1. Turn in interest survey if you haven’t already! 8/22/18

2. Immigration

3. Observations? (What do you see?)
Canada
Western Europe
Middle East
Latin America
Eastern Europe
Africa
Immigration into the US (2014)

4. With your pods please discuss the following
Why do people choose to leave their nation of birth?
What would motivate you personally to leave your country?
Do you know any immigrants to the US?
Why did they choose to move to the US?
Do you know any expatriates (people who left the US for other countries)?
Why did they choose to leave the US?

5. PUSH and PULL factors… what are these terms? T Chart time!
Create a T chart on the board that the students help create, writing one in their notes as well, using push and pull factors of TODAY

6. Use a book with your partner (page 87)
What were some push and pull factors for immigrants in the late 19th century?
Use a book with your partner (page 87)
After they look up and add to their T chart in their notes, have students share and you add to your T chart

7. Political Cartoons Words Visuals Action Are there any?
What do they mean?
What words are most significant and why?
Visuals
Are there objects or people?
What do they represent?
Action
What action is taking place? Is this a push or pull factor?
How do the words help clarify what the symbols or visuals are?
What is the message of the cartoon?
What group of people would agree and disagree with the message?

8. Political Cartoon - Sentence Stems
This cartoon’s message about immigration is….
This cartoon uses the following symbols…….which represents…….
This cartoon represents a pull/push factor by…….

9. Discussion
After hearing everyone’s political cartoon analysis, what is a common PUSH factor and a common PULL factor for immigration?

10. STICKY NOTE EXIT TICKET STAAR 2016 Question

11. A Goals of U.S. assimilation policies
• Escape from religious persecution • Hope for freedom and equality
• Hope for better economic conditions • Escape from political turmoil and war
A high school teacher wrote these bullet points on the whiteboard. What was the most likely topic of discussion?
A Goals of U.S. assimilation policies
B Objectives of the Grange movement
C Reasons for immigration to the United States
D Principles of social Darwinism

12. push/pull illustration- US is the refuge

13. anti -Chinese exclusion act

14. Anti-immigration anti-Semitic cartoon

15. Proposed Emigrant Dumping site- equates immigrants to the US as human garbage

16. Get students to figure out definition of nativism based on the context clues!

19. They really dig the wave imagery..