"Someday we will become something we haven't even yet imagined."

Content Area Connections:

Language Arts: Ask and answer questions about key details, identify main topic and retell important events, describe how words and illustrations work together to convey meaning, and write or draw narratives about dreams, belonging, and new experiences.
Social Studies: Family history, how people function within communities, mapping the characters journey, cultural diversity and contributions, migration patterns
Social Emotional Learning (SEL): Self-awareness (identity, pride), social awareness (empathy), resilience, belonging, growth mindset.
Art: Analyze how color, texture, and symbolism convey emotion and personal story; create original artwork representing a dream, journey, or identity using mixed media

Primary Source Connection: 

• Map from Juarez to El Paso to San Francisco  
• Photographs over the years of the Bridge of the Americas, one of several international bridges connecting Mexico and the US in El Paso. 
• Photo - immigration interview on Angel Island 
• Photo - immigrants landing on Ellis Island 
• Photo - line inspection at Ellis Island 
• Photo and Information about the San Francisco public library

Other Books: 

• We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga
• A Different Pond
• Imagine
• My Two Border Towns