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Enslaved Children Freed After Being Forced to Make Christmas Decorations (1470L)
Instructions: COMPLETE ALL QUESTIONS AND MARGIN NOTES
Read the following article carefully and make notes in the margin as you read.
Your notes should include:
o Comments that show that you understand the article. (A summary or statement of the main
idea of important sections may serve this purpose.)
o Questions you have that show what you are wondering about as you read.
o Notes that differentiate between fact and opinion.
o Observations about how the writer’s strategies (organization, word choice, perspective,
support) and choices affect the article.
Your margin notes are part of your score for this assessment.
Answer the questions carefully in complete sentences unless otherwise instructed.
Student ____________________________Class Period__________________
Notes on my thoughts,
Enslaved Children Freed After Being Forced to Make
reactions and questions as I
Christmas Decorations
read:
Police and child advocates broke padlocks and busted down doors in a surprise
raid of a sweatshop in India, only to find a group of children imprisoned who
had been forced to make Christmas decorations. The children, as young as 8
years old, were kept in rooms approximately six feet by six feet and had been
forced to work up to 19-hour days making the decorations, which advocates
believe may have been intended to be sold on the cheap in the United States.
Human rights group Global March for Children led the raid, but also got help
from former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who now serves as the
United Nations special envoy for global education.
The 14 children who were freed are now in the process of being reunited with
their families, who are scattered across India.
Brown released video to ABC News revealing what he says were the illegal
conditions in which the children in Delhi were discovered.
“There is no parent in the world who would ever want their child to be subjected
to conditions that you see in these films of children in dingy basements, without
air, without food, without proper care, being forced into child labor for all these
No author listed. Enslaved children freed after being forced to make Christmas decorations. Available at Yahoo.News.
December 7, 2012.

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