Immigration

First, go to this website: []. Towards the bottom right, click on 'Explore Ellis Island'. After you take a tour, pretend you're a immigrant who has just gone through Ellis Island. Write a 15 sentence diary entry of what it's like to be processed through Ellis Island. Be sure to include 5 specific details that you learned on your tour.

Next, pick 2 countries from which people emigrated to the United States. After you picked the two countries, you must answer the following questions:
 * 1) Why did people leave their home country?
 * 2) Where did most of them settle when they reached the United States? Why did they settle in these cities/states? If you can't find out a specific city or state, please explain whether they settled in urban areas or rural areas and why.
 * 3) What sorts of jobs did they do when they got here? Why?

The answers to these questions can be in a PowerPoint or an essay, but either one will be presented to the class. If you pick PowerPoint, please make your presentation 2-4 minutes long. If you pick essay, please make it 4 paragraphs of at least 5 sentences each. Anyone who writes an essay will still present- you will just read your essay aloud to the class.

Here is a great website that will help you: [] In addition to this website, you must pick one more website to get information from. Both websites must be cited in your presentation.

This project WILL be placed in your portfolio.