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Little Italy: Italian Americans: A Story Based on Real History
Paperback
Series: Hopes and Dreams
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ISBN13: 9780866473897
Publisher: Pro Lingua Learning
Published: Jul 13 2015
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
This 80-page easy-to-understand reader is one of 12 historical novels in the Hopes and Dreams series, whose diverse and fascinating characters, regardless of their ethnicity, face prejudice, danger, hardships, and setbacks, but survive with perseverance, a little bit of luck, and a generous amount of love in their new home in the US. Downloadable audio recordings of all 12 novels and free supplementary materials for teachers are available.
This is the story of the Trella family. In 1920 Vito's land is worn out, and he can't sell his oranges. Sadly, he leaves his Italian homeland and sails to New York to get work and save enough money to bring his wife, Rosetta, and their three children to America. For more than two years he works as a stonecutter, building the new skyscrapers of New York. It is dangerous work. Finally, he saves enough money for four tickets. Rosetta and their children join him. They make their new life on Mulberry Street in New York's Little Italy. Rosetta finds the city dirty and depressing at first, but she learns to love her Italian neighbors and her church. They have four more children. Then Vito falls, is injured, and must take a job making paper flowers; the whole family helps. All seven children finish high school and get good jobs. Vito and Rosetta stay in Little Italy. The novel ends as their youngest child, Dominick, graduates from high school with honors.
Features- Free accompanying AUDIO program, available to download from http: //prolingualearning.com or to stream on http: //youtube.com/@ProLinguaLearningAudio
- Includes a downloadable Sample Lesson for classroom or independent study
- Includes a downloadable Teacher's Guide with a Plot Summary, Discussion Questions, Historical Photos, and Detailed Background
- Includes downloadable Ready-to-use classroom activities: What Did You Read? Form, Book Report Form, Word Play and Fill-in-the-Blanks Review Activities
- Ideal for reading, discussion, and cross-cultural understanding in ESL or citizenship programs
- The Family from Vietnam: Vietnamese-Americans
- A Different Home: Cuban Americans
- For Gold and Blood: Chinese-Americans
- Hungry No More: Irish-Americans
- Nobody Knows: African-Americans
- The Magic Paper: Mexican-Americans
- Sent Away: Japanese-Americans
- Little Italy: Italian-Americans
- Old Ways, New Ways: Jewish-Americans
- Neighbors: A Family from El Salvador
- Two Hearts: Irish-Americans
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