1. Muckraking at its Finest!

2. Our Muckraking Agenda Station #1: Smartboard You will need: Notebook and Planner Station #2: Hallway You will need: Handout and Notebook Station #3: Back left corner You will need: Textbook Pgs 171 and 176 and Notebook –Read Ida Tarbel and Upton Sinclair excerpts and answer questions

3. Jacob Riis Muckraking Photographer

4. Jacob Riis – The Immigrant Jacob Riis immigrated to the United States from Denmark in 1870. After years of extreme poverty and hardship he finally found employment as a police reporter for the New York Tribune in 1877. In the 1880s his work gravitated towards reform and he worked with other New York reformers then crusading for better living conditions for the thousands of immigrants flocking to New York in search of new opportunities. His most popular work, How The Other Half Lives, became a pivotal work that precipitated much needed reforms and made him famous. Jacob Riis's photography, taken up to help him document the plight of the poor, made him an important figure in the history of documentary photography.

5. Jacob Riis – The Muckraker Jacob Riis employed a blend of reporting, reform and photography that made him a unique legend in all three fields. Theodore Roosevelt held Riis in very high esteem offering him positions of power and influence in his administration and calling him, "the most useful citizen of New York". Instead Riis continued his creative work, producing books on the plight of poor children, immigrants and tenement dwellers. He died in 1914.

6. Directions for Jacob Riis Photographs 1.In your notebook, number your paper, leaving some space in between, 1-7 2.Analyze the following 7 photographs and write what you think is going on in each picture 3.Create titles for each of the photographs 4.Once you are finished, we will compare your titles to his and discuss our conclusions 5.Finally, you will use both the pictures and his an excerpt from How the Other Half Lives to construct your own original Muckraking article about immigrant and urban conditions.

7. Title :

14. Now Compare Your Titles to His….Any Differences?

15. Bandit’s Roost

16. Playground

17. One of the four peddlers who slept in the cellar of 11 Ludlow Street Rear - 1892

18. 5 cents a spot

19. Dens of Death

20. $1 a Month

21. Homeless Children

22. Homework….Write this down in your planners….seriously… Please use these pictures or information in Chapter 6 Section 1 to write an original 1 Page muckraking article for the newspaper. It should be catchy, descriptive, and persuasive! Remember, muckrakers exposed problems so progressives could fix them! *You can work on this at other stations too, once you finish that stations’ work!