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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 Newcomers 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.