1. Skills and Strategies:
We Are Americans
By Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler
Genre: Non-Fiction
Skills and Strategies:
Fact and Opinion,
Primary and Secondary Sources

2. Word
Part of Speech
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Word Analysis
descendant
Root- descend
emigrate
Prefix em- out
uprooted
Root- root
assemble
transform
Root- trans, form
ambition
Suffix- ion
peasant
territory

3. Luis is a descendant of people who came from Mexico.
descendant- (noun) a person who is related to someone or lives after that person.
Luis is a descendant of people who came from Mexico.

4. emigrate- (verb) to leave your own country in order to live in another one.
Next year I will emigrate from China and begin a new life in the United States.

5. uprooted- (adjective) torn away from the life that you knew.

6. assemble- (verb) to put or gather together.
The music teacher plans to assemble a jazz band.

7. transform- (verb) to make a great change in something.
Sometimes a new coach can transform a player into a champion.

8. ambition (noun) a strong desire to succeed.
Elena’s ambition will help her achieve her goal of becoming a fashion designer.

9. peasant (noun) someone who works on a farm, especially in Europe.
The peasant had to work very hard to provide food for his family.

10. territory- (noun) the land under the control of a state, nation, or ruler.
The US Virgin Islands is a territory of the United States of America.

11. Fact and Opinion
Fact and Opinion brainpop

12. Review You should have learned in your Social Studies class:
What is a primary source?
What is a secondary source?
Which is a primary source? A reference book about immigrants or
an immigrant’s diary
What makes it a primary source?

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14. Begin reading page 238 First ,we will read the whole article together.
Second, you will be given a section to do the questions on.

15. Reread each section you have been assigned then do the questions for that section
Colonial Immigration (page 239)
Immigrant Slaves: 1700s-1808 (page 240)
American Fever: (page 241)
Ellis Island: (p. 242)
Better Opportunities: 1880s-1920s (p. 243)
A Safe Haven: s (p. 244)
Latin Americans: 1980s-today (p. 245)
Religious Freedom: 1980s-Today (p. 246)
Ever-Changing America: 1980s-Today (p. 247)