Feature story brainstorm
1) Elaine Wong
2) Newton Wong (Son), Gene Wong (Husband)
3) Immigrating to America from China as a single woman during World War II, losing family and than moving to America to start a better life
4) My grandma's point of view
5) Questions:
1. What year did you immigrate to the U.S, how old were you?
2. Why did you immigrate?
3. What was a struggle of immigrating?
4. How was your life in Hong Kong?
5. How did you get here in America?
6. What did you first do when you came to the U.S?
7. How was life in the U.S compared to life in China?
8. What are some challenges you faced while immigrating to the U.S
9. Did you want to immigrate to the U.S, why?
10. Do you think it was a good decision to move to the U.S?
11. What was an interesting part about living in china?
12. Would you move back there if you could? Why?
13. What is one thing you miss from China?
14. What is something you love about living in the U.S?
15. What is an interesting part of your immigration story?
16. What is an interesting part of your hometown?
17. Do you like where you are today, why or why not?
18. What was the process of immigration like?
19. What did you expect America to be like?
20. Who did you leave behind? How did you feel?
6) Second and Third source:
Second source
1. What was it like growing up with immigrant parents?
2. What do you think it would have been like if your parents never immigrated?
3. What were some important life lessons your parents taught you?
4. What is you life like now, how is your mother's immigration story impacting your life?
5. Would you have made the same decisions as your mom?
Third source
6. How is your immigration story different than your wife's?
7. What is it like both having two separate immigration stories?
8.How has your wife's immigrations story impacted your life?
7) Facts:
1. The United States admitted an average 250,000 immigrants a year in the 1950s.
2. As of the 2010 United States Census, there are more than 3.3 million Chinese in the United States, about 1% of the total population.
3. The illegal immigration population in the U.S peaked by 2007, when it was at 12.2 million and 4% of the total U.S. population
4. A Green Card holder (permanent resident) is someone who has been granted authorization to live and work in the United States on a permanent basis.
5. Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is a special administrative region on the eastern side of the Pearl River estuary in southern China.
8) I plan on conducting the interviews during thanksgiving break.
9) I plan on conducting the interviews all at home.
10) I am going to record the information by taking notes on a google doc and recording if I have permission.
2) Newton Wong (Son), Gene Wong (Husband)
3) Immigrating to America from China as a single woman during World War II, losing family and than moving to America to start a better life
4) My grandma's point of view
5) Questions:
1. What year did you immigrate to the U.S, how old were you?
2. Why did you immigrate?
3. What was a struggle of immigrating?
4. How was your life in Hong Kong?
5. How did you get here in America?
6. What did you first do when you came to the U.S?
7. How was life in the U.S compared to life in China?
8. What are some challenges you faced while immigrating to the U.S
9. Did you want to immigrate to the U.S, why?
10. Do you think it was a good decision to move to the U.S?
11. What was an interesting part about living in china?
12. Would you move back there if you could? Why?
13. What is one thing you miss from China?
14. What is something you love about living in the U.S?
15. What is an interesting part of your immigration story?
16. What is an interesting part of your hometown?
17. Do you like where you are today, why or why not?
18. What was the process of immigration like?
19. What did you expect America to be like?
20. Who did you leave behind? How did you feel?
6) Second and Third source:
Second source
1. What was it like growing up with immigrant parents?
2. What do you think it would have been like if your parents never immigrated?
3. What were some important life lessons your parents taught you?
4. What is you life like now, how is your mother's immigration story impacting your life?
5. Would you have made the same decisions as your mom?
Third source
6. How is your immigration story different than your wife's?
7. What is it like both having two separate immigration stories?
8.How has your wife's immigrations story impacted your life?
7) Facts:
1. The United States admitted an average 250,000 immigrants a year in the 1950s.
2. As of the 2010 United States Census, there are more than 3.3 million Chinese in the United States, about 1% of the total population.
3. The illegal immigration population in the U.S peaked by 2007, when it was at 12.2 million and 4% of the total U.S. population
4. A Green Card holder (permanent resident) is someone who has been granted authorization to live and work in the United States on a permanent basis.
5. Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is a special administrative region on the eastern side of the Pearl River estuary in southern China.
8) I plan on conducting the interviews during thanksgiving break.
9) I plan on conducting the interviews all at home.
10) I am going to record the information by taking notes on a google doc and recording if I have permission.
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