Research & Report on Work Ethic

I. In this part of the project, we will visit the Museum of the City of New York and gather information about--

• New York Before War
• Changing New York 1935-1939
• New York between 1892-1942
• Kids Make History
  
  This exhibition of photographs and essays by New York City high school students will explore the changing neighborhoods of some of the City's most dynamic immigrant communities. Through photographs, interviews, and essays, the students examine their communities' collective past and present, while pondering their own futures. Kids Make History will serve as a window to the neighborhoods of New York, and to the next generation of business and community leaders.
  
  From the exhibition, we will learn the techniques other students use in portraying the changing New York , such as the perspectives used in photo-shooting, essay writing and how the interview is reported.
  
  
• The New York Century -experience of New York City during the twentieth century.
  
  The New York Century presents the significant and obscure, the happy and the tragic, the famous and infamous people, places and events that have evoked the experience of New York City during the twentieth century. Drawn primarily from the collections of the Museum of the City of New York and designed by the noted design firm, Pentagram, the exhibition calls upon the full range and richness of the Museum's holdings. The exhibition presents a visually exciting, delightfully informative, and memorable journey as a backdrop to a series of scholarly and popular programs that explore significant issues related to the City's experience over the past one hundred years.
  
  
  II. Do online research on the history of your neighborhood or New York to get an understanding what people were like in the past, i.e. their morals, their work ethic, their beliefs, cultures etc. If you are not planning to go on a trip, this is one of the ways you get information about the history of New York. Write a report on your research  based on any sources.
  
  
  III. Interview- interview elderly people or your parents to get the history of your neighborhood in certain areas- for example, what schools were like back then, what people's beliefs  morals were , etc.  Record the interview with a tape recorder or a note pad. You could even interview the members of the municipal council in your borough.
  
  
  IV. Photographs
  
  Take some photographs of the typical scenes in your neighborhood that represent your neighborhood at present.  If the photos are taken from a chosen perspective, it would be the bets. yet you may also use photos to help you choose a specific perspective.
  
  V.
• Choose a specific point of view you would like to write about your changing neighborhood not its history in general--for example, the physical changes, economical, cultural changes, the change of work ethic or any conceptual changes.
• Choose any form of writing to express yourself such as  memoir, story, photo album accompanied by writing, essays, narrative poems, letters, one-act play, etc.
  

In result, you will write--

1. A written report on your research based on any source (field trip, online-research, interviews, etc).
2. Two creative pieces that reflect the changing neighborhood. Both pieces can be written from the same perspective, or each piece portrays the changes from  a different perspective.