As a group, decide who will take each question. Over the next two days, you will be developing answers for these questions and trying to find connections to Inside Out and Back Again
1) When did the Ellis Island historical site opened? When did it close?
2) Where is Ellis Island located?
3) What is Ellis Island known as?
4) What was it like to be an immigrant traveling thousands of miles aboard a ship, huddled in steerage class, sometimes alone without family or friends, yet surrounded by strangers?
5) After much legal haggling over ownership of the island, the Federal government purchased Ellis Island from whom and when?
6) Ellis Island burned the immigration station completely to the ground. Although no lives were lost, many years of _______________ and ______________ immigration records dating back to ________ burned along with the pine buildings that failed to protect them.
7) Ellis Island was known as the "Island of _________", the vast majority of immigrants were treated_________________ and ______________, and were free to begin their new lives in America after only a few short hours on Ellis Island.
8) Why did they check eyes of the Immigrants at Ellis Island?
9) What were the 3 tests given at Ellis Island?
10) What are some similarities between the character Ha arriving to America in the novel Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai, and some of the immigrant children in your research?
Approved Websites:
Statue of Liberty
Island of Hope and Island of Tears
Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island Immigration Museum
Interactive Tour of Ellis Island
Immigration and Deportation at Ellis Island