WHAT DID IT FEEL LIKE TO BE AN IMMIGRANT ARRIVING AT ELLIS ISLAND?
JFMS STUDENTS WILL FIND OUT DURING IMMIGRANT DAY ON NOVEMBER 25 NEWTON, NC — A number of students in Catawba County Schools are from other countries or part of families who immigrated to North Carolina from places like Ecuador, Mexico and Laos, among many. Jacobs Fork Middle School is no exception. But today’s immigrants never experienced the detailed scrutiny of US immigration ports like Ellis Island, and children often have only a history book perspective of the experience. That’s about to change for eighth-grade students at Jacobs Fork MS, where teachers are organizing an annual Immigration Day event at the school. Running 8:15 a.m. to 2:20 p.m., the program is designed to incorporate math, reading, history, writing and other areas of learning in a hands-on experience that gives students a realistic perspective of immigration and those of other cultures, according to organizer Jim York. York, an eighth-grade Social Studies teacher at the school, said the day begins with eighth grad
