Entry 2: Voyage/Trip Entry
Entry 2: Voyage/Trip Entry
Helpful vocabulary to use for entry 2: Steerage, passenger ship, diseases, bunk, Ellis Island or Angel Island, registration, medical examination.
What is the date or dates used for this entry?__________________________________
(1850-1920)
When did you travel to the US? Length of trip?
How were you able to travel to the US?
Did you meet anyone?
What was your voyage like to the United States?
Describe 2-3 aspects of your trip. Use sensory language or what did you see, smell, hear?
Where did you enter for immigration? Ellis or Angel Island?
Describe your experiences at this checkpoint. -Use figurative language or sensory language. What was it like there? What happened to you? Exams? Name change?