Unit 1 - Unit 2 - Unit 3 - Unit 4 - Unit 5 - Unit 6

 

TOUR UNIT SIX

 

Central Park- Whose Park Is It Anyway?

 

 

 

Day

Topic

Day 1

 

ãThe Park and the People:ä Transcendentalism in New York

 

HA, 86-89

Karp, The Central Park,

Readings on Transcendentalsim: Whitman, Melville, etc.

 

slides of Hudson River School in class

 

Day 2

 

Reform and the Fear of Industrialization

 

Blackmar and Rosenzweig, Park and the People

 

in-class lide show on Central Park: Triumph and Tragedy

 

Day 3

 

ãRe-creationä and Real Estate

 

Blackmar and Rosenzweig, Park and the People

 

Day 4

 

Contested Domains: The Case of Seneca Village

 

Blackmar and Rosenzweig, Park and the People

 

in-class Seneca Park simulation

 

Day 5

 

Contested Domains: The Case of Seneca Village

 

Blackmar and Rosenzweig, Park and the People

 

Discuss tour location and choose stops(in groups)

 

in-class Seneca Park simulation

 

Day 6

 

Library research

 

Day 7

 

Classroom and web research and submit quiz questions

 

Day 8

 

Central Park tour- meet at 9am at the Northeast corner of 77th Street and Central Park West (Humbolt Statue)

 

Day 9

 

New Yorkâs Future: New York as People and Place

 

Calvin Trillin, What Makes New Yorkers Tick

E.B. White, Here is New York

 

Debrief on tour and post contributions on the Gotham map website