Home Page
This site is being updated, October 21, 2022.
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,
it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,
it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity,
it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness,
it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
we had everything before us, we had nothing before us,
we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going
direct the other way–in short, the period was so far like
the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities
insisted on its being received, for good or for evil,
in the superlative degree of comparison only."
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Link to Upland Junior High School Expectations
Link to Upland Unified School District's
Career Technical Education page:
------------------------
ART - Media Techniques Uses
Example: How do water molecules arrange themselves when water freezes? Why do snowflakes have six sides?
Above:
Links to pages about child labor in United States and England.
Regarding child labor in England:
"In 1819 the Cotton Factory Act was passed, stating that mills could only employ children over the age of nine and restricting the working day to 12 hours. This still left children with cripplingly long hours working within dangerous conditions, and because the act was not enforced by inspectors, some mill owners still exploited child labour."
Upland Junior High School - Art class resources
"A picture is worth a thousand words."
Photographs and other works of art have been used to call attention to social issues. Years ago, one of these issues in the U.S. was child labor in various industries. Teenagers and younger children, some as young as 6 years old, spent their days working in coal mines and factories.
Factories that produced cloth, called textile mills, were a major industry in New England. Many young women and girls worked long hours keeping these mills running. The workplaces were often noisy, dirty, and dangerous. In the coal mining camps of Appalachia (Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia and neighboring states), young men and boys did the dirty, monotonous work of separating pieces of coal from other rocks. Some boys were even sent into the dark, dangerous underground mines to work with adult men. These men and boys used hand tools and explosives to dig tunnels through the layers of rock and coal. After pieces of coal were cut or blasted loose, they were placed in carts. The carts were then pulled along rails by men, boys, or mules in order to get the coal out of the mine tunnels.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The link below will take you to some of the pictures of these working children. (Page may be restricted).
Google for:
mother jones kids coal mines
============================================
Other works of art were used to call attention to the child labor issue. For example, consider this poem:
The Golf Links by Sarah N. Cleghorn
The golf links lie so near the mill
That almost every day
The laboring children can look out
And see the men at play.
THESE SUBJECTS ARE CONNECTED TO EACH OTHER.
You should see an image like the one above (blue rectangle with a triangular PLAY icon) when you click the Interview link below. The arrow in the image above IS NOT AN ACTIVE BUTTON!
Below: Link to a NASA video about the landing of the Curiosity Mars Rover. All of the events depicted in this video actually happened. But because they happened millions of miles from Earth, artists had to create the images of the Curiosity landing.
Adam Steltzner (above)
NASA Curiosity Rover project,
Entry, Descent and Landing team lead.
Below -- Directions for making a simple tool that can be useful to RV and travel-trailer owners. This is a carry-over from the original version of this website a few years ago. -TJ
The images above describe a simple tool for removing interior light covers on an RV. The tool was made from a 1 and 1/2 inch common nail. Note the 90 degree bend is made away from area of the nail head that gets removed with a file. Make 2 of these tools and use them together to pry one side of the light cover away from the light fixture.