https://history.state.gov/milestones/1866-1898/yellow-journalism
Part 1 A:
Research a historical newspaper: Using the YU library and or NYC Public Library database, please select a historic article from between 1895-1898 to transcribe into a digital comic strip. Narrate your comic strip.
B: Choose two peers narrated comic strips:
What is one interesting take away from your peers narrated comic strip
What made what you chose interesting? Why?
Part 2:
A:
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (paperback). Edited by Phillip Lopate. Library of America (expanded edition). ISBN: 978-1598530216.
Read: Sara Teasdale, poems (p. 407-9)
What are the themes throughout Sara Teasdale’s poems?
What are your thoughts and feelings about Sara’s poems? Can you make connections with any prior readings or videos in this class or outside of this class?
B:
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (paperback). Edited by Phillip Lopate. Library of America (expanded edition). ISBN: 978-1598530216.
Read: Helen Keller, “I go Adventuring” (p. 505-8)
Watch: Helen Keller Speaks Out
Have you found any correlations between the reading and video? If so, share?
How do you analyze the read “I go Adventuring”? What is Helen describing?
What are your overall thoughts and feelings on both the video and reading?
Part 3:
From your textbook:
William Carlos Williams “Hell’s Kitchen” (p. 713-25) and
Part 4:
What message did you receive after reading this poem?
What is the historical context of this poem?
Any relevance to today? If so, to what?
