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20 Points
Week One
Assignment
Using the Library of Congress-American Memory Site website find a photo using the keyword "immigrant". You are to evaluate your photo using the following criteria:
What are they wearing?
Where do you think they are going?
What country do you think the people or persons came from?
After studying the picture, write a short story about the people or person's life or lives were like in America.
Week Two
20 Points
Assignment
"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."
Emma Lazarus penned these words in her 19th century poem, The New Colossus. Do the words reflect the American sentiment about immigration at that time? Do these words express America's feelings about immigration, today?
Final Project
60 Points
You may choose one of the following activities:
1. Interview someone you know who is an immigrant. You are to write a paper with the information that you have collected. You can prepare a written paper or an oral presentation. Your project should included the following information:
The person's name.
The country that they have immigrated from.
How long have they lived in United States?
What their life was like in their home country?
What their life is like in the United States?
How is the United States different from their home country?
2. Prepare a written paper or oral presentation comparing and contrasting early 20th century immigration to late 20 century/21st century immigration.
3. Create a piece of artwork that portrays what it means to be an immigrant.
4. Write and perform a short play about immigration. (This may be done in groups of three).