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Warm-Up Ellis Island National Monument Online: Text and Visual Details
Lesson Goals
Read the online article “The Workers of Ellis Island.”
.and photographs to
Use in text
determine a central idea.
Analyze details found
in a text and in historical
.
Examine how images showwhat life was like during atime in history.
Words to Know
Fill in this table as you work through the lesson. You may also use the glossary to help you.
analyze to details in order to gain a better understanding of
something
context the circumstances in which something exists or
essential important or
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Lesson Question
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Words to Know
caption text that provides more about a photograph
visual features
information that is presented and explains or
supports a text; e.g., illustrations, photographs, graphs, diagrams, charts, or maps
Ellis Island, Then and Now
Ellis Island was an important for new arrivals to America.
They had to go through a legal check as well as medical checks before passing into America.
Today, Ellis Island has been made into a for tourists to walk
through, visit, look at , and read documents from the early 1900s.
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Identifying Details in Photographs
When you “read” a photograph, you identify details that help you understand what
is in the photograph.
Look for and identify details that show:
• who the are.
• where and when the photograph was taken.
• what people are doing.
• what are around them.
Visual Features
Visual features in a text information graphically.
• Photographs
• Illustrations
• , diagrams, and charts
• Maps
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Determining Historical Context
As you examine details in a photograph, think about which details are general and which provide historical context.
Historical Context
Historical tells how people from a given
thought, acted, and behaved.
To learn more about the historical context of a time period, think about:
• where people .
• what people wore.
• what people looked like.
• how people from place to place.
• what people liked to do.
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details details
• A group of nurses
• A stone railing
• Brick walls on a building
• A big wooden door
• A black and white photograph
• White uniforms
• Old-fashioned hats
• Old-fashioned hairstyles
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Ellis Island National Monument Website
The text you will read is posted on the Ellis Island National Monument website (http://www.nps.gov/elis/index.htm).
You will learn that:
• at any given time, about five hundred workers performed
, or important, duties on Ellis Island.
• people performed a variety of jobs at Ellis Island, all of which affected the lives of the thousands of families that arrived in the
through Ellis Island each year.
Analyzing Details in Photographs
To details in a photograph:
• consider what the details indicate about , places, and what’s happening.
• connect the details in the photograph to what you already know.
We see that there are many people inside the building waiting in lines, that they
are wearing outfits, and that their luggage is old-fashioned.
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Understanding the Process of Informational Writing
Authors of text follow a process.
Topic Central ideas
Understanding the Process of Informational Writing
To identify the of text:
• ask whom or what the text is mostly about.
• look for several that relate to one person or topic.
Underline any two supporting details in the passage:
The doctors of Ellis Island were commissioned officers of the U.S. Public Health
Service. Officially known as surgeons, they were in charge of the Ellis Island Hospital
and the medical examination of immigrants in a routine procedure called the line
inspection. As long lines of immigrants slowly entered Ellis Island’s Main Building,
they were examined swiftly and expertly by the doctors for any sign of disease or
signs of physical or mental weakness.
–“Doctor” from “The Workers of Ellis Island,” Ellis Island National Monument Online
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Supporting Details in a Photograph
The details you identify within a photograph can help you determine the central idea of a text. Photos often:
• support the text.
• provide more information through .
• make the reading experience more enjoyable.
Supporting Details in a Caption
A caption is text that provides more information about a photograph. Details in a
can help you a photograph to the central idea of
the text.
Inspectors were often the first people immigrants encountered at Ellis Island.
Using Text and Photograph Details to Find a Central Idea
Underline the details that would help in finding a central idea in a passage:
On a typical day at the Ellis Island Immigration Station, immigrants came face to
face with inspectors, interpreters, nurses, doctors, social workers, and many others.
As a large federal facility employing approximately five hundred employees at a
time, Ellis Island was a well-organized workforce.
The complex work of processing thousands of immigrants a year required a full
complement of staff.
–“The Workers of Ellis Island,” Ellis Island National Monument Online
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Answer
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Lesson Question
How do photographs enhance your understanding of the Ellis Island workforce?