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Unit  3 - Urban Settings in America:  "It Happened in the City"

This unit begins with reflections on the setting of stories and events - from poems and short stories to novels and nonfiction.

Poetry

"Chicago" - Carl Sandburg
"O Captain! My Captain!" - Walt Whitman

Unit Vocabulary Words

urban/urbanizaion
suburban
metropolitan/metropolis
city/citify
ghetto
borough

Artwork

"Nighthawks" Parodies
"Nighthawks" - Edward Hopper
Piet Mondrian - "Broadway Boogie Woogie" (1942-1943)
Joseph Stella - "Bridge"
Jean Michel Basquiat - "Untitled" (1981)
Pablo Picasso - "Untitled" or "The Picasso" (1967)
Anish Kapoor - "Cloud Gate" (2004-2006)
Edward H. Bennett and Marcel F. Loyau - "Buckingham Fountain" (1927)

Music Videos

"You Belong to the City" - Glenn Frey
​_"New York Groove"- Ace Frehley
"New York Groove" - Ace Frehley - cityscape
"Downtown" - Petula Clark
"New York, New York" - Frank Sinatra
"Chicago - My Kind of Town" - Frank Sinatra
"Harlem " New Politics
"Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown" - Jim Croce

Websites

New York City - The Official Guide
I Love NY Website
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 in Philadelphia
9/11 Website
Yellow Fever of 1793 - short video
The Chicago Fire
Brain Pop Animated Clip - 9/11
1888 Blizzard - Weather.com
New York City Photos - History Channel
9/11 video clip
America's Tallest Building - History Channel
New York City Interactive - History Channel
Detroit Article - Vacant Detroit becomes dumping ground for the dead
The Great Chicago Fire
_Awesome Stories Website- Disasters_
Dying Detroit Neighborhoods - video
Detroit's Abandoned Skyscrapers
Peregrine Falcon in City video
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