Teacher's Guide for APPLESEEDS: Coming to America April 2006 Teacher's Guide prepared by: Gail Skroback Hennessey. She has been teaching 6th grade Social Studies at Harpursville Central School for 33 years. She writes often for children's publications and is the author of several books for teachers, including Will the Real Paul Revere, Please Stand Up? Check out her website for teachers at www.gailhennessey.com. Terms: 1. ethnic 2. visa 3. embassy 4. illegal 5. preposterous 6. balderdash 7. refugee 8. orphan 9. geneology 10. malnutrition 11. adapt
Read "Where in the World Did We Come From?" Pages 2-3 1. Where do scientists think an ancient land bridge once existed? 2. Since 2000 , from which country have the most immigrants come? 3. In which three states have many Indians settled? 4. From 1901 -1910, which county had the second largest group of immigrants to America? *Make a Chart of the states where many immigrants settled. Place under each heading in which states the top five countries from which immigrants arrived in 2000
Read pages 4-7, "Linked Together in a New Land" 1.If you were leaving for America might never go home again. What would be five things you'd pack with you? What emotions might you feel as you left your home land perhaps for the last time? 2. What might be three reasons to come to America from another land? 3. Explain a "migration chain". 4. What are two reasons an immigrant might come live in an area of a "migration chain"? 5. What did the immigrants bring to America and share with those living here?
Read pages 8-11, "Read Knock, Knock, May I Come In?" 1. What is a visa? 2. What was a reason Americans didn't want too many immigrants coming to the United States? 3. What are the ways immigrants are allowed to become "permanent residents" 4. What can't an immigrant resident do that American citizens can do? 5. Why do some people come to the United States "illegally"?
Read pages 12-17 , "Goodbye, Auf Wiedersehen" 1. Why is it easier today to leave a home country? 2. What was the "Kissing Post" at Ellis Island? 3. The Irish gave the person leaving an "American Wake" . What was done and why? 4. The people of Peru gave "Fiesta de despedida" parties. Explain what was done at these activities. 5. The name of immigrants often changed in the United States. Why? Check if your family name was changed. * Have each student place one of the ways to say "goodbye" in another language on a card on their desks. Try to use the words at the end of the day.
Read pages 18-20 "How Curious George Came to America" 1.What did some people think about the Reys during the war. How did their story get them out of the problem they were in? 2. List the different countries which the Reys traveled in their journey to the United States.
Read pages 21-23, "America the Preposterous" Have students draw a picture of one of the outlandish claims believed to exist in the United States. Write the claim on the drawing. Write Three facts learned about immigration on their drawings.
Read pages 24-27 , "Story Painter, Cy Thao" Pretend you are Cy Thao, the Reys, an immigrant from Peru or Ireland and write a letter to someone back home about your first impressions upon arriving in the United States or your first day at school as an immigrant to the United States.
Read pages 28-29 "Operation Babylift" Make a chart: Who, What , Where, Where and Why Answer the chart topics with information learned from the reading
Read pages 30-32, "History Mystery" Do you know from which country or countries your ancestors originated from? Review the information and interview a family member to learn about your "family history".
Immigrant Safari Divide the class into teams and have the students search throughout the issue to find the following answers. 1. About how many children were rescued during Operation Babylift? 2. What was the Hmong tradition which influenced artist Cy's work? (paj ntaub - flowering cloth) 3. What were TWO of the greatest ricks to immigrants crossing the ocean? (seasickness and storms) 4. One outlandish claim said what about the leaves of trees in the United States? (gold) 5. How did the Reys escape from France and get to Spain? (on bikes) 6. The Vietnamese name Tamio was often changed to this. (Tommy) 7. What was a Peruvian "retablo"? (small box with religious objects) 8. The French word for "goodbye" is this. (Au revoir) 9. List TWO facts about the Statue of Liberty (from France, 214 crates, eyes are 2 1/2 feet wide, index finger in 8 ft. long, etc)
Websites to check out: 1. www.angelisland.org/immigr02.html (Many know about Ellis Island but there was also an entry point for those coming from the Pacific, Angel Island) 2. http://pbskids.org/bigapplehistory/immigration/index-flash.html 3. http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/tour/ 4. www.suffolk.lib.ny.us/youth/jcssimmigration.html (immigration quiz)
Answer Key Pages 2-3 1. Between Russia and Alaska 2. Mexico 3. CA, NJ, NY, Ill, Texas 4. Italy
Pages 4-7 2. Better life, more freedoms, safety 3. Immigrants wrote back home about life in America. New immigrants would come to the area that those here already wrote back home about. 4. Less loneliness, know the language, others there to help get you a job and a place to live, similar cultures and traditions. 5. Architecture, foods, customs, religious beliefs
Pages 8-11 1. A visa is "permission" given to come live in the United States 2. Take jobs, might bring new diseases, might be criminals 3. political freedom, provide jobs needed in the USA, family members, via lottery 4. Vote, certain jobs, if criminal acts committed-returned home 5. Can't get a visa, don't want to go through the process.
Pages 12-17 1. email, telephones help people keep in touch, faster transportation 2. Place where new arrivals were met by family members waiting to greet them 3. A goodbye to the person leaving for America. Stories told, blessing given and a clump of soil packed for the journey. 4. At the goodbye party, guardian angel statues were given, carved stones to remember Peru, and a wool rug. A small box also contained a statue of baby Jesus and the area's saint 5. Wanted to be accepted with a less "foreign" sounding name. Accidently changed at Ellis Island by people who didn't hear the name correctly or spelled it wrong.
Pages18-20 1. Spies. Didn't think people that could write such cute stories could be spies. 2. France, Spain, Portugal, Brazil and then the United States.
Answers to Immigration Safari 1. 3000 2. paj ntaub (flowering cloth) 3. seasickness and storms 4. gold 5. on bikes 6. Tommy 7. small box with religious objects 8. au revoir 9. from France, came in 214 crates, eyes are 2 1/2 feet wide, index finger in 8 ft. long, etc.)
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