Integrated Thematic Unit Overview: Immigration
Enduring Understandings
In this unit students in Ms. Bever's English class and Mr. Jensen's U.S History class will engage in a number of collaborative activities in order to learn about the history, impact, and current issues surrounding immigration. In Ms. Bevers class students will dive into the novel The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros in order to develop empathy and understanding for this community and the people affected by them. In Mr. Jensen's class students will be analyzing primary source documents and statistics about immigration into the U.S. to better understand the history and major issues concerning immigration.
Essential Questions:
Standards Addressed:
U.S. History and English.
ELD Standards:
Bridging
4. Adapting language choices
Adjust language choices according to the task (e.g., group presentation of research project), context (e.g., classroom, community), purpose (e.g., to persuade, to provide arguments or counter‐arguments), and audience (e.g., peers, teachers, college recruiter) (Found Poem Lesson).
1. Exchanging information/ideas
Contribute to class, group, and partner discussions, sustaining conversations on a variety of age and grade‐appropriate academic topics by following turn‐taking rules, asking and answering relevant, on‐topic questions, affirming others, and providing coherent and well‐articulated comments and additional information (Lit Circle Groups).
In this unit students in Ms. Bever's English class and Mr. Jensen's U.S History class will engage in a number of collaborative activities in order to learn about the history, impact, and current issues surrounding immigration. In Ms. Bevers class students will dive into the novel The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros in order to develop empathy and understanding for this community and the people affected by them. In Mr. Jensen's class students will be analyzing primary source documents and statistics about immigration into the U.S. to better understand the history and major issues concerning immigration.
Essential Questions:
- Who are immigrants?
- Can immigrants become members of their new communities while still retaining their sense of self and culture?
- What struggles do immigrants face?
- How have immigrants contributed to American culture and society?
Standards Addressed:
U.S. History and English.
- SS 10.3.4 Trace the evolution of work and labor, including the demise of the slave trade and the effects of immigration, mining and manufacturing, division of labor, and the union movement.
- SS 11.2 Students analyze the relationship among the rise of industrialization, large-scale rural-to-urban migration, and massive immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.6 Evaluate authors’ differing points of view on the same historical event or issue by assessing the authors’ claims, reasoning, and evidence.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.7 Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., visually, quantitatively, as well as in words) in order to address a question or solve a problem.
- ENG CC RI10.2 Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
- ENG CC W.10.7. Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.
ELD Standards:
Bridging
4. Adapting language choices
Adjust language choices according to the task (e.g., group presentation of research project), context (e.g., classroom, community), purpose (e.g., to persuade, to provide arguments or counter‐arguments), and audience (e.g., peers, teachers, college recruiter) (Found Poem Lesson).
1. Exchanging information/ideas
Contribute to class, group, and partner discussions, sustaining conversations on a variety of age and grade‐appropriate academic topics by following turn‐taking rules, asking and answering relevant, on‐topic questions, affirming others, and providing coherent and well‐articulated comments and additional information (Lit Circle Groups).