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Topic
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Day 1
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Immigrants and Progressives: Ethical Culture and the Immigrants
DBQ:
New York Progressives: Jacob Riis, Felix Adler, John Dewey (webpage)
DBQ: New York Progressives: Jacob Riis, Felix Adler, John Dewey (pdf)
1) How do progressives view the
poor? How are their ideas similar to those of earlier reformers?
How are they different?
2) How does Adler's mission grow
out of the experience of the immigrant metropolis?
3) Define social darwinism. Define
paternalism. Did Adler employ either of these?
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Day 2
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Greater New York: Brooklyn and Consolidation
HA, 114-123
Epic Chapter 36
Brooklyn Eagle Editorial on Consolidation, "Brooklyn's Last Days," October 19, 1897, page 6 (pdf)
DBQ:
Consolidation and Greater New York (pdf) or,
DBQ: Consolidation and Greater New York (webpage)
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? Why does it succeed?
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Day 3
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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
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Day 4 & 5
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Only the Dead Know Brooklyn: Brooklyn and Literature
Brooklyn Readings: Whitman, Crane,
Wolfe
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Edith Wharton, Old Maid (from
Old New York)
literature not discussed
in class will be discussed on tour
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Day 5 & 6
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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?
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Day 6
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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)
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Day 7
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Library research and submit Journals
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Day 8
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Classroom and web research and submit quiz questions
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Day 9
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Classroom and web research and submit tour notes
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Day 10
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Tour: Brooklyn Bridge and Brooklyn Heights
Meet at the Horace Greeley Statue just east of City Hall at 9:30am
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Day 11
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Quiz, debrief on tour and post contributions on the Gotham map website
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