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Immigration from Specific Countries |
NAME:
Cheryl Burnett
SCHOOL: Driscoll Elementary School,
Centerville City Schools
WORKSHOP LOCATION:
Centerville
TITLE OF COMPANION ACTION PLAN:
Immigration
GRADE LEVEL: 5
CURRICULUM/SUBJECT AREA:
Social Studies/Immigration
SPECIFIC TOPIC: Immigration from
specific countries to the United
States |
Books
(fiction):
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Cech,
John. My Grandmother's Journey. New York: Bradbury Press,
1991.
Levine, Ellen. I Hate English! New York: Scholastic
Inc., 1989.
Rosenberg, Liz. Grandmother and the Runaway
Shadow. San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1996.
Sandin, Joan. The
Long Way to a New Land. New York: Harper & Row,
1981.
Gundisch, Karin. How I Became an American. Chicago:
Cricket Books, 2001. |
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| Books
(nonfiction): |
Hoobler,
Dorothy. We Are Americans: Voices of the Immigrant Experience.
New York: Scholastic Reference, 2003.
Maestro, Betsy.
Coming to America: the Story of Immigration. New York:
Scholastic, 1996.
Schanzer, Rosalyn. Escaping to America: a
True Story. New York: HarperCollins, 2000.
Kim, Robert. I
Am Korean American. New York: PowerKids Press, 1997.
Lee,
Amy. I Am Chinese American. New York: PowerKids Press,
1997. |
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| Reference
Books |
World
Book Encyclopedia, Vol. I, article on Immigration.
The New
Book of Knowledge, Vol. I, article on
Immigration. |
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| Professional
Resources: |
| China:
Culture Kit: includes activities, projects, poster, audiotape,
and map. |
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| Web
Sites (for students): |
| Centerville
Virtual IMC |
Click
the link for Resources K-8
Click Grolier resources
Use
The New Book of Knowledge link. This includes an article on
Immigration.
Use Lands and Peoples link to find the country
you are researching.
Use Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
for an excellent map of where different immigrants
settled. |
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| Web
Sites (for teachers): |
| Education
World |
| Dewey
Browse |
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| Infohio
Electronic Resources: |
| EBSCO
Host: 39 articles listed in my search for
Immigration. |
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| Selected
Articles from Infohio Electronic Resources: |
SIRS
Discover on the Web:
Article entitled "Isle of Tears."
Includes photos and an Ellis Island menu. From Parents and
Children Online
Article entitled "Coming to America." From
Scholastic.
Article entitled "Reaching for the American
Dream." From Time for Kids. Includes who, when, and
why.
Article entitled "A Nation of Immigrants." From SIRS
Digest. Includes many archived photos. |
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| Media
Resources: |
CD-ROM
Immigration: Students play the role of the President of the
United States facing a recurring dilemma in U.S. history --
thousands of people are fleeing from political oppression or
extreme poverty, looking for a better life in the land of
promise.
Video Cassette Who is an American?: Live
action, animation, and still photos. Shows positive
contributions of our diverse population. Illustrates migration
to North America. Explains why various groups came. Covers
citizenship by birth or naturalization.
Video Cassette
The Golden Door: Our Nation of Immigrants: Looks at where
different groups came from, when, and why. Also looks at
struggles immigrants have faced and the contributions they
have made.
Video Cassette Journey to Freedom: the
Immigrant Experience: Vintage photographs and newsreel
footage. Describes reasons behind emigration from northern
Europe and Ireland in the mid 19th century, and the waves of
immigrants who arrived in the late 19th and early 20th
centuries from eastern and southern Europe. Includes segment
on the rise of Chinese immigration and the closed door policy
enacted by Congress in 1882.
Video Cassette The Statue
of Liberty: foolows the Statue of Liberty from its creation in
France to what it means to us today. |
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