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Immigration and Migration

• Three major waves of immigration

• Industrialism: conditions, political machines, Americanization, regulations

• Immigration policy

• Development of labor unions (turn of the century)

• Editorial cartoons

Unit 3 Immigration and Migration: Focus Questions

  1. “Give me your tired, your poor your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door.” Based on your historical and literary knowledge has America upheld the ideal promoted on the statue of liberty? Consider the following: Immigration policy, Groups that have suffered/benefited from migration/ immigration, Nativist Responses

Monday 10/14

1) No School 

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Tuesday 10/15

Objective: Students will review vocabulary for unit and work on project

1) Unit 3 vocab

2) Project work time

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Ch 1 Section 3 - Unknown Artist
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Wednesday 10/16

Objective: Students will examine the origins of immigration in the US. 

1) Northern, Middle, Southern Colonies Lecture+Indentured Servitude Reading

2) American Dream and Mosaic and the Myth

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Thursday 10/17

Objective: Students will examine the migration of Americans across the country. 

1) Forced Migration Lesson 

2) 5.1: "Lullaby" + Manifest Destiny image

-- guiding questions in packet with groups

-- Whole class discussion

-- Short response 15 mins:

1. [image] progress

2. [story] At what cost?

3. [both] Who wins and who loses?

Friday 10/18

Objective: Students will analyze the Models of Ethnic Relations 

1) Westward Expansion Lecture 

2) Project Work Time 

3) Show Jellybean Video (to help with “Models of Ethnic Relations”)

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Ch 7 Section 2 - Unknown Artist
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Ch 7 Section 3 - Unknown Artist
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Monday 10/21

 

Objective: Students will finish their Lobbyist Project  

1) Discuss “Models of Ethnic Relations” w/ GO.

2) Step 4-Project work time: Practice Presentations (45 min)

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Tuesday  10/22

Warm-Up: Prepare for Presentations 

Objective: Students will read the Lone Ranger.

1) Presentation 1+2+3 (10-12 minutes each) 

2) “Traffic Signal” Written Response and Debrief

Wednesday 10/23

Warm-Up: Prepare for Presentations 

Objective: Students will analyze the impact of Political Machines on immigrants in major cities. 

1) Presentation 5+9 

2) Nast Tweed Cartoons 

3) Journal: Vocab Review 

Thursday 10/24

Objective: Students will examine George M. Frederickson's Models of Ethnic Relations

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1) Project presentation 23-29th (6, 7, 8)

2) Vocab Quiz

3) “Two Ways to Belong in America” Debrief

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Friday 10/25

Objective: Students will examine the 

1) Exclusion Acts and Irish Immigration

2) 30 Days Immigration

3) Journal: 30 Days “Immigration” episode (48 min)

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Ch 12 Section 2 - Unknown Artist
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Monday 10/28

Objective: Students will begin researching immigrant stories 

1) Presentations 4+10

2) Introduce Magazine

3) Read Academic Articles in Google Classroom 

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Tuesday 10/29

Objective: Students will analyze the impact of the Palmer Raids on 20th immigrants.

1) Red Scare  

2) Interview Questions

-- Developing questions that elicit stories -- Start forming a list in groups

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Ch 14 Section 2 - Unknown Artist
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Wednesday 10/30

Warm-Up: Describe the Red Scare. 

Objective: Students will explain mass migration across the US caused by the Great Depression and Dustbowl by examining songs and pictures

1) Dust Bowl+Okies/Arkies Prezi

2) Values Americans Live By Discussion

3) Journal #12 Vocab Review 

Thursday 10/31

Objective: Students will examine primary sources to identify the causes and consequences of Mexican Migration to the US in the 1930s

1) Journal  #12: “Starvation Under the Orange Trees”

2) Time permitting, check in about Magazine Project; settle interview details, send emails, messages, etc. 

Friday 11/01

Objective: Students will examine primary sources to identify the causes and consequences of Mexican Migration to the US in the 1930s

1) Mexican Migration 

2) Great Migration 

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