1. List down what comes to mind when you think of “ A Concrete Jungle”
Foundation Work:
List down what comes to mind when you think of “ A Concrete Jungle”

2. Chapter 14.1.1: Prelude to the Immigrant Experience

3. FROM A DIFFERENT LENS: The Jungle.
A historical fiction that captures the experiences of immigrants working towards the American Dream.
Takes place in a fictional town known as “Packingtown” in Chicago, Illinois.
Jurgis, an immigrant from Lithuania comes to the United States with his family, in search for the American Dream.

4. WHAT ARE PUSH AND PULL FACTORS…
PUSH FACTORS:
PULL FACTORS:
Religious Persecution
Famine
War
Oppressive Government
Lacking opportunities for social mobility.
Freedom of Religion
Opportunities for social mobility
Jobs, Jobs Galore!
MURICA’!
… FOR NEWCOMING IMMIGRANTS?

5. Our Protagonist Jurgis: His Story is the His-tory of the Immigrant Experience.
Think Pair Share: We praised Capitalism and then we criticize it because of the ill-practices done by the Capitalists.
What do you think Jurgis will experience in Industrial America based off what we learned in Chapter 13?
Do you think Jurgis will carry all of the burdens?

6. Art: Primary Source Analysis.
What messages can be drawn from Lovis Cornith’s Slaughterhouse (1893)?
Think about what we discussed in Chapter 13.
Be open to many different ideas.
The key answer, to mostly all of what immigration is really about is the idea of “Social Darwinism”.
LOVIS CORNITH (1893)

7. WHAT IS THE JUNGLE?

9. LISTEN TO FOLLOWING SONG and WATCH THE VIDEO:
FOUNDATION WORK
LISTEN TO FOLLOWING SONG and WATCH THE VIDEO:
What are some things that come to mind when listening to the song and from watching the video?
DO THIS ON A SEPARATE PIECE OF PAPER. THIS WILL BE TURNED IN AT THE END OF CLASS.

10. 14.1: The New Immigrants

11. CATEGORIES OLD IMMIGRANTS (C: 1880) NEW IMMIGRANTS (C: 1907)
THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN NEW AND OLD IMMIGRANTS:
CATEGORIES
OLD IMMIGRANTS (C: 1880)
NEW IMMIGRANTS (C: 1907)
ORIGINATION
Northern or Western Europe
South or Eastern Europe or Asia
CONNECTION
Friends and family est. in US.
No connection to the US.
RELIGION
Majority Protestant
Jewish, Catholic, or Non-Christ. Rel.
LITERACY
Literate and skilled
Illiterate and unskilled
ADAPTABILITY
Able to quickly “fit-in”
Slowly to assimilate into new culture
AFFLUENCY
Came to the US with some money
Most were penniless
POLITICS
Adhered to Democracy
Used to “autocracy” or radical politics
Old Immigrants: Holland, Germany, France, England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Scandinavia
New Immigrants: Russia, Slovakia, Hungary, Russia, Poland, Croatia, Italy, Greece, Lithuania, Serbia, China, Japan and Korea

12. Ellis Island and Angel Island: The Welcoming of New Immigrants
Immigration to Angel Island and the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 – The physical characteristics of an individual links criminal tendencies or lower intellectual abilities.
Suspected to not be of any use, Chinese immigration was prohibited.
Chinese who managed to make it, could not return back home because of the fear of them not coming back into the country.
ELLIS ISLAND
ANGEL ISLAND

13. DOES THE IDEA OF THE AMERICAN MELTING POT EXIST?
AMERICANIZATION: What’s that…?
BENEFITS
PROBLEMS
Adapt to American dress and diet.
A lost of now, former cultural identity.
Communicate through a common language.
The problem of Nativism.*

14. CHAPTER IX: LANGUAGE AND POLITICS

16. EVERYTHING OFF YOUR DESK
FOUNDATION WORK
EVERYTHING OFF
YOUR DESK

17. 14.2: Cities Expand and Change
Ask student to read Question 1.
Ask 5 students to answer the questions.
Elaborate more on Slide 2.
14.2: Cities Expand and Change

18. FLASHBACK: Hardly Working? WORK HARDER.
Face-value view:
Depicting the conditions of the meatpacking industry.
Workers had to arrive early to work (Sinclair section on “Work”)
Immigrants were not paid much, could not use mass transit (they were mostly broke!).
Had to live nearby to go to work on time.
Cool? Problems?
LOVIS CORNITH (1893)

19. Packingtown, Chicago, IL (C: 1900)
Just a Walking Distance Away…
Tenement houses are located within “urban” spaces.
Crowded, very crowded.
Sanitation was a BIG problem.
Desperation results in crime.
Breakdown:
“Urban spaces” that are close to the factories.
Not a lot of rooms, big families, cramped environment.
Prone to sickness and sanitary concerns.
Desperation for money (because of low wages), result in crime happening within these spaces.
Talk about the primary source photos:
- Crime: Bandit’s Pit and the guy with the double barrel shotgun.
Packingtown, Chicago, IL (C: 1900)

20. SOCIAL DARWINISM, REINTRODUCED (QUESTION 3)
Social Darwinism is a topic that comes up throughout history. It can be argued that the idea of Social Darwinism is presented between tenement owners and tenants. To the best of your ability, explain why this argument could be valid.

21. CHAPTER IV: WORK AND A PLACE TO CALL HOME