Immigration
Posted by Myla Liljemark on March 18, 2013
Essential Questions:
How do push and pull factors determine an immigrant’s experience?
How can movement of people affect the relationships of groups of people in that place?
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, immigration, emigration, nativism
Formative Assessment #1: Push Factor – Irish
Use the link for the Skibbereen song and the “Push Factor Worksheet Irish” form below to determine the factors in Ireland that pushed the Irish out of Ireland.
Push Factor WS Irish – This link includes class notes, a primary source analysis form which should be used to analyse the song Skibbereen, and two analytical questions that should be answered to demonstrate your overall understanding of push factors of Irish immigration.
Formative Assessment #2: Pull Factor – Irish
Pull Factor History Alive Reading
Pull Factors of Irish Immigration Timeline
Formative Assessment #3: Cross Cultural Interactions – Irish
Use the political cartoon analysis form to analyze one of the political cartoons provided below.
Cartoon1, Cartoon2, Cartoon3, Cartoon4, Cartoon5
Primary Source Analysis Political Cartoon
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
Cherokee and the Trail of Tears
This is a very interesting topic. I want to make sure that you are aware that this event takes places before the invention of the camera. There will be very few photographs available, but other primary sources can be found. If you need help, I will be available to help you.
Read in your History Alive! textbook page 192-194.
Read in your red and blue history book page 334
Cherokee Nation – This website introduces you to different documents. You will need to find copies of the originals, though, to make your digital story more authentic
Library of Congress – Indian Removal Act
North Carolina Digital History
YouTube – Trail of Tears – this site is blocked from school computers – you can find a lot of info on the Trail of tears from YouTube.
Library of Congress – General search window for the Library of Congress. Primary source music could be found here.
Oregon Trail
Women on the Oregon Trail website: Women on the Oregon Trail
History Alive! Textbook Reading: Oregon Mormon Trail Reading
Primary Source Research (Library of Congress): www.loc.gov – Go to “American Memory” and then search “Oregon Trail” or “Moromon” depending on your topic. You can also explore something more specific by searching a more specific term.
Oregon Trail (PBS)
Moromon Trail
Library of Congress – Mormon Emigration
Utah Teaching With Primary Sources
Mormon Trail website: Mormon Trail
History Alive! Textbook Reading: Oregon Mormon Trail Reading
Texas and the Texas War of Independence
Background information on the War: Texas War for Independence Reading
Texas Indpendence Primary Sources
California Gold Rush and Anti Chinese Sentiment
Gold Rush Primary Sources (PBS)
Gold Rush and Chinese Textbook Reading
Chinese in California Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/connections/chinese-cal/history.html
Workers on the Railroad: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/tcrr-cprr/
Chinese and Irish http://www.fasttrackteaching.com/burns/Unit_4_Cities/U4_Immigrants_and_Discrimination.html