I’ll be the first to admit that working with these maps is a little challenging and nothing like a quick visit to Google Earth. To get a closer look at each map you will need to use the zoom option on the NYPLDG page; once you’ve done this you’ll find that you are able to move around the neighborhood and explore. The first image in this collection offers a reference guide to these maps. Using this as a guide, create a pictorial tour of the neighborhood on any one map in the collection. Find images of the types of businesses and buildings that occupied a city block. Given the types of buildings in the neighborhood, was it filled with workers or was it more residential? Who occupied these spaces? What did they look like, how did they live? Did one socio-economic group or several populate this neighborhood? Again, find images to support your answers to these questions.
Link your findings back to Whitman’s poem. Create a document that combines your findings with Whitman’s poem.
Hi, Angela,
ReplyDeleteI think your assignment looks fun and challenging. It seems to invite students to tour the city, like Whitman tours the different geographic and human aspects of America. I also like that you're asking them to comment on who lived where, another in into the socio-economic tour Whitman gives us. Pretty cool!