www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfxJCdBFuLkIn class: we are finishing up the material from yesterday. Please make sure you have responded to each of the ten quotes. These will be collected / graded.
REVIEW OF MAGGIE
Handing out the rewards from the winter reading.
Homework: none
Dialectical
Journal_____________________________________________________
Source: How the Other Half Lives
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The following are quotes from the text
that indicate facts and bias.
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For each quote: 1) indicate whether it is a bias or fact
and 2) In what way is it important? 3) How does it connect with Crane’s Maggie, Girl of the Streets?other
populations in the Lower East Side?
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1. Sixty cents is put as the average day’s
earnings
Of the 150,000…
2.The Italian is a born gambler...they were faithful.
3.I state it in advance …based upon the steady
observation of years, that all attempts to make
an effective Christian of John Chinaman will
remain abortive in this generation.
4. Seventy percent [of the Jews] stayed in New
York.
5. [the tenement] held the mark of Cain from its
birth
6.Two-hundred and seventy-five tramps were going
to be sentenced to time on the island
7. “…the Society has established and operates in the
tenement districts twenty-one industrial schools…for the children of the poor
who cannot
find room in the city’s school houses. “
8.”Grouped about a beer-keg that was propped
on the wreck of a broken chair, a foul and ragged
host of men and women sat on boxes, benches and stools.”
9. “A citizen’s movement resulted in the
Organization of a board of health and adoption of
The house act of 1867”
10. “Cleanliness is the characteristic of the negro
in his new surroundings…[but] poverty, abuse and injustice
alike the negro accepts with imperturbable
cheerfulness.”
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