1. Warm-Up Journal: Write about a time that you were either
-the victim of a “single story” OR
-you victimized someone else with a “single story.”
Remember… a “single story” is a stereotype. According to Chimamanda Adichie, it is when you “show a people as one thing, only as one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.”
Warm-Up

2. Immigration Anticipation Guide
Complete the handout.
Class Discussion Rules
RESPECT, RESPECT, RESPECT!
Circle any items on this survey that you think reflect a stereotype or judgment about immigrants.

3. Stereotypes/Single Stories and Immigrants
Brainstorm some stereotypes/single stories surrounding each of these immigrant groups:
Mexican
Chinese
Iraqi
Afghani
Sudanese
Honduran – Enrique

4. Vocabulary
Immigrant: a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country.
Emigrant: a person who is departing or has departed from a country to settle elsewhere.
*Undocumented Immigrant*: a foreign-born person who lacks a right to be in the United States, having either entered without inspection (and not subsequently obtained any right to remain) or stayed beyond the expiration date of a visa or other status.
Refugee: a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.

5. Quick Writes
1) What stereotypes do people have about undocumented immigrants?
2) What do you think are some of the challenges that an undocumented immigrant faces?

6. Jose Antonio Vargas
Born in the Phillippines and immigrated to the United States at age 12
At age 16, he found out he was brought here illegally
Award-winning journalist
Focuses on issues surrounding immigration – specifically undocumented immigrants
Author of ground-breaking essay, “My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant,” which was published in The New York Times in 2011

7. “Actions are Illegal, Never People”
“As I stand here right now, there are tens of thousands of students across America who are here without papers, and I would hate to think that they’re sitting in their classrooms listening to us talk about them and internalizing the word ‘illegal.’ It’s incredibly dehumanizing and pejorative and [so many connotations] come with it — negative, all of them. That we’re criminals. That we’re not supposed to be within even the block that you live in or the school that you go to. Actions are illegal — never people. Something is terribly wrong when we refer to people as ‘illegal.’”

8. “Actions are Illegal, Never People”
Persuasive Speech – but also both informative and entertaining
Ethos, Pathos, and/or Logos?
Remember, texts very often serve more than one purpose!

9. Summarizer
What stuck with you today?