Immigrants Coming to America
June 27, 2016
CI 3338-Summer 1 Immigrants Coming to America
Compelling Question Why is immigration necessary?
State Standards (TEKS) 5.13 (A) compare how people in different parts of the United States earn a living, past and present;
5.13 (C) analyze the effects of immigration, migration, and limited resources on the economic development and growth of the United States;
NCSS Thematic Strands 2. Knowing how to read, reconstruct and interpret the past allows us to answer questions.
3. Today’s social, cultural, economic and civic issues demand that students apply knowledge skills, and understandings as they address questions.
Social Justice Elements 3. Teachers make links between the historical roots of oppression …show more content…
• Oral histories from https://www.nps.gov/elis/learn/historyculture/oral-histories.htm Children’s Literature:
• When Jessie Came Across the Sea
LESSON PLAN PROCEDURAL NARRATIVE Lesson 1
• Introduce students to children’s literature book When Jessie Came Across the Sea, and read aloud.
• Set up stations around the classroom that contain images, diary entries, and oral histories of immigrant’s experiences on Ellis Island. Divide students into groups.
• Explain to students that they will participate in a gallery walk. Each group will stay at the different stations for 5-10 minutes analyzing and discussing the images and stories being displayed.
• Each group should discuss the causes and effects of immigrants coming to Ellis Island. What caused them to come? How did their arrival affect their new communities within America?
• After discussing with their groups, students will individually work on a journal entry written in the perspective of an immigrant traveling to America. Students must address why they are leaving their native country, what their experience was like on Ellis Island, and how their lives have changed since moving to
June 27, 2016
CI 3338-Summer 1 Immigrants Coming to America
Compelling Question Why is immigration necessary?
State Standards (TEKS) 5.13 (A) compare how people in different parts of the United States earn a living, past and present;
5.13 (C) analyze the effects of immigration, migration, and limited resources on the economic development and growth of the United States;
NCSS Thematic Strands 2. Knowing how to read, reconstruct and interpret the past allows us to answer questions.
3. Today’s social, cultural, economic and civic issues demand that students apply knowledge skills, and understandings as they address questions.
Social Justice Elements 3. Teachers make links between the historical roots of oppression …show more content…
• Oral histories from https://www.nps.gov/elis/learn/historyculture/oral-histories.htm Children’s Literature:
• When Jessie Came Across the Sea
LESSON PLAN PROCEDURAL NARRATIVE Lesson 1
• Introduce students to children’s literature book When Jessie Came Across the Sea, and read aloud.
• Set up stations around the classroom that contain images, diary entries, and oral histories of immigrant’s experiences on Ellis Island. Divide students into groups.
• Explain to students that they will participate in a gallery walk. Each group will stay at the different stations for 5-10 minutes analyzing and discussing the images and stories being displayed.
• Each group should discuss the causes and effects of immigrants coming to Ellis Island. What caused them to come? How did their arrival affect their new communities within America?
• After discussing with their groups, students will individually work on a journal entry written in the perspective of an immigrant traveling to America. Students must address why they are leaving their native country, what their experience was like on Ellis Island, and how their lives have changed since moving to