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IMMIGRANTS
The Irish Experience in Boston 1840 and The Immigrants' Experience Today
A Technology/Internet Based, Integrated Unit
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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 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