Here is a description of the Your Story, Our Story tour given to Roosevelt High School students:
Your Story, Our Story is a program developed by the Tenement Museum in New York. This is information from heila McGuire, Head of Student and Teacher Learning:
“Your upcoming “Your Story, Our Story” tour for Roosevelt high school freshman will help them prepare for writing their own immigration/migration/identity object-based stories in class at school.
As a partner school, we provide curriculum and the bus transportation for the tours to to explore how objects can help tell stories. The focus of our tours is how objects can tell stories about immigration, migration, and identity. In the past we have used artworks including Sully’s George Washington, Bears Hearts’ ledger drawings, the Somali basket, Judaica (Estel Berman’s Seder plate is awesome), Cy Thao’s paintings, The Howard desk, and the Ivar Kvalen Norwegian chest, to name a few. There are several new works out right now that will be great to include such as the Frank Bowling’s “False Start” painting and Roger Shimamura’s “American Guardian” lithograph. Docents came up with great ideas for these tours last year and will have to again since so many of you will be touring at the same time.
Here is a link to the Tenement Museum website: https://yourstory.tenement.org/ . Here is a link to Mia’s partner page: https://yourstory.tenement.org/partners/mia .”
These are materials shared by the docents who gave the tours:
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