Today I began by showing you some artifacts from The Ellis Island Collection box. We took a careful look at:
A steamship poster
Two steamship postcards
A ship’s manifest
After an excellent discussion I divided you into groups of three and you began reading the first section of The Arrival. Tomorrow one person from each group will report [...]
Archive for September 27th, 2007
We started our study of Shaun Tan’s The Arrival yesterday. I showed you the book and you saw that it has no words, only pictures. I then showed you some of the pictures on the Tan’s website and you saw how they connected to both your own “immigration” to Big Dalton and that of [...]
