EDU 652

John R Graves II

I’m New Here- Exploring the Immigrant

Experience
 Monday

1. Read: The Arrival by Shaun Tan.

2. Reflect in your Reading Journal:
– How does language affect our understanding
of the world?
– Describe the world in list, poem or prose as
seen through the eyes of the protaganist.

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 Tuesday

1. Read: Good-Bye, 382 Shin Dang Dong by Frances Park.

2. Reflect in your Reading Journal:
– Write a letter to yourself in last year’s class.
– Describe how your daily expectations and experiences
are different.
– Offer advice on how to succeed.
– Introduce and prepare your past self for changes in
your new environment.

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 Wednesday

1. Read: Ellis Island (Cornerstones of Freedom: Second) by

Judith Jango- Cohen.
2. Reflect in your Reading Journal:
– How would you re-design Ellis Island to
accommodate the large numbers and diversity of
peoples entering the United States for the first time?
– Draw, color and label the facilities and describe their
functions.

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 Thursday

1. Read: Apple Pie Fourth of July by Janet Wong.

2. Reflect in your Reading Journal:
– What kind of economic pursuits, businesses and jobs
do you think are availible to immigrants and non-
native language speakers?
– If an newcomer was a doctor in his or her native
country, can he or she expect a job of equivilent
esteem and/ or pay?

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 Friday

1. Read: I Hate English! by Ellen Levine and Steve

Bjorkman.
2. Reflect, share and discuss with a partner:
– What rights, responsibilities and obligations do
immigrants and non- native langugage speakers have
to their new communities and country?
– What responsibilities and obligations do communities
and country have to immigrants and non- native
langugage speakers?
– What are the individual and societal consequences and
costs of non- assimilation?
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 References

Jango- Cohen, J. (2008). Ellis island (Cornerstones of Freedom:

Second). Chicago: Children’s Press (CT). ISBN-13: 978-
0531208335
Levin, E., Bjorkman, S. (1995). I hate english!. New York:
Scholastic Paperbacks. ISBN-13: 978-0590423045
Park, F. (2002). Good-Bye, 382 shin dang dong. National
Geographic Children’s Books. Des Moines: ISBN-13: 978-
0792279853
Tan, S (2007). The arrival. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books.
ISBN-13: 978-0439895293
Wong, J. (2002). Apple pie fourth of july. New York: Harcourt
Children's Books. ISBN-13: 978-0152025434
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