Aim: To compare and contrast aspects of the current immigration process with that of a hundred years ago.
Materials: Paper and pencil, research materialsProcedure:
1. Have students conduct research to learn about the procedures most immigrants to the United States must undergo and compare the immigrant experience today with the experience in historical times.
For example:
- How did most immigrants arrive 100 years ago?
- How long did it take?
- What costs were involved?
- What kinds of paperwork were required?
- What happened immediately after the immigrants arrived?
- How is the process similar or different today?
2. Ask each student to interview a recent immigrant as part of his or her research.
Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864-1946)
- Photogravure
- 15 7/8 x 11 1/16 in. (40.4 x 28.1 cm)
- The Jewish Museum, New York
- Purchase: Mr. and Mrs. George Jaffin Fund, 2000-6
- © 2008 Georgia O'Keefe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Not on view Photographs
The Steerage
