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Big Ideas:

▪ Review information about immigration to the United States in the late 1800s

▪ Think about: Angel Island vs. Ellis Island

o What countries were immigrants coming from?

o How were immigrants treated?

o What jobs were immigrants doing?

✓ Choose a character for your storyboard / PowerPoint Presentation

▪ Pick a country they are coming from

▪ Male/female

▪ Age

▪ Where to the US did they immigrate?

✓ Research immigration to the United States in the late 1800s

▪ Use your textbook, online links and information from Discovery Education videos

▪ Extra research links are your portfolio lesson 6

▪ Think about: why did they leave their home country?

o What was their port of entry?

o What community did they settle into in the US?

▪ Use notecards or a word document to organize your research

▪ Keep track of all the websites you use!

✓ How does your characters _________ affect their immigration/experience?

▪ Age?

▪ Country of origin?

▪ Gender?

▪ Education level?

▪ Level of English?

✓ Make a storyboard / PowerPoint Presentation

▪ historically accurate

▪ talks about your character’s life BEFORE, DURINGand AFTERimmigration

✓ What are you turning into me?

▪ A story about immigration

o Storyboard: create a table with 8 boxes: think comic strip

▪ At least 8 panels(squares)

▪ Created on a word document

▪ OR: PowerPoint: 1 slide per panel

▪ Use both words and pictures

o If you use pictures off of the internet, you must cite where you got it

▪ If you DO NOT cite where you got your pictures off the Internet, I will send your portfolio back to you.

o If you are a good artist: draw pictures and scan them into your project

▪ Work cited page: remember you are doing research for this portfolio and also cite your pictures.