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How has the process of clock and watchmaking changed over time?

Primary and Secondary Sources

• Classroom literacy reading assignment - Grandfather's Clock by Henry Clay Work
• The Minute Waltz by Frederic Chopin (Victor Borge and Leonid Hambro)
• Document: Bond of a London Apprentice Who Served Out His Time In Boston
• Colonial Apprentices
• Trades
• History of Apprenticeship

This lesson's primary source document:

An English Clockmaker's Shop


Theodoor Galle (Flemish Baroque engraver) 1571-1633

Materials:

• A copy of the engraving of a clockmaker's shop in England (pictured above)
• Observe and analyze the engraving while filling-in the appropriate columns on the blank worksheet: featuring the column titles - "What Do You Know - What Do You Think You Know - What Do You Want to Know More About?"

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