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Letter that was sent home:

Dear Room 14 Families,

Our class has been learning about immigration into the United States, particularly our area of California. After tallying information from the student family histories, we found out that over 26 different countries are represented in the collective ancestry of our class!

To add depth to students’ learning, I would like to invite you to share your personal or family immigration story with our class. A 15-20 minute presentation would be great! The children will be using their active listening skills to take notes during your presentation and they may have a few questions at the end. Please use the questions below to help guide your presentation. Feel free to bring notes in when you present to the class and don’t worry if you don’t have all the answers! Relevant artifacts or pictures would be a welcome addition to your presentation.

1. Where did you and/or your family immigrate from?

2. Where in the U.S. did you and/or your family arrive?

3. When did you and/or your family come to the U.S.?

4. Why did you and/or your family come to the U.S.?

5. What did you and/or your family bring to your new home?

6. What did you and/or your family leave behind in your/their old country?

7. Please share any interesting or humorous stories from your experience...