Subscribers
Click here for your magazine's digital resources.Not a Subscriber?
Password protection is coming soon! To ensure continued access, subscribe now.
Junior Scholastic classroom magazine helps educators meaningfully integrate current events into their social studies lessons. Each issue uses today’s biggest national and international news stories to introduce essential geography concepts, American history milestones, and important world studies topics.
Online resources are FREE with your paid print subscription.
For Teachers
- Answers to FAQs
-
E-mail the editor
of Junior Scholastic - Take a Video Tour
- Download the Planning Calendar
Free Teacher e-Newsletter
Get teaching tips, information, and resources that connect to the magazine! Enter your e-mail address:
©Hajo de Reijger/Cagle Cartoons
May 6, 2013
Made in Bangladesh
- Last month, a poorly constructed building in Bangladesh that manufactured clothes for American and European companies like the Gap and H&M collapsed, killing more than 500 people. Why do you think the cartoonist chose the three images above to convey what happened?
- Who might the cartoonist be criticizing by drawing the piles of clothes and money so tall?
- Why do you think so many U.S. companies have moved their factories to developing countries like Bangladesh and China?
- Do you think American companies have a responsibility to ensure that their suppliers abroad provide a safe working environment? Why or why not?
- When you shop, do you think about where your clothes come from and who made them? Explain.
