Which question might you answer by continuing to
read the text?
Since 1973, the Ellis Island Oral History project has been
dedicated to preserving the first-hand recollections of
immigrants who passed through the Ellis Island
immigration station between 1892 and 1954 and the
employees who worked there.
-Ellis Island Oral History Project,
National Park Service: Ellis Island
How many people were interviewed for the
project?
How long has the project been going on?
What was the purpose of doing these interviews?
What information were the interviewers looking
for?

Me read the letter. dear aunt mary, you for the wonderful painting. you are so talented! i was thrilled that you chose to paint horses. you must have remembered that i was crazy about horses when i was a little kid—and i still love them. i have hung the painting in my room so that i can see it every morning when i wake up. your loving niece, celia what makes this letter appropriate for its intended audience? it is written from the third-person point of view. it is concise and impersonal. its sentence structure is varied. its language is informal.