Module 3: A New Home

What challenges do immigrants face in a new country?

Why do people immigrate to America?

How do immigrants respond to challenges in a new country?

What is the essential meaning, or most important message, in this book?

Reading

Wit and Wisdom Module 3:

In the Module 3, A New Home students will explore the immigrant experience through the lens of stories. We will ask: How do stories help us understand immigrants’ experiences?

Class Texts:

Grandfather’s Journey
Tea with Milk
The Keeping Quilt
Family Pictures
Coming to America: The Story of Immigration
Two Places to Call Home”

Class Art/Architecture/Films & Historical Accounts:

The Steerage, Alfred Stieglitz
“Untitled photograph of evacuees seeing the Statue of Liberty”
“Liberty Enlightening the World,” Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
“Gateway Arch,” Eero Saarinen
“The Washington Monument,” Robert Mills
“Día de los Muertos Festival 2015—Artist Talk by Carmen Lopez Garza 1.” Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. (excerpts)
“Morris Remembers the Steamship,” Ellis Island Oral History Collection, National Park Service
“William Remembers the Storm,” Ellis Island Oral History Collection, National Park Service
“Oral History Library,” The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.

Books to Extend Learning at Home:

At Ellis Island: A History in Many Voices, Louise Peacock
Ellis Island, Elaine Landau
Four Feet Two Sandals, Karen Lynn Williams
Immigrant Kids, Russell Freedman
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, Betty Bao-Lord
Paper Son: Lee’s Journey to America, Helen Foster James
The Great Migration: An American Story, Walter Dean Myers and Jacob Lawrence
Tucky Jo and Little Heart, Patricia Polacco
Lowji Discovers America, Candace Fleming
Peppe the Lamplighter, Elisa Bartone
The Memory Coat, Elvira Woodruff
Laila’s Lunchbox, Reem Faruqi
Landed, Milly Lee
Rebekkah’s Journey: A World War II Refugee Story, Ann E. Burg
Hannah’s Journal: The Story of an Immigrant Girl, Marissa Moses

Biography/Nonfiction Series 2 Week Unit:

(1 Book Per Quarter: Available Selection Listed Below)

Who is Amelia Earhart?
Who is Ben Franklin?
Who is Dr. Seuss?
Who is Michelle Obama?
Who is Neil Armstrong?
Who is Walt Disney?
What is the Declaration of Independence?
What are the Twin Towers?

Writing

Units Focus: Functional Writing & Opinion Writing

*End with Opinion Writing Performance Task

Write directions for how to do various activities
Explore audience, purpose, sequence, accuracy, completeness, and clarity in directions

Teacher Mentor Texts

Kittens

My Pet Puppy

1-2-3 Draw Ocean Life

Bottlenose Dolphin

Puzzle Sticks

School Should Start Later in the Morning

Don't Change Our Start Time

Rats are the Coolest Pets

Why You Should Get A Dog

Computers in Our Classrooms