Hope everyone enjoyed the Tenement Museum tour last evening. Please take a moment to post a sentence or two as to what you found most surprising or unexpected about the stories recounted by our guides and what you yourselves observed.
Also, as promised, this is the link to the museum’s site. They offer terrific programs and happily, I think that podcasts of these programs are always or at least often posted on the site.
http://www.tenement.org/
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Here’s a terrific essay on the challenges of writing well if your mother tongue is other than English. And in fact it’s a terrific essay on writing in general and useful for anyone who wants to be a better writer. Take a look; you’ll be glad you did. cr
Writing English as a Second Language by William Zinsser
Lee Lorch is a major player in the events to be discussed by Amy Fox at our March 26 class. So consider this obituary part of the required reading. It’s really terrific. Cr
Lee Lorch, Desegregation Activist Who Led Stuyvesant Town Effort, Dies at 98, New York Times. March 1, 2014.
I’m thrilled to share this news from our ITF John Boy:
From: John D. Boy
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 05:21 PM
It gives us great joy to announce the birth of our first child!
Jasper Silas Boy was born on February 20, 2014.
Mother and child are both in good health.
For a photo, visit this page: http://jaz.sdf.org/announcement/
Warmly,
Corinna Jentzsch & John Boy
Just a reminder to post your assignments by the due dates. Not everyone has posted their essays for the second assignment yet. Don’t let yourself get behind!
VOICES OF NEW YORK
This is a terrific site I just learned about. You may be familiar with it, but if you’re not, I think you’ll find it extremely interesting, and very relevant to issues we’re discussing in the seminar. It’s a collection of articles from the city’s foreign press (translated), compiled through CUNY’s journalism school, and it gives a vivid portrait of issues involving immigrants and national groups around the city. (This is the site that helped spread the story of elderly Koreans hanging out in the McDonald’s in Flushing, Queens.) Take a look and tell us what you think.
Keep in mind that participation in the class website is an essential part of the coursework and will help determine your grade, so any responses to these articles will be helpful all around.
The Saturday tour of East Harlem will take about 90 minutes. Students need to be prompt so they don’t get left behind, and should remember to bring paper copies of their second assignment, which should have been posted Wednesday, Feb 19, on the class site.
with Constance Rosenblum, Spring 2014