Grade 2 Spring History - Immigration Stories: Why Families Move, How They Journey, and How They Make Home
History · HIS
G2 (TEKS 2.15.A; CA HSS 2.5; D2.His.9-13.K-2; NCSS-3, NCSS-6)
hist.g2.s.geo.ports_of_arrival
Identify Ellis Island and Angel Island as historic ports of arrival with paired honest histories
Identify ELLIS ISLAND (New York Harbor, 1892-1954, ~12 million arrivals primarily from Europe) and ANGEL ISLAND (San Francisco Bay, 1910-1940, ~500,000 arrivals primarily from Asia) as the two main US ports of arrival. Read one ship-manifest line. Read one Angel Island detention-barracks poem (translated). Recognize that arrival was sometimes welcoming AND sometimes harsh (Chinese Exclusion Act 1882 detention at Angel Island).
Mastery threshold
80%
Min instances
5
Typical minutes
45
Spaced intervals (days)
1, 3, 7, 14, 30
Common misconceptions
- Believing all immigrants arrived at Ellis Island (Angel Island was the primary West Coast arrival site; many also arrived elsewhere)
- Believing all arrival was joyful (Angel Island detained Chinese families under the Chinese Exclusion Act; Ellis Island turned families away for medical or political reasons)
- Believing the Statue of Liberty alone tells the story (the New Colossus poem welcomes; the law sometimes did not)