Two+White+Rabbits+Reinforcing+Activity

__Grade: __ 5 __Materials: __ -//Two White Rabbits// - Additional Children’s literature -Primary resources of accounts of immigration
 * Reinforcing Activity: **(adapted from https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/I-Am-Poem-Immigration-Activity-Using-Primary-Sources-1143180)

1. First, to start off an activity about the topic at hand, immigration, the teacher would read a couple of other books about immigration from different perspectives. It would be beneficial to choose books about different immigration situations such as European immigrants arriving to America through Ellis Island, pilgrims moving from Europe to the United States, and even the start of slavery in the United States. All of these different types of immigration show multiple stories of the topic to show students that the experience of the father and daughter in the story //Two White Rabbits// is not the only story and reason for moving from one place to another. - //Behind the Mountains // by Edwidge Danticat - //If Your Name Was Changed At Ellis Island //by Ellen Levine
 * Additional Children’s Literature about immigration:

2. The teacher would present primary sources of immigration stories to children. Preferably, teachers could find written accounts of immigrants explaining what factors were causing them to immigrate and what their experience was like.

3. After doing so, students would use all the different accounts they had just heard to write their own pretend primary source of an immigration story. This can be a poem, a song, a story, among other things. The goal of this activity is for students to put themselves in the shoes of someone wanting to move from one place to another and thinking of creative reasons why. This would touch on the content statement, “political, environmental, social, and economic factors cause people, products, and ideas to move from place to place in the Western Hemisphere today”, because students will be thinking of why people in particular might move from place to place in the Western Hemisphere in current-day situations. The students would be responsible for creating a story that could be explained and believed to be a good reason for people to move to a new location. This could have to do with a lack of materials, change in power in prior counties, among other political, environmental, social, and economic factors. - <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">[] - <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">[]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Primary Source Resources:

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">*This activity alone would not completely address the content statement mentioned above. This activity deals with **people** moving to the Western Hemisphere in the past mostly, but can be related to present-day. More lessons and activities would need to be done to understand why products and ideas move from place to place.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">-Economics (Economic Decision Making and Skills) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">-Government (Rules and Laws), (How government can have an affect on immigration) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">-History (In reinforcing activity, using primary sources of historical events)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Additional Strands: **