Ellis Island & The Statue of LibertyThe American Dream—Poems & Information

Bell Ringer:

List everything you know about Ellis Island or the Statue of Liberty. And/ or what you want to learn about Ellis Island & the Statue of Liberty

A photo of the Ellis Island Museum

Ellis Island

What is Ellis Island? Ellis Island is known best as the historical gateway for millions of immigrants to the United States.

Where is Ellis Island? Located in Upper New York, between Jersey City and New York City

How do you get to Ellis Island? On a Ferry -this is how immigrants got there long ago. This is also how people of today visit this historic location.

Busiest immigration station from 1892-1954

Immigrants arriving at Ellis Island

More Info on Ellis Island…It opened with a celebration on January 1, 1892. Three large ships landed on the first day and 700

immigrants passed over the docks. Almost 450,000 immigrants were processed at

the station during its first year. On June 15, 1897, a fire of unknown origin,

possibly caused by faulty wiring, turned the wooden structures on Ellis Island into ashes

Busiest immigration station from 1892-1954

DenotationsImmigrate: (verb/action) “come to live

permanently in a foreign country”Immigrant: (noun/person) a person who

comes to live permanently in a foreign country.Immigration: (noun/idea) the action of

coming to live permanently in a foreign countryEmigrate: (verb/action) to leave one's own

country in order to settle permanently in another

Location of Ellis Island

Ferry

Let’s take a tour of Ellis Island http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/tour/stop1.htm http://home.earthlink.net/~jfarr8/tour.html http://www.history.com/topics/ellis-island/videos#immigrants-detain

ed-at-ellis-island http://www.history.com/topics/ellis-island/videos#arrival-at-ellis-isla

nd http://www.history.com/topics/ellis-island/videos#ellis-island-in-

pictures Assignment:

While looking at the clip, write 3 new discoveries of Ellis Island

The Statue of Liberty

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless,

tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

Information on the Statue of LibertyThe Statue of Liberty is an image that symbolizes

America’s immigrant heritage. A gift from the people of France, she has watched

over New York’s Harbor since 1886, and on her base is a tablet inscribed with words penned by Emma Lazarus in 1883:

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

Let’s take a tour of the Statue of Libertyhttp://www.nps.gov/featurecontent/stli/eTour.htmhttp://www.history.com/topics/ellis-island/videos#th

e-statue-of-libertyhttp://www.history.com/topics/ellis-island/

videos#statue-of-liberty-unknownAssignment: Write 3 new discoveries about the

Statue of Liberty

Stop & ThinkQuick Write….

To some Americans, the words of Emma Lazarus are our national credo. Others say they’re our national curse. What do you think? Credo? Curse? Both? Neither?

Why would people think of each of these? Explain

Ellis Island a poem by Joseph Bruchac

a) Beyond the red brick of Ellis Island b) where the two Slovak children c) who became my grandparents d) waited the long days of quarantine,e) after leaving the sickness, f) the old Empires of Europe, g) a Circle Line ship slips easily h) on its way to the island

i) of the tall woman, green j) as dreams of forests and meadows k) waiting for those who’d worked l) a thousand years m) yet never owned their own.  n) Like millions of others, o) I too come to this island, p)nine decades the answererq) of dreams.

r) Yet only part of my blood loves that memory. s) Another voice speakst) of native lands within this nation.u) Lands invadedv) when the earth became owned. w) Lands of those who followed the changingx) Moon, knowledge of the seasons y) in their veins.

Clip from the Godfather IIAssignment:

While watching the from the Godfather II write down 5 observation that you noticed about immigrating to Ellis Island

Homework1) What is Ellis island? Explain2) Give the denotations of the word “immigrant”3) Give some connotations of the word “immigrant”4) Give the denotation of the word “emigrate”5) Why is it important to learn about Ellis Island?6) List 5 new facts you learned about Ellis Island from this

presentation/what you learned today.7) Why/how is the Statue of Liberty an important part of this

nation?8) List 5 new facts you learned about the Statue of Liberty