Annotated List of Resources
Here I will provide a list of sources that are authentic nonfiction and informational texts which accurately and equitably inform students about America’s immigration history.
- Kathleen Kroll’s American Immigration: Our History, Our Stories provides detailed chapters about American immigration that range from America’s colonization to the present-day Immigration debate. Each chapter focuses on one theme, and highlights immigrant stories and primary source documents.
- A search on NEWSELA will provide current event news articles about present day immigration topics. Each article can be formatted to match different reading levels.
- When focusing on the topic of Japanese internment camps, the picture book The Bracelet by Yoshiko Uchida and graphic novel memoir They Call Us Enemy by George Takei provide narrative fiction and nonfiction of the Japanese internment camps.
- Social Justice Books provide lists of children’s picture books to young adult books that are designed to provide anti-bias, anti-racist, and multicultural text to students and educators.
- George W. Bush’s Out of Many, One: Portraits of America’s Immigrants pairs his portraits of real Americans as well as their first-hand accounts of coming to America, contributions, and dreams. Students can hear directly from real immigrants why they came to America and what their American Dreams are.
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