Ireland+Webquest

=** WEBQUEST **=
 * Directions: Click on the link to each website. Find the answer to each question underneath the link. Make sure you read every question underneath the links, and be specific in your answers. Follow the provided rubric to understand your expectations.**

1. [] What is the capitol of Ireland?

2. [] - When did Annie Moore arrive in Ellis Island? - How much was Annie given as a gift for being the first passenger to go through Ellis Island?

3. [] Take this quiz as if you were an Irish Immigrant boy in 1850. - After answering question one, why was the place you lived unhealthy? - After answering question two, how much money would you have made in one month? - After answering question three, why would you have not been able to visit central park if you were living in New York City? - After answering question four, what was the exciting event you were able to experience every year, and what did you do to celebrate it?

4. [] - Click the “Enter” sign. In the bottom left hand corner, click “rural dwelling”. Then, click on the potatoes next to the lady with her child. It is titled “potato blight”. Read, “Why did the famine happen?” **Explain why the Irish Potato Famine happened.** - Go back to the “rural dwelling”, then “the village”. Click on “the docks” in the bottom right corner. Find the man that is sitting on a grey box. The man should be titled “Dear Seamus”. Read the letter. (1) **What do you think wallowing means when Francis and Mary say, “We were wallowing in our own filth, that ship was so dirty.”** (2)**How would you feel on the boat to Ellis Island? (3)Was it exciting for Francis and Mary when they got to America? What was their emotion towards it?** - Go back to “the docks” by clicking on the bottom left corner of the page. Click on the man with the yellow trunk in his hand. **Were the Irish able to bring everything they owned, or only the most important things? Why?**

5. [] - In what year did most Irish immigrants come to America because of the Potato Famine?