Study guide for the "Remarkable Journey: Founding the Asian Indian Community in North Carolina," a documentary that illustrates the history, culture, lives, and contributions of Indian-Americans in North Carolina.

In this activity, students use a story map to follow the historic route of the Buncombe Turnpike and learn more about its economic and cultural impact on western North Carolina. Students will also see how the landscape has transformed in the nearly 200 years since the creation of the Turnpike.

Students will simulate the experiences of an immigrant's passage to and arrival in America during the turn of the century, relating these experiences to Emma Lazarus's poem The New Colossus. Students will also explore the process to become a naturalized citizen and learn about the
different ethnic groups immigrating to America.

In this lesson, students will learn that enslaved people resisted their captivity constantly. Because they were living under the domination of their masters, slaves knew that direct, outright, overt resistance"”such as talking back, hitting their master or running away"“"“could result in being whipped, sold away from their families and friends, or even killed.

In this lesson, students examine primary sources from Wilson Library’s online exhibit, “Sour Stomachs and Galloping Headaches,” to form new understandings and theories about the common ailments and epidemics our ancestors faced, as well as the medical “cures” they used to treat their illnesses. Students will analyze and evaluate the various primary sources in the exhibit via a Historical Scene Investigation (“HSI”) activity, which leads students through an investigative process of similar to what crime scene investigators do when they examine evidence from a crime scene and formulate theories about what happened. In this HIS, students will first examine the evidence by filling out case reports that ask them to evaluate the primary resources from the website. Then, they will attempt to diagnose different patient illnesses and prescribe different cures to treat these patients based on what they uncovered in their case reports.