Setting the Stage
Setting the Stage
Introduce the story by showing Yangon, Myanmar, on a world map. Point out that students will be viewing a photo essay that portrays a record of the disappearing 1920's British colonial architecture inside the Southeast Asia city Yangon. Yangon is known as "a city that captured time." Architectural buildings, like the Great Pyramids of ancient Egypt, defined historical civilizations. Today, every city around the world has buildings. The iconic Empire State Building in New York City, the Taj Mahal in India, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, and the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy are some examples of buildings as cultural symbols. Ask students: How many of you think buildings can reflect the history of the places we live? What evidence do you have for your position? How do buildings tell a story of a city? Do you think a city's story matters?