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Grade Level: Grades 5-8

//Explain how American citizen's were expected to participate in, monitor, and bring about changes in their government over time, and give examples of how they continue to do so today.//
 * Standard**:5.27 Strand 2

How did settlement houses like Denison House help immigrants claim citizenship?
 * Guiding Question**:


 * Title: Settling In: The Denison House: A Boston Settlement**

During the last 1800s and early 1900's, a large number of immigrants arrived in the United States. With the arrival of these newcomers came great challenges to cities and communities. Many immigrants came to America to escape hardships of their homeland. Many immigrant groups had no intention of returning to their homeland and wanted to remain in America and become citizens. While seeking citizenship and establishing roots in the community was a laudable goal other challenges remained. One major challenge was how to provide ways for the large number of immigrants become actively involved in the community as they began the process of citizenship.The city of Boston was no exception in facing these issues. One response to these challenges was to establish settlement houses in these urban neighborhoods to help with the growing number of immigrants moving into the area. One of the many in Boston was the Denison House.
 * Introduction:**

Currently, you are a curator at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Your team members in the curator department have been asked to create an exhibit on the Denison House in Boston using some photographs that have been donated to the museum by a local university. Before putting the display together your team must examine a series of documents in order to help design the exhibit and to explain to museum visitors what the Denison House's role in the community was. Using these documents explain where was the Denison House located, who worked there, what programs were offered, who attended, and why do you think the founder established the house? How did the Denison House help recent immigrants?


 * Task:**

Currently, you are a curator at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Your team members in the curator department have been asked to create an exhibit on the Denison House in Boston using some photographs that have been donated to the museum by a local university. You will be working with a number of documents that include maps, reports, journal entries, and photographs. Before putting the display together your team must examine a series of documents in order to help design the exhibit and to explain to museum visitors what the Denison House's role in the community was. Using these documents explain where was the Denison House located, who worked there, what programs were offered, who attended, and why do you think the founder established the house? How did the Denison House help recent immigrants?


 * Lesson Process:**


 * Day I: Finding out about settlement houses**

//**Guiding questions:**//
 * What were settlement houses?**
 * What kinds of people lived and worked in settlement houses?**
 * Where was the Denison House located?**

For our first day, we are going to examine what a settlement house is, who lived there, and where was the Denison House located in Boston. For this first activity you are going to be divided into 5 groups of four and be responsible for reading the background information about settlement houses. Some of you will be going to the computer to look at online articles others will be given excerpts from a book. Here are the group assignments:
 * Activity 1**: Introduction: What was a settlement house?
 * Group 1 Dolgoff, Ralph. "Social Work." //Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia.// Grolier Online, 2011. Web. 12 Jan. 2011.[| http://go.grolier.com/] Paragraph entitled: "Origins of Social work"
 * Group 2 "Hull House." //Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia.// Grolier Online, 2011. Web. 12 Jan. 2011.
 * Group 3 Segal, Naomi. “Jane Adams of Hull House.” //Scholastic Teachers, 2011.// . Web. 12 Jan. 2011[| http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=4948]
 * Group 4 & 5 Arnold, Caroline. //Children of the Settlement Houses.// Minneapolis: Carolrhoda. 1998, pp 7-18.

Please take notes on the paper provided. When you are finished, each group visit each piece of chart paper hanging on the wall. Please write an answer to each question (see below). When you have completed the questions, sit at your table. We will discuss our findings as a whole group before proceeding to Activity 2.

Sheet 1. What was a settlement house? Sheet 2. What were some of the reasons they were established? Sheet 3. Who were some important individuals who helped establish settlement houses and what were the names of some famous settlement houses in the United States?


 * Activity 2:** Finding out where the Denison House was located and its surrounding neighborhood.

In your 4 groups of 5, you are going to look at two maps of the Denison House.

You each have two map analysis worksheets. With your group, look at each map and fill out the corresponding worksheets. We will come together as a group to go over our observations

//Primary Source Documents to examine:// Maps: Plate number 14 //Map is below.//
 * 1) 1-- "Parts of Wards 7 and 9 City of Boston 1908" ; //Atlas of the City of Boston ,1908//

[] Harvard Open Collections Program: (online) (Denison House.p. 15 Annual Report Year ending 1913 Boston: H.A. MacDonald & Co., 1913.
 * 1) 2-- Map of Denison House and surrounding Area

Worksheet: NARA Map Analysis Worksheet [| http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets/map_analysis_worksheet.pdf]

Let's come together to discuss what we observed while looking at these maps. Then we'll answer these questions: Where was the Denison House located? Can you make any observations about the neighborhood at this time? If you were an immigrant arriving in Boston how would you feel living there? Do you think having a settlement house in this Boston neighborhood help immigrant groups become part of the community ? How?


 * Day 2: What the Denison House offered to immigrants and the community**


 * Guiding questions:**
 * Who worked at the Denison House?**
 * What kinds of activities/programs/classes were offered?**
 * How would these programs or activities help immigrants in their day to day lives and help them become citizens?**
 * Are there any skills that an immigrant might learn that would help them participate in the community activities?**
 * How might these programs or activities help make immigrants become involved in the community after becoming citizens?**

Today we are going to break up into our groups of 4. Each group will be looking at 2-3 different types of primary sources. They come from Annual Reports and diaries. Can anyone tell us what an Annual report is? Can anyone tell us what a diary is?
 * Large group:**

We are going to examine the entries from the primary sources to answer the above questions. When you examine these sources you will keep a notebook where you will write your observations about these sources. These observations will help in creating your museum exhibit of the Denison House.

Now we are going to divide up into 5 groups of 4 in the following way with the following primary sources.

Group1: Directory of Clubs and Classes: [] Boston College Settlement Annual Report 1913 [] Denison House 1913 Annual Report []

Group 2:Denison House Diary 1900-1908 [] Boston College Settlement Annual Report 1911 [] Denison House 1913 Annual Report []

Group 3: Denison House Diary 1900-1908 [] [] Boston College Settlement Annual Report 1913: [] Denison House Annual Report 1918 []

Group4: Day Book Denison House Diary 1900-1908 [] [] [] Boston College Settlement Annual Report 1913 Syrian Work Sequence 13 [] Denison House Annual Report 1918 []

Group 5: Day Book Diary entry:March 24-9 sequence 814 [] Boston College Settlement Annual Report 1913 [] Denison House Annual Report 1918 []

NARA Document analysis sheet []

For each source please fill out the NARA Document analysis sheet. Then report back to your larger group. Identify each document adn tell why it is important using the information that your group gathered using the NARA worksheets. As we report back as a group, let's talk about what you discovered from each document.

Let's now look at our findings. How would what we have discovered help answer our guiding questions for today?


 * Day 3: Design An Exhibit**


 * Guiding Question: How did the Denison House help Boston immigrants?**

We are returning to our 5 groups of 4 and will be given 5 photographs to make an exhibit showing the work of Denison House.

Before we do this, let's talk about museum exhibits:

How many of you have been to a museum? Tell me the names or what kind? Why do we have museums? What makes a museum interesting? What makes a display interesting to look at?

Now divide into 4 groups of 5. Each group will be given 5 photographs that show some aspect of the Denison House from the time period that we have discussed. Each of you will be given a photo analysis worksheet to help create your display.

Using these photos try to show how the Denison House helped their new neighbors become part of their new community and make them active participants in their neighborhood.

After looking and examining your photos, try to look for themes. Themes are ideas or topics that we use to group objects or pictures. Try to tell a story that shows how the Denison House helped immigrants coming to Boston and use the themes to answer the question, "In what ways did the Denison House help new immigrants?"

Often when we go to a museum the whole exhibit has a title. The title for our exhibit is: //Settling In: The Denison House--A Boston Settlement.//

When you are putting together your display, please remember to think about the visitors looking at your display. Remember to label your photographs clearly.

When your display is completed, Please hang up in the library. each group will appoint a curator to explain the exhibit.

Group 1: Photograph Children listening to storytelling in the green room. (Need images of photos) [] Photo Boys in gymnastics class [] Young men from the Denison House Dramatics club dressed in ancient Roman costumes as the cast of Julius Caesar. [] Group portrait of fifteen unidentified women and a young girl, possibly the founders of Denison House and the staff. [] Group portrait of children in the backyard at Denison House []

Group 2: Group portrait of boys and 2 men probably teachers [] Girls and boys, holding flowers and Italian flags, posed in the backyard of Denison House. [] Girls preparing food and washing up in a cooking class at Denison House. [] Mothers and children in front of Christmas tree, possibly in the "Green Room." [] Interior of green room []

Group 3 Women and children standing in the backyard of Denison House. [] A Syrian group at Denison House Boston college Settlement Annual Report-1912 [] Babies Conference Annual Report 1913 [] Group of workers-Annual Report 1913 [] Judging the work-1913 [| http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/4555058?n=42&imagesize=1200&jp2Res=.25&printThumbnails=no]

Group 4

Photo Boys in gymnastics class [] Group of workers-Annual Report 1913 [] Kindergarten class at Denison House girls and boys seated at tables with pegboard games and teachers. [] Eight girls in a basketry class. [|h][|ttp://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/view/1475882?buttons=y&viewheight=480&viewwidth=640] Kindergarten class at Denison House: girls and boys seated at tables with pegboard games and their teacher. []

Group 5:

A Syrian group at Denison House Boston college Settlement Annual Report-1912 [] Seven boys in a woodworking (sloyd)class. (photo is dark) [] Mothers and children in front of Christmas tree, possibly in the "Green Room." [] Photo Boys in gymnastics class [] Kindergarten class at Denison House: girls and boys seated at tables with pegboard games and their teacher. []

NARA Photograph analysis worksheet []

Settlement Houses tried to offer a number of services and activities for neighborhood residents. As new immigrants arrived in urban neighborhoods during the turn of the century, they tried to expand programs to help them become permanent citizens... Do you think the Settlement House helped or hindered new immigrants to become citizens? Why or Why not?
 * Conclusion:**


 * Assessment:**

// 4 // || // GOOD // // 3 // || // ADEQUATE // // 2 // || // INADEQUATE // // 1 // || // WEIGHTING // || and identify the location of the Denison House || identify 3 reasons why settlement houses were established using resources and draw conclusions about the time period of immigrant coming to Boston. Find location of Denison House using the map. || Identify 2-3 reasons why settlement houses were established and the location of Denison House using the materials and the primary sources. || Identify at least 2 reasons why settlement houses were established by using 1 document/resource. || Identify 1 reason for establishing settlement houses without using any documents. || 20% ||
 * // STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO… // || // STRONG //
 * Explain what a settlement house is
 * Identify workers and programs offered in a settlement house || Identify at least 3-4 programs or services and describe who worked there utilizing primary source documents. Ability to articulate how they would help immigrants. || Identify 2-3 programs or services offered and describe workers using primary sources and make generalizations about how settlement houses helped immigrants. || Identify 2 programs and activities and describe workers using primary sources and identify that immigrants utilized these services. || Identify 1 program or service and describe groups who worked there without using primary sources. || 20% ||
 * Design a photo exhibit explaining what a settlement house is and how the Denison House helped Boston immigrants || Designs a display incorporating all 5 photos using information from primary source documents. || Design a display incorporating 3-4 of the 5 photographs and utilizing information from primary source documents. || Design a display incorporating at least 2-3 photos using some of the information from the primary source documents. || Design a display incorporating 1 or 2 photographs but only using information from photographs || 20% ||
 * Write a caption for each of the photos in the museum display || Sentences are complete and reflects information from primary source documents for all photos || Sentences are complete and reflects knowledge of primary source documents and at least 3-4 photos include captions || Some sentences complete and includes some information from primary source documents and at least 2-3 || No complete sentences for photos, no information from primary sources included. Only 1-2 photos have captions || 20% ||
 * Participation || Always works well with group || Usually works well with the group || Seldom works well with the group || Never/ rarely works well with the group || 20% ||


 * Resources:**

1.Boston Public Library -Leventhal Map Center: "Parts of Wards 7 and 9 City of Boston 1908" ; //Atlas of the City of Boston ,1908// Plate number 14
 * PRIMARY SOURCES:**



2.Boston Public Library-Microtext Department: //US Federal Census 1900 Suffolk Massachusetts;// Call #HA431.19003x,T623 Roll #678 Ward 7 precinct 5, Enumeration 1253 A and B

3.Denison House. Denison House: Information to Candidates for Residence. Boston: Denison House, 1900. http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/4269063

4.Denison House. //Directory of Clubs and Classes.// Boston: Allied Print Trades Council, 1903.

5.//The Boston College Settlement: Annual Report.// Boston: College Settlements Association, 1912.

6. Denison House. //Annual Report for the Year Ending.// Boston: H.A. MacDonald & Co., 1913.

7. Denison House. //Denison House: Brochure.// Boston: s.n., 1913.

Ward 7 precinct 5, Enumeration 1253 A and B
 * 8.**//US Federal Census 1900 Suffolk Massachusetts;//Boston Public Library-Microtext Department**:** Call #HA431.19003x,T623 Roll #678

9.Boston Public Library-Microtext Department: //Boston City Directory 1900,p 45 and p513.//


 * Secondary Sources:**

1.. Dolgoff, Ralph. "Social Work." //Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia.// Grolier Online, 2011. Web. 12 Jan. 2011. []

2."Hull House." //Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia.// Grolier Online, 2011. Web. 12 Jan. 2011.

3.Segal, Naomi. “Jane Adams of Hull House.” //Scholastic Teachers, 2011.//. Web. 12 Jan. 2011

4.Arnold, Caroline. //Children of the Settlement Houses.// Minneapolis: Carolrhoda. 1998


 * Teacher Resources:**

Creating a museum exhibit:
Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Study [] Teaching with Museum Collections []

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