Ellis Island Facts
The cramped, third-class portion of a steamship travelling to America
What was the steerage?
To make something larger or more important than it actually is
What is exaggerate?
Before you read, thinking about key information for a text (title, author...)
What is approaching the text?
The source where we found all of our Ellis Island Photos
What is the New York Public Library?
The majority of the Ellis Island immigrants came from this continent
What is Europe?
The ticket price for third class passengers
What is $30?
To reach out
What is extend?
As you read, asking about key details and elements in the text
What is Questioning the Text?
Important information from the EdPuzzle video: % of Americans who are descendant of EI Immigrants
What is 40%?
The price of the most expensive ticket to Ellis Island
What is $90?
The two types of examination that immigrants faced while being processed through Ellis Island
What are medical and legal exams?
To use up; to drain
What is exhaust?
Highlighting or underlining key details that help you answer your questions about the text
What is Annotating the Text?
The central idea of Jacob Riis's text "Description of Immigrants Leaving E.I."
What is "the opportunities available to immigrants once they left E.I."?
Carried by steerage passengers
What are bundles?
The factors that cause someone to leave their home country (war, famine, poverty)
What are push factors?
Something that contributes to a result
After you read, thinking about your questions, answers, and annotations
What is Analyzing Key Details?
The publisher of the virtual tour of Ellis Island
Who is Scholastic?
The document that contained all of the information about everyone travelling on a steamship
The factors that cause someone to travel to a new country (opportunity, jobs, religious freedom)
What are pull factors?
the process of making one's thoughts or feelings known
What is expression?
After you've read multiple texts, comparing and contrasting the information you've gotten from each text
What is Synthesizing the Texts?
Information from the webquest that told us how many people were deported due to illness or disability
What is 120,000 people?
The number of people who were processed through Ellis Island
What is 12,000,000?