Activities

Photographing My Community

Aim: To reflect on the nature and importance of community.

Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Themes: The Lower East Side, Family
Artworks: Weegee: Max is rushing in the bagels to a restaurant…, c. 1940; Feininger: Jewish Store, Lower East Side, 1940s; Kalisher: Untitled (Schechter Furriers), 1963; Lepkoff: East Broadway and Canal Street, 1948; Shahn: New York City (Merchant, Bleecker Street), 1932-35; Eagle: New York, 1936; Shahn: New York City, 1947
Discipline: Visual Art, Social Studies, English Language Arts

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Life on the Lower East Side

Aim: To relate images of life on the Lower East Side to literary descriptions of the neighborhood.

Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Themes: The Lower East Side
Artworks: Shahn: New York City, 1947; Weegee: Max is rushing in the bagels to a restaurant…, c. 1940; Feininger: Jewish Store, Lower East Side, 1940s; Kalisher: Untitled (Schechter Furriers), 1963; Lepkoff: East Broadway and Canal Street, 1948; Shahn: New York City (Merchant, Bleecker Street), 1932-35; Eagle: New York, 1936
Discipline: Visual Art, Social Studies, English Language Arts

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Then and Now

Aim: To compare and contrast aspects of the current immigration process with that of a hundred years ago.

Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Themes: The Lower East Side, Assimilation/Acculturation
Artworks: Stieglitz: The Steerage, 1907
Discipline: Social Studies, English Language Arts

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