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Media: Website
Summary: This website is a fun interactive website that students can connect to on their own, You can play games and take quizzes that teach you about different facts of immigration.
Connection to the theme: This connects to the theme because this is a specific part of the webiste that is all about immigration.
Complexity: The complexity of this site should be easy enough for students to navigate through. Some students that don't normally use electronics might have a hard time.
Instructional Use: This will be used as a fun way in the beginning of the learning segment to teach the students some facts and asses them on what they are learning on the website about immigration as a concept.

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Were your ancestors among the tired, the poor, the huddled masses?Tim and Moby discuss the history of immigration in the U.S., and where many of our families first landed.

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Kids Discover Magazine: Immigration issue

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Kids Discover Magazine: Immigration issue

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Media: Magazine
Summary: This a magazine all about immigration, there are charts, pictures, maps and facts all about immigration.
Connection to the theme: This connects to the theme because it is an entire magazine that is on immigration.
Complexity: The complexity of this magazine is high. From asses it with SCASS it contains a lot of information. This will be something that is read with guided instruction so students don't get frustrated or confused with vocabulary and text feature reading.
Instructional Use: This will be used as a resource for facts. Each day of the learning segment I will have students analyze a page for morning work and take notes based on what they think is important to their own writing.

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Newspaper article about the first group of 107 immigrants to arrive at Ellis Island

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Newspaper article about the first group of 107 immigrants to arrive at Ellis Island

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Media: Newspaper Article
Summary: This is a newspaper article from January 1st 1892, talking about the first 107 that arrived to Ellis Island.
Connection to the theme: I shows real numbers and names of people that were the first immigrants to come through Ellis Island
Complexity: The complexity of this article is easy and comprehendible. Students might have trouble with pronouncing some of the names but the concept is straight forward.
Instructional Use: This will be used (among other newspaper articles) as a primary resource to be used in the students narratives.

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Immigration: Stories of yesterday and today

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Immigration: Stories of yesterday and today

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Media: Website
Summary: This is a website that has many facts and features that students can explore about immigration. It have everything from data to blueprints to even stories written by immigrant children.
Connection to the theme: This connects to the theme because it has many different aspects and story of immigration from all time periods.
Complexity: The complexity of this website is easy for students to navigate through. The vocabulary is 4th grade friendly and the text features are easy to read and understand.
Instructional Use: This website will be used as a model to should the students to get ideas on how they want to create our class website about immigration.

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Hear the immigration stories of real immigrant kids who have recently immigrated to the United States from Asia, Africa, and Europe. See videos, maps, and photos.

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We Are Americans By Dorthy & Thomas Hoobler

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We Are Americans By Dorthy & Thomas Hoobler

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Media: Text- Informational Trade
Summary:This book consists of  letters, diaries, oral histories, and biographies describing the dreams for a new life, the journeys to America, and the  successes and hardships of immigrants as they came to America.
Connection to the theme: This connects to the theme by giving the students real facts and information about immigration to the US.
Complexity: 900 Is the Lexile level for this book. Based on its length students will be able to look and understand the pictures but the vocabulary in the text will be things that we talk about as students have questions about the book
Instructional Use: This will be used to analyze its pictures and other artifacts that will help the students in writing their own narratives. They will copy pictures, letter  etc. to make notes on and use evidence in their writing.

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Media: Text- Informational Trade book
Summary: This book is an introduction book with great pictures and words to talk about what it is like coming to America.
Connection to the theme: This connects to the theme because it is about immigration to America and all the different types of people that came to the US.
Complexity: AD890 is the Lexile level of this text. There are some vocabulary words that will need to be taught in order to understand the text but the pictures will help students comprehend some of the vocabulary.
Instructional Use: I will use this book as an introduction to this whole lesson. It is a friendly book that will get the students thinking about what this whole immigration concept is.

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Media: Text- Literary Tradebook
Summary:This story is about a mom and daughter relationship. The mother is taken away from her child and put in an immigration detention facility. This is very sad for the daughter but the recording of her moms voice and the bedtime stories are what keep Saya's home that her mom will come home soon.
Connection to the theme: This is connected to the theme by talking about some of the struggles of immigration. Being pulled away from your family was one very important aspect of immigration.
Complexity: NC890 is the Lexile level of this book and based on looking at the SCASS this book will be easy to ready for most of the students in the class. There is deeper meaning that will be discussed after it it read that will make it appropriate for this age.
Instructional Use: This book will be read to give example to students on some problems that came about in within the concepts of immigration.

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Media: Text- Literary Tradebook
Summary: This book is about a girl names Farah that feels alone. She listens and nods but doesn’t speak. She is the new kid in school and it is hard.On a field trip to an apple orchard, Farah discovers there are lots of things that  are just like they were at home like dogs and her new friends laughing. She then helps the class make apple cider and connects with the other students and begins to feel that she belongs.
Connection to the theme: This connects to the theme as another feeling that might be going through a child's head when immigrating to a new country.
Complexity:450 is the Lexile level for this book. This book has vocabulary that is easy for 4th graders to understand but the message is what is most important and what we can discuss as a group.
Instructional Use: This will be used as a reference for the students  to understand what it is like to be in the shows of an immigrant at a new school.

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Media: Text- Literary tradebook
Summary:Father and daughter work together in a garden, he explains to her what a seed needs to flourish and that those are the same reasons their family immigrated to somewhere new
Connection to the theme: This connects to the theme based on what the underlying story is about. It sends the message that immigration is sometimes what you have to do to have a better life.
Complexity:AD580 is the Lexile level if this book. The reading level of this book will be acceptable for most of the students but the comprehension level will be talked about as a class. The message is at a deeper level than they can interpret or understand.
Instructional Use: This will be used to answer the  question "why do people immigrate?". The students will use this to develop their own reasoning in their narratives.

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Media: Text- Literary Tradebook
Summary: This is about a little girl that gets excited for Sundays because it is the day that she gets to talk to her dad on the phone. He has moved to the US and one day asks if she wants to come with her mother to move there too. The little girl has mixed emotions about leaving her friends and other family even though she's finally going to be with her dad.
Connection to the theme: This is connected to the theme through sharing the emotions of understanding what it is like to pick up your whole life and move somewhere else.
Complexity: AD500 is the Lexile level of this book. Again, it is at the reading level of the students but the comprehension of the meaning is going to be explained as a group. Although the students might understand what is going on in the story, going through the emotions and talking about the messages in the story will help the students better comprehend.
Instructional Use: This will be used as a guide to steer the students in the direction of emotion that I want them to portray in their narrative writing.

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Media: Text- Informational tradebook
Summary: This book contains facts, charts and pictures that talk about immigration. From the early days of immigration to immigration now, it has straight forward factual information.
Connection to the theme: It is connected to the theme because it is about immigration from when it started in the US to how it have evolved into what it is like today.
Complexity: 900 is the Lexile level of this book. The text features are easy to navigate through but the vocabulary will be hard to understand. There is a glossary in the back of the book to help students with understanding the vocabulary.
Instructional Use: I would use this text as a reference to dates and other facts. Students can use it when try to add names and dates in to their writing.

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Media: Audio- Oral History
Summary: This Oral History is about a man Antonia from Puerto Rico who immigrated in the 1950s. He talks about his struggles of what he had to go through and sadness of leaving his loved ones.
Connection to the theme: This connects to theme through giving us a feel of an immigrant's life in the mid 1950s. It direct connects to the theme through first hand story telling.
Complexity: This audio could be complex to students based on the accent of the person being interview. In this sense, we will listen as a class if some are struggling.
Instructional use: This piece of audio will be used to for students to connect with on a deeper level with someone who has been an immigrant. They will take notes as listen.

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My Story of Immigration | Miriam Martinez | TEDxCarverMilitaryAcademy

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My Story of Immigration | Miriam Martinez | TEDxCarverMilitaryAcademy

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Media:Audio Tedtalk- (played with no visual)
Summary: This is a story of a 16 year old girl who talks about her story of immigration. She talks about her struggles and the things she had to go through as an immigrant.
Connection to the Theme: This connects to the theme because it is an actual story of an immigrant. Through her voice the students will be able to have some empathy in what she went through.
Complexity: This is a complexity piece of audio and very serious. Some students might not understand fully what she is trying to say or what she is talking about. To help with comprehension of the audio you can pause throughout and talk about the audio in chunks.
Instructional use: The students will take notes on different aspects of this girl's life to develop into their own stories.

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My Story of Immigration | Miriam Martinez | TEDxCarverMilitaryAcademy

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Media: Video
Summary: This is an instructional video that shows why people migrate or move themselves or their families around the world.
Connection to the Theme: The connection to the theme in this video is based on the question "why". We know that people  immigrate to new places but this video answers why people do it.
Complexity: The complexity of this video is advanced. The students will have to read along as the video goes on given it doesn't contain any audio. I would stop the video as we went on watching it so students could take notes.
Instructional use: The use of this video is to have students understand the why and use it in their writing. Not only do I want them to understand the concept of immigration but I want them to understand and add the "why" into their stories.

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Media: Text- Informational tradebook
Summary: This book is about some of the lives of some immigrants that came to America. Some things they do and experiences they go through as they look to the future.
Connection to the theme: This connects to the theme through showing the day in life and some experiences of immigrants in the 21st centary.
Complexity: Lexile level; 610. Through looking at the Lexile level and looking at the SCASS chart, the level of complexity should be comprehendible for the students for this project. The vocabulary and sentence structure are pieces that are under or right below grade level. They should understand this text with little help from the teacher.
Instructional use:
This book will guide the students in their writing for a day in the life of an immigrant. They will be able to use this text as evidence when creative their own narrative.

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Media: Audio- Oral History
Summary: This is an oral history of this woman Josephine  from Sicily being interviewed and talking about her life coming to America. She talks about many things from where she was born to what it was like when she got here to America.
Connection to the Theme: This is very obviously connected to the theme given it is an actual woman speaking about what her life was like as an immigrant.
Complexity: The only thing that makes this audio complex for the students would be the accent of the woman. If the students are having trouble understanding we will all go through it together.
Instructional use: This piece of audio will be used to for students to connect with on a deeper level with someone who has been an immigrant. They will take notes as listen. We won't listen to the whole thing but the students will be able to look through parts of it.

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Media: Visual- Photograph
Summary: This is a photo of how a woman might dress when migrating to another country in the 1900s.
Connection to the theme:
The connection to the theme is that this woman is being photographed as an immigrant coming to a new country. It shows many things such as her facial emotion and what types of clothes and jewelry she was wearing.
Complexity: The complexity of this picture will be easy for the students to comprehend. As they might have trouble or questions to why she is dressed like she is, we will have a discussion based on the questions students have.
Instructional use:
This will be used to help students describe in their writing what they might look or be dressed like if they were an immigrant in this time period.

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Ellis Island: An Illustrated History of Immigrant Experience By Ivan Chermayeff

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Ellis Island: An Illustrated History of Immigrant Experience By Ivan Chermayeff

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Media: Large Text with visuals
Summary: This book is full of amazing pictures and artifacts, specifically from Ellis Island. Through the pictures you can really see the stories of some of the immigrants that came to America.
Connection to the theme: This is connected to the theme through the pictures and artifacts of the many families that immigrated through Ellis Island.
Complexity: The complexity of this book is very high. based on the length of this book. However, the pictures and artifacts within the book arent as complex as some of the wording. If the students have questions on vocabulary or having trouble interpreting the pictures, it will be something we can work on as a class.
Instructional use: This book will mainly be used for the pictures within it and pictures of artifacts. Students will use this almost as an encyclopedia and analyze them to use them as reference within their stories.

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Media: Visual-photograph
Summary: This is a photograph from the 1900s of a boat that is about to arrive at Ellis Island.
Connection to the Theme: This picture connects to the theme by showing the emotion of some of the immigrants on the boat arrive to America.
Complexity: In this photograph you can see many things going on. The complexity of this photo should be easy for students to comprehend with some guidance. Once The students give their own ideas of what the photo is about we will talk about deeper meaning and what parts of the picture symbolize certain things.
Instructional use: This will be use to help students understand some of the emotions of immigrants arriving to the new country they wanted to now be in.

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Media: Visual- photograph
Summary: This picture along with the words on the picture are meant to convey a deeper message. The Native American is trying to make a point about immigration through the statement shown.
Connection to the Theme: This is connected to the theme by bringing the students back to original immigration and having them think about how immigration is looked at today.
Complexity: The complexity of this picture may be hard for students to under stand at first but after going over the deeper meaning of the photo they will better understand it.
Instructional use: This picture will be used for having students make connections between what immigration used to be to what it is now. It will also be used to show perspective of what the different sides of immigration could be.

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Immigration Song - Justin Bieber "Sorry" Parody - Ben Leddy

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Immigration Song - Justin Bieber "Sorry" Parody - Ben Leddy

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Media: Song video- (played in class no visual)
Summary: This is a song about immigration and why people immigrate to other countries. It is fun and upbeat and to a familiar song that students might know.
Connection to the Theme: This connects to the theme  by talking about reasons why immigration happens and how immigration comes about.
Complexity: This song is easy to understand and even sing a long. There may be a couple of terms that I would go over after listening to it a couple times with the class.
Instructional use: After listening to this a couple of times, I would then play this song quietly as the students are working to keep their minds working as well as use it to take notes if need and also listen to it for enjoyment.

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Immigration Song  - Justin Bieber "Sorry" Parody - Ben Leddy

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Schoolhouse Rock "The Great Melting Pot"

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Schoolhouse Rock "The Great Melting Pot"

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Media:Video
Summary: This is a song and informational fun video that talks how immigration in the US stared. It talks about how different countries had brought different things to America that make America what it is today.
Connection to the Theme: This connects to the theme by giving the students an idea of the great things that immigration has done for the US. It shows the many contributions that other countries have given to the America and the impact they have on the country.
Complexity: The students will have an easy time understanding this video. It is relatable and uses vocabulary that students are about to understand.
Instructional use: The students will use this as a guide to give them facts about things other countries have contributed to what America is today.

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Schoolhouse Rock - ''The Great American Melting Pot''

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Media: Video
Summary: This is an animated video that sows data on the amount of people, where they are from and when they came to America to begin their new lives.
Connection to the theme: This is connected to the theme by showing immigration to America through all parts of the world at a larger scale. This will show the students the big picture in what I am trying to get them to see in the concept of immigration.
Complexity: The students will be able to understand this video with little help from the teacher. They might have trouble grasping some of the larger numbers but that is some to go over in class after the video is shown.
Instructional use: I would use this to show data and help the students understand the mathematical aspects behind immigration.

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Animated Map Shows History Of Immigration To The US

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Media: Video
Summary: This video touches on how the united states is full of immigrants. In the beginning it touches on how people think that our country is so against immigration right now but the rest of the video proves that to be untrue talking how in touch with this concept our country is.
Connection to theme: This connects to theme by giving a modern look at immigration and how it is ortryed today.
Complexity: Although this video is straight forward there are some parts in the vocabulary of video that seem to be complex for 4th grade. In this sense I would go over the vocabulary to help students better understand.
Instructional use: I would use this video in explaining different aspects of immigration today.