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“Tenement Folk” reading

Please don’t mark up the readings please  As a class we’ll read p. 201 together Then you will choose whether to turn to page 203 or 204, and so on. When you finish your story, write down in your notebook (right side page):

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“Tenement Folk” reading

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  1. Please don’t mark up the readings please  As a class we’ll read p. 201 together Then you will choose whether to turn to page 203 or 204, and so on. When you finish your story, write down in your notebook (right side page): Which decisions you made (Chicago or Pittsburgh, quit arguing or keep arguing, hotel or yardage store, etc.) Explain what happened to you by the end of the story. “Tenement Folk” reading

  2. I Spy… write down everything you see.

  3. Jacob Riis: - immigrant from Denmark, reporter that exposed the horrid living conditions in NYC. - How the Other Half Lived(1890)

  4. “Be a little careful, please! The hall is dark and you might stumble over the children pitching pennies back there. Not that it would hurt them; kicks and cuffs are their daily diet. They have little else… Close [stuffy]? Yes! What would you have? All the fresh air that ever enters these stairs comes from the hall door that is forever slamming…Here is a door. Listen! That short hacking cough, that tiny, helpless wall- what do they mean?... The child is dying with measles. With half a chance it might have lived; but it had none. That dark bedroom killed it.” Excerpt from How the Other Half Lives

  5. Urban Growth: 1870 - 1900

  6. Tenement: multifamily urban housing, often overcrowded and unsanitary.

  7. Lodgers Huddled Together

  8. Struggling Immigrant Families

  9. Mulberry Street – “Little Italy”

  10. St. Patrick’s Cathedral

  11. Hester Street – Jewish Section

  12. 1900RoshHashanahGreetingCard

  13. Pell St. - Chinatown, NYC

  14. Use the same character from your immigrant journal write on 10/11. Write a one page letter home to your family or friends. Describe your living situation in New York City in a tenement. Be descriptive! Include the sounds, smells and images from the photos we saw today! Letter back to your home country (left side paper)-

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