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Theatre 3 gave a presentation called Voices From the Fire concerning the Holocaust which demonstrated persecution as a reason for immigration. Next, the students were brought into the gym where they experienced the Great Hall of Ellis Island. Students went to three stations (medical, mental and legal) to determine their qualification for entry into the US. Following this, the students experienced five stations which included: recent immigrants (students and a teacher) who told of their experiences, citizenship test, political cartoons and Immigration, reader’s theatre, virtual tour of Ellis Island, Virtual tour of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, Steps to American Citizenship, political reasons for Immigration (refugees and asylum), video clips on immigration, racism/segregation and immigration , ethnic foods, memoir station and the Statue of Liberty. In the end of the day, students wrote a short essay on the essential question of the day: How has immigration impacted the United States? A debate occurred where groups were assigned to take a stand for or against immigration.
Middle School Students Experience History First-hand at Annual Immigration Day
Eighth-graders became immigrants for a day as they immersed themselves in the immigration process and took away thought-provoking details about the history of US immigration.
Middle School 8th-graders stepped back in time and experienced
the immigration process first-hand during the Middle School's annual Immigration Day. Students
learned about the reasons people immigrated to the United States. Middle School
students were divided into 19 groups that were led by High School students who
were members of the History Club. In their social studies class, students were
asked to create an immigrant profile for themselves. They created a name
tag with their information on it and were asked to look at immigration from the
lens of that immigrant.
Theatre 3 gave a presentation called Voices From the Fire concerning the Holocaust which demonstrated persecution as a reason for immigration. Next, the students were brought into the gym where they experienced the Great Hall of Ellis Island. Students went to three stations (medical, mental and legal) to determine their qualification for entry into the US. Following this, the students experienced five stations which included: recent immigrants (students and a teacher) who told of their experiences, citizenship test, political cartoons and Immigration, reader’s theatre, virtual tour of Ellis Island, Virtual tour of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, Steps to American Citizenship, political reasons for Immigration (refugees and asylum), video clips on immigration, racism/segregation and immigration , ethnic foods, memoir station and the Statue of Liberty. In the end of the day, students wrote a short essay on the essential question of the day: How has immigration impacted the United States? A debate occurred where groups were assigned to take a stand for or against immigration.