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Becoming America Year 2
=**Fall Seminar 2**= Thursday, September 23, 2010 Location: Medford High School, 489 Winthrop Street, Medford, MA Map

**POST SEMINAR REFLECTIONS** Please click on your grade level conceptual question to post your reflection after the seminar. Overarching Focus: How have immigrants fought for American citizenship, 1840-1912? How did immigrants imagine freedom as they interpreted the founding documents? || ** Grade 5 ** What were immigrants' claims on citizenship? || ** Grades 8-10 ** How did immigrants respond to America's systemic inequalitites? ||
 * ** Grade K-3 **

Scheduled topic:
//**The Changing Face of Boston’s North End: Microhistories That Tell a Larger Story**// Stephen Puleo, M.A., University of Massachusetts Boston and Suffolk University

**Readings:**
 * 1) Stephen Puleo, Excerpts, A City So Grand and The Boston Italians

See the Becoming America Blog for a synopsis of this weeks talk by Stephen Puleo.

Resources:
BPL Prints on Flickr - [] Stephen Puleo's website - www.stephenpuleo.com Google Books - The Boston Italians by Stephen Puleo Google Books - Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 by Stephen Puleo Google Books - A City So Grand: The Rise of an American Metropolis, Boston 1850-1900 by Stephen Puleo