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District: Reading, Massachusetts Subject: Social Studies, Immigration & Citizenship Grade Level: 4 Date: January, 2009 Unit: The Country as a Melting Pot/ Immigration**
 * Names: Lori Hill & John Laracy

Ellis Island: Immigration & Citizenship

 * Goal:

This lesson will use different medias to describe the transition from homeland to New World as experienced by immigrants to the United States. It will also explore ways in which immigrants gain citizenship in the United States.

Essential Questions:**
 * Why do immigrants move to the U.S.A.?
 * How do immigrants make important contributions to the U.S.A.?


 * Massachusetts History and Social Science Curriculum Framework Standards Addressed:**
 * 4.15 Describe the diverse nature of the American people by identifying the distinctive contributions to American culture of major European immigrant groups who have come to America, locating their countries of origin and where they tended to settle in large numbers.
 * Standard 4: Civics and Government - Give examples of the different ways immigrants can become citizens of the United States.
 * Standard 4: Civics and Government - Give examples of the major rights that immigrants have acquired as citizens of the United States.
 * History and Social Studies- 3.3B Give examples of challenges in settling in America


 * Historical Thinking Benchmark Addressed:**
 * Analysis of primary and secondary sources


 * Learning Objectives:**
 * Students will demonstrate an understanding of the immigrant experience, immigrants' reasons for coming to the United States, and the hardships immigrants face when moving to a new country.
 * Student will understand that there are specific ways that people for other countries can become citizens of the United States.
 * Students will display an understanding of why immigrants from different countries have come to the United States.
 * Students wil gain an understanding of major rights that immigrants have acquired as citizens of the United States (e.g., the right to vote, and freedom of religion and speech).


 * Learning Activities:**
 * //Pictures of the Past// - Students will view five photographs, choose one, and write their reflections based on the photograph.
 * //Voices of the Past -// Students will listen to a podcast renacting the interview of a single immigrant woman by an immigration officer at Ellis Island. Students will reflect on their thoughts of the woman's experience entering the U.S. through the immigration office.
 * //Arrival at Ellis Island// - Students will watch a video explaining the reasons immigrants came to the U.S.. Student will create a poster encouraging immigrants from other countries to come to America for similar reasons.
 * Hardship - Students will read //Three Immigrant Communities: New York City in 1900// and complete a information chart for the three communities. The chart will contain information on the immigrants' living conditions, jobs in America, and reasons why they left their homeland.
 * //Citizenship -// Students will attempt to answer sample questions from an U.S. government citizenship test. Students will read information on the rights and responsiblities of U.S. citizens.


 * Assessment:**
 * The students understanding will be assess through their reflections and writing assignments.
 * The student created posters will assess their understanding of the reasons why immigrants come to America.
 * In an informational chart, students will display their understanding of three different immigrant groups who lived in New York City in 1900, the challenges they faced, and the ways they handled those challenges.


 * Bibligraphy:**

Arrival of Immigrants - Ellis Island 1906, YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8bPDdNRoxc Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids http://bensguide.gpo.gov/3-5/index.html Discovery of Education Streaming, The Pursuit of Happiness: Immigration A segment of [|TLC Elementary School: Understanding American Values] Ellis Island photographs by Lewis Wikes Hines, George Eastman House Still Photograph Archives http://www.geh.org/fm/lwhprints/htmlsrc/ellis-island_sld00001.html Glasscock, Sarah J. //10// //American History Plays For the Classroom.// New York: Scholastic Professional Books, 1995. Halpern, Monica. //Three Immigrants Communities: New York City in 1900//, New York: Benchmark Education Company, 2006. The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc. http://www.ellisisland.org/default.asp


 * __Links for More Information__

[|Scholastic Interactive Tour of Ellis Island]

[|New York Public Library Digital Gallery - Lewis Wickes Hines Photographs, 1905 - 1938]**