Karen Barrett
Nancy Christmas
Carole Rayl

1. Irish for Beginners and Everyday Words in Irish
2. Mo Leabhairin gorm (children\u2019s book written in Irish)
3. Mo Leabhairin glas (children\u2019s book written in Irish)
4. enough 8-page journals (with covers) for the entire class
5. photos of signs written in Irish and English ( Ireland \u201806 folder)
6. available unfamiliar (to your students) foods and necessary utensils to eat them
7. computer with internet capability and access
8. paper, pencils, and colored pencils/markers for various centers
9. task cards for each center
10. some form of timing device to keep track of time integrals

~Students will gain a better understanding of some of the many struggles immigrants
faced when arriving in the New World.
~Students will experience some of these struggles themselves through various
activities.

\u201cWe\u2019ve been learning about immigration in general and focusing on the Irish
Immigration during the mid-1800\u2019s. I hope you have some sense of what it must have
been like for these people to leave their homes, families, and friends behind as well as
the struggles and sacrifices many faced as they made the journey. So, now they\u2019ve
made it to America. All their troubles are over, right? Or have they just traded one set
of problems for another? Today you\u2019re going to be working your way through learning
centers where you will hopefully get a taste of what these immigrants went through as
they became \u201cstrangers in a strange land\u201d.

1. Break class into four groups and ask them to come up with a group name that has to
do with immigration.
2. Explain that the groups will be rotating through a series of four learning centers
where they will be given a task to complete. There will be a 3-minute period for them to
write about their experiences in-between each center. This will be done in a prepared
journal made ahead of time by the teacher. Each child should put her/his group and
individual name on the journal at the first center they go to in order to avoid confusion
with other students.
3. Each group will have approximately fifteen minutes at each center to complete the
given tasks. (two centers will be completed each day)
4. As stated in #2, each child will reflect on the completed activities in the prepared
journals.
5. At the conclusion of the lesson, children will reconfigure into different groups and
share experiences. From this sharing, each group will come up with three statements
they feel could express what it must be like to be a \u201cstranger in a strange land\u201d. These
will be displayed on our immigration bulletin board along with any other appropriate
work from the various centers.