Module 3: A New Home

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?