Maria A. D’Ulisse-Cupo
Description of slides: New York City: Mulberry and Mott Street.
Numbers 1-16: Little Italy. These slides depict how life was and how the Italians have preserved the ethnic flavor. Open fruit carts, the outside cafe, the import stores containing cheeses, salami, breads and Italian specialties. Notice how people go shopping in the local stores and still have time to stop and chat with each other. Ferrara’s which started out as a small ice cream stand and later expanded to pastry, is now a thriving multi-million dollar business.
Numbers 17-36: El Barrio. These slides depict the Spanish neighborhood, which begins around 139th Street and Amsterdam Avenue. Here the Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Haitians and Blacks live together in their own unique world. They have similar traits as the Italians, their own grocery stores, religious artifacts, clothing and outside vegetable and fruit stands. Their travel agencies also act as banks that send money back to their island.
After viewing the slides and doing the prescribed lesson plan, if possible, the students should be taken to New York City to view it for themselves. Seeing it in slides is not as great as actually being there.
LESSON PLAN # 1
Objective
Students will read the interviews on Cuban-American and Puerto Rican women to compare life styles and experiences.
Procedure
Students will discuss what they have read and in turn interview a Hispanic student or adult and give a brief report on their comparisons.
Assessment
Students and teacher will discuss the values and differences found between the two interviews read and the person the interviewed.
LESSON PLAN #2
Objective
Students will view the slides of New York City. If possible using two projectors, showing Little Italy and El Barrio simultaneously.
Materials
Two projectors, slides from curriculum unit.
Procedure
As the students view the slides they should compare the similar ities and differences in living quarters, shops and people, and notice any particulars that strike them. If possible, they should compare it to an ethnic neighborhood in New Haven.
LESSON PLAN #3
Objective
Students will visit New York City and visit two restaurants, or stores one in Little Italy and one in El Barrio, to compare the actual experience.
Materials
Transportation, money, pencil and notebook.
Procedure
Students can visit an Italian deli, fruit stand and artifacts store in both section, taste the food, compare things and talk to people on the street.
Students can visit a church, clothing store, and religious store in both sections and compare the differences, as well as visit the “Museo del Barrio” on 104th Street and 5th Avenue.