Immigration and Migration and the Making of a Modern American City

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 14.03.02

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Objectives
  4. Back of the Yards: A Neighborhood
  5. My Research Process: Applications Beyond Chicago
  6. Strategies
  7. Activities
  8. Notes
  9. Appendix
  10. Bibliography

Neighborhood as Palimpsest: An Examination of Chicago's Back of the Yards Neighborhood Through Urban Historical Geography

Molly A. Myers

Published September 2014

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Notes

1Johnson, Steve. "'Chicago Time Machine' Looks at Layers of History." Chicago Tribune, (December 2, 2013).

2Kass, John. "'Cullerton Tradition May Be Over." Chicago Tribune, (February 26, 1993).

3 Hayden, Dolores. Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History, (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997), 16.

4Ibid, 15.

5Cresswell, Tim. Place: a short introduction, (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2004). Kindle Edition.

6Hayden, 16.

7Ritchhart, Ron, Mark Church, and Karin Morrison. Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for all Learners. (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2011), Kindle edition.

81900 U.S. census, Cook County, Illinois, population schedule, 29th Ward, accessed July 10, 2014, http://ancestory.com. 1920 U.S. census, Cook County, Illinois, population schedule, 29th Ward, accessed July 10, 2014, http://ancestory.com.

9Ibid.

10Wade, Louise Carroll. Chicago's Pride: The Stockyards, Packingtown, and Environs in the Nineteenth Century. (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1987), 280

11Ibid, 288.

12Ibid, 291.

13Ibid, 297.

14Barrett, James. Work and Community in the Jungle: Chicago's Packinghouse Workers 1894-1922. (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1987) , 75.

15Roediger, "Racism, Ethnicity, and White Identity". Encyclopedia of Chicago, (Retrieved on July 13, 2014 from http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1033.html)

16Peiss, Kathy. Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in the Turn-of-the-Century New York. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986), 88-114.

17McDowell, Mary. The University of Chicago settlement-Primary Source Edition. Public Domain. Reprinted by Nabu Press Charleston, SC in 2014, 8.

18Ibid, p. 8.

19Jacobs, Heidi Hayes. Active Literacy: Across the Curriculum, (Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education, 2006), 41.

20Ritchhart, Ron, Mark Church, and Karin Morrison. Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for all Learners. (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2011), Kindle edition.

21Zweirs, Jeff and Marie Crawford. Academic Conversations: Classroom Talk that Fosters Critical Thinking and Content Understandings. (Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers, 2011), Kindle edition.

22Zweirs, Jeff and Marie Crawford. Academic Conversations: Classroom Talk that Fosters Critical Thinking and Content Understandings. (Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers, 2011), Kindle edition.

23Ibid.

24Ritchhart, Ron, Mark Church, and Karin Morrison. Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for all Learners. (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2011), Kindle edition.

25Ibid.

26Ibid.

Comments:

Sydney Hunt Coffin

July 12, 2015 at 7:55 pm

brilliant

I adore how the author/Molly Myers has articulated the place with language as well as through concrete activities for her students. The introduction has been a fabulous read and a model for me to approach introducing my own ideas to my students and other teachers. While I am in Philadelphia, so Back of the Yards carries less relevance for me directly, the general concepts around understanding the genuine specificity of her area corresponds closely with my own school neighborhood in Hunting Park. How the layers do build up quickly! How are there other stories which can inform our present-day existence and knowledge of the place we call home? Molly finds answers by digging deep into the even deeper questions that drive us all.

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