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IMMIGRANTS

The Irish Experience in Boston 1840 and The Immigrants' Experience Today

A Technology/Internet Based, Integrated Unit

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
Why did people become immigrants?
What did immigrants find in their new country that changed their lives?
What similarities and differences do present day immigrants have with those of yesteryear?

Index

Student Section 1: Who were the people of the Alexina and the Oregon

Student Section 2: Why did they leave Ireland? What were their hopes?

Student Section 3: What did they make of their lives?

Student Section 4: Adopt a present-day immigrant family.

Student Section 5: What will they make of their lives?

Excel Spreadsheet File for MSOffice 95 Version 7.0 (This is a zipped file that has all of the spreadsheets you need to do the unit. See the Teacher's Guide under "Download Information" for directions to download it.)

If the zipped Excel file cannot be downloaded or unzipped, the following sheets can be viewed as a text document in Notepad or can be cut and pasted into Excel. See the Teacher's Guide under "Download Information" for directions.

Text of the Excel File for Market1840for those who cannot download the Excel file, the sheet "Market1840" can be viewed as a text document

Text of the Excel File for Finances1840 for those who cannot download the Excel file, the sheet "Finances1840" can be viewed as a text document

A Cause of the Great Potato Famine in a text document

A Nineteenth Century Map of Boston in 363 KB .gif format

The Quiet Man Question Sheet in a text document

Multicultural Panel Questions in a text document

Teacher's Guide This unit last modified 3/28/00

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