The Immigrant Experience

A Multimedia Scrapbook

Benedetto Baldoni and Family

Created by Jim Baldoni

Introduction | Instructions | Places | Facts & News | Opinions & Quotations | Images | Tools

Introduction

Use the Internet sites linked below to find facts, opinions, images, sounds, and anything else you might come across that helps you define the key question:

What is cultural diversity in the United States?

Before you get started, realize that you will be gathering your impressions from the Internet, so part of the real question above is:

"What is cultural diversity in the United States based on what you can gather from the internet."

Remember the Internet is filled with both fact and opinion

Instructions

1. Surf the Internet sites linked below.
2. Copy any text you want by dragging across the words then using the Edit - Copycommand on the menubar. Paste into a basic text editor, word processor, desktop publishing program or multimedia software.
3. Save images you like by downloading them. Note:check with the authors of the page to see if any copyright rules apply. Usually students are allowed to download images that will only be used in the classroom. A good practice to get into is looking for an email link on the page and then using it to ask permission. Remember to use the Classroom Connect citation guide.
4. Once you have created your scrapbook, go over it carefully so that you can give clear and thoughtful reasons why you found the things you collected especially important.

Places

• Ellis Island Museum-

Facts & News

• Overview of U.S. Immigration Policy
• Timeline of U.S. Immigration Policy
• Myths and Facts- from PBS
• America's Immigration Story: Still the Melting Pot
• "Valuing the Difference: Diversity as an Asset," selections from a speech given by Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Henry Cisneros, to the National Civic League meeting in November, 1992.
• "America's Immigration Story: Still the Melting Pot," an article by Everett Carl Ladd for the Christian Science Monitor, August 4, 1995.
• "Sample Citizenship Questions ," a list of 100 questions that are examples of questions that might appear on the official test for U.S. citizenship. The answers are listed too. These items come from the U.S. Department of Justice, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS).
• U.S. Surname Distribution - See a map of the United States showing the distribution of people with your surname.
• Some Notable Irish Americans
• Irish Words
• The Story of Chinatown
• Mexican Immigrant Labor History
• Immigration- the living mosaic of people, culture and hope
• Ben's guide to the US government for Kids
• The HyperHistorian

Webquest

• An Immigrant's Voice - a webquest

Opinions & Quotations

• Robert Whyte's The Journey of an Irish Coffin Ship.1847

Images

• Immigration, Ellis Island - collection of stereoscopic images from Ellis Island from the early 1900's. From the California Museum of Photography.
• Images of the Famine
• Selected Images of Ellis Island and Immigration, ca. 1880-1920
• Folk Customs from Around the World

Sounds

• The History Channel

Tools

• References
• Hypertext Webster Dictionary lets you quickly get definitions to words. See if you can bookmark this as a favorite site so you can get to it easily.
• Roget's Internet Thesaurus allows you to find words that have similar meanings.