Category Archives: Social Studies

We had to make a video explaining the immigrant’s life immigrating and add pictures of them when they were little in their old country. I got many pictures and surprisingly they were not very blurry because the cameras when my grandma was young were not very good.  Also, we did not have as much time as we wanted for each slide so we had to make it quick.

My process in the video started with adding the title and pictures. But when I had to add the voice over I found out the script was too long and had to take most of it out. I didn’t add any pictures online because my grandma gave me a lot. I put a lot of effort into the video and it took a long time but still was fun. One thing that was challenging was all the glitches with my video and getting the photos into the video.    

One thing I learned about my immigrant was that she had a stepmom and a stepbrother. I also learned to be more patient for example when I was asking for photos it took a bit of time to look for them. My interview was over facetime and it worked out very well. Even though my grandma could just come to my house whenever she wants because she’s retired it was much easier to do it on call.

Overall this project taught me a lot and was very fun. I hope we have projects like these moving forward and hope to learn more about this topic because it is very interesting. I love learning about my family and all the details anyone has faced when they were a kid.

We have an immigration unit at school and we learned about push/pull factors. To understand immigration better, we have to interview an immigrant. The immigrant I’m interviewing is my grandma, Her name is Marie Grace DeWitt. We wrote down 20 questions and picked 10-15 of them to ask the immigrant.

My process of preparing for the interview started when I had to find an immigrant I knew but that was probably the easiest part because I already knew an immigrant in my family which was my grandma. Then I had to brainstorm some questions I could ask her about her life/journey being an immigrant. Some resources that helped me find all of my questions were brain pop and other kids’ videos. Most of the questions I thought of because I ask my grandma these questions in general.

My experience conducting the interview was good, it took a short time and it was conducted over the phone. It went as expected and Mary told me things that I didn’t know. I learned that it might be hard for the other person because it is bringing back memories and it might be sad. The most interesting thing I learned about Mary is that I she had a stepmother and a stepbrother because her mother died when she was little.

Overall the interview went well and I learned a lot more about my grandma that I didn’t know before! And I’m really excited to make the video because I have a lot of photos from when she lived in Italy.

I chose this topic because I thought it was interesting to learn about women and how they wanted to change the constitution to have the right to vote. I was also interested to learn about their lives during this time period. I also wanted to learn why women had not been given the right to vote when the constitution was written.

Something I found challenging was finding information for my question and finding resources that were exactly about the question I chose. Another thing I found hard to understand was the words they used in the articles I read. Words like “suffrage” and “ballot” I didn’t know because there not used today.

This was a long project with many steps. For me, the research was the most difficult part. in the end, I found that I learned so much about the 19th amendment and about the history of it back in that time period too. And I am happy this all happened because if the women did not step forward life would still not be equal.