Conclusion
Are you interested in what you have been learning?
Your teacher can provide you any of the activities mentioned below for you to further your study and learn additional information on your own.
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El Norte-Video of a young brother and sister forced to leave their Guatemalan home and travel North. Video can not be taken home, but may be viewed after or before school.
- Ellis Island-Video depicting what it was like to enter as an immigrant. Video can not be taken home, but may be viewed after or before school.
- Listen to/view podcasts/iTunes U episodes-Topic of Ellis Island
The Immigrants journey to the American dream (Audio 30:00)
RSO#: Journey Through Ellis Island (Audio 5:58)
Emigrants landing @ Ellis Island-(Video 2:42)
- View newspaper articles concerning immigration raids in our state within the past couple of years. These can be photocopied and taken home.
- View CNN videos. Search using the term "immigration."
- Read current event articles. Search using the term "immigration."
- Visit other immigration webquests. You can also search for other webquests on similiar topics using words like, "Ellis Island," "Angel Island," "Illegal Immigration," "Legal immigration" and more!
- Sometimes people are required to be on a waiting list for a long time before being allowed to enter the United States. Do a search and see if you can find more information pertaining to this.
- Using an Almanac or other means, try to discover where immigrants to the US have come from and how many of them there are. This website also has many interesting facts.
- Do a google search to answer this question. Why is immigration good/bad/a problem/controversial?
- Research quotes so you understand differing viewpoints on immigration.
- Visit Immigration Resources and learn more about immigration from the links they have posted for you.
- Visit the History Channel page. View videos, read and learn more about what it was like to immigrate in the early days.
- Find, read and learn more through any of these books:
The Keeping Quilt- Patricia Polacco
Homesick: My Own Story- Jean Fritz
A Step From Heaven- An Na
PoThe House on Mango Street- Sandra Cisneros
Homesick: My Own Story- Jean Fritz
A Step From Heaven- An Na
PoThe House on Mango Street- Sandra Cisneros