The+Famine




 * =====Lesson 1===== ||  || =====What do we know already about the famine?===== ||   || =====KWL Worksheet===== ||
 * =====Lesson 2===== ||  || =====Life in 19th Century Ireland=====

Explore the relationship between Landlord and Tenant and explain why the cottier class depended on the potato.
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 * =====Lesson 3===== ||  || =====What were the Causes of the Famine?===== ||   ||   ||
 * Lesson 4 ||  || The Course of the Famine

Use the information in the passage to create a timeline for the famine.

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 * Lesson 5 ||  || Famine Relief Measures ||   ||   ||
 * Lesson 6 ||  || Emigration

This is an opportunity to link with current migration trends. Investigate what the challenges faced by migrants are and how you would feel to be exiled from your country.

Lesson Ideas

Watch the videos and read the information. and write a letter home as a migrant describing your first few days in the USA.

Have a class discussion on present-day migration and how we should respond to it.

Write a poem/song from the perspective of a migrant. ||  || media type="custom" key="28809622"



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