Ellis Island

Here at Chase Street Elementary, we are learning about Ellis Island. Ellis Island was where you stopped if you wanted to  immigrate to America. Some facts about Ellis Island are about twelve million immigrants went through Ellis Island. Another fact about Ellis Island is that if you were sick at Ellis Island you would go to a quarantined facility on a different island and wait until a ship came and sent you back to your homeland. Also, at our school we are doing an Ellis Island simulation. The roles you can have are mother, father, or child, and the adults can have jobs, for example, carpenter, farmer, or (if you're a woman) seamstress.