Coming to Montana: Immigrants from Around the World

Coming to Montana: Immigrants from Around the World

User Guide Provided by the Montana Historical Society Education Office, 2014 (406) 444-4789 |

Coming to Montana: Immigrants from Around the World

Table of Contents

I. Educator Information Inventory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Footlocker Contents (with extended captions) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Historical Narrative for Educators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Outline for Classroom Presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Footlocker Evaluation Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

II. Lessons Alignment to Montana Content and Common Core Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Lesson 1: Recognizing Similarities and Celebrating Differences 1A: Discovering Montana's Diversity through Historic Photographs*1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 1B: Learning about Ourselves and Our Classmates1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 1C: Standing Up to Hate1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Lesson 2: Using Artifacts to Explore the Cultures of Montana Immigrants 2A: What Is It?* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 2B: Creating an Immigration Museum* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Lesson 3: Should I Stay or Should I Go?1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Lesson 4: No Smoking! A History Mystery (Mining: A Pull Factor)*1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Lesson 5: The Lure of Free Land (Homesteading: A Pull Factor)*1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Lesson 6: Using Census Data to Study Immigration*1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Lesson 7: Montana's Twentieth-Century Immigrants: Mexicans, Hutterites, and Hmong1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Lesson 8: What Would You Bring? What Would You Save? 8A: What Would You Bring?1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 8B: Family Heirloom Project*1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Lesson 9: Festival of Nations1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

*Lessons using primary sources

1Lessons you can do without ordering the trunk

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III. Student Narratives Historical Narrative for Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Amazing Montanan Biographies Evelyn Cameron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 George Oiye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Vocabulary List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 IV. Resources and Reference Materials Additional Resources on Immigration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Tools for Working with Historic Photographs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Crop It Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Thinking Triangle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Crosshair Overlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Primary Sources and How to Use Them . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 How to Look at an Artifact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 How to Look at a Written Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 How to Look at a Photograph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 How to Look at a Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Montana Historical Society Educational Resources: Footlockers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

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Coming to Montana: Immigrants from Around the World

Inventory

Borrower: _________________________________ Booking Period: _______________________

The borrower is responsible for the safe use of the footlocker and all its contents during the designated booking period. Replacement and/or repair for any lost items and/or damage (other than normal wear and tear) to the footlocker and its contents while in the borrower's care will be charged to the borrower's school. Please have an adult complete the footlocker inventory checklist below, both when you receive the footlocker and when you repack it for shipping, to ensure that all of the contents are intact. After you inventory the footlocker for shipping to the next location, please mail or fax this completed form to the Education Office.

ITEM

BEFORE USE

AUFTSEER CONDITION OF ITEM

MHS USE

17 photographs

CD with PowerPoints

Envelope for user-created material

The Christmas Menorahs: How a Town Fought Hate, by Janice Cohn, illustrated by Bill Farnsworth (Morton Grove, IL, 1995)

Dia's Story Cloth: The Hmong People's Journey of Freedom, by Dia Cha, stitched by Chue and Nhia Thao Cha (New York and Denver, 1996)

Butte's Heritage Cookbook, edited by Jean McGrath. (Butte, 1976)

6 world map placemats

5 dry erase pens and 1 eraser

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Coming to Montana: Immigrants from Around the World Inventory (continued)

ITEM

BEFORE USE

AUFTSEER CONDITION OF ITEM

MHS USE

8 Dreidls Hmong story cloth Norwegian hardanger (may look different than photo) Swedish rosette iron Mexican tortilla press Japanese chopsticks German Protestant Bible Jewish Menorah Catholic medallions and souvenir cards Chinese Mahjong Basque bones (game) Trowel Chinese abacus Hutterite dress Chinese hat Bodhran drum Bones (musical) Castanets

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