1. Warm-Up /23/16
In your notebook, answer the following in complete sentences.
Imagine your dream city or town. What would be the reasons you picked up and moved your family there
I would move my family to ____________. I would move them to ________ because ____________

2. Learning Target: We will identify how immigration and migration to Texas influenced Texas.
Language Objective: We will describe the main idea of immigration and reason behind the movement of people
Success Criteria: I will analyze the impact of immigration movement to Texas.

3. Small Group Talk
Think (30 Seconds SILENTLY): Have you ever chosen to take up a new sport, club, hobby? What drew you to that certain thing? Have you ever given up a sport, club, hobby? What drove you away from it?
Write (1 Minute SILENTLY): I chose/gave up ______________. The reason I ______ was because ______.
PAIR:
Partner A to Partner B (30 Seconds)
Partner B to Partner A (30 Seconds)
Share
Be prepared to share aloud.

4. Push Factors- a negative aspect or condition that motivates one to leave, one's country, state, city, etc. In migration, push factors are those that encourage a population to leave its home.
Pull Factors- something that attracts people to go and live in a particular place

5. Different Groups Immigrate to Texas
Read from page and page 651
While reading, in your notebook, list the different groups that immigrated to Texas and explain why they came to Texas.
Once you’ve completed your reading and immigrant groups, create a timeline that puts them in order of arrival.

6. Is It a Push or a Pull Factor?
Look at the following topics and explain why each is a push or pull factor:
War declared!
Texas Land: Cheap and Fertile!
New Prime Minister elected, trouble ahead!
Potato Crop Fails- Many will suffer, some will die
Thousands flee for religious freedom in the USA!
Oil discovered in Spindletop!
Massive hurricane destroys Texas Gulf Coast
Exxon opens their largest plant facility in Houston
Texas is a top 5 state for public education