that the
workers got paid depending on how much they made. So if the cotton you made got
ruined then you would not get paid. I also learned that the job of most
children was to brush the fiber into a straight line and then give it to the
mother of the household to be turned into thread. At the time, the loom was the
most valuable thing a family owned and it was passed down from father to son. The
chance of injury was so high in the factories because of how dangerous the
machines were. People and children were
pulled into machines and their bodies were mangled. People lost limbs daily. They
had the children clean because they could reach all the small places. Orphans would
be bought and brought to the mills to do this hard job. Throughout the chat I learned
many things from Jamie.
Overall I learned a lot from the discussion with Jamie. I thought
it was really cool how we got to video chat with someone in England. I liked
how we got to ask him questions and interact with him. I would definitely like
to do another video chat with experts on other topics throughout the school
year.
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