Jacob Riis
How The Other Half
Lives
Photo Analysis Questions
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Directions: You will analyze the pictures.
You will use the following questions to
analyze these primary sources:
What do you see?
What do you smell?
What sounds do you hear?
What are the feelings of the people in the
picture?
What are your feelings about the photo?
How does the Other Half Lives?
Bandits’ Roost ( 1890)
Jersey Street tenements
Mulberry Bend (1896)
Loddgers in a crowded Bayard Street
Tenements
The man slept in this cellar for four
years ( 1890)
Police Station lodgers (1890)
12 yr. boy pulling threads in a sweat
shop
Necktie workshop in a Division
Street Tenement (1889)
Girl and baby on doorstep
Children Sleeping in Mulberry Street
(1890)
How does the other half lives?
“I AM” POEM
5 illustrations around the poem
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I am… (who are you?)
I wonder
I hear
I see
I am
I pretend
I feel
I touch
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I worry
I cry
I am
I understand
I say
I dream
I try
I hope
I am