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Immigration and American Life

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 99.03.09

Unit Guide

African-Americans and Immigration in American Life

Joseph Wickliffe

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Lesson Plan #3

Objective:

Students will be required to make or bring a family picture will all the names of all the family members in the classroom.

Material:

Students will be asked to tell stories about their grandparents, parents and how they came to America and where they originally came from.

Procedure:

The teacher will introduce the unit by giving an overview of the immigration lesson and how it relates to the family-tree picture. Discussion will focus on when the first family came and why.

____ The teacher will generate ideas, write them on the chalkboard in a cluster or web. The teacher will proceed to inform students on how we all got to America.

Closure:

Teacher will ask questions to make sure every student understands. Students will be asked to create a family tree, putting the names of al their families on a tree.

Notes

1 PhillipD. Curtin, The African Slave Trade: A Census, Madison, Wisconsin: 1969.

2 Thistlewaite's Essay, "Migration from Europe Overseas in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, first appeared in XI Congress International des Sciences Historiqes, Rapports (Stoclholm, 19690), vol. 5, pp, 32-60.

3 Edward v. California established in 1941 the right of poor immigrants to cross the state lines.

4 Maldwyn A. Jones, American Immigration, Chicago, 1960.

5 Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power, New York, 1986.

6 Theodore Hesburgh, "Enough Delay on Immigration," New York Times, March 20, 1986.

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