Ellis Island Project

Photo: Library of Congress

1. Read  Relive a Boy's Journey
http://teacher.scholastic.com/immigrat/seymour/index.htm
Seymour Rechtzeit was eight years old in 1920, read his story about coming to America!

2. Your class must travel back in time to the year 1895. You are immigrants coming to America for a new life. In groups of two, your class will help reconstruct what is was like to come to America through Ellis Island by:

    A. Working cooperatively with a partner to research an ethnic group, and report on an assigned section of Ellis Island.(25 points).

    B. Written report in Microsoft Word called Ellis Island (75 points) based upon your assigned section of Ellis Island, and the ethnic group that you are representing. Describe what your part of the Ellis Island experience is like, why your ethnic group came to America, and what your new life will be like. You may use computer images and at least one KidPix picture to help tell your story.

C. EXTRA CREDIT (15 points): Research to see if your family came to America through Ellis Island. You may want to ask your parents for help on great (or great great...) grandparent names. Click HERE!