Course 3: New York Family and Community
Spring 2003

Instructors: Richard Greenwald, Maggie DeLuca, Amanda Dargan

The goal of this course is to familiarize 3rd-8th grade teachers with opportunities for using New York’s history in the classroom. We will study the history of city through both primary and secondary sources, using traditional and activity-based approaches.

This 10 week course will deal with the changing structure of New York families. We will explore how they were organized, the role of ethnicity, class, and race on family dynamics, and the position of family members in the authority structure.

We will also look at the formation and evolution of New York’s communities. How were these communities structured? How did housing compare? What shaped these communities? How did they change over time?
What constituted citizenship in the larger spheres? In addition we will re-examine the popular subjects of previous courses: communities in times of crisis, communities at work and play.
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As adult learners we provided for assessment driven instruction to make some changes. Entire sessions will be delegated to Richard Greenwald (historical analysis), Maggie DeLuca (classroom application), and David Bellel (technology integration) to allow for greater immersion in their own particular teaching skills.

Theme I: Family and Community

• The Family (Early 19th Century- early 20th Century
  
• Community
  
• Classroom Application:
  
  • Using appropriate trade books for classrooms use
    
  • Making your own community themed books
    
  • Technology
  • Making historical timelines using TimeLiner
    
    

Theme II: War and Citizenship

• Civil War New York: Debating the Civil War in New York City
  
• Citizenship, Ethnicity and Race
  
• Classroom Application:
  
  • War and Citizenship
    
  • Technology
    
  • Photo editing software and its use with online digital maps
    

Theme IV: The Uses of the Street and Popular Entertainment

• Vaudeville
  
• Lecture and Walking Tour with Robert Snyder
  

Robert W. Snyder is a cultural historian, the author of three books, and an associate professor at Rutgers University-Newark, where he directs the journalism and media studies program. For six years he edited the quarterly Media Studies Journal, founded at the Media Studies Center at Columbia University, which published articles by leading journalists, scholars and public officials. He has produced a documentary film, curated a Smithsonian exhibit, contributed to scholarly anthologies and written for newspapers and magazines as varied as Newsday, The Nation, the Jesuit weekly America, the Jewish Forward, and the Star-Ledger of Newark.

• Technology
  
• Capturing historical Midi Files from the Internet and inserting them in Documents