Ellis Island
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English, History, Social Studies
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11th - 12th Grade
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Easy
Despena Maliotaki
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Ellis Island
Mass migrations have marked the history of the human race ever since people began to dream of a better life
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Can you explain the phrase "Island of tears"?
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For many of those who made it, passing through Ellis Island was not so much a matter of stepping into a new world.
It was stepping into a new life, a new character...
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It's November 16th 1906. Franz and Ulrike Schumacher and their three children have just disembarked from the Hamburg-Amerika line steamship that has carried them across the stormy North Atlantic Ocean from Germany.
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Like the thousands of other people milling around them, they are totally bewildered, caught up in a mixture of hope and apprehension, as they head towards a vast waiting room.
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Multiple Choice
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The room sounds like the Tower of Babel, for few of those in it speak a word of English. They speak German, Polish, Dutch, Hungarian, or Russian maybe, yet they have come, seeking a new life in a new world; and now they are on American soil for the first time.
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After interminable hours of waiting, the Schumacher family are finally called to a desk; immigration officials study their papers, and ask them where they intend to go.
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The man who led his family through the door and onto the ferry was not Franz Schumacher any more.
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He was Frank Shoemaker, even if he still didn't understand more than a couple of words of English.
Ellis Island
Mass migrations have marked the history of the human race ever since people began to dream of a better life
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