Our
Lady of the Elms Elementary Library
Our
Lady of the Elms Elementary Library
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Learning about the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island
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This week we got books by browsing the shelves rather than using the OPACs online so that we'd have more time to go next door to the computer lab. |
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Fast shoppers had a chance to read their books bit before we all went next door to the computer lab. |
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Everybody logged in and navigated to the day's Library Resources page about Ellis Island. |
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Using picture-rich web site from Scholastic, we looked at eight different views of the inside of Ellis Island by clicking together through the interactive tour. |
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After the tour Mr. D showed us a life-size copy of the manifest from his grandfather's entry through Ellis Island when he arrived on April 30, 1899. Goffredo DiFrangia was a 19-year-old and told the officials that he was a shoemaker from the Italian village of Carovilli. He said that he was headed to Krebs, Oklahoma, in Indian Territory. He said he been in the USA from 1896-1897 previously and that he had 36 dollars with him. Goffredo mined coal in Oklahoma for five years and returned to Italy, married his wife and then returned to the coal mines in Krebs in 1905. When he had earned their passage money, he brought his wife and baby daughter to join him in Krebs in 1906. |
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Finally, we listened to a story about a ten-year-old girl who lost her mother and grandparents to violence in Armenia in the early 1900's and was trying to be reunited with her father in the United States . |
At Ellis
Island: A History in Many Voices |
