Immigrant Children`s Book Assignment
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The Task: You will use historical imagination and research to create a historical fiction book for children, through which you tell the story of a specific group of American immigrants. The grading rubric and research links are at the bottom of this page. Your book must include the following:
Content Guidelines:
WHY THEY CAME
- PUSH factor as to why your character left their homeland.
- PULL factors as to why they came here.
PREPARATION TO LEAVE
- What possessions did they take?
- Who did they take?
- What will they miss?
THE JOURNEY TO AMERICA
- What was the trip across the ocean like?
- What did they have to do to be allowed into America?
- Did everyone make it?
WHERE DID THEY SETTLE?
- Where in America did they settle? Why did they settle here?
- What conditions did they find here?
HOW WERE THEY TREATED?
- What attitudes did they face? GOOD/BAD and Why?
- How did they deal with their treatment?
TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS
- Provide at least 3 PROBLEMS they faced in America?
- How did they overcome these problems?
WHY DID THEY STAY?
- Was America what they thought it would be?
- What 2-3 reasons would immigrants provide as to why they stayed?
WHAT DID THEY CONTRIBUTE?
- IN GENERAL, what did immigrants do for our country?
- SPECIFICALLY, what did your immigrants contribute to our country?