Immigration (Cultures & Civilizations)

A checklist is available to assist students with organizing their research.

Day 1, Defining Terms
              Use the graphic organizer to define the words. 
              Click on www.dictionary.com to open a dictionary link to define the word:
                              immigration, examination, curable, inspector, tenement
              Next, click on http://bensguide.gpo.gov/3-5/citizenship/index.html to define the following
                            words: aliens, nationals, citizen, immigrant.
         
Day2, What is the primary purpose of the U.S capitol,Lincoln Memorial, & the Statue of Liberty? Use the website http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/wash/dc76.htm to gather information about our U.S capitol and how this applies to immigrants. Visit www.visitingdc.com/memorial/lincoln-memorial-picture.ht to find out why former president Lincoln's statue is apart of our American history.Then visit http://www.howtallisthestatueofliberty.org/what-does-the-statue-of-liberty-represent/ in addition to three other websites, to find out who decided to build the Statue of Liberty and place her in New York.

Day 3, Think Like a Historian!  
               Do you know that you can find out a lot of information about a person without ever meeting them? 
               Primary source documents are one of the best ways to find out information about people you have
               never met.  Primary source documents are written records like government reports,
               diaries, journal entries, letters or postcards.  Historians use primary sources in their work. They  
               piece together information about a time, place, event, or person based on recorded information.
               Primary sources are essential to the work historians do.  You will do the work of real historians by
               examining the original documents of real immigrants that settled in the lower eastside of New
               York City.  So get your journals ready!  

Day 3,  Yesterday and today:Ellis Island & what changes have been made since the late 1800's.Visit http://www.history.com/interactives/ellis-island to view the photos available, then research an additional site with  photos of Ellis island then and now.Journal the differences of any updates that was not present then, but are present today.

Day 4, Historians, it's time to read!Choose three books on the immigration experience from an adult and child's point of view.The contents can include the experience of a family or an individual.Include any photos you would like to add.These books can be from your own personal collections or from the library.I suggest starting with1.) Coming to America by: Betsy Maestro & illustration by: Susannah Ryan and 2.) Dreaming of America: An Ellis Island Story by: Eve Bunting & Ben Stahl.Students are required to read Heart and soul: the exciting life of the singing Trapp family by: Hans Wilhelm

Day 5, Now it's time to publish your work historians!It is now time to report your findings.  Choose one of the methods to report your research from
      the choice board and let your teacher know which one you have chosen.Be creative historians!