Northside students experience an immigrant’s arrival

It has been said that other than first natives, most Americans at one time or the other can trace their roots to immigration.  Fifth graders at Seneca’s Northside Elementary School held an Immigration Day.  The fifth grade social studies curriculum focuses on the U-S from 1865, the end of the Civil War, to the present.  And one topic discussed is the Industrial Revolution and the influx of immigrants then.  Northside teachers planned the event to give their students a real-life view of the significance of large-scale immigration and the contributions of immigrants to America in the early 1900s.  Teachers and students including Carson Roberts, Elijah Camden, and Rhiannon Hicks, dressed as immigrants and arrived at school in vintage costumes from the 1900s as if they were ready to set sail for America. Simulated were stations for passports, medical exams, citizenship tests, and entrance interviews.  The event ended with the oath of citizenship and the Pledge of Allegiance.