Note: if you missed last Friday's vocabulary quiz, please make arrangements to make it up. As well, there was a graphic organizer that went with the reading on "The Triangle Shirt Waist Fire." If you did not turn it in on Friday-or if you were absent- I put in a holding zero. Please get me the work, so I can change the grade.
I will pass out current grade reports tomorrow. Anything missing will be accepted for 50 points until Friday, after which the zeros will remain.
When we return from break, there are only two weeks left in the 3rd quarter marking period. tick tock
Learning Targets:
I can cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
I can determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze how an author uses and refines the meaning of a key term or terms over the course of a text.
I determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to provide a complex analysis; provide an objective summary of the text.
I can read and comprehend literary nonfiction.
I can draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
I can integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
In class: epitaph sharing
new vocabulary class handout / copy below
Introduction to Jacob Riis and his investigative report "How the Other Half Lives"
Jacob A. Riis arrived in New York in 1870. As the economy slowed, the Danish American photographer found himself among the many other immigrants in the area whose daily life consisted of joblessness, hunger, homelessness, and thoughts of suicide. So when he finally found work as a police reporter in 1877, he made it his mission to reveal the crime and poverty of New York City’s East Side slum district to the world.
The resulting book, How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York, was published in 1890, and is still considered “a landmark in the annals of social reform.” Filled with pictures, sketches and graphic descriptions of the un-imaginable living conditions he found, the book forced the topic of tenement reform to the forefront of every New Yorker’s attention.
Riis pulled no punches. Indignant, pedantic, and at times racist (some believe he was simply playing on the biases of his target audience) his sometimes hard-to-swallow descriptions of the residents of the tenement district are paired with equally hard-to-swallow photography:
The photograph above is titled “Bandit’s Roost,” and shows 59½ Mulberry Street (Mulberry Bend) in New York City — an area that was considered the most crime-ridden and dangerous part of the entire city.
Said to be inspired by Dickens and his writing about London’s poor, Riis’ work had a profound effect on the lives of those he photographed. A photojournalist who had himself lived in these condition, his book was the agent of social change that New York needed at the time.
Not to say that Riis was a saint. He separated the impoverished into two categories: those deserving of assistance and everyone else. He also never outright called for any government intervention, even though it came anyway. What most people seem to agree on is that his photojournalistic work was based on a genuine, heartfelt sympathy for those people whose lives he documented and helped to improve.
Vocabulary for the week of March 23
How the Other Half
Lives by Jacob
Riis vocabulary quiz Friday, March 27
1.
promiscuous- (adj) a person having many
transient relationships
2.
garret- (noun)attic room
3.
slovenliness-(adj) marked by negligence
4.
cupidity- (noun) greed
5.
maxim-(noun) saying
6.
to augur- to portend or foretell
7.
rumpus- noisy disturbance or commotion
8.
perambulate- to walk
9.
hegira -
a flight to escape danger
10.
turpitude- moral depravity
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