Reading Objective:
Children will interpret the story of a real Irish immigrant’s historic journey to America and retell its key details.
Social Studies Focus:
history, immigrants
ELA Skills:
vocabulary, key details, main idea, writing
Page 4 Skill:
key details, nonfi ction text features
Vocabulary:
steamship, steerage, harbor, torch, Ellis Island, descendants
CCSS:
RI.2.1, RI.2.2, RI.2.4, RI.2.10, W.2.3, W.2.8, SL.2.2