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Asian Pacific American Heritage MonthChinese immigration at Angel Island
"When immigration is taught in schools, students usually learn about Ellis Island and Europeans arriving in the Northeast. Less often do they learn about immigrants from other continents..." Noreen Nassem Rodriguez wrote this article, "Teaching about Angel Island through Historical Empathy and Poetry" about a lesson on Angel Island she developed for a third/fourth grade class, also adaptable to other grades.
Asian immigrants—the Chinese in particular—came to America via the immigration station at Angel Island. For more resources to teach about Angel Island, including a lesson on how the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 affected Chinese immigration to the United States, visit this site: https://www.aiisf.org/education/resources/curriculum-guide