Reading / Language Arts

• The Orphan of Ellis Island, by Elvira Woodruff - each lesson concludes with a personal response journal entry and an assignment based upon Gardner's Seven Intelligences and our district/ state guidelines. Response journals are completed with traditional paper and pencil, on the DreamWriter, or as a word processing document using MS Word™.

• Research - students write a short essay on a famous immigrant of their choice. Students use PowerPoint™ to produce their final drafts. Illustrations are scanned in, photographed digitally or captured from video or laserdisc with a Snappy video capture device.

• Other books used during the unit for mini lessons and/or activities:

   

  1. Coming to America: The Story of Immigration, by Betsy Maestro

  2. If Your Name was Changed at Ellis Island, by Ellen Levine

  3. Immigrant Kids, by Russell Freedman

  4. Dreams in the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish Immigrant Girl (Dear America), by Kathryn Lasky

  5. When Jessie Came Across the Sea, by Amy Hest

  6. The Hundred Penny Box, by Sharon Bell Mathis - great book for teaching autobiographies and a wonderful fundraiser. Have your students collect a mile of pennies!  Lots of measurement and problem-solving activities!

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