GUIDING QUESTIONS FOR WORKSHOP #3:

*The "Big Idea" Essential Question
1. How do groups define themselves in relationship to the dominant
society?

*Questions to Ask Before Reading
2. What is your understanding of the Irish experience in America? What
do
you know about this population already?

3. What faith did the Irish practice, what political affiliations?

4. How did the Irish come here & why?

5. what happened to the Irish after migration?

6. What personality traits do the Irish have, physical
characteristics, in other words...what is the STEREOTYPE?

*During & After Reading
7. How do the experiences of the du Pont Irish compare?

8. What accounts for the differences the author - Mulrooney - found?

9. What kinds of sources did she use, what kinds of questions did she
ask?

10. How does the Irish community at Hagley help us understand the
construction of identity among other immigrant populations?

11. How might this book suggests ways of looking at, say, Latinos?