ELLIS ISLAND!!!

In 5th grade we are learning about Ellis island, and later we will do a simulation like we are people escaping from different countries. Mrs. Hudson even had some relatives that came to Ellis Island from Sicily. There were the parents Natale and Carolina Russo. and their 4 kids, Salvatore, Ignatious, Carmella, and Marie were born after coming through.

                               

In library the other day we all got to choose between 3 countries that in the simulation we would have come from as immigrants. The 3 countries were Ireland, Germany and Italy. I got Germany and when I was researching I found out that Germans have a TERRIBLE ship ride unless you're wealthy, then you're in relative comfort but they let most Germans in partly because there were already lots of Germans that have settled here. 

Here are some pictures of Ellis Island (there is also a link a video on Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ellis_Island_Museum.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42yO2FUWL6A

               

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ellis_Island_in_1905.jpg