My Name_________________________

My Topic:___________________________________

IMMIGRATION, MIGRATION, AND LABOR IN CALIFORNIA PROJECT

INFORMATIONAL BOOK & PRESENTATION

Dear 4th/5th families,

It’s time for our next research project! For homework over the next few weeks, your
child will work on an informational book and presentation on the topic of California
immigration, migration, and labor. I expect that the children work on this at home, but
they will also be given a great deal of time in class to work on it. I do this so that I can give
guidance and feedback as the project progresses, and so that adults at home can monitor
work and give more one-on-one support than I am able to provide at school with 31
students. This system also rewards kids who start early and use their time wisely, which
are great habits to build. Please check-in with your child frequently to make sure they are
on target to finish assignments.
It is my expectation that the work is representative of 4th/5th-grade level work. It is
age-appropriate for your child to have final drafts with clear ideas that are free of most
grammatical, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation errors. Your child will use Google
Docs and Google Slides to create their projects.
This week, each child chose a specific topic to research. The final goal is to write an
Informal Book and create a Slides Presentation to share information on their topic and how
it relates to immigration, migration, and labor in California. Please see the assignment
descriptions and due dates below.

~ Bridget Gantner

DUE DATES ASSIGNMENTS

Tuesday, March 19th Choose your immigration, migration, and labor research topic.

Tuesday, March 26th Review the assignment descriptions and due dates with an adult at home. Keep the hard copy
someplace safe, such as on the refrigerator or a bulletin board. We will write down the due
dates together on our Assignment Logs and calendars.

Friday, April 5th Complete:

1) Your list of resources
2) An outline or other graphic organizer that will organize the main points of your book
3) Notes taken from your resources and organized by subtopic in a Google Doc

For resources, you may use books, magazines, interviews, documentaries, brochures,
websites, and/or newspapers. You will need to have at least two primary sources. These
 primary sources may be interviews, songs, stories, poems, letters, or quotes from someone
involved in your topic.

As these topics vary in their obscurity, I suggest that everyone begin their search with an
online encyclopedia. In addition, our California history textbook has information on almost all
topics, as does the Virtual City of San Francisco Museum at https://sfmuseum.org/. San
Mateo’s Library System has many online resources as well. Please see our Additional Online
Resources list for additional resources.

Before you start taking notes, you will need to create a graphic organizer to break up your
topic into at least 6 subtopics. You are responsible for coming up with your subtopics. This will
allow you to more easily organize your notes and presentation. We will go over this in class
and I would like everyone to check in with me before you take notes.

Notes need to be filled out, as you read your resources. You will take notes in a notes file you
will create in Google Docs. You will break-down your file into pages for each of your subtopics.
These will become topics for various pages of your information book and presentation, Some
topics will take up more than one page.

Remember, throughout this time, you should be checking in with me, your parents, and your
peers to get feedback.

Tuesday, April 23rd Complete the rough draft of your informational book. Remember, your book needs to have
the essential informational text features we learned about in class.

Friday, April 26th Complete the rough draft of your Google Slides or Canva presentation. Remember, a
presentation needs to have enough text to give necessary information, but also mixes in
graphics with captions to keep it interesting. All graphics and pictures need a caption that
explains what they are.

Tuesday, April 30th Turn in the final version of your informational book.

Friday, May 3rd Turn in the final version of your presentation.

TBA All students are expected to participate, and all families are invited, to take part in our
Immigration, Migration, and Labor Oral History Presentations.

We will present and perform what we have learned on the topic of immigration, migration,
and labor in California’s history.

CALIFORNIA IMMIGRATION, MIGRATION, AND LABOR UNIT REPORT

You will create an age-appropriate research essay and Google Slides presentation to share information
on your chosen topic and how it relates to immigration, migration, and labor in California.

California Immigration, Migration and Labor Unit Report Topics

 Communty/ Location Research
Allensworth: a CA community founded by African-Americans
The Angel Island Immigration Station- Chloe
The town of Locke, founded by Chinese-Americans
San Francisco Chinatown- Finn
San Francisco North Beach/Italian-American-
Yuba City/Sikh and Punjabi-American
Solvang/Danish-American
The Yamoto Colony near Livingston/Japanese-American

Movements

● The Alien Land Law of 1913-

● The Brasero Program
● The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
● The Grape Boycott of 1965- Aaron
● The Great Depression in California- Sabrina
● Japanese Internment- Amelia
● Chicano Movement in California
● African American migrations to California
● Cambodian, Laotian & Hmong immigration to California
● Filipino immigration in California -
● German immigration to California
● Indian, Pakistani and Sikh immigration to California
● Irish immigration in California
● Italian immigration to California
● Japanese immigration in California- Jordyn
● Portuguese or Azorean immigration in California
● Vietnamese immigration to California
● “Rosie the Riveter”- Women in the Wartime Workforce- Makayla
● The Women Air Corps Service(WACS) Pilots- WWII/ Nancy Batson Crews- Anabella

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_Airforce_Service_Pilots
Dennis Kearney and the Know Nothings
https://thehistoricpresent.com/tag/know-nothings/

______Groups

● Chinese laborers and the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad- Kai

● Immigrant miners during the Gold Rush
● “Okies” – Migrant farm workers affected by the Dust Bow- Roscoe
● Migrant farm workers and fishermen
● Mutualistas(Sociedades Mutualistas)/Latin American Mutual Aid Societies
● Chinese Tongs – Mutual Aid Societies
● The United Farm Workers’ Union(UFW)
● The 442nd Regimental Combat Team(Japanese-American WWII division)
● Teatro Campesino – United Farm Workers’ theater troupe

Biographies

● Adolf Sutro/Prussian-American engineer and San Francisco Mayor -

● Allen Allensworth/African American founder of Allensworth, CA
● Amadeo Peter Giannini/Italian American founder of Bank of America - Esme
● An Chang-ho(Ahn Chang-ho), pen name Dosan/Korean poet, writer and founder of the Korean
mutual-aid society, Friendship Society
● Arnold Genthe/Prussian-American photographer -Ben
● Arnold Schwartzenegger/Austrian-American pop icon and politician- Bonnie
● Biddy Mason/African-American nurse, entrepreneur & philanthropist - Olive
● Bruce Lee/Chinese-American martial artist - Eli
● Cesar Chavez/Mexican-American labor organizer and leader - Daniela
● Chiura Obata/Japanese-American artist
● Dalip Singh Saund/Punjabi-American civil rights campaigner & congressman
● Delilah Beasley/African-American journalist and historian- Alvine
● Dolores Huerta/Mexican-American labor organizer and leader- Zianni
● Domingo Ghiradelli/Italian-American chocolate manufacturer - Dhruva
● Donaldina Cameron/Activist for immigrant women in San Francisco
● Dorothea Lange- Photographer of Dust Bowl migrant workers
● Ernest Bloch/Swiss-American composer
● Fred Koramatsu/Japanese-American civil rights activist - Elise
● Henry J.Kaiser/American shipbuilder & employer of African-Americans-
● James Beckwourth/African-American trail blazer
● Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston/Japanese-American author
● Joe Dimaggio/son of Italian immigrants/baseball player - Jason
● Joe Hill/Labor activist - Jake
● John Muir/Scottish-American naturalist - Christian
● John Steinbeck/California Author (Grapes of Wrath)
● John Sutter/Swiss-California pioneer established Sutter’s Fort/Sacramento
● Josefina Fierro de Bright/Mexican-American civil rights activist- Dayanara
● Kyutaro Abiko/Japanese American publisher & founder of Yamoto Colony, CA- Alexa
● Leland Stanford and the Big 4/Transcontinental Railroad magnates- effects on immigration
● Levi Strauss/German-American manufacturer - Jack
● Luisa Moreno/Mexican-American union, labor and social activist
 ● Makoto Hagiwara/Japanese-American landscape designer and inventor of the fortune cookie-
Josh
● Malonga Casquelourd/Congolese-American Dancer
● Mary Ellen Pleasant/African-American abolitionist and entrepreneur- Kaiya
● Mary Tape/Chinese-American education reformer - Natasha
● Pedro Flores/Filipino inventor of the yo-yo
● Philip Vera Cruz/Filipino labor and civil rights leader -
● Samuel Goldwyn & Louis B. Mayer/Prussian & Russian-American film producers: Nathan
● Tony Coelho/Portuguese-American Congressman & Disabilities Rights Activist
● William Alexander Leidesdorff/African-American pioneer, millionaire -
● William Byron Rumford/African American first elected official
● William Heath Davis/Hawaiian trader, leader
● William Mulholland/responsible for CA aqueduct system and Water Wars
● Woody Guthrie/Activist and Songwriter - Aleah

Additional Online Resources

The Library of Congress

https://www.loc.gov

Virtual City of San Francisco Museum

www.sfmuseum.org

Center for Immigration Studies “Immigration and California Communities” by William A.V. Clark,
www.cis.org/articles/1999/back299.html

Multicultural Americans
www.everyculture.com/multi

UC Santa Barbara CEMA – California Ethic and Multicultural Archives

http://www.library.ucsb.edu/special-collections/cema/list-cema-guides

*Regional Oral History Office at Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley

www.bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/

*UC-Davis Humanities Institute “Angel Island Oral Histories”

(Transcripts of immigrants in general – NOT likely your individual research subject)
http://dhi.ucdavis.edu/?page_id=11901

Newsela- Has lots of student-level reading on most topics, including some primary sources
https://newsela.com

**We Are California – Stories of Immigration and Change

www.weareca.org

**University of California Calisphere – “California Cultures”

www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/calcultures/eras/era6.html

**Digital History- Ethnic America

www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/ethnic_am.cfm