KATHERINE OHRBOM & SERGIO CRUZ
CENTRAL FOCUS
ENDURING UNDERSTANDING:
Immigration is not new to the US. It has been around for centuries manifesting itself through different people, causes, and continuously adding to the salad bowl that is the United States.
To be or descend from an immigrant is to be an American.
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
What does it mean to be an American?
What causes people to leave their homes and families to move to an unknown country?
CENTRAL FOCUS
ENDURING UNDERSTANDING:
Immigration is not new to the US. It has been around for centuries manifesting itself through different people, causes, and continuously adding to the salad bowl that is the United States.
To be or descend from an immigrant is to be an American.
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
What does it mean to be an American?
What causes people to leave their homes and families to move to an unknown country?
STANDARDS
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.8.2
Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text.
SS 8.12.5 - Examine the location and effects of urbanization, renewed immigration, and industrialization (e.g., the effects on social fabric of cities, wealth and economic opportunity, the conservation movement).
WHST 2. - Write informative/explanatory texts, including the narration of historical events, scientific procedures/ experiments, or technical processes.
ELD A.1. Contribute to class, group, and partner discussions, including sustained dialogue, by listening attentively, following turn-taking rules, asking relevant questions, affirming others, adding pertinent information, building on responses, and providing useful feedback.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.8.2
Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text.
SS 8.12.5 - Examine the location and effects of urbanization, renewed immigration, and industrialization (e.g., the effects on social fabric of cities, wealth and economic opportunity, the conservation movement).
WHST 2. - Write informative/explanatory texts, including the narration of historical events, scientific procedures/ experiments, or technical processes.
ELD A.1. Contribute to class, group, and partner discussions, including sustained dialogue, by listening attentively, following turn-taking rules, asking relevant questions, affirming others, adding pertinent information, building on responses, and providing useful feedback.