1. “Tenement Folk” reading
Please don’t mark up the readings please 
As a class we’ll read p together
Then you will choose whether to turn to page 205 or 206, and so on.
When you finish your story, write down in your notebook:
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.

2. I Spy… write down everything you see.

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

4. Excerpt from How the Other Half Lives
“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.”

5. Urban Growth:

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

7. Lodgers Huddled Together

8. Struggling Immigrant Families

11. Mulberry Street – “Little Italy”

12. St. Patrick’s Cathedral

13. Hester Street – Jewish Section

14. 1900 Rosh Hashanah Greeting Card

15. Pell St. - Chinatown, NYC

16. Letter back to your home country-
Use the same character from your immigrant journal write on 10/20.
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!