Unit 7: Immigration
Essential Questions:
How do push and pull factors determine an immigrant’s experience?
What are the effects of immigration?
How do push and pull factors determine an immigrant’s experience?
What are the effects of immigration?
As a class, students will explore the experience of the Irish immigrants of the 1840s through an analysis of push and pull factors of immigration (which is a major theme in social studies) and through the analysis of songs and political cartoons. This will prepare students for their analysis of push and pull factors on the immigration experience of their chosen immigrant group and how their immigrant group interacted with others in their destination land.
Primary Source Tools Introduced: Political Cartoons, Songs
Vocabulary words to know: diaspora, migration, immigration, emigration, nativism
Notes Immigration Vocab
Formative Assessment #1: Movement of People Warmup
Read the article below titled "Desperate Journeys" and answer the three questions on a piece of paper. Turn into the box or digitally through the Dropbox.
Desperate Journeys
Questions 1-3
1. Where are they coming from and why are they leaving?
2. Where are they going and why are they going there?
3. What is the reaction of the countries that they are fleeting to/through?
Formative Assessment #2: Push Factor - Irish
Directions: Use the link for the Skibbereen song and the "Irish Push Factor Handout" form below to determine the factors in Ireland that pushed the Irish out of Ireland. If you were not in class, read through the article, "The Real Irish American Story Not Taught in Schools" to get a narrative of the Irish Potato Famine story.
"The Real Irish American Story Not Taught in Schools" - narrative of Irish History during the potato famine
Notes: Irish Push Factor
Skibbereen Song Analysis Handout
Primary Source Tools Introduced: Political Cartoons, Songs
Vocabulary words to know: diaspora, migration, immigration, emigration, nativism
Notes Immigration Vocab
Formative Assessment #1: Movement of People Warmup
Read the article below titled "Desperate Journeys" and answer the three questions on a piece of paper. Turn into the box or digitally through the Dropbox.
Desperate Journeys
Questions 1-3
1. Where are they coming from and why are they leaving?
2. Where are they going and why are they going there?
3. What is the reaction of the countries that they are fleeting to/through?
Formative Assessment #2: Push Factor - Irish
Directions: Use the link for the Skibbereen song and the "Irish Push Factor Handout" form below to determine the factors in Ireland that pushed the Irish out of Ireland. If you were not in class, read through the article, "The Real Irish American Story Not Taught in Schools" to get a narrative of the Irish Potato Famine story.
"The Real Irish American Story Not Taught in Schools" - narrative of Irish History during the potato famine
Notes: Irish Push Factor
Skibbereen Song Analysis Handout
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Scroll to the last 2 minutes and then let the video naturally move into part 2. Skip fighting Tom and go to Manifest Destiny. Stop at Black 47 and move to 14:53. Stop at 19:14
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Formative Assessment #3: Pull Factor - Irish
Notes Irish Pull Factor
Pull Factor Reading
Pull Factors of Irish Immigration Timeline Handout
Notes Irish Pull Factor
Pull Factor Reading
Pull Factors of Irish Immigration Timeline Handout
Formative Assessment #4: Nativism - Irish
Part 1: Explore the cartoons found in the links below. Choose one that you can understand. Break it down using the steps of analyzing a political cartoon. When you are ready, raise your hand and explain your analysis to Mrs. Liljemark
US News Political Cartoons
Cartoons
Best Cartoons of the Week
Part 2: Use the political cartoon analysis form to analyze one of the political cartoons provided below.
Cartoon1, Cartoon2, Cartoon3, Cartoon4, Cartoon5
Notes Political Cartoons
Part 1: Explore the cartoons found in the links below. Choose one that you can understand. Break it down using the steps of analyzing a political cartoon. When you are ready, raise your hand and explain your analysis to Mrs. Liljemark
US News Political Cartoons
Cartoons
Best Cartoons of the Week
Part 2: Use the political cartoon analysis form to analyze one of the political cartoons provided below.
Cartoon1, Cartoon2, Cartoon3, Cartoon4, Cartoon5
Notes Political Cartoons
Formative Assessment #5 - Manifest Destiny, Louisiana Purchase, and Lewis and Clark
Part 1: Louisiana Purchase
Textbook pages 260-626
Louisiana Purchase Handout
Part 2: Lewis and Clark
Create a KWL chart on a piece of paper. Under "K" record all the information you know about the Lewis and Clark Expedition BEFORE watching the movie. Under "W" record everything that you want to know. Watch the movie, and then record under "L" everything that you learned.
Part 1: Louisiana Purchase
Textbook pages 260-626
Louisiana Purchase Handout
Part 2: Lewis and Clark
Create a KWL chart on a piece of paper. Under "K" record all the information you know about the Lewis and Clark Expedition BEFORE watching the movie. Under "W" record everything that you want to know. Watch the movie, and then record under "L" everything that you learned.
Summative Assessment - Digital Storytelling
For this summative assessment, students will create a digital story of the experience of an immigrant group from the first half of the 1800s. Students may use only primary sources in the digital story, which may include: songs, pictures, political cartoons, journal entries, paintings, maps, etc. Some sites have been provided below that will help students to get started in their research. All sites must be cited in a bibliography.
Immigration Digital Story Directions -Directions and research guide for the digital storytelling project
Immigration Storyboard - use this to plan the layout of your storyboard
Immigration Rubric
Turnagain Arm National Heritage Videos - Use this link to get an idea of how to use primary sources to create a digital story. These digital stories of Seward were created by Mark Swanson.
Digital Story Review Handout
Oregon Trail
Page 340-343 in your textbook
History Alive! Textbook Reading: Oregon Mormon Trail Reading
Oregon Trail Basics
Oregon Trail (PBS)
Oregon Pioneers
Oregon Trial Push and Pull Factors
Native People on the Oregon Trail
History of treatment of Native people
Examples of Oregon Trail political cartoons: Example 1, Example 2
Moromon Trail
Page 358-359 in your textbook
Mormon Pioneers Library of Congress
Utah Teaching With Primary Sources
Mormon Trail website: Mormon Trail
History Alive! Textbook Reading: Oregon Mormon Trail Reading
Mormon Interactions
Northern Ute Digital Archives
Mormon and Oregon Pioneer interractions
Texas and the Texas War of Independence
Page 344-350 in your textbook
Background information on the War: Texas War for Independence Reading
Texas Indpendence Primary Sources
Documents
An example of a political cartoon
California Gold Rush and Anti Chinese Sentiment
Page 359-362 in your textbook
Gold Rush Primary Sources (PBS)
Gold Rush and Chinese Textbook Reading
Chinese in California Primary Sources: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=kt5p3019m2&doc.view=items&style=oac4&item.position=1
Workers on the Railroad: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/tcrr-cprr/
Opium Wars in a nutshell
Chinese Emigration
Chinese Immigration to America Push Factor article
Chinese in America - Chinatown
