The Journey to America

What Was the Trip to America Like?

Read the Journey to America pdf file (located in our Google Classroom). Then read the passage below from the book The Cat Who Escaped from Steerage. Finally, go to the link below and read through the first and second stops. Use your Journey to America Note-Taking Template (located in Google Classroom) to take notes on what you have read. After taking notes, you will write another journal entry for your diary.

What was the trip like for children?

What was it like to live in steerage?

Go this link and listen to Morris Schneider recall being a passenger on the steamship Rotterdam during his immigration from Poland to America in 1920.

Please go to this link and listen to The Oral History of Lawrence Meinwald from Poland.

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