Fernando M. Reimers et al.

This website is a good resource for examples of family stories: http://www.
nyc.gov/html/nyc100/html/imm__stoties/index.html.

Optional Activity 8.5.4

Students Study the Different Cultural Influences in
New York City Caused by People Moving into the City
(Note that this can be a different way to organize the scavenger hunt—that
is, by ethnicities rather than by neighborhoods.)

Students explore the history of the groups that have migrated to New York
City (e.g., Irish, German, Italian, Chinese, etc.) and explore the reasons
for their migrations and the cultural influences that the groups brought.
Students can conduct this study through an examination of the arts of each
culture in the cultures’ respective neighborhoods and also throughout the
city.

Students create “walking tours” of New York City, highlighting major land—
marks and cultural buildings.

They may take field trips to a variety of neighborhoods. Each group can
prepare a presentation that will be given in an appropriate neighborhood.
The students themselves act as tour guides.

Resources

' Berger, Joseph. (2007). The “70er in a City: Traveling the Globe
through the Neighhorhooa’s of the New New York. Ballantine Books.
(The book is 264 pages.)

' Interactive New Yor/e Times map on immigration patterns since 1880
(http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/l OMS/20090310—
immigration—explorer.html)

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