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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Appendix

Maps

1900 Map of Families in Economic Distress in Stockyard and Hyde Park Districts (http://dcc.newberry.org/system/artifacts/779/original/Bushnell_Social-Aspects_map-7.jpg)

1909 Map of Immigrants and Population Density in the Back of the Yards Neighborhood (http://edpaha.com/livingthedream/maps/ethnicneighborhoods1909chicago.jpg)

1920 Map of Stockyards and Surrounding Neighborhoods (http://edpaha.com/livingthedream/maps/packingtown1920.jpg)

Ethnicity Maps of Chicago 1860, 1870, and 1900 (http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft40000586;chunk.id=d0e4347;doc.view=print)

Halbwach's 1932 ethnicity map of Chicago (http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1480/2983)

Maps of Foreign Born Population in Chicago 1920 (http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/collections/maps/ssrc/)

Photographs

Settlement House Playground 1901 (http://dcc.newberry.org/collections/the-jungle-and-the-community-workers-and-reformers-in-turn-of-the-century-chicago)

City Garbage Dump in Stockyards 1901 (http://dcc.newberry.org/system/artifacts/785/original/Bushnell_Social-Aspects_p302_detail.jpg and http://dcc.newberry.org/collections/the-jungle-and-the-community-workers-and-reformers-in-turn-of-the-century-chicago)

Strikers Parade 1904 (http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/data/13030/pn/ft4779n9pn/figures/ft4779n9pn_00070.jpg and http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/data/13030/pn/ft4779n9pn/figures/ft4779n9pn_00071.jpg)

Standards

Common Core Reading

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.9-10.1: Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the information.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.9-10.2: Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.9-10.3: Analyze in detail a series of events described in a text; determine whether earlier events caused later ones or simply preceded them.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.9-10.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary describing political, social, or economic aspects of history/social science.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.9-10.5: Analyze how a text uses structure to emphasize key points or advance an explanation or analysis.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.9-10.7: Integrate quantitative or technical analysis (e.g., charts, research data) with qualitative analysis in print or digital text.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.9-10.8: Assess the extent to which the reasoning and evidence in a text support the author's claims.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.9-10.9: Compare and contrast treatments of the same topic in several primary and secondary sources.

Common Core Writing

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.9-10.2

Write informative/explanatory texts, including the narration of historical events, scientific procedures/ experiments, or technical processes.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.9-10.2.A: Introduce a topic and organize ideas, concepts, and information to make important connections and distinctions; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., figures, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.9-10.2.B: Develop the topic with well-chosen, relevant, and sufficient facts, extended definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples appropriate to the audience's knowledge of the topic.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.9-10.2.C: Use varied transitions and sentence structures to link the major sections of the text, create cohesion, and clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.9-10.2.D: Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to manage the complexity of the topic and convey a style appropriate to the discipline and context as well as to the expertise of likely readers.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.9-10.2.E: Establish and maintain a formal style and objective tone while attending to the norms and conventions of the discipline in which they are writing.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.9-10.2.F: Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the information or explanation presented (e.g., articulating implications or the significance of the topic).

National Geography Standards

Standard 9.2B: Evaluate and explain the impact of international migration on physical and human systems.

Standard 17.1A: Analyze and explain the connections between sequences of historical events and the geographic contexts in which they occurred.

Standard 17.2A: Identify and explain the causes and processes of change in geographic characteristics and spatial organization of places, regions, and environments over time.

Standard 17.3A: Analyze and evaluate the role that people's past perceptions of places, regions, and environments played as historical events unfolded.

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