Content+Guidelines+for+Children’s+Book

1. WHY THEY CAME · 1 PUSH factor as to why your character left their homeland. · 2 PULL factors as to why they came here.
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2. PREPARATION TO LEAVE · What possessions did they take? · Who did they take? · What will they miss?
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3. THE JOURNEY TO AMERICA · What was the trip across the ocean like? · What did they have to do to be allowed into America? · Did everyone make it?
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4. WHERE DID THEY SETTLE? · Where in America did they settle? Why did they settle here? · What conditions did they find here?
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5. HOW WERE THEY TREATED? · What attitudes did they face? GOOD/BAD and Why? · How did they deal with their treatment? · Did they assimilate or not? How did they or how did they not?
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6. TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS · Provide at least 2 PROBLEMS they faced in America? · How did they overcome these problems?
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7. WHY DID THEY STAY? · Was America what they thought it would be? · What 2-3 reasons would immigrants provide as to why they stayed?
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8. WHAT DID THEY CONTRIBUTE? · IN GENERAL, what did immigrants do for our country? · SPECIFICALLY, what did your immigrants contribute to our country?
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