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Recommended for: Grades 6-12

Resource: Jane Jacobs

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Length: 5m 38s
Size: 15.3 MB

This video segment from New York Voices describes Jane Jacobs who worked in the 1950s and 60s to save the neighborhoods of New York City. The author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jacobs disagreed with the notion that the city's oldest neighborhoods should be demolished to make way for high-rise buildings, housing projects and six- lane highways. Her advocacy challenged and successfully derailed Robert Moses, America's most prolific developer, in his plan to cut lower Manhattan in half with a multi-lane highway. Jacobs challenged builders to think about what neighborhoods meant to the everyday lives of the people who lived there. Jacob's ideas changed the thoughts and future for millions of people.

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Teachers' Domain, Jane Jacobs, published August 26, 2008, retrieved on ,
http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/vtl07.la.ws.research.janejacobs/

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The following Frame, Focus and Follow-up suggestions are best suited for middle school students using this video in an English language arts or social studies lesson. Be sure to modify the questions to meet your students' instructional needs.

What is Frame, Focus and Follow-up?

Frame (ELA) We can stretch our understanding of texts by making connections among several texts we have read or viewed. For example, if we wanted to learn about influential women in history, how could we make connections among several texts to expand our thinking?

Focus (ELA) As you watch the video, think about how Jacobs was an influential woman in recent history.

Frame (SS) What is your neighborhood or community like? Is it urban, suburban or rural? What elements allow you to place it in one of these categories? Do you have a better description or category?

Focus (SS) What was it like to live in an urban neighborhood in the 1960s when Jane Jacobs wrote her book?