Immigration literature project - The New Colossus

Immigration to the USA
Immigration literature project
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This lesson contains 21 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 4 videos.

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Immigration to the USA
Immigration literature project
Havo 4

Slide 1 - Slide

What do you remember from last week?

Slide 2 - Mind map

  • Quick history of immigration
  • The American Dream
  • Melting Pot 
  • Ellis Island
  • Poem "The New Colossus" 

Slide 3 - Slide

Immigrant poetry 
  • "The American Dream"
  • Poem The New Colossus 
  • My tongue is divided into two
  • Immigrant Picnic
  • América

Slide 4 - Slide

Slide 5 - Video

Slide 6 - Video

Slide 7 - Video

Which famous American landmark is the subject of this poem?
A
Mount Rushmore
B
Statue of Liberty
C
Empire State Building
D
Golden Gate Bridge

Slide 8 - Quiz

About the writer
- Written by American Jewish poet Emma Lazarus
- Immigration activist
- Written in 1883 to help raise money for the Statue of Liberty's pedestal
- Mounted to the pedestal in 1903

Slide 9 - Slide

Slide 10 - Slide

Colossus of Rhodes
Statue of Liberty
Male
Female
New York City
Ancient Greece
Military victory
Gift from France
Protector of visitors
Warning to visitors

Slide 11 - Drag question

Sonnet
- 14 lines
- Two parts: octave and sestet
- Shift between the first and second part

Slide 12 - Slide

What is the first part of the poem about?

Slide 13 - Open question

What is the second part of the poem about?

Slide 14 - Open question

What is the shift between the two parts? What changes in the poem?

Slide 15 - Open question

My tongue is divided into two 
by Quique Avilés

Slide 16 - Slide

Immigrant Picnic
by Gregory Djanikian

Slide 17 - Slide

América
by Richard Blanco

Slide 18 - Slide

Slide 19 - Video

Write down 1 thing you have learned from this lesson.

Slide 20 - Open question

Write down 1 question you might still have after this lesson.

Slide 21 - Open question