TEXT SET

Discipline: Social Studies: History

Topic: People of the Nations and World: Immigration
Anchor Text: Grandfathers Journey, by Allen Say.
Title

Explore
Immigratio
n Data!

Meet Young
Immigrants
!

The Blessing
Cup

Author/
Illustrator
/Source/
Web
Address

CampSilos
Excursion
Wesbite and
Scholastic
Education

Scholastic
Education
http://teacher.s
cholastic.com/a
ctivities/immigr
ation/young_im
migrants/index.
htm

Patricia Polacco

Format

Interpretive
Graphs, Charts
and Data

Hardcover Book
and Nook Book

Genre

Visual

WebsiteInteractive
Video and
Interviews
Historical,
Realistic
Biography

Historical Fiction

http://teacher.sc
holastic.com/act
ivities/immigrati
on/immigration_
data/

Interpretive

Data

America,
My new
Home

The Arrival

Monica
Gunning
(Author)
Ken Condon
(Illustrator)

Shaun Tan

Paperback book

Hardcover
Book

Hardback and
Paperback
Book

Oral
Biographical
Collection

Selection of
Poetry

Wordless
Graphic Novel

I was
dreaming to
come to
America:
Memories
from the Ellis
Island Oral
History
Project
Veronica Lawlor
(Author)
Rudolph W.
Giuliani
(Forword)

Summary

Students will
study the
numbers and
charts to learn
more about
the history of
immigration
by decade, by
region and by
50-year
periods and
region.
Students will
interpret a bar
chart, line
graph and pie
chart and
compare to a
tables results
and its visual
representation
.

Biography of
young
Third grade
students who
have recently
emigrated from
their
homelands and
settled in the
United States.
Each student
has a different
nationality and
gives an
account of the
differences,
similarities and
challenges they
face as being
an emigrant
and what they
enjoy about
their new
homeland.
Asya, from the
Ukraine and
Sadana, from
India will be the
main modern
emigrants
discussed and
explored.

A bond of love
In their own
unites a family
words, coupled
throughout
with handgenerations in
painted collage
this companion to
illustrations,
the beloved and
immigrants
bestselling classic
recall their
The Keeping
arrival in the
Quilt.
United States.
As a young
Includes brief
Russian Jewish
biographies
girl in the early
and facts about
1900s, Anna and
the Ellis Island
her family lived in
Oral History
fear of the Czars
Project. Their
soldiers. The
first
family lived a
impressions of
hard life and had
America were
few possessions
influenced by
their treasure was
where they
a beautiful china
came from;
tea set. The tea
what they
set came with a
noticed and
wish, but when
remembered
Annas family
depended on
leaves Russia for
their age and
America, they
circumstances.
bring the tea set "And this is the
and its blessings.
only country
where we are
Cited From
all strangers.
Patriciapolacco.com
It's only a
matter of time

In twentyMigrant story
three
told as a series
compelling
of wordless
poems, a
images that
young
might seem to
Caribbean girl
come from a
tells her story long forgotten
of moving
time. A man
from her
leaves his wife
island home
and child in an
to a new
impoverished
place in an
town, seeking
American city
better
filled with
prospects in an
wonder and
unknown
exciting
country on the
treasures
other side of a
much
vast ocean. He
different from
eventually
her island
finds himself in
home. She
a bewildering
describes a
city of foreign
place where
customs,
skyscrapers,
peculiar
where no one
animals,
knows your
curious
name. Yet
floating
this same
objects. He is
place offers
helped along
notable,
the way by
exciting
sympathetic
treasures.
strangers.

Lexile
Level

Ages 7-11
730L

Ages 7-11
730L

Ages 6-9
740L

who got here

first." (p. 32)

Cited From
New York Public
Library.

Ages 7-10
950L

Ages 8-11
820L

Cited from
ShaunTan.net

Ages 6-12
Wordless