Student Directions: USING GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS TO REPRESENT THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS IN THE 1950s

USING GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS TO REPRESENT THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS IN THE 1950s
Student Directions

For this assignment, you are going to make a graphic organizer for each of the four areas of the city of St. Louis from the 1950s. You will then choose one specific person, place or event to write a brief summary and then present it to the class.
Pull up the decade of 1950. You will get an aerial view of St. Louis on the left. Below the aerial view are four buttons: “Court House District”, “Chinatown”, “MillCreek Valley”, and “Shopping District”. You will be making graphic organizers for each of these areas, each on a separate piece of paper. Each of these areas will be the center of your graphic organizer. When adding links to these areas, use as many sources as you can from “Perspectives”. These are links that provide primary source material about the pages you just visited. There must be at least two “Perspectives” links on each graphic organizer. Write a small p within the space of the link so the “Perspectives” can be identified.
Court House District – Hit this button from the aerial view and on the right side a map with a reading will pop up. On the map, 5 things are written in red (3 buildings, 1 event, and a mode of transportation). Write these 5 things coming out from the center of your graphic organizer. Now, go back to the map and hit on each red area and you will be brought to a reading. Within the reading will be more links and, on some, a “Perspectives” button at the bottom of the page. Always go to the Perspective. Add at least one more item to each of the 5 things coming out from the center of your graphic organizer.
Chinatown – Go to “Decade Home”, and it will pop up the aerial map of the 1950s. Hit the Chinatown button. Once the map of this area pops up, look closely and you will see a small red box. Hit it and you can see clearly where Chinatown was located. Now, repeat what you did for the Court House District. Draw the new graphic organizer on a separate piece of paper. There are 4 red things labeled on the map for you to link to. Add at least one link to each of the 4. Remember, at least 2 must be from “Perspectives”, noted with a small p.
MillCreek Valley – this map only gives you 2 read areas so you will have to create your graphic organizer from the links within the reading. There are 7 links, one of which will take you no further. However, the other 6 have many links and “Perspectives”. To those 6 on your graphic organizer, add at least one more item.
Shopping District – This map can only be linked through the reading. The map is not activated. There are 5 stores listed within the reading. Use these to complete your 4th graphic organizer.
The class will now get into 4 groups. Each group will write about one area, either “Court House District”, “Chinatown”, “MillCreek Valley”, or “Shopping District”. After getting in groups, each student will choose one link on their graphic organizer and write a summarization. Make sure each one in your group presents a different link from that area. Include in your summary why that person, place or event is interesting or important to St. Louis History. This summary will be read/presented to the rest of the class. If possible, the student will demonstrate how they pulled up the topic on the website.