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US HISTORY : Ellis Island

Facts - Pictures - Glossary -
Listening -
Activities - Webquests -
Songs - Poems - Videos - Cinema

(Updated on 05/12/2010)


Related pages :

Immigration (civilization) - Immigration (history) -
Ellis Island (geography) -
New York (geography) - New York (civilization) - New York (history)

 

 

Facts :

  • Ellis Island - History
    "From 1892 to 1954, over twelve million immigrants entered the United States through the portal of Ellis Island, a small island in New York Harbor..."
    (ellisisland.org)

  • Immigration station
    "The federal immigration station opened on January 1, 1892 and was closed in 1954, with twelve million immigrants processed there by the US Bureau of Immigration...
    Arrivals were asked 29 questions including name, occupation, and the amount of money carried.. "
    (Wikipedia)

  • Medical inspections
    "Symbols were chalked on the clothing of potentially sick immigrants following the six-second medical examination..." 
    (Wikipedia)

  • Immigration journey
    See STEP ONE :
    "After the 1893 U.S. immigration law went into effect, each passenger had to answer a series of 29 questions (recorded on manifest lists) before board-ing the ship.
    These questions included, among others: name, age, sex, marital status, occupation, nationality, abil-ity to read or write, race, physical and -mental health, last residence,
    and the name and address of the nearest relative or friend in the immigrant's country of origin. Immigrants were asked whether they had at least $30;
    whether they had ever been in prison, an alms--house, or an institution; or if they were polygamists or anarchists." 
    (ohranger.com)

  • What was the process the immigrants had to go through when they came to America?
    "The final test was to answer 29 questions including: name, sex, marital status, occupation, nationality, ability to read and write, race, physical and mental health, how much money they had, prison records, and if they were polygamists or anarchists..."
    (123helpme.com)

  • List or Manifest of Alien Immigrants for the Commissioner of Immigration :

    Questions from 1 to 21
    The picture can be enlarged.
    (burdigalaproject.files.wordpress.com)

    Questions from 13 to 29
    The picture can be enlarged.
    (genealogy.zappala.org)



  • Ellis Island - 360° Virtual Tour (galvinized.com)
  • Immigration - stories of yesterday and today - Interactive tour : Ellis Island - Oral history - Charts, graphs and tables (teacher.scholastic)

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Pictures :

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Glossary :

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Listening :

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  • Ellis Island - évaluation - vers le bas de la page (Ac. Caen)
    "Les élèves doivent synthétiser le contenu du message et émettre des hypothèses de sens en s appuyant sur des indices culturels (item 1) ; sur une mise en réseau lexical (item 2).
    Thématique du support proposé : Ellis Island (dialogue entre un immigrant et sa petite fille).    "
    Présentation / Script
    Listen!

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Activities :

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Webquests :

  • Ellis Island Webquest : PDF - WORD - with answers
    + Immigration - Writing : PDF - with answers
    sent by Isabelle AZAÏS (Ac. Toulouse)

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  • Ellis Island webquest - (Ac. Orléans-Tours)
    "Cette activité consiste en une visite virtuelle d Ellis Island où les élèves travailleront le vocabulaire associé à l immigration et rédigeront une page de leur journal intime en tant qu immigré ou officier de l immigration."
    Lien direct

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Songs :

  • Ellis Island by Marc Cohn
    "I was driving down Ninth Avenue
    As the sky was getting dark
    Didn't have nothin' else to do
    So I kept on riding to Battery Park
    I stepped out in the damp and misty night
    As the fog was rolling in
    Man said, "Last boat leaving tonight
    Is the boat for Ellis Island"...
    (sing365.com)

    Test de compréhension - interactif
    (anglaisfacile.com)

  • A song : Ellis Island (mary-black.net)
    Songwriter(s): Noel Brazil
    "This is the last call for Ellis Island
    These are the last words I'm ever gonna hear you say
    So goodbye, babe..."

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Videos :

  • Ellis Island - VIDEOS
    Former Gateway to America Now Historical Site, Tourist Attraction
    "More than a hundred years ago, the U.S. government set up a station on Ellis Island in New York Harbor to process new arrivals. 
    Paige Kollock reports for VOA on how the New York landmark is keeping history alive."
    (voanews.com)

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  • Ellis Island in pictures
    "Follow the footsteps through the halls of Ellis Island, where millions of immigrants began their path to the American dream."
    (history.com)

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  • Ellis Island - a video
    Armenian Genocide Survivors arriving at Ellis Island.
    (twentyvoices.com)

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Cinema :

  • Golden Door
    "Séance+ met à disposition des supports pédagogiques - son, images, texte - pour mettre le film au service des disciplines.
    Son objectif est d amener les élèves à réfléchir autrement, dans le cadre des programmes scolaires, à partir d extraits directement en ligne sur notre site que le(s) professeur(s) commentent..."
    Présentation - Documents - Fiches d'activités - Ressources
    (CRDP - Ac. Paris)

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  • FILMS comportant des séquences sur Ellis Island :
    • "An American Tale" - Fivel (avec les raisons du départ avec pogroms et voyage en bateau à partir de l'Allemagne.)
    • Série télé sur Ellis Island (l'ascension sociale d'immigrants italiens).
    • la dernière scène de "America, America..." de Kazan ("they keep coming , they keep coming")
    • le début du film "Le Parrain 2" comporte une longue scène à Ellis Island (Arrivée dans le port / statue / Tests / Hôpital)
    • une scène sur Ellis Island dans "Hitch " avec Will Smith
    • " the promised land" (le départ de futurs immigrants de Russie, d'Italie, d'Irlande, chacun pour des raisons particulières.)
    • " Godfather 2", séquence d'ouverture du film
    • IMDB

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