Immigrant Experience by Elizabeth Mann

Activity

elmann3 — 2024-11-10 22:48:44 UTC

Make name stamps for everyone in the room. Make a poster with everyone's name stamp on it.

Activity

elmann3 — 2024-11-10 22:49:10 UTC

Plan how we would make a refugee camp to help people. Make a list of what we would need and what things we could have to bring people comfort. Talk about the things they would need and want if they were in that situation.

Activity

elmann3 — 2024-11-10 22:51:07 UTC

Get our own paper and paints and draw our own homes. It could be a picture of the child's actual house they currently live in or just somewhere that feels like home to them. We could talk about what makes it special to us. From there we could talk about how Hassan used drawing to express his feelings and the things he couldn't say and how we can do that too.

Activity

elmann3 — 2024-11-10 22:56:49 UTC

Everyone gets different size stones and makes their family out of them just like the pictures of the families in the story.

Activity

elmann3 — 2024-11-10 23:07:05 UTC

Everyone gets a piece of paper and writes down something that they wish the teacher or their classmates knew. They can choose if they want to write names on them or not and they all go into a bin. They could be good things that they wish people knew or struggles they are having that they wish the teacher knew about.

Summaries & Connections

elmann3 — 2024-11-10 23:57:33 UTC

This book is about a child who immigrated to America and is now going to school. At school he was drawing a picture of his home in Somalia. At first he draws a house with a pretty sunset and everything looks nice and happy. Then he adds big flames to the roof and a man with a gun shooting his house. His teacher saw his drawing and the next day he got to talk to a lady who looked like his mother and spoke his language. They talked together about Hassan's experience in Somalia and how it was coming to America. This made Hassan feel much better and he drew a new picture for his mother of his home. This connects to the topic because it is telling the story of Hassan's immigrant experience.

Summaries & Connections

elmann3 — 2024-11-10 23:57:45 UTC

This book shows the experiences a lot of people have being a refugee. It shows too how everyone's experience is different. It talks about why some people had to leave their countries. Some people are welcomed to new places with refugee camps and others try to shut them out and keep them away. It starts and ends talking about how a refugee is a person just like you and me. This connects to the topic because it is showing the experiences all of these people have trying to immigrate to other countries.

Summaries & Connections

elmann3 — 2024-11-10 23:57:49 UTC

This book is about a girl named Unhei who is immigrating from Korea. When she first gets to her class none of her classmates can say her name correctly. She then decides that she is going to pick a different name to go by so she isn't so different from everyone in her class. When she goes to school the next day everyone in her class put names in a jar to help her get ideas and pick one. After this she shows a boy in her class the name stamp that her grandmother gave her with her name in Korean on it. Her classmates kept giving her name ideas but none of them felt right to her. She eventually decided she would keep her name and taught it to everyone in class. At the end of the book one of the other students got a name stamp for his name too. This connects to the topic because it shows the experience she had starting school after immigrating.

Summaries & Connections

elmann3 — 2024-11-10 23:57:52 UTC

This is a story about a girl who's family lives in a place where everyone around her is leaving the country. Eventually her family decides it is not safe to stay and decides to leave too. The rest of the story shows her journey getting to a new country. The theme of the story is about how even though they are leaving everything behind they still have their family. All of the pictures in the story are made out of stones. The book is also all written in English and Arabic. It connects to the topic because it tells about the girl's experience in her country and immigrating.

Summaries & Connections

elmann3 — 2024-11-10 23:57:55 UTC

This is about a girl whose father was an immigrant and had to go back to the country he was born in. It tells about how sometimes at school when she forget's her homework or sits alone at lunch or cries over little things it's really just because he misses him. The whole book is focused around the idea of her saying all of the things she wishes the teacher or other children knew. The book ends talking about how she wishes they knew that her and her father would be together soon. It connects to the topic because it is about the experience she has dealing her father immigrating and having to go back.

Quotes & Questions

elmann3 — 2024-11-10 23:58:43 UTC

"But she had someone with her, a Somali lady wearing a black hijab like his mother's-only she also wore blue jeans and a black leather jacket, like a Western woman."

How do you think you would feel if you were in a new place surrounded by people who don't look like you and don't speak your language? Then how do you think you would feel getting to talk to someone who understood your language?

Quotes & Questions

elmann3 — 2024-11-10 23:58:46 UTC

"There are countries that don't want to welcome more refugees."

Why do you think there are people who don't want to help these people? How would you feel if you were that person stuck without a place to go?

Quotes & Questions

elmann3 — 2024-11-10 23:58:49 UTC

"Oh, it's You-hey," the boy said. "Like 'You, hey!' What about 'Hey, you'"

How would you feel if everyone around you wasn't saying your name correctly and was making fun of it?

Quotes & Questions

elmann3 — 2024-11-10 23:58:52 UTC

"New neighbors welcomed us with open arms. I heard their voices but didn't understand their words. But when I saw their smiles, I knew what the word meant."

What do you think that means that he knew what the words meant even though he didn't know the language they were speaking?

Quotes & Questions

elmann3 — 2024-11-10 23:58:56 UTC

"I wish you knew that when I forget my homework or sit alone at lunch or cry over little things, it's because I miss him."

How do you think we could help if we had a friend in the classroom who feels like this?

Works Cited

elmann3 — 2024-11-10 23:59:35 UTC

elmann3 — 2024-11-11 00:22:58 UTC

The topic I choose is immigrant experience. I think this is an important topic because a lot of children don't get a lot of information about immigrants and the hurdles they have to go through to get to our country. I also think it is helpful for children to see the experiences other children have in other countries and that they are not always bad. Additionally I believe knowing more about it would help children to be more accepting to immigrants and new students in their classroom.

Yangsook Choi

elmann3 — 2024-11-11 00:33:19 UTC

Background

elmann3 — 2024-11-11 00:54:07 UTC

She grew up in Korea and currently lives in New York City. Along with being an author she is an illustrator and has spent a lot of time drawing with children in local shelters, mountain villages in the Himalayas, a Bedouin community in the Arabian desert, an underground shelter for North Korea refugee children in China, and an orphanage in Cambodia. I think this adds to the authenticity because she is an immigrant herself and has had a lot of experience working with refugee children.

Books

elmann3 — 2024-11-11 01:07:34 UTC

Most of the books she has written are about Korean children. She has a wide variety of books ranging from Korean folktales to books about Halloween. Books she has written include Peach Heaven, A Letter To My Best Friend, Slippery, Spicy, Tingly, and many more.

Background

elmann3 — 2024-11-11 02:01:21 UTC

I couldn't find a lot of information about her background or culture but she has gotten the Pura Belpré Honor Book award twice. This award is only given to Latina or Latino authors and illustrators so because of this I am assuming she is Latina. I would say that this adds to the authenticity because if the books weren't authentic she would not have gotten the awards.

Magdalena Mora

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Books

elmann3 — 2024-11-11 02:10:19 UTC

All of the books she has written appear to feature Latina/Latino characters. Some of her books include Equality's Call, The Notebook Keeper, Tomatoes in my Lunch Box, and Still Dreaming.

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