Interdisciplinary Approaches to Consumer Culture

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 12.01.07

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Objectives-What content? What skills?
  3. Rationale-Why this content? Why these skills? Why now?
  4. Background
  5. Present
  6. Summative Assessment-How will I know my students achieved the content and skill objectives?
  7. Seeing Through a Critical Consumer Lens
  8. Learning Activities and Strategies
  9. Differentiation
  10. Appendix
  11. Approaches to student inquiry projects
  12. Guide to Helping Students Create Project Websites
  13. How to do this use this unit with information from your own city?
  14. Annotated Bibliography
  15. Endnotes

Present, Past, and Future: Using a Consumer Lens to Help Students Envision a Future

Molly A. Myers

Published September 2012

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Endnotes

  1. "Race Out Loud: Live from B.J.'s" National Public Radio (WBEZ). http://www.wbez.org/blogs/bez/2012-06/race-out-loud-live-bjs-100229
  2. >Common Core Standards http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards/english-language-arts-standards/history-social-studies/grades-9-10/
  3. For various examples of History Labs, copy and paste the following links: http://www.historylab.org/, https://sites.google.com/site/thehistorylab/, http://hlab.tielab.org/, http://www.stanford.edu/group/spatialhistory/cgi-bin/site/index.php,
  4. Wendy Plotkin defines such covenants as "Racial restrictive deed restrictions and covenants were legally enforceable provisions of deeds prohibiting owners from selling or leasing their residences to members of specific racial groups." Wendy Plotkin, "'Hemmed In': The Struggle Against Racial Restrictive Covenants and Deed Restrictions in Post-WWII Chicago." Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1998-) Vol. 94, No. 1, Race and Housing in Post WWII Chicago (Spring, 2001),p. 39.
  5. Plotkin, p. 44.
  6. Preston H. Smith, II. Racial Democracy and the Black Metropolis: Housing Policy in Postwar Chicago. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. p.
  7. Satter, Family Properties:Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America. New York: MacMillan, 2009 p. 50
  8. Ibid, p. 54.
  9. Antonio Olivio, William Mullen, and Dahleen Glanton. "Vacant Homes Keep Englewood in Downward Spiral" Chicago Tribune. Retrieved on July 6, 2012 from http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-06-23/news/ct-met-englewood-20110623_1_vacant-homes-housing-crisis-englewood-and-west-englewood
  10. I am using this term in each sub-category for my background to represent the common, discipline-specific language that is needed to both understand the content and to help students learn within the language of the field.
  11. Antonio Oliva, William Mullen, and Dahleen Glanton, "Vacant homes keep Englewood in downward spiral." Chicago Tribune. June 23, 2011 Retrieved on July 6, 2012 from http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-06-23/news/ct-met-englewood-20110623_1_vacant-homes-housing-crisis-englewood-and-west-englewood
  12. Richard Longstreth, "Sears, Roebuck and the Remaking of the Department Store, 1924-42." Journal of the Society of Architectural HIstorians. Vol. 65, No. 2 (June, 2006), p. 257
  13. Metropolitan Planning Council. By Josh Ellis. Published 2009. Data taken from year 2000.
  14. "A Brief History of Englewood" Chicago Reporter. Retrieved on June 19, 2012 from http://www.chicagoreporter.com/news/2007/10/brief-history-englewood.
  15. Howell, Brenetta. "10 Denied Entrance to Lindblom High" Chicago Defender. June 21st, 1965.
  16. John Dewey Quotes Brainyquote. Retrieved on July 15, 2012 from http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/john_dewey.html
  17. For more information about this program, go to http://www.mikvachallenge.org/.
  18. "Investigating Issues" Mikva Challenge: Center for Action Research. Retrieved on July 25, 2012 from http://www.centerforactioncivics.org/investigating-issues/.
  19. Mary Matz. "TomáÅ¡ Sedláek Interview: Part 1 - Ask a Fish 'What is Water?' Prague TV. retrieved on July 22, 2012 from http://prague.tv/articles/business/tomas-sedlacek-interview-part-one
  20. "Project Soapbox" Mikva Challenge: Center for Action Research. Retrieved on July 25, 2012 from http://www.centerforactioncivics.org/site/epage/128904_963.htm.
  21. "Cognitive Mapping Exercise" Intraspec.ca. Retrieved from Yale Seminar vs server via Jean-Christophe Agnew. Also available at intraspec.ca/Cognitivemappinginst.pdf
  22. Chin, Elizabeth. Purchasing Power: Black Kids and American Consumer Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. p. 214
  23. For resources on local history, copy and past the following links: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/browse/studhist/ http://media.iearn.org/projects/localhistory

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