Integrated Literacy AssignmentLauren English

SST309 02 - Laninga

GLCE:4 – G4.0.1 Students will use a case study or story

about migration within or to the United States to identify push and pull factors (why they left, why

they came) that influenced the migration.

Trade Books

Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan (2002)

Bound for America: The Forced Migration of Africans to the New World by James Haskins & Kathleen Benson (1999)

On the Way Home: The Diary of a Trip from South Dakota to Mansfield Missouri, in 1894 by Laura Ingalls Wilder (1976)

My Diary from Here to There/Mi diario de aquí hasta allá by Amanda Irma Perez (2009)

At Ellis Island: A History in Many Voices by Louise Peacock (2007)

The Gold Cadillac by Mildred D. Taylor (1998)

The Story of the Pilgrims by Katharine Ross (1995)

Songs & Quotes• Living in Freedom• Coming to America by Neil Diamond• Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin

• http://www.quoteland.com/topic/Immigration-Quotes/420/

• “Remember, remember always, that all of us, you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.”

– Franklin D. Roosevelt

Photographs & Artwork

Migrant Mother by Dorthea Lange (1936)

Mexican migrants on the road with flat tire (1936). Looking for work in the peas. California.

Pilgrims Landing by Edward Percy Moran (early 1900s).

Emigrants coming to the “land of promise.”

Escaping to Fort Pulaski

Videos• The Golden Door• Ellis Island: A Virtu

al Voyage to Freedom

• Push & Pull Factors• Italian Immigration• Up-South: African A

merican Migration

CASE STUDIES/STORIES

• A Sicilian American Experience

• The Immigration Adventure of Stanley Romanowski

• Migration & Poverty in Rural Mexico

• Why Immigrate to America?• Second Wave Italian Immigran

ts• An Irish American Immigration

Migration Maps

Immigration to the US

US Migration

Websites• http://

www.suffolk.lib.ny.us/youth/jcssimmigration.html

• http://kidsite.arapahoelibraries.org/go2.cfm?pid=467

• http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/

• http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/09/g35/Migrations.html

Games & Activities

The Settlers of Catan Board Game

The Underground Railroad: The Journey

• Scrapbook of an Immigrant

Work Reference Page• http

://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=

• http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/immigration• http://www.quoteland.com/topic/Immigration-Quotes/420/• http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/migrantmother.htm• http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/migrants.htm• http://flafineart.blogspot.com/2010_11_01_archive.html• http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3a09957/• http://www.nps.gov/seac/UGRR/painting.htm• http://www.slaveryinamerica.org/geography/ugrr_1860.htm• http://

constitutioncenter.org/timeline/html/cw08_12150.html• http://www.glencoe.com/qe/qe96.php?qi=2482