Read the excerpt from Immigrant Kids by Russell
Freedman.
Which lines from the excerpt are an example of
paraphrasing by the author?
The voyage was an ordeal,, but it was worth it. They
were on their way to America
.
O My mother, my stepfather, my brother Giuseppe, anc
my two sisters clustered on the foredeck
The steamer Florida, fourteen days out of Naples,
filled to capacity with 1600 natives of Italy..
The voyage was an ordeal, but it was worth it. They
were on their way to America.
My first impressions of the New World will always
remain etched in my memory
The great majority of immigrants landed in New York
City, at America's busiest port. They never forgot their
first glimpse of the Statue of Liberty.
Edward Corsi, who later became United States
Commissioner of Immigration, was a ten-year-old
Italian immigrant when he sailed into New York harbor
in 1907:
My first impressions of the New World will always remain
etched in my memory. particularly that hazy October
morning when I first saw Ellis lsland. The steamer Florida,
fourteen days out of Naples, filled to capacity with 1600
natives of italy, had weathered one of the worst storms in
our captain's memory: and glad we were, both child