About This Lesson
The Hopes of Immigrants historically has very good stats and charts. It will need fleshing out, but would be a start for students without any type text or online access. It is broad enough it could be shaped to US Gov or US history. It has a good political carton but does not have students really unpack it. Included is a brief article from Stanford Public Policy looking at immigration and trying to develop ideas about how these historic waves of people fit in to the USA and could they determine the level of assimilation through historical existing data. The reading and concept level is accessible for all high school students. This is a favorite and strong topic of interest for me. I hope that it is topic students are allowed to explore in more detail as it has such impact in who we are as a nation and also our unique family make up. It should be a feeling of pride and honor that our family worked at the expense of everything to make huge fundamental life changes in the hope of someday making a better world for their children's children. We should all be proud to be apart of that dream. The ugly underbelly is so important to bring out, expose and examine so that these prejudices are no longer able to be enacted into legalized discrimination.
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