Mattapan+Field+Trip

[|Day 1 2 3 printer friendly.doc]

Introduction to Mattapan:

 * Steven's Lesson
 * Heidi has resources

Day 2 of Mattapan
__Learning Target:__
 * I can explain what I learned about Mattapan through pictures and words.

__Materials:__
 * [|MattapanBBK]
 * Heidi's BBK
 * Chart paper that Heidi created to chart information

__Plan:__ Lead students through the original BBK and then the images that Heidi created. Heidi's PPT cannot be loaded to the wiki because it is too large. Students chart the information that they learn about Mattapan. Students can code what they learn with the icons for the things they are investigating (food, language, art, music, and activism).

Day 3 of Mattapan
__Learning Target:__
 * I can explain brainstorm questions to ask Glenola Mitchell about Mattapan.

__Plan:__
 * Students brainstorm questions. Teacher types them. Then students spend time grouping questions into the correct categories (food, language, art, music, and activism)
 * Teacher provides students with their question so they can practice reading it. When students ask a question they should always start with:
 * "Hi, my name is __and I live in__ __. My question is:__ __."__
 * __Remind student what's **listening look** looks like.__

__During Heidi's PPT - ask students:__
 * __What do you notice?__
 * __What do you infer?__
 * __What are you wondering?__

__Fern Cunningham Page__
__http://cunninghamsculpture.com/mainpage.html__

__Day 4 of Mattapan__
Learning Target: I can look at pictures of Mattapan to make inferences.

Plan: Students are given pictures and a corresponding sheet that asks they what they see and what they infer. As students finish a sheet they get a new picture to make an inference.

[|Inferring from photos.doc]

Day 5 of Mattapan
Learning Target:
 * I can look for clues to help me understand more about food, activism, language, art, and music in Mattapan.
 * I can be a respectful audience member as I learn more about the Mattapan library's history.

Before the Trip:
 * Talk to students about being in a library and having their listening voices
 * Practice being quiet in a library
 * Practice what audience members do to make sure they show they are listening

Plan: > Anne Langone > Chilldren's Librarian > Mattapan Branch > Boston Public Library > 1350 Blue Hill Ave > Mattapan, MA 02126 > alangone@bpl.org
 * Students walk around Mattapan and talk about the clues that they see. Record them on the Flip.
 * Students visit the Mattapan Library and speak with Ann Langone to hear more about the history

Day 5.5 of Mattapan
Write a thank you letter to Anne Langone at the Mattapan Public Library.

Day 6 of Mattapan
I can write a letter to Charles Yancey that explains:
 * Learning Target:**

http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=1247&category=politicalMakers http://www.baystatebanner.com/local14-2009-03-05 Letter template of things to include on a friendly letter
 * Materials:**


 * Plan:**
 * Talk to students about Yancey.
 * Review who he is.
 * Read articles aloud about him (summarize)
 * Review the above learning targets and make an anchor chart of what students should write about

This letter can be used as a grade to show how students can compare Chinatown and Mattapan
 * Grading:**

Day 7 of Mattapan
I can write about what I know about activism, food, language, music, and art.
 * Learning Target**

[|food paper.doc] [|activism paper.doc] [|art paper.doc] [|language paper.doc]

Students write about what they know about Mattapan. They think about each topic. And write only about one idea on each page.
 * PLAN:**

Day 8 of Mattapan
I can write a thank you letter to the people at Bon Apetit Restaurant.
 * Learning Target:**

Bon Appetit Restaurant 1132 Blue Hill Avenue, Dorchester Ctr, MA 02124-3915 (617) 825-5544

Online resources:

 * read about the statues (one paragraph from the internet)
 * http://www.dotnews.com/2009/mattapan-renews-main-street-push (article about Mattapan Main St. initiative)
 * http://www.bostonhistorycollaborative.org/BostonFamilyHistory/neighborhoods/neigh_matt.html (history of Mattapan)
 * http://ksgaccman.harvard.edu/hotc/displayplace.asp?id=11452

BBK text
To read while showing slideshow

Sites

 * library
 * How / why Mattapan got a library
 * statues
 * how they got the statues
 * what is on the statues and what does it mean
 * Fern Cunningham?
 * Bon Appetit Haitian restaurant

BBK
Questions: Aspects:
 * Where is it?
 * What is it?
 * What can you infer about this place from this?
 * mystery image
 * common text
 * expert texts (in small groups) -- each child gets something specific to look at in more detail (newspaper heading, picture, brochure, etc.)

Eat at 11:00

Leave at 11:30

Take the 31 bus from Forest Hills to the Mattapan Library (get off at Hazelton St.)

Look at the old library and go to the new library.

Students have time to look at books and read.

Have a snack in the outdoor area.

Walk to Mattapan Community Health Center.

Walk to Mattapan Square, see Simco's, churches on the way. In the Square, see the Cunningham statues.

Take the 31 bus back.

Get 8th graders to come chaperone / guide the Mattapan field trip.


 * art: Cunningham and Karen Eutemy [|statues]; lack of public art in Mattapan
 * Activism: Mattapan branch library (how the community got one) / [|Haiti info. center]
 * http://www.baystatebanner.com/local14-2009-03-05
 * http://archrecord.construction.com/projects/bts/archives/civic/10Mattapan-Library/default.asp
 * http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/03/01/new_library_hailed_as_mattapans_future/
 * Language: Creole, Spanish, English (learn some words of Haitian Creole -- get Ms. Joseph to come teach)
 * [|Haitian Creole collection at Mattapan library]
 * Food: Farmers' Market (Haitian supermarket) by Mattapan Square, lots of restaurants, rotis, Ali's (West Indian food -- clarify what that is); Bon Appetit Haitian Restaurant on Blue Hill Ave.
 * Simcos hot dog stand: http://www.hiddenboston.com/Simco.html
 * old library on Hazelton Street