Muckraking at its Finest!

Our Muckraking Agenda

Station #1: Smartboard

You will need: Notebook and Planner

Station #2: Hallway

You will need: Handout and Notebook

Station #3: Back left corner

You will need: Textbook Pgs 171 and 176 and Notebook

– Read Ida Tarbel and Upton Sinclair excerpts and answer questions

Jacob Riis

Muckraking Photographer

Jacob Riis – The Immigrant

Jacob Riis immigrated to the United States fromDenmark in 1870. After years of extreme poverty and hardship he finally found employment as a police reporter for the New York Tribune in 1877. In the 1880s his work gravitated towards reform and he worked with other New York reformers then crusading for better living conditions for the thousands of immigrants flocking to New York in search of new opportunities. His most popular work, How The Other Half Lives, became a pivotal work that precipitated much needed reforms and made him famous. Jacob Riis's photography, taken up to help him document the plight of the poor, made him an important figure in the history of documentary photography.

Jacob Riis – The Muckraker

• Jacob Riis employed a blend of reporting, reform andphotography that made him a unique legend in allthree fields. Theodore Roosevelt held Riis in veryhigh esteem offering him positions of power andinfluence in his administration and calling him, "themost useful citizen of New York". Instead Riiscontinued his creative work, producing books on theplight of poor children , immigrants and tenementdwellers. He died in 1914.

Directions for Jacob RiisPhotographs

1. In your notebook, number your paper, leaving some space in between, 1-7

2. Analyze the following 7 photographs and write what you think is going on in each picture

3. Create titles for each of the photographs4. Once you are finished, we will compare your

titles to his and discuss our conclusions5. Finally, you will use both the pictures and his an

excerpt from How the Other Half Lives to construct your own original Muckraking article about immigrant and urban conditions.

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Now Compare Your Titles to His….Any Differences?

Bandit’s Roost

Playground

One of the four peddlers who slept in the cellarof 11 Ludlow Street Rear - 1892

5 cents a spot

Dens of Death

$1 a Month

Homeless Children

Homework….Write this down in your planners….seriously…

•Please use these pictures or information in Chapter 6 Section 1 to write an original 1 Page muckraking article for the newspaper. •It should be catchy, descriptive, and persuasive!

•Remember, muckrakers exposed problems so progressives could fix them!

*You can work on this at other stations too, once you finish that stations’ work!