Please grab your English binder, and open up to your “Do Now” section of your binder.

Do Now  Respond to the following question in one paragraph or more. You have ten minutes: What is a social issue that you are concerned about and why?

Line up Chit Chat  Tell the person across from you what your wrote  The person with the lightest color hair should share first.

The Progressive Era  1890 – 1920  American women earn the right to vote in 1918  Jazz music becomes very popular  Filmmaking becomes very popular  Accessibility to tobacco and alcohol  The point is... Social change was happening fast!

19 th Century American Literature  Muckraking and Reform  Journalistic Phenomenon  The “literature of exposure”  Magazines are the primary medium, followed by newspapers  Focus on failures of government and corporations  Primary targets of muckrakers: Child labor, exploitation of minorities by government and corporations, meat processing industry

Jacob Riis  Born in Ribe, Denmark in 1849  Immigrated to New York in 1870 at 21 years old.  Initially, he was unable to find work, so he lived in police lodging houses, begging for food.  After three years of doing odd jobs, he landed a job as a police reporter with the New York Evening Sun. He worked in the poorest, most crime-ridden areas of the city. These were generally neighborhoods where immigrants lived in deplorable tenement houses.  How the Other Half Lives (1890) inspired then police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt to close the police lodging houses as the conditions were so poor.

How the Other Half Lives  In the 1890s, many people in the middle and upper class society were unaware of the dangerous conditions in the slums among poor immigrants.  He blamed the apathy of the middle and upper classes for the conditions of the New York slums, and assumed that as people were made more aware of these conditions they would be motivated to help eradicate them.

Review  Talk to your shoulder partner about the following: What is visual literacy?

Photograph Titles  On a piece of paper, work with your shoulder partner to come up with a title for each of Riis’s photographs.