Theme:  Immigration to The United States

Classroom Bibliography

Nonfiction:

Binna, Tristan Boyer  Ellis Island2002 

Freedman, RussellImmigrant Kids1980

Kids Discover MagazineImmigration  1998

Maestro, BetsyComing to America:  The Story of Immigration 

1996  (304.873)

Sandler, Martin W.  Immigrants1995

Autobiographical/Biographical:

Dawson, MildredOver Here It's Different:  Carolina's Story

(974.71)  (Modern Dominican American)

Gordon, GingerMy Two Worlds  (974.7) (Modern Dominican American)

Fiction:

Bunting, Eve  How Many Days to America  1988 

(Refugees from Caribbean Island - Celebrate Thanksgiving)

Cohen, Barbara  Make a Wish, Molly  1994

Cohen, Barbara  Molly's Pilgrim 1983 

(Russian Jewish Immigrant - Religious Freedom - Celebrate Thanksgiving)

Hest, Amy  When Jessie Came Across the Sea1997

(Jewish Orphan travels to NYC)

Holub, Joan  Doll Hospital Series Tatiana Comes to America: An

Ellis Island Story  2002  Jewish Girl

Leighton, Maxinne Rhea  An Ellis Island Christmas  1992

Little, Jean  From Anna  1972  (1930s Germany to Canada)

Nagda, Ann Whitehead  Dear Whiskers  2000 

(Very Young Immigrant Girl from Saudi Arabia)

O'Brien, Anne  Who's New?

Polacco, Patricia  The Keeping Quilt  1988 

(Four generations of a Jewish Family)

Woodruff, Elvira  The Orphan of Ellis Island 1997

(Time travel to 1908 Italy)

Ziefert, Harriet  When I First Came to the Land  1998

(Early pioneer buys farm)

Websites:

Molly's Pilgrim - Teaching Ideas

Teacher Views

http://www.eduplace.com/tview/pages/m/Molly_s_Pilgrim_Barbara_Cohen.html

Collaborative Lessons

http:  faldo.atmos.uiuc.edu/CLA/LESSONS/85.html

Create a Doll

http://www.newton.mec.edu/Angier/DimSum/molly's_pi.html

Interview an Immigrant

http://www.newton.mec.edu/Angier/DimSum/Immigration%20Interview%20sheet

Immigrant

Information About Immigration:

New York, NY, Ellis Island—Immigration: 1900-1920

This Web site features photographs of the early 20th century documenting immigration through the most famous point of entry, Ellis Island.

http://gonyc.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fcmpl.ucr.edu%2Fexhibitions%2Fimmigration.html

Education World - Collection of Sites

http://www.education-world.com/a_sites/sites053.shtml

Scholastic - Find out what it means to come to the United States as an immigrant from the early 20th century through the early 21st century.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/

Interactive Tour of Ellis Island

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/tour/

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services - Resources for Students and Teachers

Symbols of Immigration to America

History of Immigration to the United States

History of the Immigration and Naturalization Service

The Immigration and Naturalization Service Today

Immigration Laws

Coming to America

Becoming Americans

Immigrants: Famous and Not So Famous

Finding Information on One's Own Immigrant Backgroundhttp://uscis.gov/graphics/aboutus/history/teacher/Resources.htm

Games:

Primary Family Assignment:

Completed Projects:

Group Reports, Map, Clothespin Dolls, Immigrant Interviews

This page was last updated: February 28, 2012