Immigration+Past+&+Present

Immigration Unit

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Muscat, Oman was where I was born. I migrated form here to America when I was 2 years old.


 * Pakistan Flag **

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This is a picture of a Pakistani flag. All my cousins and grandparnts live their. The white stripe represents the non-Muslim, minority, religious groups in Pakistan. According to modern meaning, the green represents prosperity; white symbolizes peace; the white crescent represents progress; and the white star represents light and knowledge.

Wednsday July 7, 2010

** Day One: Immigration Today **
Objectives: Students will be able to..... explain/describe problems happening along the Mexican Border. analyze the new Arizona Law and provide evidence to support or oppose this law.

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Students will watch a series of short video streams on controversial issues surrounding this law. Using the Arizona Law response document record your thoughts. Think, Write, Pair, Share.This document will prepare you for the voicethread activity.

Students go to the site, CNN Politics and upload the video stream, Arizona Immigration Bill Becomes Law. On April 20,2010, Governor Jan Brewer signs the bill that becomes law requiring Arizona police to determine whether a person is in the United States legally. Governor Brewer explains her reasons supporting this law. media type="custom" key="6587643"

President Obama says Arizona Law "Has the Potential to be Applied in Discriminatory Fashion". media type="custom" key="6587613"

Immigration Leads to Profiling? Praise and Criticism. media type="custom" key="6587653"

Arizona Immigration Debate: Do You Support or Oppose the State's New Law? media type="custom" key="6587667"



Student have read and marked up the article //Mexican officials decry U.S. Border Patrol shooting of teenager//. Ask them to open document they marked up in word and review and discuss with their group their reaction to this article.



Students will go to the site**, [|voicethread] ** Here they will view 3 images and discuss electronically whether they support or oppose the new Arizona Law

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Thursday July 8, 2010

** Day 2: Effects on Immigration **
Objectives: Students will be able to... To learn about immigration in the past and to understand the reasons for immigrating



Go to the site, “The Peopling of America” [|Peopling of America]. As you navigate through the site, gather a list of reasons why people immigrate/leave their home lands (push factors). Then use a **Wordle** to make a ‘splash’ of the various reasons that people immigrate. Wordle. In other words, use Wordle as a brainstroming tool to create a visual representation of the reasons people immigrate. Please print your wordle when you are finished and save it.



Explore a tenement and the life of a recent immigrant in the 1900's using the Virtual Tour found on the New York Tenement website. Follow all of the directions/arrows on the virtual tour, finishing with the creation of the postcard. Then, print the post card.

**Questions on immigration**
<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//a. What is a tenement house? (You may have to search other sites to answer this question)// <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> A tenement house is a really crappy apartment for immigants. Tenementsare unsanitary and crowded. They usally has three rooms, a bedroom, a parlor with a window, and a kitchen.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//b. How did immigration lead to the creation of tenement housing?// <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The large numbers of immigrants that came to America all needed some place to live so they made tenements.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//c. What is life like for new immigrants in the early 1900's? What is life like in tenement housing?// <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Life for new immigrants in the early 1900's was hard. They all needed to learn how to adapt to the new country. In the tenements they had to do alot of housework, like the laundry, and cleaning the dishes.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//d. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">What potential obstacles can you see for recently arrived immigrants in the early 1900s? // <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Immigrants had to learn English, find a job, and a tenement apartment. Immigrants had to learn how to manage money, becasue they weren't paid alot.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//a.What are the effects of immigration on cities?// <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> There are both postive and negitve effects of immigration on cities. Business are able to find cheap labor. Immigrnts take the jobs that Amecans don't want. Immigrants work for long hours for very little money. There can be racism becasue some people dont want new people in ther neighborhood. Immigants can lead to more crime lik drug trafficking and murders. There is also illeagal immigration and smuggleing.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//b. How has immigration changed the United States? How was it changed Boston?// <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The United States of America is more diverse now becasue of immigration. There are all kinds of cultures, religions, traditions, and race.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Using //Inspiration,// you are going to **"Mind Map"** what you have learned through your exploration today. Your main topic is "Immigration". Your 3 subtopics should be: **Reasons People immigrate/Life of an Immigrant/Effects of Immigration**



Final Project: VoiceThread Project With Mercy
**__Project #1__**: **__Voice Thread: The Issues (groups of 2)__**

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">1. Choose one of the immigration issues you learned about in the "Immigration Today" lesson with Mrs. DeSantis. You wil be creating a Voicethread (combination of visuals and audio) to comment on one of these issues.

2. Research your topic via the internet. Find at least three websites as resources for your information and images. You must add these links to your wiki page as "resources used" for your final project. Find a minimum of four images that represent immigration issues today. Use voicethread.com to place these images in a "thread". Once you have selected and added your images, you will create a "script" in your digital notebook. DO NOT record your voice until you have a scipt written out in your notebook!

3. For each image, you should...
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">describe what is going on in the image/what issue it represents
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">explain any recent news stories that pertain to the issues
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">tell why, in your opinion, it is an important issue
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">analyze what could be done to solve whatever the issue is (come up with a solution)

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">4. Once you have brainstormed (and written them in your digital notebook) answers to these prompts, you may go back to voicethread to record your voice/your partner's voice explaining/analyzing the images that you chose.

5. Link the voicethread to your wiki page and invite classmates/teachers to respond to your thread!

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