Thematic Unit on Chicago |
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Willalyn Fox
EDCP 735
Professor Meyer
Fall 2001
Thematic Unit on Chicago |
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Students will be able to understand events, trends, individuals, and movements shaping the history of Chicago.
Four-week period
One hour each day 9:50 – 10:50 Monday through Thursday
Objectives:
Students will learn about the following:
1. Major historical events
2. Famous Chicagoans
3. Famous writers from Chicago
4. Neighborhoods in Chicago
5. Bronzeville
6. Museums
7. Parks
8. Hospitals
9. Sports teams
10. Importance of Lake Michigan and Chicago River
11. Past and present mayors of the city
12. Important political events
13. The African-American Great Migration
14. The Chicago Fire
15. Other Chicago disasters
16. Chicago’s first settler, Jean Baptiste Ponte DuSable
17. Daily Newspapers
18. Famous buildings
19. Important industry
20. Famous events
Materials:
Books
Magazines
Newspapers
Pamphlets
Maps
Word Processors
CD ROM
LCD Projector
Tape Recorder
Digital camera
Video camera
State Standards:
Goal 16: Understands events, trends, individuals, and movements shaping the
history of Illinois, the United States, and other nations.
Learning Standard 16A: Apply the skills of historical analysis and interpretation.
Learning Standard 16B: Understand the development of significant political
events.
Learning Standard 16C: Understand the development of economic systems.
Learning Standard 16D: Understand Illinois, United States and world social
history.
Learning Standard 16E: Understand Illinois, United States and world
environmental history.
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Students will go on a field trip to the Bronzeville neighborhood noting historical figures highlighted in placques on the Bronzeville walk of Fame. Students will make rubbings of Bronzeville placques. Each student will research a historical figure found highlighted in Bronzeville walk and assume that persona and talk about themselves to the class.
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Students will visit the Steven A. Douglas Monument and research the Lincoln-Douglas debates.
Two students will be selected to role play Abraham Lincoln and Steven Douglas.
Students will reinact the Lincoln-Douglas debate as a school wide event. Students will create posters, flyers, business cards to promote the debate.
Students will interview older relatives or grandparents, friends or neighbors who
relocated to Chicago during the Great Migration.
Students will take pictures of significant landmarks in different neighborhoods of Chicago. Students will incorporate their pictures into a story about their neighborhood utilizing the Kid Pix Studio program.
Utilizing the Inspiration software, students working in groups, will suggest topics they know about or would like to find more information about concerning the history of Chicagoand/or current events.
Books
Bennett,
Jr., Lerone. Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln’s White
Dream. Chicago: Johnson Publishing Co., 2000.
Black,
Ford S. Black’s Blue Book: Directory of Chicago’s Active
Colored People and Guide to Their Activities. Chicago: Ford S. Black, 1921.
Cromie, Robert. A Short History of Chicago. San Francisco: Lexicos,
1984.
Duster, Alfreda M. ed. Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B.
Wells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
Holt,
Glen E. and Dominic A. Pacyga. Chicago: A Historica Guide to the
Neighborhoods the Loop and South Side. Chicago: Chicago
Historical Society, 1979.
Lowe, David. Lost Chicago. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1975.
Pierce, Bessie. A History of Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1975.
Spear, Allen. Black Chicago: The Making of a Negro Ghetto, 1890 –
1920. Chicago: University of Chicago, Press, 1967.
Swanson,
Stevenson, ed. Chicago Days: 150 Defining Moments in the
Life of a Great City. Wheaton, IL: Cantigny Foundation, 1997.
Travis, Dempsey. Autobiography of Black Chicago. Chicago: Urban
Research Institute, Inc., 1981.
______ The Victory Monument: The Beacon of Chicago’s Bronzeville.
Chicago: Urban Research Press, Inc., 1999.
Wright, Richard. 12 Million Black Voices. New York: Viking Press,
1941.
Online Web Sites:
Chicago Historical Society
Information about Chicago
www.chipublib.org/004chicago/chihist.html
Mayors of Chicago
www.chipublib.org/004chicago/mayors/mayortxt.html
www.chipub.org/digital/hw/harold.html
The Great Fire and other Chicago Disaster
www.ezl.com/~fireball/Disaster.htm
www.chipublib.org/004chicago/timeline/greatfire.html
Bronzeville
http://gis.iit.edu/commdev/map.html
Chicago Daily Defender Newspaper
http://aman.interman.net/bronzeville/defend.htm
Jean Baptiste DuSable
www.chipublib.org/004/timeline/dusable.html
Students will utilize Inspiration software program to map ideas about Chicago history, famous people, landmarks, cultural institutions and other places of interest.
Students will select one of the following topics to research presenting their findings in a Kid Pix presentation or Power Point presentation.
Topics to be explore will include:
Chicago Neighborhoods
Armour Square
Back of the Yards
Bridgeport
Brighton Park
Bronzeville
Canaryville
Chatham
Douglas
Englewood
Gage Park
Grand Boulevard
Hyde Park
Kenwood
Loop
McKinley Park
Near South
Oakland
Pullman
Roseland
Stockyards
Uptown
Washington Park
Mayors of Chicago
Richard M. Daley
Harold Washington
Jane Byrne
Michael Bilandic
Richard J. Daley
Martin Kennelly
Anton Cermack
George Swift
DeWitt Cregier
William Ogden
Chicago Disasters
Great Chicago Fire of 1871
Haymarket Tragedy 1886
Pullman Strike1894
Iroquois Theatre Fire 1903
Chicago Union Stock Yards Fire 1910
Sinking of the Eastland 1915
Dirigible (Balloon) Crash 1919
Green Hornet Accident, Street Car Collision 1950
Our Lady of Angels School Fire 1958
McCormick Place Fire 1967
Immigrants
Polish
Germans
Jewish
African-Americans
Irish
Mexicans
Famous Buildings
Sears Tower
John Hancock
Prudential
Water Tower
Chicago Stock Exchange
Parks
Lincoln
Jackson
Washington
Garfield
Grant
Millennium
Expositions & Events
World’s Colombian Exposition 1893
Century of Progress 1933
Taste of Chicago
Hospitals
Provident
Michael Reese
St. Bernard
University of Chicago
Mercy
Sports Teams
Bears
Bulls
Cubs
White Sox
Fire
Newspapers
Chicago Sun Times
Chicago Tribune
Chicago Daily News
Chicago Daily Defender
Prominent Residents Past & Present
Gwendolyn Brooks
Haki Madhubuti
Sam Greenlee
Richard Wright
Oprah Winfrey
Langston Hughes
Studs Turkel
Carl Sandburg
Clarence Darrow
John Jones
Saul Bellow
Richard Hunt
George Pullman
Marshall Field
Potter Palmer
Cyrus McCormick
Lorraine Hansberry
Lerone Bennett Jr.
John H. Johnson
Milton Olive
Carmel Harvey
Amusement Parks
Riverview
White City
Chicago Museums
Adler Planetarium
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago Children’s Museum
DuSable Museum of African American History
Field Museum of Natural History
Museum of Broadcast Communications
Museum of Contemporary Art
Museum of Science and Industry
Oriental Institute of Chicago
Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum Gallery
Shedd Aquarium
Spertus Museum and Institute of Jewish Studies
Terra Museum
National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum
Working in groups of five, students will. select a biography or other book about Chicago and read two to three chapters each and complete narrative story frames to share with classmate.
Students will organize a “DuSable Trading Post”. They will buy school supplies and sell them to students in the classroom. Students will create flyers to distribute in the school and advertise on the school web site. Students will keep track of sales and profits utilizing Excel software. Students will create a portfolio complete with graphs to document expenditures, sales, profits and or losses.
Students will create a timeline of Chicago’s major disasters and depict them in a Kid Pix
presentation. Each student will design one frame.
Students will analyze a chart, graph or diagram with data about the environment in the past.
Students will dress up as famous Chicagoans; take pictures of themselves with a digital camera and post on the Web. Students will create an online contest to determine who is able to recognize the most Chicago personalities. Non-costumed students will pose as reporters from local newspapers and interview the personalities. The interviews will be posted on the Web.
Students will create resumes for famous Chicago personalities and apply for jobs at local area businesses.
Students will read the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks, Haki Madhubuti and Carl Sandburg and then write poems of their own. The poems will appear in the school newsletter, which the students will also create.
Students will perform the play “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry. The play will be video taped (by fellow students) and shown during Open House at the school.
Students will create bookmarks depicting a famous Chicagoan, a landmark or book about Chicago.