POSSIBLE
POINTS
REQUIRMENTS
FORMAT; typed, double-spaced, #12 font, 2 full pages
Ink, single-spaced, 2 full pages, legible
5
TITLE PAGE; name, date, class, block, essay titled
5
FINAL DRAFT;
3
QUESTIONS;
1. Introduction
Leavings
Obstacles
2. Arrival expectations and experiences
Language problems
Prejudice and discrimination
3
3. To be a “an American”
Modifying cultural traditions
Retaining cultural traditions
3
4. Immigration laws today
Future of immigration
Preventing terrorism
3
5. Your thoughts on their experiences
Compare/contrast to your life
What you learned
3
2 quotes from interview
Quotation marks, signature
ROUGH DRAFT; Different from final draft
Correction, signature
10
10
5
INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
50
TOTAL POINTS
YOUR POINTS
POSSIBLE
POINTS
ASSEMBLE FINAL PACKET
GRADE SHEET
50
Handed out at the Beginning
TITLE PAGE
10
Come up with Title
(Not Immigrant Interview)
3-2 PAGE ESSAY
10
ROUGH DRAFT WITH STUDENT
CORRECTIONS
15
INTERVIEW QUESTION
15
Checked and returned
YOUR
POINTS
IMMIGRANT INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
QUESTIONS FOR INTERIVEW:
1) A. What is your name? Have you changed it?
B. Where are you from?
C, How did your community differ from the U.S.?
D. What languages do you speak?
E. When did you leave your country?
F. Why did you leave your country?
G. How did you come to the U.S.?
H. What obstacles did you have to overcome getting here?
2) A. Describe your arrival in the U.S.?
B. Was it what you expected or different?
C. Did you have to lean the language and how?
D. Do you still read, write and speak your language?
E. Did you have to adjust your eating, dressing, and leisure habits?
F. Have you experienced prejudice or discrimination here?
G. How did you feel and how did you overcome it?
3) A. What does it mean to you to “be an American?”
B. Have you had to modify any of your cultural traditions here in the U.S.?
C. What traditions have you retained or kept from your native culture?
D. Do you consider yourself an American?
4) A. Are immigrant laws today to strict or too lenient?
B. What laws or rules should we have for immigrants today?
C. Do immigrants help or hurt our country? How?
D. Can the U.S. have an open-door policy indefinitely in the future?
E. How can we prevent terrorists from coming in as immigrants?
QUESTIONS FOR INTERVIEWER:
5) A. What thoughts do you have about the interview’s experiences
B. Compare and contrast your life experiences with those interviews?
C. What do you think you learned form this experience?
Historical Essay for the Immigration Project, you must write a two-page essay about
a historical immigrant based on the immigrant’s nationality. Give laws, statistics, and
facts. Site your sources.