Grade 9 HaSS students have investigated how the Industrial Revolution affected British society, through life-changing advances in technology of the time, rapid urbanisation, growth of a middle class and workers’ movements. They have also explored its global implications, including use of slavery. Their major assessment task involved creating either diary entries or newspaper articles relevant for the time. This gave them opportunities to build their research skills and make comparisons between lives then and their own now.  Who knows? Some of them might be writing for the front page of newspapers (or online sites) some day?