The Role Of Immigrants In Fiona's Lace

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America is composed of a broadly diverse melting pot of people from different cultures and countries from around the world. It is highly likely that many of the students in a class have a family member or know someone that has journeyed to America from a different country. Immigrants and the role they played in history has a large impact on how diverse our society is in this day and age. Due to this, Fiona’s Lace would be a great book to introduce to the classroom during a lesson on immigration. Starting out, since my intended audience is still young, I would make sure that the concept of immigration is fully understood. Moving forward, we would look at the different immigrants to America discussing why they came, what they were in search of,

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