Fall
2013
The Heart of the City: Learning about Urban Studies
Social Science Sleuths
November
18 The Cultural City: What kinds of music, art, sports, education,
entertainment can you find in the city?
Bring in what you discovered from
the four categories you picked last time about culture in Fort Wayne. You may have photos, objects or other things to show what you
discovered.
Getting ready
for next time:
December
2 The Human City: Stories about people who live in cities over
time. Look for examples
of things you’ve learned about in the stories.
This is where you
get to find something to read. It can be
fiction or non-fiction; print book or e-book.
It can be a novel or picture book.
The point isn’t to show how many pages you can polish off, but to get
yourself involved in a story (true or made up) that takes place in a city (any
city) and see what you can find out about what it would be like to live
there. You’ve learned a lot about cities
by now.
As you read the story keep an eye
out for things that indicate how the characters in the story live.
1. When
is the story taking place? (Now, a
hundred years ago, sometime in the future, etc)
2. Where
do they live?
3. How
do they travel?
4. What
kinds of natural areas are around?
5. What
types of businesses are mentioned?
6. What
kinds of sensory things would you encounter? (Smells, sounds, sights, tastes,
touch)
7. What
do people do for entertainment?
8. How
do people in the story communicate?
Here are some suggestions of
books that are set in cities:
The Great Migration by Jacob Lawrence
The Little House by Virginia Lee
Brown
Underground by David Macaulay
A Street Through Time by Steve
Noon
Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman
The Ancient City, Life in Classical Athens and Rome by Peter
Connolly
Factory Girl by Barbara Greenwood
City, a Story of Roman Planning
and Construction by David Macaulay
Seraphina : a novel, by Rachel Hartman.
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (the scenes set in the Capital)
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