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Immigrant Contributions to America and to the World!

The United States is the nation it is today for many reasons. Immigrants have added much to our story, and affect our country economically, politically, and socially. To showcase these many contributions, we will create a quilt of Important American Immigrants at Spring Street!

Your assignment is to: * Choose an important/famous immigrant from the list below or another important immigrant with whom you and/or your family have knowledge. See your Social Studies teacher if you have any questions. * Complete the attached Did You Know? fact sheet using web sites your parents allow you to open and use; see teacher for assistance if needed. * Draw a picture of the person in the space provided (drawn with pencils or colored pencils) or copy/paste or print/glue a photo from the Internet into that space. You should also include a picture of what he/she invented. * Write persons name/country of origin, what he/she is famous for, and year he/she immigrated to the United States (if known) on the lines below your picture. *Write YOUR NAME on the bottom line. * Bring Did You Know? fact sheet and illustration/photo in by _______________________________________ In class, you will summarize your information in a short writing piece.

Partial list of important American immigrants you may want to choose from: (or other one with your parent/teacher approval)

Madeleine Albright Former U.S. Secretary of State (Czechoslovakia) Edward M. Bannister American landscape painter (Canada) Irving Berlin songwriter (Russia) Sergey Brin Google co-founder (Russia) Subrahhmanyan Chandrosekhar scientist (India) Liz Claiborne fashion designer (Belgium) Cristeta Comerford White House Executive Chef (Philippines) Albert Einstein Scientist (Germany) Father Edward Flanagan Religious leader (Ireland) Felix Frankfurter Supreme Court judge (Austria) Michael J. Fox Actor and Parkinsons Research Advocate (Canada) David Ho AIDs research pioneer (Taiwan) Peter Jennings Broadcast Journalist and News Anchor (Canada) Mother Mary Harris Jones fighter for workers rights (Ireland) Bela Karolyi - Gymnastics Coach (Romania) John Muir Naturalist; major force behind national park system (Scotland) James Naismith inventor of basketball (Canada) Martina Navratilova - Pro Tennis Player (Czechoslovakia) Frank Oz (Richard Frank Oznowicz puppeteer (England) Ieoh Ming Pei Architect (China) Louis Prang Father of the American Christmas Card (Germany) Joseph Pulitzer Newspaper publisher; also helped to raise money for the Statue of Liberty pedestal (Hungary) Admiral Hyman Rickover Father of the Nuclear Navy (Russia) Knute Rockne football coach (Norway) Arnold Schwarzenegger Former Governor of California (Austria) Margaret Skapes (Arhondula Skapetorahis) - suffrage/womens rights leader (Greece) Levi Strauss Founder of Levi Strauss & Co. (Bavaria) Nikola Tesla - alternating current system Tesla Coil (Croatia) Maria von Trapp singer (Austria)

Sites that may help you begin/continue your search!

(Look Carefully for these sites contain individuals who are not immigrants, but important Americans.)

http://www.biography.com/people/groups/immigration/us-immigrant/all http://immigration.about.com/od/successfulimmigrants/tp/Immigrants_In_Politics.htm http://immigration.about.com/od/successfulimmigrants/Profiles_of_the_Nations_Successfu l_Immigrants.htm http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/ http://immigrationupdate.wordpress.com/famous-american-immigrants/ http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/scientists/index.html (Super Scientists)

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Did You Know?

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*This person was born in the country of ___________________________________ on (if known)_____________________________________________. *He/She came to the United States in the year_______________________________ because ____________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________. *He/She lived/settled in (city and/or state, if known) ____________________________ in the __________________________________________ region of the United States. *His/Her profession or occupation was _______________________________________ *One important contribution that he/she made to the United States was ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ List any other important or interesting facts you learned about this person that relate to him/her as an immigrant or to the contributions that were made to the United States. _______________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________

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