1. Daily Goals Content Goal: Literacy Goal: Social Goal:
Understand the immigrant experience of entering the USA through Ellis Island.
Understand the role Ellis Island played in immigration to the USA.
Literacy Goal:
Engage with images, stories, and other primary sources from Ellis Island.
Read and think about an Immigrant’s experience through Ellis Island Web Quest.
Social Goal:
Work with your Study Buddy using firsthand accounts and images
Focus conversation with your Study Buddy

2. 1880’s: No Immigration Laws

3. 1910: Immigration Restriction

4. 1892: All immigrants coming from Europe must come through Ellis Island

5. What was it like to immigrate through Ellis Island?
You and your Study Buddy will continue your journey through Ellis Island.
As you read the stories and look at the pictures of the millions who pass through before you, try to put yourself in their shoes.
They had the same American
Dream that we all have today.
At the end of the Web Quest
You can search for your ancestors
who passed through Ellis Island.