They Came to Wisconsin

by Pferdehirt, Julia

• ISBN13: 9780870203282
• ISBN10: 0870203282
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society

Summary

The companion teacher' s guide to "They Came from Wisconsin" offers educators in every setting classroom, library, and at home vocabulary lists, objectives, skills, strategies, standards-based activities, and dozens of blackline masters for worksheets and handouts. Engages students in hands-on exploration of the immigration theme. Distributed for the Wisconsin Historical Society Press.

Author Biography

Julia Pferdehirt is a well-known storyteller and the author of Freedom Train North: Stories of the Underground Railroad in Wisconsin. She lives in the Madison, Wisconsin, area.

Table of Contents

Introduction: A Book of Real Stories	2	(1)
How Historians Work	3	(1)
Real Words from the Past	4	(2)
Unit 1: Deciding to Leave	6	(24)
Opportunities for a Better Life	8	(6)
A Dream of Riches	8	(2)
What Kind of Life Is This?	10	(3)
America Fever	13	(1)
Leaving Hunger and Hardship Behind	14	(4)
Working Like Animals	14	(2)
The Great Hunger	16	(2)
Escaping Injustice and Cruelty	18	(6)
Ashes, Feathers, and Broken Glass	18	(3)
Heading North	21	(3)
A Closer Look: As a Slave, Your Life Is Not Your Own	24	(5)
Looking Back, Looking Forward	29	(1)
Unit 2: Making the Journey	30	(44)
Packing Up	32	(12)
Leaving Switzerland	33	(1)
Starting Out on Skis	34	(1)
Goodbye to Grandpa	35	(1)
Guidebooks and Goodbyes	36	(3)
Waiting to Go	39	(5)
Many Kinds of Journeys	44	(10)
Crossing the Atlantic	45	(1)
Life aboard Ship	46	(2)
Sharks, Whales, and Weevils	48	(3)
Overboard!	51	(2)
From Hamburg to New York	53	(1)
Danger!	54	(4)
Great Lakes Pirates	54	(2)
Worrying about Shipwrecks	56	(2)
New Life, New Problems	58	(8)
Freedom for Some	58	(2)
Getting Cheated	60	(3)
A Railroad Journey to a New Life	63	(3)
A Closer Look: Crossing the Border	66	(7)
Looking Back, Looking Forward	73	(1)
Unit 3: Settling in Wisconsin	74	(39)
Searching for Home	76	(6)
Great Waters That Are Never Still	76	(6)
Working to Live	82	(4)
Work and More Work	82	(1)
Working Women	83	(1)
Nine Dollars a Week and All the Meat We Can Eat	84	(1)
Doing the Dirty Work	85	(1)
Weathering Wisconsin	86	(6)
A String of Lights in the Cold	86	(1)
Sparks Lead to Fire	87	(1)
The First Winter	88	(2)
Winter's End	90	(1)
A Fish Story	90	(2)
Making a Home	92	(4)
One Fork to Share	92	(1)
New Home, School, and Neighborhood	93	(1)
``Send Them All Back''	94	(2)
Homesick	96	(6)
Frontier Loneliness	96	(2)
Clothes for a Cow	98	(2)
Remembering Home	100	(2)
A Closer Look: Always Hmong	102	(7)
Looking Back, Looking Forward	109	(1)
Home, Sweet Wisconsin	110	(3)
Glossary	113	(9)
Index	122