reflection

Immigration Project Reflection
I liked my literature circle book because it had a lot about history and it taught me a lot. I learned a ton about immigration and how they had to travel, and live for a while. Something significant that I Learned about my book, “Hello America” by Livia Bitton-Jackosn, was the history about the immigration ships and how they came over on them and saw the Statue of Liberty so they knew they were free. I thought that was the coolest thing because I can picture it in my head, a large ship filled with hundreds of people, and going into the New York Harbor with the Statue of Liberty peering at you. I think that the way we do our lit circles is good, the only thing that I think could be a problem, is if you don’t have a computer or it doesn’t work. I had little problems with blogging, but sometimes I would be somewhere where there is no computer and that would be a problem.
When we first got the choices we could pick for our painting I already was positive I was going to change the book cover. I already knew that because the book cover that the book already had, could have been changed so that it tells the story of the book a little more. So that is what I did, I made the book cover with a immigration ship heading towards the Brooklyn Bridge to represent New York and America, and then I put the Statue of Liberty in the background to represent freedom. I believe that my painting connects to the book very well, because its about a immigrant family coming from Europe that escaped the holocaust to start their new lives in a new free world. My painting turned out almost exactly as I wanted it too. I thought that the Statue of Liberty could have had more detail or been a greener color, but otherwise it was perfect. By doing this art project I learned how to write an artist statement and what and artist statement was.
I believe my interviews went very well, very smooth. At first I could not get a hold of my interviewee, so I ended up changing my immigrant and getting my interviews done with him. I thought that it was different to interview my person three times, I would have rather done one long interview, but as long as I got the information and learned something I was happy. I learned that he was coming over to get money for his family to help them out. Being able to interview a real immigrant helped me understand what it was really like to have to travel to America.