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The Immigrant Experience

The Immigrant Experience. Essential Question: How are immigrants treated in the New World?. Language Objectives. Students will respond to questions to obtain, clarify, and extend information and meaning.

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The Immigrant Experience

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  1. The Immigrant Experience Essential Question: How are immigrants treated in the New World?

  2. Language Objectives • Students will respond to questions to obtain, clarify, and extend information and meaning. • Students will view, discuss, interpret and analyze information related to academic content areas from various sources. • Students will recognize and communicate personal and multiple points of view within and among groups, in discussing, interpreting, and evaluating information in texts and presentations.

  3. Content Objectives • Social Studies Objectives: • ESL students will compare and contrast parallels between personal experience and the topic immigration. • Students will explore the meaning of American culture by identifying the key ideas, beliefs, and patterns of behavior, traditions that help define it and unite all Americans.

  4. Lesson Flow • Opening-Interview activity • Think about a time in your life when you faced a hardship. How did you feel and what did you learn from this experience? • Introduce the documents and model working with one. • Group work: “Mind Mirror” Activity • Students work independently with the documents (Document Analysis sheet and DBQ writing) • Pair to share

  5. Scaffolding Activities • Interview Activity • “Mind Mirror” Activity • Different color markers • Modeling Document Analysis • Graphic organizer to analyze documents

  6. Scaffolding Activity: “Mind Mirror” • Put students into groups and give each group a piece of chart paper. The students draw the “mind” of the person/people they are learning about. • Situation • Thoughts • Concerns • Dilemmas • Each student uses a different color marker to do all of their work—holds them responsible for contributing to the project. • A good mind mirror should show what the person is feeling as if looking in the mirror at his or her thoughts and emotions. • You can use text excerpts too!!!

  7. Imagine you are one of the people on this boat…what are you thinking and feeling?

  8. Modeling • Criteria: • Two original phrases about the person • Two symbols that relate to this person somehow • Two relevant drawings • At least four descriptive words about the person’s situation.

  9. Name __________________________________ Historical Context: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ Document # and title: ____________________________________________________________________ Use your background knowledge to explain the historical context: (reword the theme in your answer) ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Describe your document? (Who, what, when, where) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ How does the document connect to the historical context? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Make another connection to the historical context or document from your knowledge of social studies. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

  10. Name _____________________________________________ Directions: Organize the information discussed in the graphic organizer to write a paragraph. The paragraph should include: an explanation of the historical context, a connection to the document, a discussion of other information that connects to the historical context or the document. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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