Traveling Through Time: Immigrating Through Ellis Island
Jenifer Hollander
@misstechteacher
jhollander@milfordk12.org
Tracey Tierney
ttierney@milfordk12.org
Origin of this Unit & Its Evolution
Common Core Alignment
CC.3.MD.3: Draw a scaled picture graph and a scaled bar graph
CC.3.MD.4: Show measurement data by making a line plot
CC.3.R.L.1 Key Ideas and Details: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
CC.3.R.L.3 Key Ideas and Details: Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
CC.3.R.I.1 Key Ideas and Details: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
CC.3.R.I.2 Key Ideas and Details: Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
CC.3.R.I.3 Key Ideas and Details: Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.
CC.3.R.I.4 Craft and Structure: Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 3 topic or subject area.
CC.3.R.I.5 Craft and Structure: Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.
CC.3.R.I.7 Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur).
CC.3.R.I.8 Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text (e.g., comparison, cause/effect, first/second/third in a sequence).
CC.3.R.I.9 Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Compare and contrast the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.
CC.3.R.I.10 Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity: By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 2–3 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
CC.3.R.F.4 Fluency: Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
CC.3.R.F.4.a Fluency: Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
CC.3.R.F.4.c Fluency: Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.
CC.3.W.2 Text Types and Purposes: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
CC.3.W.2.a Text Types and Purposes: Introduce a topic and group related information together; include illustrations when useful to aiding comprehension.
CC.3.W.2.b Text Types and Purposes: Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and details.
CC.3.W.2.c Text Types and Purposes: Use linking words and phrases (e.g., also, another, and, more, but) to connect ideas within categories of information.
CC.3.W.2.d Text Types and Purposes: Provide a concluding statement or section.
CC.3.SL.1 Comprehension and Collaboration: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
CC.3.SL.1.a Comprehension and Collaboration: Come to discussions prepared, having read or studied required material; explicitly draw on that preparation and other information known about the topic to explore ideas under discussion.
CC.3.SL.1.b Comprehension and Collaboration: Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., gaining the floor in respectful ways, listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics and texts under discussion).
CC.3.SL.1.c Comprehension and Collaboration: Ask questions to check understanding of information presented, stay on topic, and link their comments to the remarks of others.
CC.3.SL.3 Comprehension and Collaboration: Ask and answer questions about information from a speaker, offering appropriate elaboration and detail.
CC.3.SL.4 Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas: Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace.
CC.3.SL.4 Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas: Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace.
Historical Timeline of Immigration
1492-1500s
Explorers
Christopher Columbus
Amerigo Vespucci
1820
Immigrants from Europe
1619
Slavery Begins
1620
Pilgrims
1990 - now
Current Immigration
1892-1945
Ellis Island
Source: Scholastic Immigration Website
Main Unit Components
Statue of Liberty
Videos/Poster Project
Portrait of Statue w/ Facts
Three Dimensional Statue w/ Facts
Family History
Family Tree
Family Shield
Heirloom Share
Heritage Silhouette Project
Country Report
Ellis Island Day
Simulation
Trunk Share
Feast
Other
Invite Immigrants to Share Stories of Immigration and Citizenship
Borrow Trunk from NH Historical Society
Current Immigration
Integrated Unit
Art, Music, History, and Culture
Art: Cultural Paper Dolls
Music: Songs-Neil Diamond’s America
Computer: Country Report using Google Slides
Library: Immigration Books
Physical Education: in progress
Photographs
Resources
Books
A True Book: Ellis Island by P. R. Quiri
Journey to Ellis Island by C. Bierman
The Orphan of Ellis Island by E. Woodruff
Dreaming of America: An Ellis Island Story by E. Bunting
If Your Name Was Changed At Ellis Island by E. Levine
Four Feet, Two Sandals by K.L. Williams
Videos
Reading Rainbow, Season 4, Episode 4:
Watch the Stars Come Out
THANK YOU!