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An Immigrant's Journey

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Students use books, resource CDs, and the Internet to research and collect images of the experiences of immigrants in 1907. They are divided into groups of four to write journal entries for a fictional, yet historically accurate, immigrant.

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7th - 8th
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English Language Arts
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