Annotated Resource List
Online
American Immigration Center Inc. (2013). U.S. Immigration: Guiding You Through Citizenship, Green Card and Visas Applications. Retrieved from: http://www.us-immigration.com/index.html?referrer=adwords&gclid=CI3C-K64ubYCFa9aMgodnSsAjg.
This website is operated by a private group, the American Immigration Center Inc. and is not affiliated with the U.S. government. It provides an endless amount of resources to individuals seeking citizenship, a green card or visas in the United States. It provides detailed instructions for the application processes of all of these documentations. It also provides various U.S. immigration forms and immigration DVDs and resources.
Scholastic Inc. (2013). Immigration: Stories of Yesterday and Today. Retrieved from: http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/immigration_data/.
This website is a fantastic teacher resources that provides accurate and detailed information about the history of immigration in America. It provides a detailed historical timeline of early the finding of America, the early expanding of America, America as a place of refuge and beginning of voluntary immigration, and the building of modern America. It also provides various tools for educators including an interactive tour of Ellis Island, a virtual fieldtrip to Ellis Island, stories of young immigrants today, and the most recent immigrant data.
Schulten, Katherine and Sarah Kavanagh (2010). Learning About U.S. Immigration With The New York Times. The Learning Network: Teaching & Learning With The New York Times. Retrieved from: http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/learning-about-u-s-immigration-with-the-new-york-times/.
This website provides five quick ways to each about current issues in immigration as well as nearly 40 immigration-related lesson plan, useful Topics pages and multimedia from The Times and rich resources from around the web. Some of the lesson include topics like creating portraits of United States Refugee Communities, interviewing immigrants on current events in their countries of origin, examining past and present American immigration trends, and investigating your city’s immigration history. It also provides an interactive “Immigration Exploration Map” that allows you to select a foreign-born group and trace how they settled across the United States.
Books
Bersh, Luz Carime (2013). The Curricular Value of Teaching About Immigration Through Picture Book Thematic Text Sets. The Social Studies, Volume 104, Issue 2, 2013. London, England: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (Online Publishing).
This teacher resource provides an analysis of immigration issues impacting the institutions in the United States, in particular the school. It discusses the importance of addressing this theme in the classroom and provides resources for presenting its curricular value in social studies and interdisciplinary curricula. Its use of a picture book thematic text set allows for multiple curricular venues and connections through which teachers can address the complexities of immigration. Along with numerous lesson plans it also includes an annotated bibliography of twenty-three picture books of different reading levels about historical and mostly contemporary immigration issues.
Kuklin, Susan (1998). How My Family Lives in America. Fort Worth, TX: Aladdin Publishing.
In How My Family Lives in America, author-photographer Susan Kuklin zeroes in on the source of cultural identity: the family. She provides a glimpse at how three families impart a sense of ethnic identity to their children. Their stories emphasize the seemingly minor and everyday ways heritage is transmitted: stories, songs, games, language, and special occasions. They show the importance of choice and adaptation in forging a cultural identity. And they provoke readers to examine their own families — what makes them the same, what makes them distinct, and how this uniqueness is celebrated.
Levine, Ellen and Steve Bjorkman (1995). I Hate English!. Madison, WI: Demco Media.
I Hate English! Tells the story of Mei Mei, a bright and articulate immigrant from Hong Kong. The familiar sights and sounds of New York City’s Chinatown comfort Mei Mei. Unfortunately she cannot say the same about her school, where everyone speaks English. Mei Mei can learn English but does not want to in fear that she will forget Chinese. She resists learning English until a caring teacher shows her that she can speak both languages. This story is a perfect example of a struggle that immigrants face and the challenges of balancing the new life in the United States with the life that they have always known.
Tan, Shaun (2007). The Arrival. Melbourne, Australia: Lothian Books.
The Arrival is a migrant story told as a series of wordless images that might seem to come from a long forgotten time. A man leaves his wife and child in an impoverished town, seeking better prospects in an unknown country on the other side of a vast ocean. He eventually finds himself in a bewildering city of foreign customs, peculiar animals, curious floating objects and indecipherable languages. With nothing more than a suitcase and a handful of currency, the immigrant must find a place to live, food to eat and some kind of gainful employment. He is helped along the way by sympathetic strangers, each carrying their own unspoken history: stories of struggle and survival in a world of incomprehensible violence, upheaval and hope.
Young Adult Literature
Kwok, Jean (2011). Girl in Translation. New York, NY: Riverhead Trade.
Girl in Translation tells the story of Kimberly Chang and her mother who emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn. Through Kimberly’s story, author Jean Kwok, bring to life the lives of countless immigrants who are caught between the pressure to succeed in America and their duty to their family, and their personal desires.
American Immigration Center Inc. (2013). U.S. Immigration: Guiding You Through Citizenship, Green Card and Visas Applications. Retrieved from: http://www.us-immigration.com/index.html?referrer=adwords&gclid=CI3C-K64ubYCFa9aMgodnSsAjg.
This website is operated by a private group, the American Immigration Center Inc. and is not affiliated with the U.S. government. It provides an endless amount of resources to individuals seeking citizenship, a green card or visas in the United States. It provides detailed instructions for the application processes of all of these documentations. It also provides various U.S. immigration forms and immigration DVDs and resources.
Scholastic Inc. (2013). Immigration: Stories of Yesterday and Today. Retrieved from: http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/immigration_data/.
This website is a fantastic teacher resources that provides accurate and detailed information about the history of immigration in America. It provides a detailed historical timeline of early the finding of America, the early expanding of America, America as a place of refuge and beginning of voluntary immigration, and the building of modern America. It also provides various tools for educators including an interactive tour of Ellis Island, a virtual fieldtrip to Ellis Island, stories of young immigrants today, and the most recent immigrant data.
Schulten, Katherine and Sarah Kavanagh (2010). Learning About U.S. Immigration With The New York Times. The Learning Network: Teaching & Learning With The New York Times. Retrieved from: http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/learning-about-u-s-immigration-with-the-new-york-times/.
This website provides five quick ways to each about current issues in immigration as well as nearly 40 immigration-related lesson plan, useful Topics pages and multimedia from The Times and rich resources from around the web. Some of the lesson include topics like creating portraits of United States Refugee Communities, interviewing immigrants on current events in their countries of origin, examining past and present American immigration trends, and investigating your city’s immigration history. It also provides an interactive “Immigration Exploration Map” that allows you to select a foreign-born group and trace how they settled across the United States.
Books
Bersh, Luz Carime (2013). The Curricular Value of Teaching About Immigration Through Picture Book Thematic Text Sets. The Social Studies, Volume 104, Issue 2, 2013. London, England: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (Online Publishing).
This teacher resource provides an analysis of immigration issues impacting the institutions in the United States, in particular the school. It discusses the importance of addressing this theme in the classroom and provides resources for presenting its curricular value in social studies and interdisciplinary curricula. Its use of a picture book thematic text set allows for multiple curricular venues and connections through which teachers can address the complexities of immigration. Along with numerous lesson plans it also includes an annotated bibliography of twenty-three picture books of different reading levels about historical and mostly contemporary immigration issues.
Kuklin, Susan (1998). How My Family Lives in America. Fort Worth, TX: Aladdin Publishing.
In How My Family Lives in America, author-photographer Susan Kuklin zeroes in on the source of cultural identity: the family. She provides a glimpse at how three families impart a sense of ethnic identity to their children. Their stories emphasize the seemingly minor and everyday ways heritage is transmitted: stories, songs, games, language, and special occasions. They show the importance of choice and adaptation in forging a cultural identity. And they provoke readers to examine their own families — what makes them the same, what makes them distinct, and how this uniqueness is celebrated.
Levine, Ellen and Steve Bjorkman (1995). I Hate English!. Madison, WI: Demco Media.
I Hate English! Tells the story of Mei Mei, a bright and articulate immigrant from Hong Kong. The familiar sights and sounds of New York City’s Chinatown comfort Mei Mei. Unfortunately she cannot say the same about her school, where everyone speaks English. Mei Mei can learn English but does not want to in fear that she will forget Chinese. She resists learning English until a caring teacher shows her that she can speak both languages. This story is a perfect example of a struggle that immigrants face and the challenges of balancing the new life in the United States with the life that they have always known.
Tan, Shaun (2007). The Arrival. Melbourne, Australia: Lothian Books.
The Arrival is a migrant story told as a series of wordless images that might seem to come from a long forgotten time. A man leaves his wife and child in an impoverished town, seeking better prospects in an unknown country on the other side of a vast ocean. He eventually finds himself in a bewildering city of foreign customs, peculiar animals, curious floating objects and indecipherable languages. With nothing more than a suitcase and a handful of currency, the immigrant must find a place to live, food to eat and some kind of gainful employment. He is helped along the way by sympathetic strangers, each carrying their own unspoken history: stories of struggle and survival in a world of incomprehensible violence, upheaval and hope.
Young Adult Literature
Kwok, Jean (2011). Girl in Translation. New York, NY: Riverhead Trade.
Girl in Translation tells the story of Kimberly Chang and her mother who emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn. Through Kimberly’s story, author Jean Kwok, bring to life the lives of countless immigrants who are caught between the pressure to succeed in America and their duty to their family, and their personal desires.