Ellis Island

Time and Location

Activities

Materials

Assessment
day 1 classroom Design a welcome symbol. paper, art materials peer evaluation rubric
day 2  classroom/lab Ellis Island Tour   Students will write 2 questions about Ellis Island using Microsoft Word. computer, pencil and paper typed questions
day 3 classroom/lab Read Tell Me a Story.  Visit site about Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire book, computer students will draw an event from the story and write a response about it
day 4 classroom Create a shirt made by the Triangle Shirtwaist Company. art supplies peer evaluation of shirt

checklist
day 5-7 classroom Oral History Interview use site for guidance: Writing Workshop

Essential question: What decisions made by your ancestors have affected your place of residence?

Oral history guideline sheet students will write about their interview and present it to the class
Resources: The following books and links were used in the above lessons.

Tell Me a Story by Meagan Mac Donald (Rigby Literacy, 2000).

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/photos  This site covers the events leading up to the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire in New York City, and reform in labor laws that followed.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/immigrat/ellis/3dstop1a.htm Ellis Island Virtual Tour courtesy of Scholastic.com.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/writing/prewrite.asp?topic=Immigration   Guide for oral history interview and presentation.

Additional Resources:

Communities: Adventures in Time and Place (MacMillan McGraw-Hill, 1997).

The Story of the Statue of Liberty by Betsy and Giulo Maestro (Mulberry Books, 1989).

Ellis Island:  New Hope in a New Land by William Jay Jacobs (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1990)

 

 TTL           June 2002