Library of Congress. (n.d.). Primary source set: Immigration challenges for New Americans.
The Library of Congress has digitized images and maps for classroom use portraying the immigrant experience during the Gilded Age. A teacher’s guide also provides historical background plus challenges in immigration during that time period, all of which can help students learn about immigration around the time of Emma Lazarus’s poem to compare and contrast the mediums.
Florida’s B.E.S.T. Standards – English Language Arts
- ELA.9.C.1.4 Communication Standards – Expository Writing – Write expository texts to explain and analyze information from multiple sources, using a logical organization, varied purposeful transitions, and a tone appropriate to the task.
- ELA.9.C.2.1 Communicating Orally – Oral Presentation – Present information orally, with a logical organization and coherent focus, with credible evidence, creating a clear perspective.
Language Arts Florida Standards (LAFS)
- Strand: Reading Standards for Literature, Cluster 3: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas – LAFS.910.RL.3.7 – Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment (e.g., Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts” and Breughel’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus).
- Strand: Writing Standards, Cluster 4: Range of Writing – LAFS.910.W.4.10 – Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time framers (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences.
- Strand: Reading Standards for Speaking and Listening, Cluster 2: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas – LAFS.910.SL.2.4 – Present information, findings, and supporting evidence clearly, concisely, and logically such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, substance, and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and task.