Open a Word Document and save it in your main directory as Immigrant Screenshots. You will paste all your screenshots in this one document. To make a screenshot, display the picture you want on your computer screen. Press the Print Screen key (above the Insert button on your keyboard), open the Word Document and Paste.
Go through the site Tenement Immigration Museum. Take screenshots of the following as you go:
- Your passport
- Your ticket
- Your Health inspection card
- Your postcard to Victoria
Being careful of spelling, grammar, and punctuation, write a blog post including the following information. Be sure to have three-four sentences in each paragraph.
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Title as Tenement Virtual Tour and mark as a Social Studies Assignment.
Paragraph 1: The year is 1916. You want to head to America with the hope of having a better life. You choose whether you are male or female, what country you want to come from (choices are Austria-Hungary, Russia, or Italy). You will have four choices for a first name and four choices for a last name. What country and name did you choose and why?
Paragraph 2: You will pick three things to pack in your trunk to take to America. You have nine choices, but can only take three! Your choices are clothes, shoes, family photo, food, cooking pot, religious item, books, bedding, and a toy. What are your three items and why?
Paragraph 3: What did you have to do to get through Ellis Island?
Paragraph 4: What did you choose for a job? Your choices were a “newsie” selling papers, working in a clothing factory, bringing work into the home such as sewing, or being a student. Why?
Paragraph 5: What did you choose to do for fun? Your choices are going to the Nickelodeon, listening to the Victrola, going to Coney Island, or playing stickball in the street. Why?
Paragraph 6: How did you choose to help out at home? Your choices are washing clothes, bringing the coal up from the basement, keeping the apartment clean, or cooking. Why?
Paragraph 7: What will you buy for your apartment? Your choices are chairs (which can be pushed together and double as a bed), a stove, a Victrola, or a bed. Why did you make that choice?
Insert a screenshot of your passport after Paragraph 1.
Insert a screenshot of your ticket after Paragraph 2.
Insert a screenshot of your health record after Paragraph 3.
Insert a screenshot of the postcard you write to Victoria, your tour guide, at the very end of the post.
| Item | Points Possible |
| Paragraph 1: What country and name did you choose and why? | 5 |
| Paragraph 2: What three items did you pack and why? | 5 |
| Paragraph 3: What did you have to do to get through Ellis Island? | 5 |
| Paragraph 4: What did you choose for a job and why? | 5 |
| Paragraph 5: What did you choose to do for fun and why? | 5 |
| Paragraph 6: How did you choose to help out at home and why? | 5 |
| Paragraph 7: What did you choose to buy for your apartment and why? | 5 |
| Screen shot of Passport after Paragraph 1 | 5 |
| Screen shot of Ticket after Paragraph 2 | 5 |
| Screen shot of Health Record after Paragraph 3 | 5 |
| Screen shot of Postcard at the end of the post | 5 |
| Spelling, Punctuation, and Grammar | 15 |
| Written in full sentences with 3-4 sentences minimum in a paragraph. | 15 |
| Titled Tenement Virtual Tour and marked as a Social Studies Assignment | 5 |
| Treatment of Headphones | 5 |
| Completed on time | 5 |
| Total | 100 |