***Great job on the first round of our Socratic Seminar! Looking forward to our second round on Monday in Core All.***Continue contacting or re-contacting your organizations. Please seek out new organizations if you first choices have hit a dead end.
- Due Monday:
- Read the packet called “Tenement Life” with four readings. (I suggest you to annotate while you read so that you can absorb as much detail as possible from these texts.)
- Read the sample business letter to a “Building Manager” (or owner) of tenement houses.
- Write a letter of your own to a pretend “Building Manager” as if you were an inspector from the NYC Department of Housing. In your letter, expose the conditions under which immigrants were living in tenements in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s and make suggestions about how to improve those living conditions. Use at least three direct quotations from the texts. The assignment and model letter are here. Make this a good one! Must be typed.