Using An American Tail to Explore Issues of Immigration

Kate Van Haren, Jessica Ferreras-Stone, Steph Strachan, and Scott Roberts

FILM:An American Tail (1986)

Handout/Materials (1st Grade):

Web Links (1st Grade):

What should students know or understand at the completion of the unit or lesson?

1st Grade:

Post these questions on a large chart paper with one question per column. Add students’ ideas across the lesson:

3rd Grade:

Additional Questions:

List all of the important indicators of achievement (important people, places, and events) and vocabulary that students will need to know at the conclusion of the lesson.

1st Grade:

country: a land lived in by a people with a common government (Meriam Webster kids’ definition)