1. Ellis Island & The Statue of Liberty The American Dream—Poems & Information

2. Bell Ringer:  List everything you know about Ellis Island or the Statue of Liberty. And/ or what you want to learn about Ellis Island & the Statue of Liberty  A photo of the Ellis Island Museum

3. Ellis Island  What is Ellis Island? Ellis Island is known best as the historical gateway for millions of immigrants to the United States.  Where is Ellis Island? Located in Upper New York, between Jersey City and New York City  How do you get to Ellis Island? On a Ferry -this is how immigrants got there long ago. This is also how people of today visit this historic location.  Busiest immigration station from 1892-1954

4. Immigrants arriving at Ellis Island

5. More Info on Ellis Island…  It opened with a celebration on January 1, 1892.  Three large ships landed on the first day and 700 immigrants passed over the docks.  Almost 450,000 immigrants were processed at the station during its first year.  On June 15, 1897, a fire of unknown origin, possibly caused by faulty wiring, turned the wooden structures on Ellis Island into ashes  Busiest immigration station from 1892-1954

6. Denotations  Immigrate: (verb/action) “come to live permanently in a foreign country”  Immigrant: (noun/person) a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country.  Immigration: (noun/idea) the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country  Emigrate: (verb/action) to leave one's own country in order to settle permanently in another

7. Location of Ellis Island

9. Ferry

10. Let’s take a tour of Ellis Island  http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/tour/stop1.htm http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/tour/stop1.htm  http://home.earthlink.net/~jfarr8/tour.html http://home.earthlink.net/~jfarr8/tour.html  http://www.history.com/topics/ellis-island/videos#immigrants-detained-at- ellis-island http://www.history.com/topics/ellis-island/videos#immigrants-detained-at- ellis-island  http://www.history.com/topics/ellis-island/videos#arrival-at-ellis-island http://www.history.com/topics/ellis-island/videos#arrival-at-ellis-island  http://www.history.com/topics/ellis-island/videos#ellis-island-in-pictures  Assignment:  While looking at the clip, write 3 new discoveries of Ellis Island

11. The Statue of Liberty  “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

14. Information on the Statue of Liberty  The Statue of Liberty is an image that symbolizes America’s immigrant heritage.  A gift from the people of France, she has watched over New York’s Harbor since 1886, and on her base is a tablet inscribed with words penned by Emma Lazarus in 1883:  “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest- tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

18. Let’s take a tour of the Statue of Liberty  http://www.nps.gov/featurecontent/stli/eTour.htm http://www.nps.gov/featurecontent/stli/eTour.htm  http://www.history.com/topics/ellis- island/videos#the-statue-of-liberty http://www.history.com/topics/ellis- island/videos#the-statue-of-liberty  http://www.history.com/topics/ellis- island/videos#statue-of-liberty-unknown  Assignment: Write 3 new discoveries about the Statue of Liberty

19. Stop & Think Quick Write….  To some Americans, the words of Emma Lazarus are our national credo. Others say they’re our national curse. What do you think? Credo? Curse? Both? Neither?  Why would people think of each of these? Explain

20. Ellis Island a poem by Joseph Bruchac  a) Beyond the red brick of Ellis Island  b) where the two Slovak children  c) who became my grandparents  d) waited the long days of quarantine,  e) after leaving the sickness,  f) the old Empires of Europe,  g) a Circle Line ship slips easily  h) on its way to the island

21.  i) of the tall woman, gr een  j) as dreams of forests and meadows  k) waiting for those who’d worked  l) a thousand years  m) yet never owned their own.  n) Like millions of others,  o) I too come to this island,  p)nine decades the answerer  q) of dreams.

22.  r) Yet only part of my blood loves that memory.  s) Another voice speaks  t) of native lands within this nation.  u) Lands invaded  v) when the earth became owned.  w) Lands of those who followed the changing  x) Moon, knowledge of the seasons  y) in their veins.

23. Clip from the Godfather II  Assignment:  While watching the from the Godfather II write down 5 observation that you noticed about immigrating to Ellis Island

24. Homework  1) What is Ellis island? Explain  2) Give the denotations of the word “immigrant”  3) Give some connotations of the word “immigrant”  4) Give the denotation of the word “emigrate”  5) Why is it important to learn about Ellis Island?  6) List 5 new facts you learned about Ellis Island from this presentation/what you learned today.  7) Why/how is the Statue of Liberty an important part of this nation?  8) List 5 new facts you learned about the Statue of Liberty