SPRING 2012- WEEK 10 (5/20/12)
Tenement Museum Tour
Ya Yun speaking to the students after the apartment tour
We brought the students to the Tenement Museum to tour a few tenement apartments located at 97 Orchard Street led by our tour guide, Ya Yun.
We visited the Sweatshop Worker apartments. Ya Yun showed us data of the residents of the Lower East Side in the "turn of the 20th century" including where the immigrants came from, Children Born and Children Born Alive (in each household) and numbers of hours worked by the children (which was about 60 hours per week). We are glad to have been able to go on this amazing and interesting tour. The students learned so much from it and was fascinated by the apartments and the data. After the tour, we gave the students the museum mission statement and questions for the students to answer and discuss.
Museum Mission Statement:
The Tenement Museum preserves and interprets the history of immigration through the personal experiences of the generations of newcomers who settles in and built lives on Manhattan's Lower East Side, America's iconic immigrant neighborhood; forges emotional connections between visitors and immigrants past and present; and enhances appreciation for the profound role immigration has played and continues to play in shaping America's evolving national identity.
Questions Asked:
1. Why do you think they selected this focus as their mission?
2. How do you feel the museum accomplishes this mission?
3. How is their mission similar and/or different from what we do at Shared Stories?
4. What do you see as your personal mission statement in regards to immigration?
For more information and how you can visit the museum, click here.
"Pay a visit to the Levine family's garment workshop and the Rogarshevskys' Sabbath table at the turn of the 20th century, when the Lower East Side was the most densely populated place in the world. Explore how immigrants balanced work, family and religion at a time of great change."
We visited the Sweatshop Worker apartments. Ya Yun showed us data of the residents of the Lower East Side in the "turn of the 20th century" including where the immigrants came from, Children Born and Children Born Alive (in each household) and numbers of hours worked by the children (which was about 60 hours per week). We are glad to have been able to go on this amazing and interesting tour. The students learned so much from it and was fascinated by the apartments and the data. After the tour, we gave the students the museum mission statement and questions for the students to answer and discuss.
Museum Mission Statement:
The Tenement Museum preserves and interprets the history of immigration through the personal experiences of the generations of newcomers who settles in and built lives on Manhattan's Lower East Side, America's iconic immigrant neighborhood; forges emotional connections between visitors and immigrants past and present; and enhances appreciation for the profound role immigration has played and continues to play in shaping America's evolving national identity.
Questions Asked:
1. Why do you think they selected this focus as their mission?
2. How do you feel the museum accomplishes this mission?
3. How is their mission similar and/or different from what we do at Shared Stories?
4. What do you see as your personal mission statement in regards to immigration?
For more information and how you can visit the museum, click here.
"Pay a visit to the Levine family's garment workshop and the Rogarshevskys' Sabbath table at the turn of the 20th century, when the Lower East Side was the most densely populated place in the world. Explore how immigrants balanced work, family and religion at a time of great change."
Student Graduation
To view pictures of the session, click here.
Congratulations to all of our students for all of their hard work. We are very proud of you. Good Luck with the rest of the school year including exams, regents and SATs.
We hope to see you in the Summer.
For those of you going to college, congratulations on this milestone and good luck!