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Patricks Day
Instructional Objective (plan 1st)
Students will be able to interpret the experiences and difficulties of the immigrants through Ellis Island using multiple historical perspectives. They will
then imagine their own experience by using process and content and present it in a power point to the class. Students will learn their cultural heritage
and journey and relate it to cultural consciousness.
Content Standard Reference
5-3.4 Summarize the significance of large-scale immigration and the contributions of immigrants to America in the early 1900s, including the countries
from which they became, the opportunities and resistance they faced when they arrived, and the cultural and economic contributions they made to this
nation.
Learning Targets
(as stated to students)
Students will be able to
interpret the experiences
and difficulties of the
immigrants through Ellis
Island. They will then
imagine their own
experience through the
process and present it in a
power point to the class.
Students will learn their
cultural heritage and
journey. Students will
understand more deeply
cultural consciousness,
what it looked like then,
and what it looks like now.
This is a process for real
audiences.
Modeling
Check for
Understanding
- PowerPoint focusing
on the history of
immigration to Ellis
Island. (Vocabulary)
- PowerPoint focusing
on the history of
immigration to Ellis
Island.
- Video of the
struggles of
immigrants first
hand accounts. How
did intercultural
communication help
or hurt this process?
What are the various
historical
perspectives? This
video simulates the
actual journey
through Ellis Island
before the students
reenact it.
https://www.youtube
.com/watch?
v=5rredHTyKaQ
- Video of the
struggles of
immigrants first
hand accounts.
- Get ready
assignment
- Any questions
(Different languages
and word captions)
- Enter Ellis Island:
Guided Practice
- Any questions
for
big
- Students will go
through the motions of
Ellis Island immigrants,
stopping at different
tasks and information
stands, and going
through the process of
obtaining their Visa or
not. They will be judged
on if they were capable of
coming to America. They
will be inspected,
confused, crowded and
overwhelmed. They will
then be guided to the
field with job signs on
posters, and no further
directions. Once the first
bell rings the children
Closure
- Go around the
room sharing
experiences and
reflecting.
Emphasize cultural
consciousness,
racism,
discrimination,
prejudice, the
multiple
perspectives of the
students with
different
identification cards,
and the
intercultural
communication
that needed to be
developed for
success.
- Ticket out the
door: notes and
reflection.
Purpose
Ellis Island is a huge part
in our history as
Americans. It is important
to know the struggles of
immigrants into the United
States, as well as to reflect
on the struggles and
histories of where you
specifically came from. In
a broader sense, this
lesson will develop cultural
consciousness and various
historical perspectives in
looking at the journey of
the immigrant and ones
own journey.
language, confusing
and complex.