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This Women’s History Month immerse yourself and your students in the dynamic, modern, and sometimes dangerous world of New York City in the early twentieth century with NEH-funded Mission US: Mission 4 “City of Immigrants,” produced by WNET. Mission US is an interactive adventure game designed to improve the understanding of American history by students in Grades 5 through 8, though it is appropriate for most high school students as well.
Your students become Lena Brodsky, a fourteen year-old Jewish immigrant from Minsk, Russia who arrives in the United States in 1907. They will “play” and participate in a variety of historical realities through several days of Lena’s life over the course of two and a half years. Students will win badges signifying the characteristics, values, and skills of their unique version of this character and experience the results of the decisions they have made as they play it.
By playing the game and completing the accompanying lessons, students develop skills in analyzing turning points in history. Aligns with CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.3 Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.
Historical thinking involves the ability to categorize events into discrete historical periods and to identify key developments or events that shape these historical era.
The game is divided into five parts, with a prologue offering background information and an epilogue that extends the story of the main characters.
It is spring 1907. You as Lena are in the midst of a life-changing transatlantic journey on the Amerika a ship bound for New York City. You recollect events leading up to your departure and worry about whether or not you will make it past the customs officials in New York.
You as Lena arrive in New York City and are placed on a ferry that takes you to Ellis Island. Inspected by immigration and customs officials, you are sent to a detention room to wait until Isaac, your brother, comes to pick you up. With him, you begin to make your way across the city to the Battery, to get to his apartment in time for the Jewish Sabbath. You become separated in the crowds of people and have to find your own way through the teeming streets.
It is now August, you are living with Isaac, his wife Sonya, their infant son, and two boarders in a three-room tenement apartment on Orchard Street. There is no privacy and very little time as you work sewing men’s suits in a sweatshop to contribute to the family’s survival, and save for your parents in Russia to join you in the U.S.
After work, you go to the Henry Street Settlement for English and enrichment classes and while there you befriend Rosa Leone, an Italian girl. One pivotal evening, you learn that not all paths can be followed, and that you must decide how, and with whom, to invest your energy and precious time.
It is one year later, September 1908. You are now fluent in English and a proficient seamstress. Rosa Leone has a job uptown at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, and she offers to gets you an interview. You must prove yourself to Mrs. Sherman, the forelady. Working conditions at Triangle are difficult - the factory is noisy, rushed, and the bosses exploit the young workers in a number of ways. You must work on the Sabbath. But with the money earned from the job can you enjoy a little amusement and still save enough for your parents’ passage to New York?
It is now one year later, autumn of 1909. You are still working at the Triangle Factory. Shirtwaist workers across the city have called for a general strike led by Clara Lemlich, a girl not much older than you.
You are caught up in the excitement of the possibilities of improving work and pay, but like other potential strikers you are also terrified of the prospect of losing income, exacerbating family tensions, and the brutality of police and factory thugs. You must decide if you will join the 20,000 workers on strike and walk the picket lines. Who will you align yourself with—the more radical, socialist leaders of the movement, or the more moderate, middle-class Progressive reformers?
Will you operate a successful family business with your brother?
Move away from the Lower East Side and start a family of your own?
Become a leading lady on Broadway?
The path you follow as Lena will be determined by your previous choices, achievements, and behavior as well as your evolving values and future ambitions.
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