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Immigration: Past and Present

Immigration: Past and Present. Chapter 1.1 Introduction Discussions. Note-taking Quiz. Log on to www.Socrative.com Join Room number 917563 You may use your notes that you took to help you on the quiz. Put away you electronic device when you complete the quiz.

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Immigration: Past and Present

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  1. Immigration: Past and Present Chapter 1.1 Introduction Discussions

  2. Note-taking Quiz • Log on to www.Socrative.com • Join Room number 917563 • You may use your notes that you took to help you on the quiz. • Put away you electronic device when you complete the quiz. • There are 6 questions, but only 5 are scored. This quiz means you have the potential to earn a bonus point.

  3. Discussing what you read • How did you do on the quiz? • Discuss reading methodology. • Readers, pickers, or flippers • Explain to the class how you did this assignment. • How long will it take you to do the entire assignment?

  4. Why do we have to take this class?? • What is Civics? • Make an argument that this class should be required. • Arizona Example • Make an argument that is should not be required. • As a citizen, what do you agree to do? • What is the difference between a duty, a right, and a responsibility? • What happens when you fail to do civic duties? • What social institutions help students learn about Civics in our country?

  5. Immigration IssuesQuestion • What does E Pluribus Unum mean? • Why is it on all of our coins?

  6. Change, change, change • How is the US population changing? • Older • More educated • More diverse racially • More service industry jobs • Population shifts from NE to Sunbelt • More blended families • More non-traditional families

  7. “Nation of Immigrants” • What do people mean when they use the phrase above? • Is this a new phrase? • How has immigration changed? • What has remained consistent about immigration? • Why is immigration such a heated issue?

  8. American Immigration Immigration Origins in 1880 Immigration Origins in 2010

  9. American Immigration • How could you explain the increases and decreases in the number of immigrants over time? • What factors may have caused the spike of European immigration in the late 1880s and early 1900s? • What factors may have caused the rise of Asian & Latin American immigration over the last 40 years?

  10. Discussion Questions, p. 5 • Write each heading on your paper. Read the descriptions. Explain each description under the heading.

  11. The Melting Pot “There she lies, the Great Melting Pot—listen! Can’t you hear the roaring and the bubbling? There gapes her mouth—the harbour where a thousand mammoth feeders come from the ends of the world to pour in their human freight. Celt and Latin, Slav and Teuton, Greek and Syrian…black and yellow, East and West, North and South, the palm and the pine, the pole and the equator, the crescent and the cross—how the great Alchemist fuses them with his purging flame! Here shall they all unite…what is the glory of Rome and Jerusalem… compared with the glory of America, where all races and nations come to labor and look forward!” Israel Zangwill, 1909

  12. The Salad Bowl “But as the groups of immigrants were transformed by influences in American society, stripped of their original characteristics, they were recreated as something new, but still as identifiable groups. …The assimilating power of American society and culture operated on immigrant groups to make them… something they had not been, but still distinct and identifiable…their transformation did not make them all into the same thing.” Nathan Glazer & D.P. Moynihan, 1963

  13. The Cultural Mosaic “…to homogenize 200 million human beings into a single block of stone, instead of recognizing that America is a magnificent mosaic, made up many cultures…I find the whole idea of the melting pot frankly very distasteful. I do not want to be melted down into a single block of stone.” Rep. Roman Pucinski, 1970

  14. Discussion Questions • Which quote do you feel best describes the American population? Why? Explain in a paragraph at the bottom of your notebook. • What does your choice reveal about your views on immigration?

  15. National Identity • What is meant by a “national identity?” • What values do we share as Americans? • Freedom • Equality • Popular Sovereignty • Majority rule with minority rights • Economic Opportunity • Individual Initiative • Others? • How has immigration impacted our national identity?

  16. Cartoon Analysis • Study the cartoons. • Be prepared to discuss each of these: • What symbols in the cartoon represent immigrants? • Does the cartoonist present immigration as a problem or progress? Explain. • What is the message of the cartoon? • What value is being expressed?

  17. Reading Assignment 1.2 • Explain the two paths to US Citizenship. • Are all aliens immigrants? Explain. • Are all immigrants aliens? Explain. • Differentiate between the types of aliens in the US today with an example of each. • Explain at least 3 laws that have impacted US immigration policy. • How has immigration impacted our national identity?

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