Meet Our Families Fun Facts In 2003 almost 706,000 immigrants came to the United States. El Salvador is the smallest country in Central America. It is about the size of Massachusetts. Many Bantu celebrate Deb-Shid, a festival in which people dance and sing around a bonfire to greet the new year. Genre Nonfiction Comprehension Skill Recall and Retell Text Features Glossary Headings Scott Foresman Social Studies ISBN 0-328-14819-9 ì<(sk$m)=beibjg< +^-Ä-U-Ä-U by G. L. Perkins Meet Malik and Sofía. They will tell you about how their families came to live in the United States. Vocabulary immigrant holiday custom Write to It! Malik and Sofía have learned many things about the United States. Choose one holiday or custom that we follow here. Write a paragraph to tell why we celebrate it. Meet Our Families by G. L. Perkins Write your paragraph on another sheet of paper. ISBN: 0-328-14819-9 Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America. This publication is protected by Copyright, and permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Permissions Department, Scott Foresman, 1900 East Lake Avenue, Glenview, Illinois 60025. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 V0G1 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 Every effort has been made to secure permission and provide appropriate credit for photographic material. The publisher deeply regrets any omission and pledges to correct errors called to its attention in subsequent editions. Unless otherwise acknowledged, all photographs are the property of Scott Foresman, a division of Pearson Education. Photo locators denoted as follows: Top (T), Center (C), Bottom (B), Left (L), Right (R), Background (Bkgd) Opener: Corbis; 1 Corbis; 2 Corbis Media; 3 D. Cooper/Masterfile