Immigration and Ellis Island BY Jean Rice

What does the term “immigrant” mean?

Why did people want to leave their homeland and come to America?

Describe what the journey to America may have been like.

What was Ellis Island? Where is it located?

What did immigrants experience upon their arrival in America?

Print your completed KWL doc and be prepared to share with the class.

Wikipedia says :Immigrants are people

who move to a new country.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigrants_(disambiguation)

Promises of freedom and opportunity for a better life

They may have been mistreated in their homeland because of religious beliefs or political ideas

They heard that in America success could be found through hard work

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/i?pp/ils:@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3a13598)):displayType=1:m856sd=cph:m856sf=3a13598

With a partner, use the Photo Analysis Word

document (on the Y drive) to record

your thoughts about the previous

photo.

The document looks like this

Name______________________ Class_______________

Photo Analysis Worksheet

1. Look caref ully at the photograph. What is your fi rst impression of it?

2. List people, objects and activities you see in the photograph. People Objects Activities

3. What do you think is happening in this photo?

4. What questions might you have about this photo?

"Oh God, I was sick. Everybody was sick. I don't even want to remember anything about that old boat. One night I prayed to God that it would go down because the waves were washing over it. I was that sick, I didn't care if it went down or not. And everybody else was the same way."-Bertha Devlin, an Irish immigrant in 1923

http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/Eivirt.html

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a13599

Immigrants waiting to be transferred

http://sydaby.eget.net/swe/pics/ellis_island_l.jpg

"I remember my grandfather always telling me how he knew he could be rich in America because he saw riches in the architecture of Ellis Island. He felt that if they let the poor in such a gorgeous hall then life in this country was just."-Rosanne Welch, granddaughter of Giuseppe Italiano, and Italian immigrant in 1904

http://students.umf.maine.edu/yestrajm/public.www/Immigration%20Website/ny.jpg

http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/Eivirt.html

http://www.history.com/content/ellis-island/ellis-island-video

http://www.nyharborparks.org/podcasts/rs-ellis.html

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a14957

What did immigrants experience upon their arrival

in America?

Landing at Ellis Island

Immigrants just arrived from Foreign Countrieshttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Ellis_Island_arrivals.jpg

U.S. inspectors examining eyes of immigrantshttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a10036

Doctor's inspection of suspects for skin diseaseshttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c16222

Final discharge from Ellis Island http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b39451

Detention pen--on roof of main building where immigrants held for deportation could go in fine weather

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c16223

Arriving at Ellis Islandhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.00157

Virtual Tour of Ellis Island

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/tour/stop1.htm

Let’s find out more…

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/lcmp002.m2a10987

“Shows a large open barge loaded with people of every nationality, who have just arrived from

Europe, disembarking at Ellis Island, N.Y. A most interesting and typical scene.”

Click the photos and then choose one of the formats to view (RealMedia, MPEG or Quicktime)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFz_UVjygG4&feature=related

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b00563 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbpe.07902500

Print your postcard on cardstock in color!

What does the term “immigrant” mean?

Why did people want to leave their homeland and come to America?

Describe what the journey to America may have been like.

What was Ellis Island? Where is it located?

What did immigrants experience upon their arrival in America?