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Becoming America Year 3
= **Fall Seminar 2** = Thursday, September 22, 2011 Location: Medford High School, 489 Winthrop Street, Medford, MA Map

**Reading:**
The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans: As Told by Themselves, Hamilton Holt, ed. (New York: J. Pott & Co., 1906). Please read (at a minimum) the following stories: > You may also download FREE Kindle, Nook (EPub), IPad versions of the book from @http://www.archive.org/details/lifestoriesundis00holtrich
 * "The Life Story of a Polish Sweatshop Girl" pp. 34-46 - [[file:PolishSweatShopGirl.pdf]]
 * "The Life Story of a Swedish Farmer" pp. 80-98 - [[file:SwedishFarmer.pdf]]
 * "The Life Story of an Indian" pp. 200-224 - [[file:Indian.pdf]]
 * "The Life Story of an Irish Cook" pp. 143-149 - [[file:IrishCook.pdf]]
 * "The Life Story of a Chinaman" pp. 281-299 - [[file:China.pdf]]

• What do we learn about immigration by reading life stories?" • Which shared patterns, which deep differences and conflicts do you detect in the various 'lifelets' in the collection?" • How important is it to know whether the stories are authentic, as-told-to, ghost-written, or made up by journalists?" • Could students nowadays put together a similar collection of life stories?
 * Questions to guide your reading:**

Scheduled Topic:
Immigrant Communities in 19th and 20th Century America Werner Sollors, Ph.D., Harvard University

Life Stories - //7.2 MB//
 * Dr. Sollor's PowerPoint Presentation:**