"New Immigrants Share Their Stories"

The documentary shows...

• the advantages that immigrants experience.
• the reasons why St. Luke's is better than Newcomers High School.
• the steps to follow to make a video diary.
• St. Luke's students visiting students at Newcomers High School

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All of the students at Newcomers High School...

• want to become filmmakers.
• will later attend St. Luke's.
• are recent immigrants to America.
• plan to return to their birth country.

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What is the main way that viewers learn about the students at Newcomers?

• through video diaries and interviews
• through letter writing
• from what the teachers say
• from still photographs

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What makes the students from St. Luke's different from those at Newcomers?

• St. Luke's students are experienced filmmakers.
• St. Luke's students are learning to speak English.
• St. Luke's students live in New York.
• St. Luke's students were born in the United States.

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In the film, a voice-over narrator...

• is the voice of only one person.
• provides background about the teachers and their schools.
• tells stories about each student.
• encourages viewers to watch other documentary films.

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What do you learn from students' video diaries?

• what their lives were like in their birth countries
• what their parents think about life in the United States
• what they think of the students from St. Luke's
• what they need to do to get a good job

What is one way in which the interviews are like the video diaries?

• Both include students from St. Luke's and from Newcomers.
• Both explain how the students got to know one another.
• Both have a question-and-answer format.
• Both reveal details about the immigrant students' experiences.

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The combination of interviews and video diaries...

• reveals what the St. Luke's students are like.
• explains the teachers' roles in the project.
• gives details about the immigrant students' stories.
• provides background on Newcomer High School.

What is one purpose of the film?

• to tell why students came to the United States
• to share entertaining stories about students' lives
• to persuade viewers to donate money to Newcomers
• to express feelings about the importance of education

What is the central message of the film?

• Young people should help each other to succeed in America.
• Immigrants should attend schools with students who were born in the United States.
• Young people learn best from other young people.
• Immigrants are responsible people who want to contribute to American society.

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