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TOUR UNIT THREE

Brooklyn Bridge and Brooklyn Heights- The New Metropolis in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Day	Topic
Day 1	Immigrants and Progressives: Ethical Culture and the Immigrants DBQ: New York Progressives: Jacob Riis, Felix Adler, John Dewey 1) How do progressives view the poor? How are their ideas similar to those of earlier reformers? How are they different? 2) How does Adlerâs mission grow out of the experience of the immigrant metropolis? 3) Define social darwinism. Define paternalism. Did Adler employ either of these?
Day 2	Greater New York: Brooklyn and Consolidation HA, 114-123 Epic Chapter 36 DBQ: Consolidation and Greater New York Timeline: Consolidation and the Birth of Greater New York 1) Why do Brooklyn and NYC consolidate? Who pushes for consolidation and why? Who resists and why?
Day 3	The Great Bridge Epic Chapter 28 Lubart, The Great Bridge webpage Video: The Great Bridge Suggested Reading for Reference: McCullogh, Chapters 8 and 9 fromThe Great Bridge Trachtenberg, Chapter 4 and 5 from Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol
Day 4 & 5	Only the Dead Know Brooklyn: Brooklyn and Literature Brooklyn Readings: Whitman, Crane, Wolfe or Edith Wharton, Old Maid (from Old New York) literature not discussed in class will be discussed on tour
Day 5 & 6	Baseball Americanism, Consumerism and Coney Island HA, 128-129 Coney Island and Baseball Timeline Kasson, Amusing the Million Brooklyn Bums handout Hutcheon, Baseball Americanism Spiegel, Take Me Out to the Ball Game webpage Suggested Reading for Reference: Leitner, Baseball, Diamond in the Rough 1) How does basebal serve to celebrate difference? How does it serve to absorb difference? 2) Why do people go to Coney Island? 3) Did Coney island serve the same purpose at the turn of the nineteenth century as Disney World does at the turn of the twentieth?
Day 6	Architecture of the Gilded Age: Brownstones and Beaux-Arts Monuments HA, 140-141 Gibraltar, Beaux-Arts New York webpage architecture handout in class slides Discuss tour location and choose stops (in groups)
Day 7	Library research and submit Journals
Day 8	Classroom and web research and submit quiz questions
Day 9	Classroom and web research and submit tour notes
Day 10	Tour: Brooklyn Bridge and Brooklyn Heights Meet at the Horace Greeley Statue just east of City Hall at 9:30am
Day 11	Quiz, debrief on tour and post contributions on the Gotham map website