Multicultural: Greek Immigrants 1890-1920

Greek Immigrants 1890-1920
Rosemary Wallner
Capstone Press
Copyright 2003
29 pages
Multicultural

This book is about Greek Immigrants. It discusses the early Greek immigrants and about who they were. It goes on to discuss life in the old country and why the Greek people immigrated to America. Then, it discussed the trip over and the challenges they faced. In the end, it talks about the Greeks arrival and how they survived in America. It also talks about how the Greeks tried to maintain their traditions. At the end, it talks about some celebrities that are of Greek descent.

The pictures are all photographs. They are all black and white photographs. I found the pictures to be very informational. There are also many pictures of maps. That helped me to be able to see the distance the Greek immigrants had to go in order to reach America.

This would be a wonderful book to read to introduce a lesson on Greek culture. It would give the students an idea of how other people live in other parts of the world. It could also be a good book to use for a research project where the students find a celebrity they know who is of Greek decent and write about that person. It would make it more relevant to them and would also be a good writing lesson. You could also do a math lesson where the students measure on a map how long the journey was for the Greek immigrants. Thhis book was not awarded any medals.