Takaki Chapter 11 focuses on the Jewish immigration experience. One of the components of the Jewish immigration experience that Takaki investigates is when many Jews decided to move from Manhatten, the lower east side in particular, to Brooklyn. I found this to be interesting as Brroklyn is commonly viewed as a neighborhood dominated by African-Americans. When did the Jews decide to leave Brooklyn? Why did they leave? I asked myself these questions becuase as someone who teaches in a neighborhood currently dominated by African-Americans that was once dominated by Jews, I question why the Jews left the neighborhood and why did African-Americans decide to settle there.
For a lesson dealing with spatial learning, I would have my students read Takaki and then have them draw a series of sketches that help them tell the story of the Jewish immigrant experience. Having students draw sketches of what they read will help visual learnings as well as those who do not learn in sequence. Takaki's chapter on the Jewish immigrant experience, with his descriptions of pogroms, life in the lower east side, and conditions in garment factories, would provide tremendous material for students to draw inspiration from.
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