Role Play consists of: Mary and the Inspection Officer
      Basic Materials needed:    
     For Mary ( Large jacket, shaggy wig, glasses, suitcase)
      For Inspection Officer (Doctors outfit- white jacket, Doctors bag with
      accessories.
      List of 20 or so questions either silly or serious that Inspection Officer
      will ask Mary.
      Table where Inspection Officer will sit.
      *Indicates helpful links with information that will add to Role Play
     
      TEACHER WILL SET UP SCENARIO BY DISCUSSING OUTLINE LECTURE
      * Anything in RED indicates Role Play scenes
   
      I.  Introduction
                     Types of IMMIGRANTS
                     Permanent Immigrant-wanted to stay and make a home
                     Migrant Workers- wanted to make a quick buck in America and then go
                     back home.
                     New Immigrants are Greek, Polish, Russian, Italian, Slavs, Turks
                     Old Immigrants are English, Irish, French, German and Scandinavian
          
            A.  Jewish Girl From Russia named Mary
                1. Mary and her family are permanent New Immigrants
                (Mary and her family are permanent immigrants
                2.  She is 13 years old and left Polotsk, Russia
                3.  She will soon be reunited with her father who left three (3) years earlier
                4.  Mary, her mother and her three sisters endured a long and grueling
                voyage.
                     (Discuss cramped conditions, eating situation, bathroom situation)
                    *Click on the following link.  Once there, click on PASSAGE.
                      http://www.ellisisland.com/indexHistory.html
                5.  At one point Mary recalled a scene of:
                     (Have student who is playing the part of Mary read)
                     "Bewildering confusion, parents losing their children, and little 
                       ones crying; baggage being thrown together in one corner of 
                       the boat, heedless of contents.... The confused passengers  
                       obeying all orders like meek children, only questioning now 
                       and then what was going to be done with them."
                      Discuss the voyage and get student feedback.
         
          B.  Eventually Mary and her family arrive in New York
                  *(Have table set up with student dressed up like a Doctor.  In their
                    hand they should have 20 or so questions and have then go through
                    a mock procedure of examining Mary).
                1. Custom officials/Doctors ask a quite a few ridiculous question.
                    (Make up 20 or so questions that are either serious or silly- have
                    Inspection Officer read questions.
                2.  Next they are examined for health problems- Inspection Officer should
                     be examining Mary.  Have Inspection Officer put an X on her.
                    Discuss what Mary might be thinking as she goes through the 
                    process and
                     then discuss the letter X that was placed on her and  the other letters handed out.
                    *Click on the following link.  Once there, click on INSPECTION.
                      http://www.ellisisland.com/indexHistory.html
                3.  If they pass inspection their baggage is checked and they are then,
                     hopefully, allowed to pass into New York.

           C.  Immigrants were met with hostility
                1.  Native-born Americans were suspicious and resentful of
                      immigrants. 
                2.  Anti-immigrant attitudes (Nativism) became apparent.
                      a.  Workers saw competition in cheaper labor
                      b.  Educators saw illiterate hordes
                      c.  Politicians saw peasants unfamiliar with Democracy
                      d.  Everyone saw them as inferior (REFERENCE to American Indian ordeal
                           and what troubles this attitude leads to)
                3.  Americans developed Xenophobia: A hatred or fear of foreigners or
                     strangers.  These attitudes caused many to put up signs with derogatory
                     meanings around the city.  (May want to put signs up in different part of
                     room but have them turned backwards until needed.  Direct Mary to walk
                     in direction of signs and then turn them around so that they can be seen and read)
                     Discuss what feelings Mary might be having once she sees and reads them.
                4.  Fears of Americans led to a law called the Chinese Exclusion Act which stopped
                     the immigration of Chinese for ten (10) years and restricted the rights of the
                     Chinese already living in America.

           D.  New Immigrants forged new lives with Religion and Education
                 1.  Immigrants faced a world vastly different from the one they left.
                      a.  Unfamiliar language
                      b.  New freedoms
                      c.  Different set of customs
                 2.  Most Immigrants settled in America's growing cities.
                      a.  Unskilled labor was much in demand.
                      b.  Immigrants tried to balance old and new customs.  Spoke same language,
                           read own books, practiced own religion.
                 3.  Immigrant Associations Sprang Up
                      a.  Polish National Alliance
                      b.  Housing Works
                 4.  Religion and Education were means to achieve assimilation into
                      the new surroundings.